At Monday's World Wide Developer's Conference, Apple opened strong by showcasing its new OS X system. Craig Federighi, head of OS X development for Apple started the show with latest update to OS X.
The last OS updates have been named after cats, Apple has changed their game and has announced their new strategy of naming their updates after locations in California, in order to highlight their design inspiration.
OS X Maverick, named after the popular surfing location in Northern California, promises a lot of updates and new features. The first of which is to the Finder window.
Apple announced Monday, at the WWDC, which was only available for Mac users who streamed on Safari, that the new OS X will give users the ability to use tabs while searching for the pictures, songs, documents and anything else that is saved to their Mac. Users can customize tabs like "Important," "Sports" or "Fun" and attach these tags to make files easier to locate and group files you need to work on together. This means if you're working on a specific project, you don't need to hunt down the components you need individually.
In addition, the Finder window now has tabs that work similar to tabs in a web browser. You can group different searches together in one window and move seamlessly between them.
OS X's ability to use multiple desktops is getting a facelift as well with Maverick. Users can now get menus and summon docks individually. You can swipe through displays independently on which screen you are working with. If you make something full screen, not only will it no longer mess up your other display, you can have two full screen windows open at once. Overall, the multi screen display is significantly easier to use and will feel less like a hack and more like a seamless feature of your OS.
The new OS X, like many of Apple's new features that were announced at the 2013 WWDC. CPU Utilization is down 72 percent thanks to a few features including a new update to layering windows that will allow more high functioning web pages with animation or video to not take up battery life or CPU usage if it isn't being seen.
Other changes to the OS X include updates to the Safari web browser. There is also new notifications that will update applications in the background and show you what you missed while your computer was asleep. iBooks is now available on Mac computers with its millions of books and textbooks.
This was announced before the larger announcement of the iOS 7. OS X Maverick will be available this fall.
