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To do this, open up System Preferences and go to the Dictation and Speech section. As well as requiring a constant internet connection, it was almost unusable for dictating anything more than a couple of sentences.įortunately, with OS X Mavericks, there is now an option to enable “Enhanced Dictation”, which solves a lot of these problems.
Just like Siri on iOS, it required you to speak in short bursts, then wait while the data was sent to Apple’s servers and the results were returned.
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Keep in mind that as a beta you'd be wise not to load the software on your main or only computer.īaig is the author of Macs For Dummies, an independent work published by Wiley.The dictation feature introduced last year in OS X Mountain Lion left a lot to be desired. Next month you'll be able to try out a public beta of El Capitan that will be further along than the version I've been using.
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This welcome split screen feature may be new to the Mac but is old hat to folks accustomed to using the Microsoft Windows "snap" feature, which launched back with Windows 7 in 2009. You might for instance display your Mail app next to your Calendar. I am pleased that Apple is adding is the ability for you to display two apps side-by-side on the screen.
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That's too bad - one of the things I'm most excited about when Microsoft launches Windows 10 next month is that the obedient voice assistant Cortana is coming to PCs. Regrettably, Apple has no plans to bring Siri to the Mac, at least none that they've uttered publicly.
And the company is letting you use natural language searches via Spotlight or in the Mail app, along the lines of, "show me the unread email from Brian in February."īut you have to type in such queries. In my tests, the expanded Spotlight capabilities that are supposed to let you search beyond the contents of your Mac for things like weather and sport scores worked intermittently for those items and didn't work at all for stock prices, apparently one of those beta snags.Īpple also promises to let you search for Web video in Spotlight from YouTube, Vimeo and Vevo. Metal will let developers produce more realistic graphics-rich games on the Mac. I'm speaking of the under-the-hood graphics technology Apple is pitching to developers called Metal, which arrives on the Mac after debuting last year on iOS. If you can't locate a wayward cursor, you can now shake your finger across the trackpad (or shake your mouse) to have the cursor momentarily grow in size so you can spot it.Īrguably the most significant additions to El Capitan are things you won't see. You'll also find it useful to "pin" the sites you frequent to the left of the tab bar in Safari. More than 300 Chinese cities are included.Īmong the small but potentially handy niceties comes the ability to silence audio playing in the background in Safari without you having to embark on an expedition trying to figure out where the darn sound is coming from.
Public transit directions have been added to the Maps app, for London, San Francisco, Toronto and the New York City metropolitan areas, with more cities coming in the fall when El Capitan launches. Unlike the new Notes app for iOS, however, you can't draw notes with your finger, though via iCloud you can display any jottings from the iOS version of the app inside the El Capitan version. You can directly share content from other OS X apps into Notes. The far more complete Notes app lets you drag and drop photos, add audio and video files, maps locations and more.
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