The convention first started in 2014 and the first name was OS X Yosemite. Mojave is a natural reserve in the area between Los Angeles and Las Vegas, Nevada. In 2015, Apple also decided to call mac operating system as macOS. Cost of Mac Mojave. Mac Mojave is absolutely free and you do not need to pay for getting the latest version.
Like each update to MacOS, there are hundreds of new features. Here is a list of the ones I find particularly useful.
Dark Mode
- With the macOS 11 SDK, your app can take advantage of a redesigned user interface, widgets in Notification Center, and new SwiftUI layouts. Machine learning adds style transfer and action classification to models that are ready to be trained, and offers a CloudKit-based deployment solution.
- MacOS Mojave is the newest addition to Apple's long list of operating system updates, as announced on June 4, 2018. And like its predecessors, the new OS comes packed with a bunch of great new features. Here are five of them.
One of the major changes in Mac OS Mojave is the addition of the dark mode. Personally, I find a dark mode to be beautifully stunning. It lets the colors within applications pop and provides a completely new experience in using your Mac. You can turn this on in the system preferences general panel.
Photos from iPhone
Blink and you might miss it, but Mail hasn't only gained a button that lets you place emojis in your message, but it gets another that lets you place an image. Click this, and you can choose to use an existing image or directly scan/capture a new one from your iPhone. This feature is also available from the desktop by Control-clicking on the desktop and selecting Import from iPhone. For this to work, you iPhone needs to be unlocked and on the same wifi network as your Mac.
Favicons
A favicon is small icon associated with a particular website, usually displayed before the URL in a web browser. Until this release, Safari did not provide support for these cute icons but with this release you can turn favicons. Within safari, go to preferences, tabs, and turned on Show website icons in tabs.
Dynamic Desktop
In system and preferences, desktop and screensavers, a new screen view exists for the desktop. It's called dynamic desktops and Apple provides one related to the safari motif. The desktop picture on your screen changes over today as the sun would change in the Mojave Desert. A very nice look.
Stacks are a great addition to MacOS.This lets you store files of the same kind such as PDF, JPG, etc in a single icon on the desktop rather than cluttering your desktop with many files.To turn it on, Control-click on the desktop and select Use Stacks.In the same location you can set what type of stacks it creates.I find the Kind method to be the best for me.
Recent apps in the Dock
You'll like this iPad feature. Icons for the three most recently used apps that you don't already keep in your Dock will be made visible between the Settings and Downloads icons. This is enabled in System Preferences>Dock using the Show recent applications checkbox.
Automatically keep your Mac updated
Apple has moved Software Updates to its own dedicated pane in System Preferences. Open it, and you can ask your Mac to automatically check for and install software updates. You can also require it to automatically install app updates and security updates for you.
Tighter permissions
Apple has taken a step toward convincing Mac users not to cover their iSight cameras with tape when not in use by introducing new Security System Preferences that will tell you when apps request access to your Camera or microphone. Another security enhancement (available in Notifications) lets you decide if you want to always show notification previews for an app or if you want these to be made visible only when your Mac is unlocked. That's useful if you work in a public place.
New Screenshot Tool
You have always been able to use Command-Shift-3 to capture the full screen or Command-Shift-4 to capture a section of the screen.In MacOS Mojave you can now use Command-Shift-5 to bring up a new screen shot tool.With it you can capture the entire screen, a portion of the screen, or a selected window.But this tool gives you the ability to capture a video of the screen or a portion of the screen.There are options to select where to save the file and to set a timer delay for the capture to happen.
New Mac App Store
Apple first debuted the Mac App Store in 2011 but has given it very little love since then. With macOS Mojave, it is giving the App Store a complete redesign similar to the one it debuted with iOS 11 last year. Apart from the new design, there's a new Discover tab which would be updated on a weekly basis by editors over at Apple to help you discover new apps.
Gallery View in Finder
The Finder gets a new Gallery View in macOS Mojave which makes it easier to skim through your photos and videos. It also has metadata support which is displayed in the Preview pane so you can quickly see important details of a photo.
With this release, apple has begun the process of making iOS applications work on the Mac.Apple debutes 4 iOS apps in MacOS Mojave.
Apple News App
macOS finally gets a dedicated Apple News app with a new design. There's also a sidebar in the app for easy and quick navigation.
Home App
There's a new Home app in macOS as well that will allow macOS Mojave users to control their HomeKit-enabled accessories easily.
Voice Memo
Another iOS app that is going to be available in macOS Mojave is Voice Memo. Using the app, one can quickly and easily record personal notes, meetings, and more. Voice Memos are also synced across all your devices using iCloud.
Stocks
Finally, the Stocks app is also going coming to macOS Mojave with a brand new interface, personalized watchlist, and interactive charts. This app is basically the same as the iPad version of the Stocks application.
Here is a feature you can put in the Not quite there yet file….
Group FaceTime
Apple is debuting Group FaceTime with iOS 12 and the feature is also a part of macOS Mojave. With Group FaceTime, you can make a group video call comprising of up to 32 people. Even better, you can use Animoji, Memoji, stickers, and more while on a FaceTime call now.
This will be added soon in a MacOS update, likely at the same time it gets added too iOS.
I am sure there are quite a few more interesting things in Mojave but those are a few I find most useful.
It's been many years — way back in the days when Apple named its operating systems after jungle cats — since a macOS upgrade included as many improvements to Finder. And, having been around on the Mac in some form since 1984, Finder was surely due for some love.
You'll love what they've done with Finder in Mojave.
Cleaning Up Your Desktop Automatically with Stacks
Many Mac desktops look something like the following figure.
In the past, my advice to people with messy desktops was to select all the icons on the desktop, put them in one folder, and then rename the folder something like Former Desktop icons. It worked okay but using Mojave's new Stacks is better and easier.
You can organize your desktop using Stacks in two ways:
- Choose View→ Use Stacks.
- Right- or Control-click anywhere on the desktop, and then choose Use Stacks from the shortcut menu.
The Use Stacks command is available only when the desktop is active, so if an active window is on your screen, you'll see Use Groups rather than Use Stacks.
When you choose Use Stacks, your desktop transforms instantly from the mess shown in the preceding figure to the six nicely organized stacks shown here. Folders on the desktop are not affected by using Stacks; all other icons on the desktop are organized automatically into stacks (Other, Screenshots, Documents, Images, PDF Documents and Spreadsheets in the figure).
Single-click a stack to see its contents, as here for the Images stack.
Notice that the expanded stack (Images) now displays a down-facing arrow (or a triangle, depending on how you look at it). That indicates that the stack is expanded, Click the stack to close it.
Managing your Stacks
Choosing Use Stacks is just the start of things. When you're using Stacks, you can group items by choosing View → Group Stacks By, which offers the following choices:
- None (no keyboard shortcut)
- Kind (Control+Command +2)
- Date Last Opened (Control+Command +3)
- Date Added (Control+Command +4)
- Date Modified (Control+Command+5)
- Date Created (no keyboard shortcut)
- Tags (Control+Command +7)
All figures in this chapter so far have their stacks grouped by Kind, but it may be easier to find what you're looking for if you use one of the other options. For example, if you know when you added, modified, or last opened the file, you can choose one of the date-based options, such as Date Created, which is shown here.
You can also right- or Control-click and choose Group Stacks By, which offers all of the commands above except None. Strangely, None isn't available on the shortcut menu.
Finally, if you're not already using Tags to organize your files, Stacks may be just the incentive you need to start.
Quick Actions: Now Playing All Over Mojave
Before Mojave, Quick Look windows and the Preview pane in Finder windows were mostly for show. What I mean is they showed you the contents of a selected file or files, but that was about all they could do. If you wanted to annotate, rotate, or edit an image, you had to launch Preview or another image editor. And if you wanted to snip out part of a video file, you had to launch QuickTime Player.
Mojave adds some oomph to Quick Look, the Preview pane in Finder windows, and shortcut menus by adding Quick Actions that include marking up, video trimming, and creating PDFs.
Getting the most out of Markup
In Mojave, the Markup icon and with the Rotate icon are available in Quick Look windows and the Preview pane of Finder windows, and the commands are in the Finder's shortcut menu (right- or Control-click).
When you click the Rotate button, the default is to rotate your document counterclockwise by 90°. If you'd rather rotate clockwise, press Option before you click.
When you have an image selected and you click the Markup button in a Quick Look overlay, in a Preview pane in a Finder window, or in a Finder shortcut menu, an overlay appears displaying the image below the Markup toolbar, as shown here.
And here's how the tools work:
- Sketch: Sketch a shape with a single stroke. Here's the cool part: If your drawing is recognized as a standard shape — a circle, a rectangle, an arrow, or such — it's replaced by a perfectly drawn rendition of the shape. If you don't like it perfect, you can use what you drew instead by choosing it from the palette that appears after you use the tool.
- Shapes: Click a shape to place it on the image, and then drag the shape where you want. To resize a shape, use its blue handles. If the shape has green handles, you can use them to alter the shape.
You can also zoom in or out and highlight specific shapes using the pair of tools at the bottom of the Shapes drop-down:
- Highlight: Drag the highlight where you want. To resize it, use the blue handles.
- Loupe: Drag the loupe over the area you want to magnify. To increase or decrease the magnification level, drag the green handle; to increase or decrease the size of the loupe, drag the blue handle. To further magnify an area, you can create additional loupes and stack them, using the yellow guides that appear to align them.
- Text: Type your text, and then drag the text box where you want.
- Draw: Use your finger to draw a shape with a single stroke. Press more firmly on the trackpad to draw thicker, heavier lines. Note that this tool is available only on computers with a Force Touch trackpad.
- Sign: If signatures are listed, click one and drag it where you want. To resize it, use the blue handles.
To create a signature:- Using your trackpad: Click the Sign tool, click Create Signature if shown, and then click Trackpad. Click the text as prompted, sign your name on the trackpad using your finger, and then click Done. If you don't like the results, click Clear and try again. If your trackpad supports it, press your finger more firmly on the trackpad to sign with a heavier, darker line.
- Using your computer's built-in camera: Click the Sign tool, click Create Signature if shown, and then click Camera. Hold your signature (on white paper) facing the camera so that your signature is level with the blue line in the window. When your signature appears in the window, click Done. If you don't like the results, click Clear and try again.
- Shape Style: Change the thickness and type of lines used in a shape or add a shadow to a shape.
- Border Color: Change the color of the a shape's border.
- Fill Color: Change the color of a shape's fill.
- Text Style: Change the font type, style, and color.
Trimming video without launching an app
Although QuickTime Player has allowed you to trim videos for years, you have to launch it and usually wait a few seconds for the video to appear. Mojave introduces a new, faster, easier way to trim your videos without launching QuickTime Player (or another app).
When a video file is selected, you'll find the new Trim icon available in Quick Look windows, in Finder preview panes, and in the shortcut menu (right- or Control-click a video and choose Quick Actions→ Trim).
Click the Trim button and a filmstrip appears below the video with handles for setting the beginning and end of the video, as shown here.
Drag the left handle to where you want the video to begin, and then drag the right handle to where you want the video to end. Click Done and you're done. Your video has been trimmed of excess footage without launching an app.
One more thing: All tools discussed in this section are part of a new Mojave feature called Quick Actions.
Do It Quicker with Finder Quick Actions
You've already seen several of Mojave's Finder Quick Actions — Rotate, Markup, and Trim to be precise — but there are a couple of actions that can help you get more out of your Quick Actions.
The first is the Create PDF Quick Action, which does what its name implies and more; the second is creating your own Quick Actions with Automator, which may be the coolest thing about Quick Actions.
Creating PDFs without launching an app
In most applications, you can create a PDF from the Print sheet. But wouldn't it be nice if you could create PDFs without launching an application and choosing Print?
In Mojave it's no problem. Just use the Create PDF Quick Action, which you'll find in Quick Look windows, in the Preview pane of Finder windows, and in the shortcut menu (right- or Control-click).
Actually, it is a problem if you want to use the Create PDF Quick Action on files other than images. It won't work with a Word, Pages, Excel, or TextEdit document, or other document types. Imovie 8 tutorial. But, if your files are images — jpeg, tiff, png, and such — you can turn them into PDFs with a click.
You can tell if the file can be converted because the Create PDF command or button appears only when suitable files are selected, as shown here.
Here's a cool feature: If you select multiple image files, as I did here before using Create PDF, the result is a multipage PDF file with one image on each page — a kind of virtual contact sheet. Neat!
Creating custom Finder Quick Actions
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The Markup, Rotate, Trim, and Create PDF Quick Actions are useful and a welcome addition to Finder, but wouldn't you love to be able to create your own Quick Actions to appear in Quick Look windows, in the Preview pane of Finder windows, and in the shortcut menu(right- or Control-click)?
You'll be happy to know that you can, and doing so is relatively easy using Automator, which comes with Mojave. That's all I have to say here.
4 More Cool Mojave Tricks
In addition to Stacks and Quick Actions, Mojave introduced several other enhancements, including a new interface for capturing still and video images from your Mac screen, desktop pictures that change to reflect the time of day, the recently used apps section of the dock, and using Mojave's new Gallery view as a photo browser.
Shooting screens
If you've used a Mac for long, you probably know that you can grab a picture of what's on your screen by using the shortcuts Command +Shift+3 for the whole screen or Command +Shift+4 to select a window or part of the screen. Those shortcuts and features have been around since time immemorial. Sadly, I can't remember the last time screenshots were upgraded or improved.
Mojave ends the drought with new interface options for those good old screenshot keyboard shortcuts, and adds a new shortcut you'll want to memorize immediately.
But first, when you take a screenshot using your old-school shortcuts — Command +Shift+3 or Command +Shift+4 — a thumbnail of the screenshot appears in the lower-right corner of the screen.
If you do nothing, the thumbnail disappears after about 5 seconds, and then the screenshot is saved on your desktop. To see additional options, right- or Control-click the thumbnail and choose from the shortcut menu, as shown here.
Or just single-click the thumbnail before it disappears and the image opens in a window with Markup tools so you can annotate the image before you save it, as shown here.
When you have finished annotating, click Done to save the screenshot and annotations to the desktop, or click Revert to close the overlay without saving your annotations.
Now here's the best part: Mojave introduces a new screen-shooting shortcut that provides even more control over screenshots and adds the capability to record screen movies.
This magical Mojave shortcut is Command +Shift+5, and it's the only shortcut you really have to memorize because its floating toolbar, shown here, includes all the functionality of the Command +Shift+3 and Command +Shift+4 shortcuts and more.
Notice the Options pop-up menu, which lets you do the following:
- Change the destination for screenshots from Desktop (the default) to Documents, Clipboard, Mail, Messages, Preview, or Other Location.
- Set a timer for shots.
- Turn on and off the floating thumbnail.
- Remember the last selection you made (or not).
- Show or hide the mouse pointer.
After configuring the options, you capture screenshots by clicking the Capture button. If you've chosen one of the movie options — Record Entire Screen or Record Selected Portion — the Capture button becomes the Record button; click it to begin recording. When you do, the Stop Recording button appears in the menu bar. Click it to end your recording.
Bottom line: Memorize Mojave's one keyboard shortcut to rule them all — Command +Shift+5 — and use it for all of your screen-capturing needs.
Dynamic desktop images
Mojave introduces a new feature I'd like to highlight here with the others: dynamic desktops.
When you choose your desktop picture, you'll find a pair of dynamic desktop options above all the normal desktop pictures in the Desktop & Screen Saver System Preferences pane.
Because a picture is worth a thousand words, take a gander here, which explains it all.
That's all.
Recently used apps in the dock
I'd be remiss if I didn't point out that Mojave added a new feature to the dock: the Recently Used Apps section, which displays icons for the last three apps you've launched, regardless of whether their icons are in the dock permanently.
Mentions of Gallery view
Mojave's new Gallery View is great for browsing folders full of images, as shown here.
Use the arrow keys to see the next or previous image; click the Markup, Rotate, or More button to edit the current image.
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And that retires the side, at least as far as new features in Mojave's Finder are concerned. Onward!
