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hello everyone, and welcome to the class.this is david a. cox with techtalkamerica.com. today i'm going to be showing you all thenewest features you're going to find in the latest operating system for the mac, knowas osx el capitan. to help you digest this information, for those of you who wish todo so, i've created a simple 2-page clean pdf you can download. it's my notes, what i have on my desk nextto me when i teach this class live. if you'd like to download that, i'm making it availableto you for free. you'll find a link to that in the description of this video. if you wishto review this video later, maybe to go over parts you missed, you'll notice in the notesi'm including the time code for the various

chapters, that way you can skip ahead to theparts you care about. let's start with going over the new featuresyou'll find in apple mail. you'll have the same multitouch gestures you have on youriphone or ipad. for example, this message, let's say i want to preserve it and mark itas unread. i can swipe with two fingers on my trackpad, from left to right, and i'llget this box that says, mark as unread. when i click on that, like you can on theiphone and ipad, that blue dot comes to mark it as an unread message. also, if i swipethe opposite way, from right to left, with two fingers, i get a trash button. if youdo a more dramatic movement, you can wipe out that message. i'm not gonna do that becausei'm gonna use this message.

the other feature i want to show you, i lovethis one. for those of you who use a calendar, you're gonna like this one. now there's betterintegration between then calendar program and the mail program. for example, in thismessage it says, do you want to meet tomorrow for lunch. it detects this language and looksat dates. it says, one event found in this email. byclicking add here at the top-right corner i can add this event into my calendar. lunchwith johnny, and hit add to counter. simple. the next feature i wanna show you is one ithought was a bug in the last operating system. they never corrected it, they made it a newfeature in this one. for those of you who like using the applemail program in full screen mode like i do,

one of the things that may have frustratedyou is the fact that you can't minimize a message. until now. if i'm composing a messageand i need to fetch information from a different email, an address, maybe some text, or a photo.i can now click outside of this message and it minimizes to the bottom of the screen. the other way you can do that is hitting theyellow dot here. let's say i need to go to this message, and grab this graphic. i canclick and drag it and drop it here into this message. it's preserved, just like that. youcan do the same thing with text. i can highlight it with my cursor, click and drag it down.as soon as you drag it down, it'll pull it to that new message, and there it is. justlike that.

another great feature for those of you withadd, if you start writing a message and realize you have another message to start writing,you now have tabbed emails. i can create multiple new messages at the same time. the easiestway to do this is hit command n, that'll create a new message. you can see, over here i have my old email,over here i have my new email. the next thing i wanna show you are a few simple changesto the photos app, starting with recent contacts. let's say i've corresponded with someone,and now i want to send them a photo. the mac remembers that history. let's say i have thisselfie i took at the cape cod national seashore. i wanna share it with someone i just talkedto. i can go to the share button, and in addition

to the normal options you'd have up here,it'll look for recent contacts you've corresponded with. you can click on that person's nameor email address and send them an email with the attached photo. the other feature i wannashow you here is handy for a not-so-obvious reason. if you're like me, i take screenshots on myphone, ipad, and apple watch all the time. it just happens, especially if i'm doing ahard reset on any of those devices. it's easy to accidentally do that. if you look hereon the left hand side, there's now a category for screenshots. if you have accidentallycluttered your photo library with a ton of accidental screenshots, you can now clickon them, secondary click, and hit delete,

something i thought you might want to know. the next feature is something i can show you,i can't demo it because this operating system just came out yesterday. when you're in thenormal edit mode for a photo, we've got our options on the right hand side. you'll noticethere's now support for third party extensions. as of right now, we could not find any ofthem. i think it's because it's too new. this will open up doors down the road. whenthey do, we'll do an updated class on our favorite extensions for photos. as of rightnow, there's no options. the next feature we're gonna talk about is spotlight, whichgot a few new changes. if you didn't know, you can access spotlight one of two ways.

you can go to the spyglass you see here atthe top right hand side of your screen. or, if you're like me and a fan of hotkeys, youcan do command spacebar which will activate it. the first change to spotlight is you cannow move it around. you're not locked to the middle of the screen, so if you'd prefer tokeep it at the top-right corner, you can drag and drop it, and it'll stay there. you can now search within spotlight, the sameway you'd communicate with a person. let's say i'm trying to locate a document i wrotewithin the last week. i can literally type in, documents i wrote last week, and thereit is. here's a .pdf we created, my notes for this particular class, and more. a coupleother things you can do, let's say i'm trying

to locate an email. i can do the same thing, email from johnny,and you see it there. you can do weather, and if you type in the word, weather, it'sgonna be wherever you physically are. you can also say weather in different locations.let's say i wanna see what the weather's like in houston, texas. there you go, it pullsthat information. if i can put a feature request out there with apple, i wish movies had thiskind of information, can't really do that right now. a couple other things you can do, sport scores,so i can type in a sports team and see the most recent sports score, and upcoming schedules.finally, even though it's not entirely on

topic, i want to give a shout out to a differentclass we created. some of you asked me, what's my favorite app of all time. i'm a businessguy, not a gamer, so i don't have any favorite games. i think the most useful add-on appfor the mac, if you wanna check it out i'll include a link in the description of thisvideo. i love this app, it goes hand-in-hand withspotlight, called alfred. specifically because you have access to the clipboard history.if you're constantly having to copy and paste different things, and need access to pastthings you've copied, make sure you check out that class. i'll include a link to thatin the description of this video. what we're gonna do is take a brief commercialbreak, this is how we're able to keep these

classes free for all of you. when we comeback, we'll resume where we left off and go over a bunch of other new features you'regonna find in the new operating system for the mac, osx el capitan. we'll be right back. david: the next feature i'm going to be showingyou is split screen mode, which is in no way a feature apple allegedly stole from microsoft.this feature, when they first announced it, i thought to myself why would i need an appto run in 50% of the screen. i think of that as ruining the experience. then i startedplaying with it, and i realized there are certain apps that i tend to use together. for example, a lot of the time i use my calendarwith my email. i like to schedule things based

on my calendar, so a lot of times i'm goingback and forth between those apps. that is, for me, where split screen mode is perfect.there are two different ways you can enable split screen mode. i'm gonna show you bothof them, but the thing i'm gonna do first is make sure everyone's on the same page whenit comes to their settings. if you will indulge me, i'm gonna go intosystem preferences, and recommend all of you follow along. within system preferences, thesecond line down, we have trackpad. for those of you who don't have a trackpad, if you'reon an imac you're gonna do the same thing here but in mouse. for the rest of you, gohere into trackpad settings. we have these three options at the top. make sure you'reunder more gestures, and the middle option

here is mission control. make sure you have this checked, and the animationthat's playing to the right will show you how this works. you swipe up with three fingers,and it reveals all the apps that you have. it separates their windows, so it's easierto sort things. make sure you have that enabled. let me show you the two different ways toactivate this feature. what i'm first gonna do is what i refer to as the manual method. i'm gonna open my calendar and my email, sothey're on the same window. the first method is i'm gonna put one app into half screenmode, and tell it which app to run on the other half. normally if i wanted my emailto be in full screen mode i'd click the green

dot. when you want it to run with only halfthe screen, you click and hold on the green dot. when you do so, it's gonna give you ablue background. if i drag this to the right, you can see iplace the mail on the right hand side. if i move it to the left and let go, it's runningin 50% of the screen. this is important, you have to have the other app open at the time.you can't go into launchpad and launch it right now. it has to already be running. now,if i had multiple apps open i could click on whichever one. in this case i have calendar,so i'll click and voila. i have my calendar on the right hand side,and my email on the left. sometimes you don't need these to be so 50-50, sometimes you needmore space here, and not as much here. what

you can do is, this little black bar you cangrab it, and click and drag to either side, and it will readjust the size of the windows.it's not completely custom, it's gonna snap to certain conditions, like this is the smallesti can make the calendar. it still works pretty well for me, and inmy case this is the perfect solution. having your email and your calendar next to eachother. some of you might feel the same way about notepad or imessages. the other wayyou can trigger this is through mission control. give me a moment while i set this up. we'reback to where we started, we have email here, calendar here. what we can do, instead, is go into missioncontrol mode. three fingers at the bottom

of your trackpad, and swipe up. now i cantake either one of these apps, click and drag it to the top right corner of the screen.what i've done is put mail into full screen mode. it's the same thing as hitting the greendot. now what i'm gonna do is take the calendar, drag and drop it up here. that's the other method you can use to enablesplit screen mode. the next few features i'm gonna show you have to do with safari. thoseof you who are not fans of safari, you may want to skip this part. otherwise, let meshow you what we've got, one of the features we have. we have three apps open at the topof the screen, the new york times, tech talk america, and amazon.com. if i want to go tothese websites often, i could create a bookmark.

but there's a new way to save it called apinned tab. the way you do this is take the tab that's open and drag it to the left. you'llsee in the case of the new york times, it shrinks into the icon for the new york times.i can do the same thing for tech talk america, and that's on the left. i'm not going to dothat with amazon, to prove a point. the reason why you may want pinned tabs, is when i quitout of safari and go back into it, you'll notice the pinned tabs are still there. the one that was open is back to whatevermy homepage is. while we're talking about saving websites, i want to bring your attentionto something. we create these free classes for everyone, all over the world, to enjoy.we appreciate it if you show a little support

to what we do and we have three easy stepsto follow, so when you purchase on amazon you can support what we do. you can find the directions here, techtalkamerica.com,and click on the support us. it's totally free, the absolute easiest way to show a littlelove to the guys who like to bring you knowledge in how to use your various gadgets. we appreciatethat. the next two features we have here in safari. do you have a problem where you havea youtube video open? let me launch one. and you have another website that opens inthe background and also has audio. i'm gonna launch a video, and keep the audio down. ifyou look at the top of the screen, we have two audio buttons. we have a master kill switchin the web url bar. we also have a speaker

icon here. if we had multiple tabs open, andaudio playing all over the place, it can be distracting. if i click here, it's gonna kill the audioto whatever's playing on that tab. whereas if i click up here, i can kill the audio fromall tabs that are open. the final feature i wanted to show you in safari is, let's sayyou have an article you want to save. one of the things you can do now, is if you goto the share button, there is now support for notes and reminders. full disclosure,i'm not a fan of either of those for saving websites, i think evernote is a better solution. to each their own. the next feature i'm gonnatalk about is notes, which got a lot of the

new features you'll find in ios 9, thoughnot all of them. one of the features is you can now have folders of notes. you can seethe folder structure here. i have folders for class notes, recipes, shopping notes.within each folder you have individual notes. i want to prove a point, regarding why i don'tlike using notes in combination with safari. let's say you want to create a notebook ofrecipes. this is why evernote is a better solution. let's say i want to save this recipe.you'll notice that if you do the share function from safari, and go to notes, you'll noticethere's no way to tell it what folder this is supposed to go in. it's gonna create anew note, and it's gonna be up to you to manually drag and drop it into that list.

if you do a lot of this stuff, it can be apain in the butt. evernote has that built in. sorry, i didn't mean to go on a rant.a few other features we have. i'll restore that so i can show you other features. withinnotes, we can use checkboxes for something like a shopping list. we'll say milk, cookies,and taffy. you now have the checkbox options. where this could be handy, is if you createa shared shopping list. then again, there is an app that does that, that i may havejust mentioned. we have formatting options now, here withinnotes. personally, never cared about this feature. it's a notepad, not word or pages.you have title, heading, body, all that good stuff. you can also do bullet points and anumbered list if you're too lazy to hit one,

period, space. few other features, if youstart to bring in attachments like photos, which you can now do. that's the photo browserbutton. again, i don't know why you would bring photosinto notes, but you can. what you can do is go to this icon and sort all of your notesbased on what kind of content it has. you can see all photos and videos, sketches, maps,websites, audio, and documents. some interesting features. i don't know how many of you willuse these features, i think there's better software out there that does the same thing. we're down to the final few items. what i'mgonna do is group a bunch of these together. they're all different, but minor changes.the first thing is great for those of you

who have in iphone. now the calendar programcommunicates with apple maps. let's say i have a doctor's appointment that's an hourand a half away, and there's a traffic accident in between there. what will happen is my phonewill alert me that, due to traffic conditions, i should leave earlier in order to get thereon time. definitely a cool feature for those of youwho have an iphone and use the calendar application. the next feature, you'll notice, apologiesin advance, this looks so pathetic. this utility got a it of a makeover. it's not this utilitythat's pathetic, it's my computer. dear tim cook, i need a new computer, i'm out of space.next feature is one i should have mentioned earlier when we were talking about safari.

you'll notice that youtube videos now havea built-in airplay button. you can throw this video on apple tv without having to go throughthe normal process. you can keep it this size, but on your television it would be full screen.i'm looking forward to the new apple tv. andy grammar, you owe me for a free promo. nextfeature is one i was a little disappointed on. usually when they come out with a new operatingsystem, they tend to give us some amazing photography to go with it, for different desktopbackgrounds. not the case this time. there are two. that's one, that's the other. youhave officially two options. let's go back to my self promo. next feature i have to goback to system preferences for.

you'll find here under general, there's anoption up here, the third item down, automatically hide and show the menu bar. that's the whitebar at the top of my screen. personally, i need constant access to that bar, i did notfind it to be beneficial, i found it to be an annoyance. for those of you who might wantthat, you can check that feature out. one feature i did like is under the app store. you'll notice for free downloads at the bottom,you can make it so it'll save your password. also for in-app purchases, you can do requireor require after 15 minutes. next feature is one i'd say is cool. for those of you whotravel, pay attention to this one. let's say you have somewhere in your computer, maybein notes or imessages or the mail program,

a flight number. i guessed at this being aflight number, and i was shocked that it was correct. if i put my cursor over that, ua would beunited airlines, 1820. see how this arrow appears next to it? i can click on that andit's gonna look it up and i can see it's a flight that is flying. i can see its status,from denver to [phonetic][20:45] grr. don't you love grr? i can see it's delayed 15 minutes.that works with any flight. a cool feature that works across the board. it may work in more than just those threeapps, i haven't played a lot with it. that does it for our class. a couple things beforewe go. if you haven't done so, please subscribe

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