![]() This year at Úll Conf I had the pleasure of working with the organisers on creating the Úll iOS app. News might turn out to be a great solution for news portals, but I find it very hard to call “News” a replacement for “Newsstand”, because it’s such a huge shift – maybe an “alternate approach”? Apple hasn’t killed magazines just yet. Personally, I still believe in “magazines”, I still think people should try to run magazines on the AppStore. I don’t see how News would be a better choice for “magazines” (just to clarify – I mean the “magazine” format – regular bundle of content behind a cover), but maybe the “magazine” format is not right for mobile? Do we all have ADHD and can only handle flicking through streams nowadays? So far, it seams that News is much closer to what Flipboard is rather than what Newsstand used to be. The introduction of “ seamless linking” might help our case – following article links inside news would allow you to navigate straight to your app. I’ve got used to Apple being all about Apps. Interestingly, by taking away the focus from apps, which is a quite unusual move. News is interesting, because it promotes a completely new format for displaying news content. #3 Newsstand apps are finally free to leave the group and exist anywhere on your home screen I guess magazine covers still make sense on the AppStore, if the app uses them internally. Just like any other group, it contains apps and icons. #2 Newsstand “shelves UI” and the icon are gone – replaced with a generic app group Not much changed here, even the covers are still around. iOS9 is still in beta, so I guess anything can happen, but I think it’s time to declare the new world order… #1 Newsstand is still a Category on the AppStore Shortly after that Apple announced “News”, it was pretty clear Newsstand was getting a “replacement”. When watching the WWDC2015 Keynote, I’ve noticed that the Newsstand icon wasn’t on any of the screenshots. Here’s a post on how to configure the visor feature. ![]() While TotalTerminal was a way of adding custom behaviour to the original Terminal, iTerm2 is a complete replacement with many additional features. ![]() I’ll miss TotalFinder’s split folder view, but Finder’s performance on El Capitan is fantastic, which makes this solution very responsive. In the dock, ctrl-click Finder, select Options > Assign to: All Desktops. Open Finder and move it to the bottom of the screen. Simply add a hotkey for the Finder application and in the Apptivate’s prefereces tick the “Hide application if it is active” setting. The visor was extremely useful, but was always a little laggy. Apptivate allows me to create a show/hide hotkey for Finder. Since then Finder gained pretty good tab support. Ok, so Apptivate isn’t exactly a replacement for TotalFinder, but I’ve originally started using TotalFinder to gain access to features like tabs and the visor. If you’re willing to live with the risk, you can disable System Integrity Protection as the author of TotalFinder explains here, however he does not recommend it. ![]() One big step for security, but an unfortunate breaking change for plug-ins and apps that rely on these kind of hacks for non-malicious things. In OS X El Capitan, Apple has introduced SIP – “System Integrity Protection”, which protects your system from being tampered by malicious software like malware. It’s particularly useful when using a single display. This way, you can easily drag and drop files from Finder to other apps like Xcode or even your active Terminal session without switching desktops. Finder would appear at the bottom of the screen, Terminal at the top. The idea is to simplify access to Finder’s folder view and any active Terminal session, by using a global hot key (like ctrl+` for Terminal and alt+` for Finder). In my opinion, both apps were essential for developers working on their MacBooks in the field, but could also prove useful for any OS X users. While I’m really enjoying OS X El Capitan (everything runs smoother and my MacBook is much colder) it has put a large nail into the coffin of my two favourite OS X apps: TotalTerminal and TotalFinder. Visor-like access to Finder and Terminal on OS X El Capitan
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