During the upgrade installation of Mac OS X Mavericks (10.9), you receive the following error: Incompatible Software The following software was found during upgrade and is incompatible with this version of Mac OS X. It has been moved to the Incompatible Software folder. There's a lot to like about OS X Yosemite, Apple's brand-new, super-powerful operating system of the future, but a quick glance around the software's official support forums shows that.
Notification Center has been a part of OS X for two years: It was introduced in Mountain Lion and expanded upon in Mavericks. But with OS X Yosemite, Notification Center has transformed into something exponentially more useful than it was before. In fact, in Yosemite Notification Center is so different—and so much more useful than it was—that it probably deserves a new name.
A supply of widgets
But I’m getting ahead of myself. Let’s start with the most fundamental of changes: With Yosemite, Notification Center no longer slides a Mac’s entire interface off to the left in order to pop out from the right side of the screen. Now, Dock-like, it slides in on top of the right side of your screen while you’re using it. The old approach was certainly dramatic, but I think this new one is a better metaphor.
Once Notification Center slides in, you’ll notice a major change right there at the very top: As in iOS, there are now two tabs, one called Notifications (that’s the one you’re already familiar with), and one called Today. The Today tab is where all the exciting new additions to Notification Center live.
Today takes its name from the same tab that was added to iOS 7’s Notification Center, because it was designed to give users a quick view of what’s going on today, such as how many calendar items they’ve got and when their next meeting is. That functionality is a part of the Today view in Yosemite, but it’s so much more than that.
At the very bottom of the Today view is an Edit button; when you click on it Notification Center slides out even further, adding a second column on the right that’s full of items you can add to the Today view. You can also use this view to remove items that are currently in the Today view or re-order them. These items are Notification Center Widgets, just like the ones introduced in iOS 8.
Apple provides nine basic widgets: Today summarizes what’s happening today in your schedule, as it does on iOS, and Tomorrow does likewise for the next day. Weather displays current temperatures and forecasts. Reminders shows you timely items from the Reminders app. Calculator lets you do addition and multiplication and other basic mathy things. Social lets you post to Facebook or Twitter, or send text via Messages. World Clock shows the time in various cities. Calendar displays today’s calendar items. And Stocks shows time-delayed stock prices.
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Some of these widgets are configurable. When you’re not in Edit mode and you move your cursor over some of the widgets’ title bars, a lowercase letter i in a circle appears. Click this, and you can modify that widget—adding or removing cities from the Weather or World Clock widgets, for example.
Though many widgets are there just to be glanced at, you can interact with most of them, too. Clicking on a city in the Weather widget will expand it to show an hour-by-hour forecast, which is very much the behavior we’re used to seeing in Apple’s Weather app on iOS. If you click in the Calculator widget, you can click on its buttons or use the keyboard to do your math.
Widget critic
The base widget collection is very much in line with what we’ve seen on iOS and in OS X’s Dashboard feature. But the great news is that the contents of the Today view can be supplemented with widgets from third-party apps.
Standalone apps can supply their own widgets automatically. (If you bought, say, TLA Systems’s PCalc on the Mac App Store, its widget should appear automatically in the Items list.) In addition, there will probably also be a widgets-only corner of the Mac App Store.
I’m excited to see third-party widgets. Apple’s are nice, but they’re a bit boring. The Weather widget doesn’t show forecast highs or lows without expanding the view. The calculator widget supports only the four basic operators and percentage. World Clock doesn’t offer a digital time view, nor is the list of clocks horizontally scrollable (so as you add clocks the widget just gets taller and taller). Reminders only shows items with due dates that are approaching, so undated items are ignored.
I’ve enjoyed many of the new widgets released by app developers since the release of iOS 8, and I expect that the Mac will gain numerous interesting third-party widgets with the release of Yosemite. In fact, I’ll wager that choosing just which widgets deserve to be in your Notification Center will be the bigger task.
See you later, Dashboard
When Apple announced the changes to Notification Center in Yosemite, everybody seemed to have the same thought: That pretty much wraps it up for Dashboard, the interface layer for simple widgets that Apple introduced nine years ago as a part of OS X Tiger. Perhaps surprisingly, Dashboard still exists. You can enable or disable it via the Mission Control pane in System Preferences.
But let’s not kid ourselves: Dashboard’s on its last legs. I’d put down good money that it will be removed in next year’s OS X update. Dashboard widgets (written in HTML and JavaScript) were introduced by Apple during an era where using Web-based technologies to write lightweight applets seemed like a great idea.
But now we’re in the App Store era, and using the same technologies that power iOS and Mac apps seems like a far better choice—and that’s what you’ll find running Yosemite’s Notification Center widgets. If they seem a little like fragments of iOS apps, you’re not far off. Since iOS 8 also supports Notification Center widgets, I suspect we’ll be seeing a lot of the same widgets on both platforms. Apple’s thriving community of app developers should provide us with a vibrant selection of widgets, something Dashboard never really achieved—or at least hasn’t seen since the halcyon days of 2006.
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All told, Notification Center’s Today view seems like a great replacement for Dashboard, and a major benefit to OS X users. My only real complaint is the name on the package: Notification Center is no longer just for notifications, and the Today view is the landing place for widgets with information that goes far beyond what’s happening today. Sure, in iOS 7 the names made sense—but with Yosemite (and iOS 8) they just don’t fit anymore. This is a major new set of functionality—it deserves a name that fits.
How about Dashboard?
Out of reach (itch) (otton drumm) mac os. Jason is the former editorial director of Macworld, and has reviewed every major Apple product of the last few years, including the original iPhone and iPad as well as every major version of Mac OS X. Check out Sixcolors.com for his latest Apple coverage.
Depending on the motherboard you select for your hackintosh you could end up with one giving you RAM related issues. I’ve so far experienced it on two different motherboards and here’s what I found the problem to be and how to fix it.
Hackintosh not all DIMM slots working
If you open About This Mac -> System Report… -> Memory you may find that not all your DIMM slots are showing like in my case:
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The motherboard I have actually has 4 DIMM slots and yet only two slots are showing. If I were to plug in 64GB it’s likely only 32GB would show up.
RamDisk Error on Hackintosh First Boot
When I first booted up my latest hackintosh I immediately got a restart the moment the Apple Logo appeared. Targetzone mac os.
Using the -v bootflag to get some verbose output we get the error:
Hackintosh -v Output:
root device uuid is ’xxxxxxxx—-‘
End InitBootStruct
Start LoadRamDisk
End LoadRamDisk
Start FinalizeBootStruct
Start RandomSeed
End RandomSeed
root device uuid is ’xxxxxxxx—-‘
End InitBootStruct
Start LoadRamDisk
End LoadRamDisk
Start FinalizeBootStruct
Start RandomSeed
End RandomSeed
This only happened when plugged into one the four DIMM slots the other three worked perfectly fine and the fact that the verbose stopped the moment it got to checking the RAM made the issue obviously connected with macOS not being able to find my RAM. I also knew the DIMM slot wasn’t defective because every other operating system other than macOS worked fine when that slot was populated. Untitled dinosaur game mac os.
Hackintosh Fix macOS Detecting Only Half RAM / RAMDisk Error
The solution to getting macOS to detect all RAM or overcome a RAMDisk error at boot on a hackintosh is to map everything properly which is actually pretty easy to do in Clover. Basically all you have to do is go into the SMBIOS section of your config.plist, register then RAM and set how many slots you have and what channel your running your memory in. Here’s an example of all I needed to do get the “broken” slot working again with a single stick in macOS:
Use these memory mapping steps if you need more help or more examples or even some detailed documentation on the steps required on how to do so, I put together one myself which you can find here on the forums. If you need some examples or want to follow the guide you can find it over at the forums.
Once you fill out your memory profile in config.plist and restart you should get something more like this when opening About This Mac again:
Hope this helps!