Today I'm going to be showing you all the newest features you're going to find in the

latest operating system for the Mac, know as OSX El Capitan. To help you digest this

information, for those of you who wish to do so, I've created a simple 2-page clean

PDF you can download.

It's my notes, what I have on my desk next to me when I teach this class live. If you'd

like to download that, I'm making it available to you for free. You'll find a link to that

in the description of this video. If you wish to review this video later, maybe to go over

parts you missed, you'll notice in the notes I'm including the time code for the various

chapters, that way you can skip ahead to the parts you care about.

Let's start with going over the new features you'll find in Apple Mail. You'll have the

same multitouch gestures you have on your iPhone or iPad. For example, this message,

let's say I want to preserve it and mark it as unread. I can swipe with two fingers on

my trackpad, from left to right, and I'll get this box that says, mark as unread.

When I click on that, like you can on the iPhone and iPad, that blue dot comes to mark

it as an unread message. Also, if I swipe the opposite way, from right to left, with

two fingers, I get a trash button. If you do a more dramatic movement, you can wipe

out that message. i'm not gonna do that because I'm gonna use this message.

The other feature I want to show you, I love this one. For those of you who use a calendar,

you're gonna like this one. Now there's better integration between then calendar program

and the mail program. For example, in this message it says, do you want to meet tomorrow

for lunch. It detects this language and looks at dates.

It says, one event found in this email. By clicking add here at the top-right corner

I can add this event into my calendar. Lunch with Johnny, and hit add to counter. Simple.

The next feature I wanna show you is one I thought was a bug in the last operating system.

They never corrected it, they made it a new feature in this one.

For those of you who like using the Apple Mail program in full screen mode like I do,

one of the things that may have frustrated you is the fact that you can't minimize a

message. Until now. If I'm composing a message and 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 the yellow dot here. Let's say I need to go to

this message, and grab this graphic. I can click and drag it and drop it here into this

message. It's preserved, just like that. You can 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. Just like that.

Another great feature for those of you with ADD, 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 easiest way 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 changes to 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 this selfie I took at the Cape Cod National Seashore.

I wanna share it with someone I just talked to. 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 name or email address and send them an email with

the attached photo. The other feature I wanna show you here is handy for a not-so-obvious

reason.

If you're like me, I take screenshots on my phone, iPad, and Apple Watch all the time.

It just happens, especially if I'm doing a hard reset on any of those devices. It's easy

to accidentally do that. If you look here on the left hand side, there's now a category

for screenshots. If you have accidentally cluttered your photo library with a ton of

accidental screenshots, you can now click on 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 the normal edit mode for a photo, we've got our

options on the right hand side. You'll notice there's now support for third party extensions.

As of right now, we could not find any of them. I think it's because it's too new.

This will open up doors down the road. When they do, we'll do an updated class on our

favorite extensions for photos. As of right now, there's no options. The next feature

we're gonna talk about is Spotlight, which got 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 at the top right hand side of your screen. Or,

if you're like me and a fan of hotkeys, you can do command spacebar which will activate

it. The first change to Spotlight is you can now move it around. You're not locked to the

middle of the screen, so if you'd prefer to keep it at the top-right corner, you can drag

and drop it, and it'll stay there.

You can now search within Spotlight, the same way you'd communicate with a person. Let's

say I'm trying to locate a document I wrote within the last week. I can literally type

in, documents I wrote last week, and there it is. Here's a .pdf we created, my notes

for this particular class, and more. A couple other 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's gonna 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 pulls that information. If I can put a feature request

out there with Apple, I wish movies had this kind 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 different class we created. Some of you asked me, what's

my favorite app of all time. I'm a business guy, not a gamer, so I don't have any favorite

games. I think the most useful add-on app for the Mac, if you wanna check it out I'll

include a link in the description of this video.

I love this app, it goes hand-in-hand with Spotlight, 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 past things you've copied, make sure you check

out that class. I'll include a link to that in the description of this video.

What we're gonna do is take a brief commercial break, this is how we're able to keep these

classes free for all of you. When we come back, we'll resume where we left off and go

over a bunch of other new features you're gonna 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 showing you 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 app to run in 50% of the screen. I think of that

as ruining the experience. Then I started playing 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 calendar with my email. I like to schedule things based

on my calendar, so a lot of times I'm going back 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 both of them, but the thing I'm gonna do first

is make sure everyone's on the same page when it comes to their settings.

If you will indulge me, I'm gonna go into system preferences, and recommend all of you

follow along. Within system preferences, the second line down, we have trackpad. For those

of you who don't have a trackpad, if you're on an iMac you're gonna do the same thing

here but in mouse. For the rest of you, go here into trackpad settings. We have these

three options at the top. Make sure you're under more gestures, and the middle option

here is mission control.

Make sure you have this checked, and the animation that'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 easier to sort things. Make sure you have that enabled.

Let me show you the two different ways to activate 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, so they're on the same window. The first method

is I'm gonna put one app into half screen mode, and tell it which app to run on the

other half. Normally if i wanted my email to be in full screen mode I'd click the green

dot. When you want it to run with only half the screen, you click and hold on the green

dot. When you do so, it's gonna give you a blue background.

If I drag this to the right, you can see I place the mail on the right hand side. If

I move it to the left and let go, it's running in 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 need more space here, and not as much here. What

you can do is, this little black bar you can grab 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 smallest I can make the calendar.

It still works pretty well for me, and in my case this is the perfect solution. Having

your email and your calendar next to each other. Some of you might feel the same way

about notepad or iMessages. The other way you can trigger this is through Mission Control.

Give me a moment while I set this up. We're back to where we started, we have email here,

calendar here.

What we can do, instead, is go into Mission Control mode. Three fingers at the bottom

of your trackpad, and swipe up. Now I can take 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 green dot. 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 enable split screen mode. The next few features I'm

gonna show you have to do with Safari. Those of you who are not fans of Safari, you may

want to skip this part. Otherwise, let me show you what we've got, one of the features

we have. We have three apps open at the top of the screen, the New York Times, Tech Talk

America, and Amazon.com. If I want to go to these websites often, I could create a bookmark.

But there's a new way to save it called a pinned tab. The way you do this is take the

tab that's open and drag it to the left. You'll see 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 do that with Amazon, to prove a point. The reason

why you may want pinned tabs, is when I quit out of Safari and go back into it, you'll

notice the pinned tabs are still there.

The one that was open is back to whatever my homepage is. While we're talking about

saving websites, I want to bring your attention to 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 steps to 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 little love to the guys who like to bring you knowledge

in how to use your various gadgets. We appreciate that. The next two features we have here in

Safari. Do you have a problem where you have a Youtube video open? Let me launch one.

And you have another website that opens in the background and also has audio. I'm gonna

launch a video, and keep the audio down. If you look at the top of the screen, we have

two audio buttons. We have a master kill switch in the web url bar. We also have a speaker

icon here. If we had multiple tabs open, and audio playing all over the place, it can be

distracting.

If I click here, it's gonna kill the audio to whatever's playing on that tab. Whereas

if I click up here, I can kill the audio from all tabs that are open. The final feature

I wanted to show you in Safari is, let's say you have an article you want to save. One

of the things you can do now, is if you go to the share button, there is now support