Hands off mac osx 10.910/30/2023 ![]() Flyover mode is awesome – you activate it by clicking the second icon in the top left of the Maps interface. Maps on Mac is easy to use and aesthetically pleasing. You can also keep several books open at the same time, a feature designed specifically for students preparing for exams or writing term papers. There’s also the “Start Speaking” option, to let the Mac read the text out loud. ![]() When text is underlined, a series of tools will appear: a highlighter (with five colors plus the underscore option), a sticky note, and a “More” menu, which allows you to search the book, the web or Wikipedia for the highlighted text, or share it on Facebook and Twitter, and via SMS or email. To look up the definition of a word, just highlight it. To turn pages, tap the trackpad with two fingers, as you would with a book. The iBooks for Mac interface is almost identical to that of the mobile version, in line with the gradual, consistent approach between OS X and iOS. To enable this feature, go to iBooks preferences on the Mac and check the option “Sync bookmarks, highlights, and collections across devices”. You can also synchronize bookmarks and annotations between different devices. To try it out, we downloaded the free Steve Jobs: Agenda eBook using the iPad, and it appeared on the MacBook Air after only a couple of seconds. This is done as a way to save space on tablets and smartphones, avoiding the automatic download of books that you may not even want to read on your iPhone or iPad. ![]() You’ll see the eBook cover right away in your virtual library, but you’ll need to click on the cover to download it to your iOS device. In this case however, the download isn’t automatic. The synchronization works in both directions: buy a book on the Mac and you can access it on your iPad and iPhone too. This kind of synchronization (which happens via iCloud) now exists across the Apple product line, and is virtually instantaneous. If you use the same Apple ID for iBooks as you use for the iTunes Store for your iPhone and iPad, the books you’ve already purchased for your mobile devices will be immediately available on your Mac. This is a smart move, considering how easy it is to transport devices like the MacBook Air or MacBook Pro 13-inch, which are small and lightweight and as portable as ebook readers. But now iBooks, the experience we’re used to on iOS, is available on the Mac, which also means access to the iBook Store and multimedia books created using iBooks Authors. iBooksĮbooks have arrived on the Mac. iBooks isn’t the first Mac app that can read and organize your ebooks – Calibre and Kindle, for example, have been around for a while. Besides the introduction of tag functionality to help organize content on your Mac and within Finder, there are just two new apps: iBooks and Maps, two iOS applications that have been transported to Mac, bringing the two worlds even closer. The transition from Mountain Lion to Mavericks is in much the same vein. Since then, each new release of the operating system has been more of a big service pack, containing fixes for the previous version, and adding a few new features. ![]() Probably in 2007, for the transition from Tiger to Leopard. The biggest new features are Maps & iBooks, both borrowed from iOS.Īfter getting my hands on Mavericks, I tried to remember the last time Apple released a truly revolutionary version of OS X. OS X 10.9 Mavericks has finally seen the light of day.
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