When you’re playing music in the Music app in iOS 7, there’s a thin red playhead that you can drag to adjust the song’s playback position. Tap and drag it around for what Apple calls “Hi-Speed Scrubbing.” (Why it’s not “high,” I can’t say. Maybe the programmers were hi.)
Here’s the hint: You can adjust the speed at which you’re scrubbing through the song, if you need finer-grained control: Tap and hold on the red line, and then drag your finger upwards.
As you drag up the screen, you’ll note that there three other gradations of scrubbing speed: Half-Speed Scrubbing, Quarter-Speed Scrubbing, and finally Fine Scrubbing; that last mode lets you scrub through the song second by second.
In Mavericks, when you QuickLook files, there’s an Open In button at the upper right, which lets you open the previewed document in the default app associated with the file in question.
But what if you want to open the document in a different app? For example, you’re previewing a Microsoft Word document, but would prefer to open the file in Preview instead.
Just click and hold on the Open In Microsoft Word button, and a list of other, compatible apps appears. Choose the one you’re after, and you’re good to go.
Mavericks offers a lot less resolution options in the “Scaled” list than 10.8 or earlier did. This can be a particularly severe problem if the resolutions that it thinks your projector supports are not, in fact, supported by it at all, as was the case with my setup.The fix for showing the extended list of possible resolutions in Mavericks is undocumented, so far as I can find, but incredibly easy:
In the Displays preference pane, hold down the option key and click the “Scaled” radio button. This will toggle on and off additional resolutions for the device (including more scaled resolutions for the built-in display in MacBooks).
I’m not aware of any radio button ever having worked that way before, so it’s easy to miss.
If your external display isn’t showing an image at all because the OS got its “native” resolution wrong, you will of course have to click the “Gather Windows” button at the bottom of the preference pane to bring the w …
If you use AppleScript applets to interact with UI elements, you may quickly find out that in Mavericks all seems to be broken. Every run results in System Preferences being opened to the pane that used to control UI Element Scripting, and finding the new controls in Security & Privacy -> Privacy -> Accessibility seems to have no effect.
This is a result of Mavericks splitting UI control authorization into per-app settings, combined with the Lion feature of remembering what windows an app had open when it was last closed.
Mavericks recognizes the app uniquely only as long as the app doesn’t change.
WindowState information is stored in the app if you have permissions to modify it.
These two features end up caught in a fight.
The following Terminal command will prevent this by passing ownership of the applet to root and blocking you from editing it without authenticating.
sudo chown -R root:wheel AppletName.app …
Mavericks now considers each monitor a “Space”. As a result, apps launch and have their menu bar in whichever monitor they were launched from. However, it’s easy to assign apps to each monitor. Here’s how:
First, you need to create an additional space in Mission Control. You can add it to either monitor.
Having done that, then when you right-click on an app in the Dock, you will see the option to assign the app to All Desktops, Desktop on Display 1, Desktop on Display 2.
If you are a heavy user of Spaces with multiple displays, then you have likely found that the new “full screen improvements” in Mavericks are a giant leap backwards. To get the old behavior back, just go to Mission Control in the System Preferences and uncheck the box labeled “Displays have separate Spaces.”
By brolloh Your workflow is about to get a bit of a spring in its step thanks to this trick for all you new Mavericks users!
When working on a document with Apple applications, hover your cursor over the name of the document in the title bar, a triangular menu icon will appear. When clicking on this a drop down menu will ask you to rename, tag and move the document if you wish.
By switching a document’s location from iCloud to Desktop for example, you’ll see how quick this process can be compared to manually moving files around.
I like to keep a copy of the OS X installer app on an external drive, so that I can reinstall or create a boot disk without having to download the whole thing again.
After doing this, I’ve discovered a non-standard behaviour which you might want to note.
If you decide to redownload the app, it doesn’t get saved to the Applications folder as before, but instead REPLACES the copy on your external drive.
This makes it hard to keep archive copies of older OS versions. You’ll need to zip them (or rename them?) or store them on a volume that can’t be accessed while the app store is downloading.
Apple changed the looks of Notes.app in Mavericks and it is now mostly white with a light yellow paper texture as the note background. Turns out the texture is a TIFF file you can easily edit with any image editing app.
Quit Notes.app. Go to /Applications/Notes.app/Contents/Resources. Copy paper.tiff file to your desktop. Make another copy and save it as a backup to a safe place. Open Desktop/paper.tiff to Photoshop or some other image editing app. Use your creativity. After saving, drag the file back from desktop to /Applications/Notes.app/Contents/Resources.
I changed mine to a bit more saturated and removed the texture. Looks like a Post-It note.
By Alex Brooks Apple today announced financial results for its fourth fiscal quarter of 2013 which ran from July 1, 2013 until September 30. Apple posted revenue of $37.5 billion and net quarterly profit of $7.5 billion, or $8.26 per diluted share. These results compare to revenue of $36 billion and net profit of $8.2 billion, or $8.67 per diluted share, in the year-ago quarter.
Gross margin was 37 percent compared to 40 percent in the year-ago quarter. International sales accounted for 60 percent of the quarter’s revenue.
Apple reported the following number of shipments for its products during the quarter:
33.8 million iPhones compared to 26.9 million in the year-ago-quarter
14.1 million iPads compared to 14 million in the year-ago-quarter
5.6 million Macs compared to 4.9 million in the year-ago quarter
3.5 million iPods compared to 5.3 million in the year-ago quarter.
“We’re pleased to report a strong finish to an amazing year with record fourth quarter revenue, including sales of almost 34 million iPhones,” said Tim Cook, Apple’s CEO. “We’re excited to go into the holidays with our new iPhone 5c and iPhone 5s, iOS 7, the new iPad mini with Retina Display and the incredibly thin and light iPad Air, new MacBook Pros, the radical new Mac Pro, OS X Mavericks and the next generation iWork and iLife apps for OS X and iOS.”
“We generated $9.9 billion in cash flow from operations and returned an additional $7.8 billion in cash to shareholders through dividends and share repurchases during the September quarter, bringing cumulative payments under our capital return program to $36 billion,” said Peter Oppenheimer, Apple’s CFO.
Apple provided the following guidance for its fiscal 2014 first quarter:
revenue between $55 billion and $58 billion
gross margin between 36.5 percent and 37.5 percent
operating expenses between $4.4 billion and $4.5 billion
other income/(expense) of $200 million
tax rate of 26.25%
