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Siri Comes to Mac with All-New Capabilities for the Desktop

  1. If you want to do a clean install of macOS Sierra, or you have multiple Macs to install it on, then a bootable flash drive for is your best bet for easy installation. Here’s how to make one.
  2. The new Mac operating system offers more than a name change. MacOS Sierra version 10.12 moves Apple's desktop OS closer to its mobile counterpart, gaining Siri, Apple Pay, and more.

While my level of technical skill is low, I have been using Afloat in OSX 10.11 but it appears to have been disabled or deleted since the upgrade to 10.12. I went through the steps outlined and verified the SIP was disabled (it had appar. Contact Joyce Farms. Afloat macos catalina.

Cupertino, California — Apple today announced that macOS Sierra, the latest major release of the world's most advanced desktop operating system, is now available as a free update. macOS Sierra brings Siri to the Mac with intelligent and helpful features users know and love from iPhone and iPad, along with all-new capabilities designed specifically for use on the desktop. Features like Universal Clipboard, iCloud Desktop and Documents, Auto Unlock and Apple Pay on the web help your Mac work even better with other Apple devices. And Photos gets an update with a new Memories feature that automatically creates curated collections of your favorite photos and videos.
Siri on the Mac can help send messages and email, find documents, look up information, search a user's photo library, adjust system preferences and more. Users can also drag and drop Siri results into documents or pin them into their Today view for later reference. Universal Clipboard allows users to copy content from an app on one Apple device and paste it into another app on a different Apple device. With iCloud Desktop and Documents users can now access the files on their Desktop from iPhone and iPad. And Auto Unlock lets users automatically log into their Mac when they are wearing an authenticated Apple Watch.
Apple Pay on the web makes the online shopping experience in Safari more convenient and secure than ever. Shoppers can now click the Apple Pay button at checkout on nearly 300,000 participating websites, including 1-800-Flowers, Gilt, Instacart, Lululemon, Warby Parker and more, and then complete their purchase with Touch ID on iPhone 6 or later or with Apple Watch. Users' credit or debit card information is not shared with online merchants and strong encryption protects all communication between a user's device and Apple Pay servers.
Photos introduces Memories, which highlights favorite and forgotten moments in users' photo libraries by automatically creating curated collections of occasions like birthday parties or family vacations. Photos uses advanced computer vision to identify faces, objects and scenes in your images, so photos can be searched by who and what is in them. An all-new Brilliance editing tool brightens dark areas and pulls in highlights to make photos look richer and more vibrant.
  • Messages makes conversations more interesting, allowing users to preview web links and play video clips from right within the app; respond to messages with a Tapback like a heart, thumbs up and more directly onto a message bubble; and send bigger emoji for more message impact.
  • Tabs are now available across Mac apps that support multiple windows, including Maps, Mail, Pages, Numbers, Keynote, TextEdit, and even third-party apps.
  • Picture in Picture floats video from Safari or iTunes in a window over the desktop. The window can be resized, dragged and pinned to any corner of the screen so users can watch video while they work.
  • Optimized Storage frees up space when a Mac starts getting full by storing infrequently used items in the cloud and helping users remove apps and files they no longer need.
  • Apple Music in iTunes makes it even easier to discover new music and browse exclusives and new releases.

Availability

macOS Sierra is available as a free update starting today from the Mac App Store. macOS Sierra supports all Macs introduced since late 2009. Some features may not be available in all regions or all languages. For more information, please visit: apple.com/macos/sierra.

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October 23rd , 2016 by Ankur Gupta |

Afloat is a software that allows some Mac application windows to remain on top of other windows even when they are not in focus. Hence the name Always on Top. This is a standard feature for all windows in Ubuntu but in Mac we need to use a third-party software like Afloat to get this functionality. As of writing this post, Afloat is the only software I have seen that can let us do this on a Mac. If you want to learn more about Always on Top or Afloat, I recommend reading my original post (with pictures) on this topic.

The original post contained instructions on how to setup Always on Top using Afloat on MacOS Yosemite and El Capitan. Those instructions have become really old and do not work on Mac OS Sierra (10.12). This post presents a new set of instructions on how to enable Always on Top in MacOS Sierra. If you have an older MacOS, please follow the instructions in the original post.

The instructions are provided as General Steps and Specific Instructions. For each general step, I have provided at least one specific set of instructions that worked for me. You may choose to perform specific instruction in different ways, depending on what resources you already have available.

General Steps

  1. Install SIMBL
  2. Obtain Afloat.bundle folder
  3. Drop Afloat.bundle in SIMBL plugins folder.
  4. Test, restart (if necessary), test, restart (to re-enable SIP), test

Specific Instructions

1. Install SIMBL

Previously, for MacOS Yosemite and El Capitan, SIMBL 0.9.9 worked but it does not seem to work for MacOS Sierra. While there could be many sources of SIMBL, mySIMBL works for me on MacOS Sierra and it is easy to install. Here are the specific steps that worked for me.

Install mySIMBL.You can simply follow the instructions in mySIMBL README. During the installation of mySIMBL, it might ask you to disable System Integrity Protection (SIP), which requires you to boot in Recovery Mode. mySIMBL will instruct you if you need to do this and how to do it. The only thing I have to add is that you only need to disable SIP for installing mySIMBL. Once mySIMBL and Afloat are installed, you can re-enable SIP. Instructions for re-enabling SIP are provided in this post below.

Alternative to downloading mySIMBL zip file from GitHub, you can use MacUpdate if you trust it.

2. Obtain Afloat.bundle

These are multiple methods to obtaining Afloat.bundle folder. Once you obtain this folder, I recommend that making a more long-term backup of this folder (Google Drive, for example) for future use.

Method 1: Search if you already have it.You might have Afloat.bundle Ocr for mac os. from previous Afloat installation. That bundle should work nicely. If you have installed Afloat before, don’t uninstall or delete it yet. Find the folder Afloat.bundle on your computer and copy it somewhere safe. Some places to look for it are /Library/Application Support/SIMBL/Plugins and ~/Library/Application Support/SIMBL/Plugins.

OR

Method 2: Download from the Internet.If you have never installed Afloat before, then you need to obtain Afloat.bundle. You can find this folder in Rocky Wu’s GitHub repository here. You can either clone the afloat repository using git or you can download the afloat folder as a zip file and unzip it. Once you have cloned/downloaded the afloat folder, navigate to afloat/bundle/Afloat.bundle. You will need this folder later.

OR

Method 3: Build it yourself (difficult).You can clone the Afloat repository and use Xcode to build it yourself. Check your deploy location for a Afloat.bundle folder.

2. Drop Afloat.bundle in SIMBL plugins folder

Afloat For Mac Sierra Installer

  1. Run mySIMBL using the MacOS search bar (pressing Command+Space and typing in mySIMBL).
  2. Copy/paste the Afloat.bundle folder into the plugins folder /Library/Application Support/SIMBL/Plugins. mySIMBL will also provide this instruction to you.
  3. Ensure that Afloat appears in mySIMBL Plugins window and that there is a green dot next to it, as shown in the picture below.

4. Test, restart (if necessary), test, restart (to re-enable SIP), test.

a. Test, restart (if necessary), test.Restart any windows on which you want to use Afloat. Click on the Window menu to see if you can see this kind of menu.

Note that not all applications support Afloat. I can confirm that Afloat works on iTerm2. Press the Afloat key (Control+Command+A by default) and test it out to ensure that it works. If you don’t see it yet, don’t give up yet. There may still be hope. Restart your computer and test again.

b. Restart to re-enable SIP (optional but recommended), test.If you have SIP disabled, you can re-enable it. You should do this after you have ensured that Afloat is working for you. Re-enabling SIP does not stop Afloat from working. Here are the steps to re-enable it.

  1. Reboot into Recovery Mode by restarting and holding down Command+R.
  2. Click Utilities > Terminal.
  3. Type in csrutil enable; reboot and press Enter.
  4. Restart your Mac.
  5. Test Afloat again.

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Troubleshooting

Restarting computer usually helps immensely with everything. Often, after a few updates, Afloat stops working for me. In most cases, simple restart fixes the problem. It’s only when MacOS changes named versions that you things get really messy.

Afloat For Mac Sierra 10.13

Good luck!