There are enough warnings in reviews regarding El Capitan, Apple's latest OS X release, to indicate wait until the .1 release which fixes bugs. That's not a big surprise and was generally the plan anyway. Difficulties seem esoteric but Apple can sort them out anyway before we will be making the move here.
However, Apple released today a standalone version of Safari 9.0, the El Capitan version of the browser. There is supposed to be a mechanism to disable audio for a specific tab but I haven't found it yet. That could be useful for dealing with sites like CNN which are lousy with auto-start videos to force you to watch commercials. The software seems to be stable so this will be the holding position until the update release comes out.
Apple also released iBooks Author 2.4, most likely the best of the digital authoring tools for books. There are many which generate ePub documents but they have no particular intelligence whereas there are many capabilities in the Apple format for ebooks which go far beyond that (e.g. embedded video, etc). The update is not all that interesting but required to keep up to standard.
After a certain measure of bumpiness after the upgrade to OS X Yosemite, ultimately caused by an erratic failure in the power supply, the enthusiasm for immediately upgrading is not high but it will happen in due time (i.e. when the update is released).
Something unusual about Safari 9.0 is it doesn't seem to know where the cursor should be go. While writing this blog entry, the trackball was used to place the cursor ... but it didn't visibly move whereas it did logically (i.e. it would type in the right place when I started but not until I started typing at the new location). It's odd but not at all insufferable.
Yep, best to hold at this point for the moment.
However, Apple released today a standalone version of Safari 9.0, the El Capitan version of the browser. There is supposed to be a mechanism to disable audio for a specific tab but I haven't found it yet. That could be useful for dealing with sites like CNN which are lousy with auto-start videos to force you to watch commercials. The software seems to be stable so this will be the holding position until the update release comes out.
Apple also released iBooks Author 2.4, most likely the best of the digital authoring tools for books. There are many which generate ePub documents but they have no particular intelligence whereas there are many capabilities in the Apple format for ebooks which go far beyond that (e.g. embedded video, etc). The update is not all that interesting but required to keep up to standard.
After a certain measure of bumpiness after the upgrade to OS X Yosemite, ultimately caused by an erratic failure in the power supply, the enthusiasm for immediately upgrading is not high but it will happen in due time (i.e. when the update is released).
Something unusual about Safari 9.0 is it doesn't seem to know where the cursor should be go. While writing this blog entry, the trackball was used to place the cursor ... but it didn't visibly move whereas it did logically (i.e. it would type in the right place when I started but not until I started typing at the new location). It's odd but not at all insufferable.
Yep, best to hold at this point for the moment.
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