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hey this is Jake with the Virg we're here with Mac OS Mojave this is the new version of Mac OS it's going to be available this fall but if you're interested it just came out in public beta and so you can try it out if you want we're gonna take a look at some of the big features and some of our favorites the first thing and probably the most noticeable is that there's now a dark mode dark mode has been a long requested feature for Mac OS and probably every operating system and app for ever and now it's finally available it's gonna ask you right when you start up Mojave if you want to do light mode or dark mode and it's basically just going to turn the chrome around all of your apps into this you know black or dark grey color it's kind of messing with me right now because I'm not used to it but I'm sure that there are a lot of people out there who don't like it now the big deal about Mojave is a lot more technical and in-depth and that is that iOS apps are coming to the Mac so before if an iOS app was coming to the Mac it had to be basically recoded from scratch next your apples gonna start letting developers take their iOS apps kind of tweak some of the code and put it on Mac OS now third-party developers can't do that yet but Apple is showing us what its gonna look like with four apps to start and one of those Apple news so you can see right here on the left side you have this big column that's really not like anything on Mac OS already and then on the main pane you have something that basically looks like an iPhone app and you can click in you get to swipe between stories there are the normal iOS buttons at the top left and top right to go back and forward honestly things even look a little bit touchable and a lot of the iconography from iOS comes over here as well it's not clear if this is how things are gonna stay forever if Apple will make these a little bit more Mac like or if we're just gonna kind of get used to that sort of hybrid app I will also brought over voice memos and stocks voice memos is pretty basic but it's nice to have here the stocks looks a lot like Apple News we have that bar on the left and all these news items in the middle that again you swipe between and you have those iOS icons on the top it's definitely it's a little bit weird but this is pretty important because it's a first look of what this new generation of apps is going to look like obvious la can still change this is very very early and we don't know if Apple is going to make things look a little bit more like Mac OS but my suspicion is that we might want to get used to this style and the reason I say that is because the next thing I want to show is the App Store redesign so the App Store has been redesigned to look a lot more like the iOS App Store but what's interesting is this is a Mac app Apple hasn't really dramatically changed things here it just brought in a lot of its editorial content there's now a lot more banners and there's just a lot more read and do I don't think it's really gonna dramatically change things but Mac App Store is kind of languished for a while and it's nice to see apples starting to revitalize it a little bit and I think we're probably to see a lot more of that when these hybrid apps start to flood that store so those are the really big things there's also a bunch of smaller tweaks all over the OS that are gonna help you just use Mac OS and one of the really nice ones is railing desktop so if you're a person who normally has a messy desktop that looks like this you know just use a feature called stacks which is gonna automatically sort them into groups based on what they are so is one for PDFs one for images one for documents you just click on them and they're going to pop open and show you everything that's inside them just close them again and now everything is nice and tidy this ties right into another feature they really like and Mojave is updates to quick look which is the future let's just get the spacebar to preview a file so now you can just hit the spacebar and instead of this looking at the file you can actually interact with it so it's an image I can rotate it or I can jump in and start annotating it and pdfs - this is pretty handy that feature is also available in the finder in a new View mode so if you remember coverflow which was that after that started in iTunes as a way to view album art and the minutes were to finder and then I don't think anyone ever used it Apple now has a basically a more useful version of that called gallery it shows one thing at a time but it also shows information about that item beside it so into the metadata and you have some options to interact with it I think this is gonna make more sense for some workflows than for others but it's a nice option to have it's always good to see how if you're paying attention to the find the final thing I want to show you is in Safari now the really big thing here is that Apple has added some privacy updates to stop social media sites like Facebook from tracking you all across the web now I can't really show you that what I can show you is you know what what I'm going to say is even more important and that is that you can now add favicons to tabs and Safari so before it looked like this where it just said the name of the website now you can check this box and boom you have those icons and we have a ton of tabs open this is just gonna make it way easier to read I don't know how this wasn't available before this is an immense upgrade and probably the main reason to install Mohave that that's very pushing a little bit ok another neat thing in Mojave is a new screen shot interface you can out hit command shift 5 and it's gonna give you all these different options for how you want to capture your screen view Start screen recording which can see you're doing right now and one nice thing about the screen shot is once you take it it's gonna appear right in the corner of the screen like it does on the iPad so you can click it go right in start marking things up just like you would in a quick look so those are the big features in Mojave there's a lot more here you can try it all out if you want by installing public beta I will warn you this is an early beta things are still a little buggy and broken especially those transported iOS apps but if you want to wait for it it'll all be available this fall one other nice change is an update to the screenshot tool can now hit command shift by you oh no a screen-recording crashed