Apple released OS X 10.10 Yosemite yesterday, and I take a look at their latest offering.
Besides, it has been a long time since a new OS X broke any software I used. The Apple site was showing Download Now within a very short time of the live event. However, it seems the Mac App Store hadn’t quite caught up. Eventually it popped up, offering a download and set it off downloading. Mine took a very painful 11 hours to. VideoLAN, VLC, VLC media player and x264 are trademarks internationally registered by the VideoLAN non-profit organization. VideoLAN software is licensed under various open-source licenses: use and distribution are defined by each software license. Design by Made By Argon. Some icons are licensed under the CC BY-SA 3.0+.
Another year and another free version of OS X. Some says it a good thing, and some say it is just a way round Apple releasing a new version so quickly.
It’s free so – as always – I was quite excited and decided to be an early adopter. There are those who tend to wait until the first point release or to ensure their software is supported.
For me, I have no patience. I wanted it straight away. I have very little in the way of software on my Mac, so I didn’t see there was going to be a big problem with compatibility. Besides, it has been a long time since a new OS X broke any software I used.
Download
The Apple site was showing Download Now within a very short time of the live event. However, it seems the Mac App Store hadn’t quite caught up. Eventually it popped up, offering a download and set it off downloading.
Mine took a very painful 11 hours to download. I know my internet connection is working fine, so I can only assume it was crowded servers. I left it going over night – and still a way to go when I got up this morning.
Installation
After the lengthy download time, the usual install screen popped up. Normally at this point I would have cancelled it, grabbed the DMG for future use, and created a bootable USB stick.
However, this time I decided to upgrade over OS X 10.9 Mavericks. After all, it is how Apple prefers it, and my Mavericks was only reinstalled a few weeks ago.
Installation was fairly quick and painless. Once you set it going, it was case of leaving it to do its thing.
First Impressions
Yosemite seems to be getting the same reaction iOS 7 did when it was first released. There are those who like the bright, bold new look and some who claims it looks quite childish.
I do like the new look, with its funky bright icons and flattened look, but I can see that could detract from the fact that this is a serious and professional operating system.
I have been running it now for a few hours and have had no issues so far. The upgrade went without a hitch, and all the apps I had in Mavericks appear to be working fine.
Twitter, Cyberduck, Bean, OpenOffice, TextWrangler, Burn, Audacity, VLC, HandBrake, MacTracker, VirtualBox and UnRarX all work fine.
Tiny Umbrella required a Java installation, but once installed worked fine.
New Features
Apart from the new look, Yosemite has new basic features such as a revamped Spotlight and the dark mode, which turns the menu bars, menus, and dock background dark. I prefer the normal mode.
Then there are the HandOff/Continuity features, which means you can work on your iPad or iPhone, and as soon as you get close to your Mac, it will pick up where you are and you can continue straight with your Mac. Download caffeine app for mac. I have yet to try this.
The one feature I was looking forward to, but seems like I will have to wait until iOS 8.1 (scheduled for 20th October) is released is the ability to SMS anyone from my Mac and not just iMessage recipients, as before.
General Speed
My Mac is a 2009 MacBook white model. It has a 2.0 GHz Core 2 Duo processor, 4 GB of DDR2 RAM, and the stock hard drive. It is one of the lowest to support Yosemite, so how does that affect performance?
I have played with the public betas and was seriously impressed with the speed. The final seems no different. It is very fast. It is without a doubt faster than Mavericks. Navigating around the Finder and opening apps has definitely improved – and the general usage in apps seems a lot snappier.
Time Will Tell
You cannot judge an OS totally within a few hours – although you do get a general impression. It would be interesting to see how it goes over the next few days, whether I run in to any glitches with app and how it affects battery life on my MacBook.
First Few Annoyances
Whilst checking out Yosemite and writing this article, I have stumbled across an annoyance and a bug.
- I couldn’t find my Bookmarks Toolbar anywhere. I thought I had lost it. However, it seems if you highlight the text in the address bar and clear it – or click in the address bar if it has no text in it – then the bookmarks that used to sit in your toolbar will pop up in a panel.
- When opening TextEdit and then selecting Open, the box pops up with your documents. These are iCloud documents (not iCloud Drive documents). However, every time you scroll down to reach the documents further down, it springs back to the top. I had to type the first letter of the document I wanted open and press Enter quickly to get it open.
This is a first release, and you do expect a few bugs or glitches.
Conclusion
Yosemite is shaping up to be a great version of Mac OS X. It seems very fast so far – even on my older hardware – and I personally like the new look.
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OS X Yosemite is available for free downloading for all Mac users on October 16th, 2014. Let us see what have been improved in this new Mac OS.
- Redesigned interface - refine the interface and every app, emphasize the content, more simple and so on.
- Mac and iOS are connected like never before - make phone calls on Mac, continue on Mac what you did on iPhone and so on.
- A new programming language - for app developers to build the next generation of apps and games
- And More..
You have every reason to update your Mac computer to OS X Yosemite. But there is still a concern among people that some old apps of them including their converter for iTunes videos may not compatible with the new Mac OS. This concern does not come from nothing. Some Mac software failed to update them for Yosemite in time though five apps are confirmed by users to be compatible with Yosemite.M4VGear is one of the five apps. It keeps with the time and released version 1.1.1 to support Yosemite on July 3rd, 2014 right after the beta version Yosemite came out on July 2nd, 2014. Since version 1.1.1, M4VGear experienced two updates to fix minor bugs. Now with M4VGear's latest version, people can losslessly and successfully convert videos of iTunes 12 on Yosemite.
Other features of M4VGear you may be interested in
- Keep iTunes rentals forever
- Preserve all multilingual subtitles and 5.1 audio track
- Support batch conversion
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In the following, you will see a step by step tutorial on how to convert iTunes videos and the refreshed interface of M4VGear on Yosemite.
Tutorial: How to Convert iTunes videos on Yosemite
Step 1: Download and install M4VGear on your computer. Then launch it.
System Requirements:
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iTunes: the latest version
Operating system: Mac OS X Yosemite
Step 2: Click 'Add Movies' button on the upper left to choose one or several files from iTunes library to be added. Then Click 'Add' to apply and the files you have chosen will appear on M4VGear interface.
Step 3: If you have mindlessly added a wrong video to M4VGear for converting, you can first check the video and click the 'Remove' button besides the 'Add Movies' button to remove it from the converting panel.
Step 4: You are also allowed to change the storing place for output videos. Go to M4VGear > Preferences to change the output directory for storing output videos.
Step 5: Click 'Convert' button on the bottom right to start converting iTunes videos on Yosemite.
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Step 6: On the Top of M4VGear, you will find a Clock icon with 'History' written under it. Click it and you will find videos that are successfully converted by M4VGear. Now enjoy them anywhere and anytime you want!