APPLE WWDC 2015 : OS X El Capitan

APPLE WWDC 2015 : OS X El Capitan

            Apple at the yearly World Wide Conference which was held in San Francisco , delivered it's new software enhancements. Apple showcased it's latest versions of OS X , iOS as well as the watchOS. Apple's or I would say Mac's new OS , the OS X EL Capitan . The latest OS X is an upgrade from the existing OS X Yosemite. El Capitan derived from a rock formation at the Yosemite National Park.Let's see what are the improvements over the previous installment ?

           OS X El Capitan has new features which will help the user experience.The Mission Control allows users to simply the access to open windows.With a single swipe, all the windows on your desktop arrange themselves in a single layer, with nothing stacked or hidden.With overloading of the windows , the availability of space can be adjusted by adding a new desktop space.

           There's not only Mission control for windows but also split view feature in the new OS X for better multitasking.It is almost exact like the Windows 8 split view and working is quite similar. However in Windows 8 larger screen can have 3 apps while Apple looks like is just having two apps sharing the screen. When looked at this feature it's basically a UI change over the Windows.

       

            Ohh one thing is that when  you wake up your computer , you always find the cursor and where it is gone. Apple has new feature , call out cursor for that problem , so when you move the cursor back and forth the cursor get's bigger to easily find it. Small but a handy feature.

           Now coming onto Safari , now you can pin your favorite sites and they open in a new tab. Pinning while make it easier to open the website , this is quite similar to the favorite tabs in all web browsers but just showing it in front.Safari can now mute all the tabs that are playing sounds , it can also show the tabs where the music is coming from.That is a handy feature when large amount of tabs are opened simultaneously.

           Spotlight the search tool that Apple showcased in the previous OS X with great improvements has been done in the El Capitan. This time Spotlight can search very deeply and has far more cleaner results. You can now move the spotlight around the whole screen and also find files using natural language.Better yet, you can type stuff like "document i wrote last month about pudding" and get what you're looking for.

     
            El Capitan features a improved mail app , which has the features similar to the tablet alike. You can add a event to the calendar right from the mail . The mail app automatically suggest an event looking at the content of the mail.Like the event  , mail can also add contacts directly when you receive an email from an unknown person or send to one.just like the iOS mail you can swipe right to mark an email as read or unread, or swipe left to delete.    

           The new Maps in the Mac has a transit view for all the public transport routes. With maps you can get the exact distance of travel from the transport stop to the actual place.The built in public transport like bus , train and subway is easier to track the exact time of travel.You can plan your route and send it to your iOS device as well.

            Performance is always what OS X is famous for which makes the Mac more smoother. The
El Capitan has 1.4x faster app launch and 2x faster app switching. It also has a 2x faster image display and 4x faster pdf launching.Ina ll makes it slightly faster than the previous installment. Metal which was previously only available on the iOS platform is making it's way in the Mac OS.Apple claims with the new metal technology the  mac can deliver 10x call draw performance.            


             Mac OS X El Capitan will be a free upgrade like it's predecessor and will be available in the Fall of this year. However the beta version is available now on the  Apple site. Apple is also releasing a public beta for the OS at the July 29th .


            

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