With MacOS Mojave, you get Stacks, dark mode, a new screenshot tool and a more fully functional Finder. Let’s have a look inside Finder’s new bag of tricks. Gallery view Gallery view replaces Cover Flow. Like Cover Flow, it gives you a large preview of the file you have selected, but the preview is even larger …
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MacOS Mojave tip: How to enable favicons in Safari
This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. Stacks are useful. Dark Mode is fun. The new screenshot tool and the more fully functional Finder are also welcome additions with MacOS Mojave, but my favorite new feature of Mojave is something tiny but hugely important: Safari favicons. I’m not the only …
Read More »How to install the final version of MacOS Mojave if you’re using the beta
MacOS Mojave is out, but if you’ve been using the beta and grown accustomed to Mojave’s new spot for system updates, then you may have missed the memo. You won’t find the update if you check System Preferences. Nor will you find it listed on the Updates tab of the Mac App Store. Where does a beta user go to …
Read More »I owned the first Android phone in an iPhone world
I have a secret pride. Android turned 10 years old this week, and I was one of the first people in the entire world to use it. In fact, the very first Android phone ever was my first smartphone, too — and I’ve never wavered in my Android loyalty since. That may not seem like a big deal now Android …
Read More »Stop apps from accessing your Mac’s camera and microphone
With MacOS Mojave, Apple introduces new security features to Safari that make it harder for shady web trackers to follow you and new privacy controls that let you restrict apps from accessing your Mac’s webcam and microphone. Previous iterations of MacOS let you set permissions for apps accessing your location, contacts, photos, calendar and reminders. MacOS Mojave adds the camera …
Read More »MacOS Mojave 10.14 has arrived: How to download, best new features and more
At WWDC 2018, Apple took the name for its Mac operating system down from Northern California’s majestic mountains and moved southward to the Golden State’s famed desert. After a run of mountain themes — Yosemite, El Capitan, Sierra and High Sierra — Apple has named the next version of MacOS (version 10.14) after California’s Mojave Desert. MacOS Mojave (version 10.14) is available now …
Read More »The 12 best features of MacOS Mojave
This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. MacOS Mojave, out now, introduces a number of new features and enhancements to Apple’s desktop OS. Stacks helps you keep a tidy desktop. A system-wide dark mode looks cool and makes nighttime computing easier on the eyes. Also onboard is a new screenshot tool, an …
Read More »How to use Stacks in MacOS Mojave
This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. I like to think I keep a neat and orderly desktop, but it does spiral out of control from time to time and I find myself staring at a sea of thumbnails scattered across my MacBook. With MacOS Mojave and its new Stacks …
Read More »Four things we learned from the Apple Watch 4 teardown
Hot on the heels of its dual iPhone XS and XS Max teardowns, device repair specialist site iFixit headed back to the workbench on Monday to pull apart the new Apple Watch Series 4. The disassembly delivered good news — the battery is bigger, though still smaller than the original Apple Watch’s. Plus, it gave us a glimpse into the workings of the …
Read More »Dark mode in MacOS Mojave: How it works and what it does
It’s Apple by a nose. Windows 10 will soon have a dark mode, but Mac users can get a system-wide dark mode now with MacOS Mojave. Here’s how to enable dark mode and what it does and doesn’t do to your Mac’s UI. Now playing: Watch this: Apple MacOS Mojave is here, but we’re still waiting for… 2:08 Mojave dark …
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