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However, I did happen to find one video on Vimeo that displayed the PIP icon when I played it, and I was able to capture this screenshot of a PIP window over part of The Rocket Yard: Picture-in-Picture (PIP) screen open over The Rocket Yard web page
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As far as I could tell I couldn’t get PIP to work for iTunes movies or TV shows, YouTube, and even self-generated video. Picture-in-Picture is going to be hot…once it’s more widely available. No longer are multiple tabs the sole domain of Safari and the Finder - having three documents open in separate tabs in Pages or other apps is actually quite useful (see image below). One feature that’s working quite well in macOS Sierra right now is the ability for compatible apps to have multiple tabs open. Did I mention this was a first public beta of macOS Sierra? It’s certainly acting like one. One feature that also didn’t work properly was “Memories”, which takes a group of images and video associated with a specific trip or day, then creates a short and very moving video. But once again, until all the photos are downloaded and the image metadata is processed by Photos, things aren’t exactly working smoothly. The “Places” album puts a photo count and thumbnail image on locations that you’ve visited, which is actually quite cool. So some features, like the “People” album that will allegedly have an album for every person you’ve taken a photo of, weren’t working yet.
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Being able to ask Siri something without looking at the Mac? That would be Apple’s “Alexa moment”.Īll of my photos are stored in iCloud, and it’s taking a while for the images to download and appear in the Photos app on the Sierra Mac. I do wish, however, that there was a “Hey, Siri” functionality that would work without having to click on an icon. It’s still early, but I think Siri’s going to be quite useful on the desktop. For some reason, it wouldn’t tell me how much space I had left on an empty secondary drive…but this is a beta.
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Wondering how much space you have left on your hard disk drive? Just ask Siri “How much free space do I have on my Mac” and it will let you know how much space is left on your boot drive. Launching apps is possible as well while it’s faster to just launch frequently-used apps with a click on a Dock icon, I found being able to ask Siri to “launch Disk Utility” or another less-accessible app was quite handy. I was surprised at how well Finder searches work even at this early date I was able to ask a questions as broad as “Find the presentation I made last week” and had it return a Keynote document that I had created. Anything you ask is quickly parsed for instructions and then a response appears. With a click on the Siri icon, you hear the familiar “dink-dink” audio prompt and a Siri window appears in the upper right of the screen. Siri shows up to the right of the Finder icon on the Dock. Apple’s intelligent assistant has been a steady part of iOS for several years now, prompting a lot of us in the Apple community to wonder when the company would add the feature to the Mac.Ī lot of features that make sense on mobile devices don’t necessarily translate well to a desktop operating system, so Apple took some time to build in hooks that let users do things that they’d love to have a personal assistant do - like search for documents or photos. The biggest addition to macOS Sierra is Siri.
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The macOS Sierra beta was installed on an OWC Refurbished 2012 Mac mini for this article. That’s what beta testing is all about working out the kinks, adding functionality, and then fine-tuning the new operating system for fast and efficient operation. Like most early betas, not all functionality is working and the system isn’t optimized, meaning that it runs quite slowly.
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The first public beta has been delivered, and this week we’ll not only be taking a look at the features of macOS Sierra, but provide full instructions on how you can become part of the public beta program.Īlthough the first public beta has many of the features that we’ll see this fall when macOS Sierra ships, it’s definitely not ready for primetime. Fortunately, they’re keeping the theme of California locations and landmarks for naming the new operating system, so we’re looking at macOS Sierra coming out later this year. Apple surprised many people last month when it announced during the Worldwide Developer Conference keynote address that its desktop/laptop operating system would be renamed macOS.
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