Dear Friends,
The longest day of the year (well it IS still 24 hours but mostly daylight) is this week with the Summer Solstice. Grace told me that we have to celebrate with a motorcycle ride after work just because it will be light out! The garden seems to be doing well and we should have fresh strawberries soon. My gigantic Arctic Kiwi plant continues to dominate the yard, sending feelers out to climb on whatever it can find. Maybe I’ll have some kiwis this year.
I have been playing around with the 2nd beta of Yosemite and iOS 8, and as usual, each beta version gets a lot more stable and more features are apparent. I really like the improvements to Spotlight, for example. Spotlight will now not only search your drive(s), but also web pages, music in iTunes, and photos in iPhoto, etc. When you activate Spotlight by either clicking on the little magnifying glass in the upper right corner or by hitting command/space, a nice big window opens in the middle of your screen to display your results. One pleasant surprise was that Spotlight now does calculations, conversions and definitions. If I type in “3cm” it also converts it to 1.18in or 30mm. It will also do currency calculations; for example, 1,000 Chinese Yuan are equal to $162.51 US dollars or 119.99 Euros.
The dictionary feature anticipates your spelling and word choices, which makes looking up words easy. I tested it with “eleemosynary,” my favorite spelling bee word and it got it after the 2nd ‘e’. The one complaint I have so far is that the big Spotlight window in the middle of the screen is not movable, but I am sure Apple will fix that before most of you see Yosemite.
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