Sunday, September 22, 2013

New Features of Mac OS X Mavericks

The release of OS X Mavericks will bring more than 200 new features over and above those in OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion. As with Mountain Lion, there's further integration with the company's mobile operating system iOS.  The update places emphasis on battery life,  Finder enhancements, other enhancements for power users, and continued iCloud integration, as well as bringing more of Apple's iOS apps to the OS X platform.  Of the many new feature in OS X Mavericks, I will highlight a few of them.

One of the new features of OS X Mavericks is multiple monitors.  OS X Mavericks now makes the dock and menu bar follow the user on whatever screen they're working.  Also each display can now be shown independently.  Mavericks also added the ability for desktop activity to be wirelessly sent to a HDTV via an Apple TV box and Airplay.

Notifications is another new feature of OS X Mavericks.  You can now see notifications without closing the app that you are currently in.  You can also respond in the notification itself.  Now you can sign up with websites to get notifications regarding such things as news or sports.  All of this can be done without Safari running.  iOS notifications sync with OS X so that users can alerts sent to the computer or the mobile device.

Another new feature involves OS X Safari.  Apple claims that Safari has become smoother, and outperforms its rivals in energy and memory efficiency, and JavaScript performance.  Apple also claims that its changes has made Safari more responsive, stable and secure.

Finder tabs have been added to OS X Mavericks.  Finder Tabs makes it possible to declutter your desktop by consolidating multiple Finder windows into one.   Finder tabs position a plus symbol to the top right of Finder that allows new tabs to be opened or dragged into other positions.  Users can customize views for individual tabs, move files between tabs, and run the Finder with multiple tabs open in full-screen.



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