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Mac OS X Yosemite available today as a free upgrade

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At its ongoing event, Apple has officially announced that Mac OS X Yosemite will be available for download today. What’s more, it’s going to be a free upgrade. And an iWork update for OS X will also be going out today.

The latest version of Apple’s OS for desktops and laptops was unveiled in June during the company’s traditional annual developer conference.

Yosemite comes with translucent windows and menus, new dock icons, updated Spotlight search, a new widget bar, as well as iCloud Drive integration. Continuity, the highly anticipated feature that lets you ‘pick up where you left off’, whether you’re using an iOS 8 device or a Mac with Yosemite on it, will be available on Monday. With its Handoff feature, you can for example start writing writing an email on your iPhone and then continue it on your Mac.

Continuity also lets you do stuff such as pick up a phone call on your Mac or iPad, when your iPhone rings. You can even write text messages on your iPad or Mac, and they’ll get sent through your iPhone. And you get text notifications on your Mac too, so you can reply straight away.

All of this is made possible by some neat syncing going on between all of your Apple devices – iPhones, iPads, and Macs.

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