{"id":263181,"date":"2018-06-04T21:39:41","date_gmt":"2018-06-04T19:39:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=263181"},"modified":"2018-06-04T21:41:31","modified_gmt":"2018-06-04T19:41:31","slug":"macos-mojave-unveiled-gets-dark-mode","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/263181-macos-mojave-unveiled-gets-dark-mode.html","title":{"rendered":"MacOS Mojave unveiled &#8211; Gets Dark Mode"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apple has unveiled\u00a0macOS Mojave at its WWDC 2018 conference in San Jose, California.<\/p>\n<p>A much-anticipated feature which was launched was\u00a0Dark Mode for the latest version of macOS.<\/p>\n<p>Dark Mode provides dark-themed interfaces in macOS windows and apps like Apple Music. Xcode will also feature a Dark Mode theme, said Apple.<\/p>\n<p>Another new visual feature in Mojave is &#8220;Dynamic Desktop&#8221;, which changes the desktop wallpaper based on the time of day.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Stacking<\/h3>\n<p>Sticking with the desktop, Apple introduced desktop stacking in Mojave &#8211; letting users automatically stack desktop items into piles of similar content.<\/p>\n<p>Finder upgrades were also on show, with a new &#8220;gallery view&#8221; previewed by Apple.<\/p>\n<p>Gallery view provides a big preview of files without opening them in Finder, and includes full metadata for files like images.<\/p>\n<p>Other upgrades to Finder include new quick-look functionality, such as editing options for photos and videos.<\/p>\n<p>Screenshots has also been upgraded to show previews of screenshots just after they are taken, which can be opened in a window with tools for editing.<\/p>\n<p>Other announcements for macOS were:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Apple News coming to Mac.<\/li>\n<li>Stocks coming to Mac.<\/li>\n<li>Voice Memos coming to Mac.<\/li>\n<li>Home app coming to Mac.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Security<\/h3>\n<p>Apple said macOS Mojave will provide more than just visual changes, and will feature a new Mac app store.<\/p>\n<p>The new store includes a ratings and review API, and new apps &#8211; such as Office 365 from Microsoft.<\/p>\n<p>Privacy and security upgrades to macOS and Safari were also detailed.<\/p>\n<p>Apple said Safari will now ask users by default if they want a site to send them cookies, and macOS will make it more difficult for data companies to create an online fingerprint of a user&#8217;s machine.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Availability<\/h3>\n<p>The developer preview of macOS Mojave is available in the Apple Developer Program now, with a public beta coming in late June.<\/p>\n<p>MacOS Mojave will be fully available in the coming months for Macs introduced in mid-2012 or later, plus 2010 and 2012 Mac Pro models with recommended Metal-capable graphics cards.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/it-services\/263061-the-most-popular-netflix-package-in-south-africa.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">The most popular Netflix package in South Africa<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple has unveiled\u00a0macOS Mojave at its WWDC 2018 conference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":263183,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[605,36626,51361],"class_list":["post-263181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-apple","tag-macos","tag-macos-mojave"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263181"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263181"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":263185,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263181\/revisions\/263185"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/263183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}