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In this eighth beta for Apple OS X developers (the sixth version for those involved in the OS X El Capitan public beta), Apple continues to improve and polish the latest operating system for Mac.

Apple’s latest and greatest OS, El Capitan, is now in public beta, which means you don’t have to be some fancy pants dev to get your hands on the new software. Yeah, yeah. A lot of the stuff Apple’s ...