You can find all available AirPlay devices and additional audio AirPlay options in the Sound preference pane under the Output tab. Option-click the Sound control in the menu bar, where you’ll see a single (the firstĪlphabetical, or the last used) AirPlay device show up as an audio destination. Now, in Mountain Lion, you can also send your Mac’s system audio. AirPlay has long enabled you to stream music from your Mac to a device such as a second- or third-generation Apple TV or AirPort Express, but before Mountain Lion you could stream only from an application that had a specific AirPlay output feature. Share System Audio to AirPlay Devices - In addition to the new AirPlay Video Mirroring feature in Mountain Lion, which uses AirPlay to stream your entire screen to a second- or third-generation Apple TV and thence to an HDTV, AirPlay adds new audio-only options as well. This capability will work for Facebook, too, when support is added in a few months. Go to the Mail, Contacts & Calendars preference pane and click your Twitter account (assuming you’ve already set it up). (Before you do this, we suggest you back up your Contacts data: Choose File > Export > Contacts Archive.) Twitter photos and other information available from the people you follow can be imported, although not using the Contacts app itself. But you can also pull information from your Twitter account into the Contacts application (formerly known as Address Book). Incorporate Twitter Info into Your Contacts Database - With built-in support for Twitter, Mountain Lion enables you to compose and send tweets from the Share button in many applications, such as Safari, as well as from Notification Center. Position your fingers off the right side of a Magic Trackpad or a laptop’s built-in trackpad, and then swipe onto the pad’s surface.Īccess Accessibility Options Quickly - Press Command-Option-F5 and you’ll immediately see a pop-up dialog where you can turn on and off core accessibility options, such as those for zooming and VoiceOver. Make Notification Center Appear Reliably with a Trackpad - Apple makes viewing Notification Center sound easy: “just swipe to the left from the right edge of the trackpad.” After scrolling the Safari window to the right repeatedly, we figured out that Apple really means from the edge. Much easier, and less sneaky, is to Option-click the Notification Center icon to turn the alerts on or off. You can still lock a document manually: position the mouse pointer over a document’s title bar, click the little triangle that appears, and choose Lock from the menu. (Strangely, the preference to control this behavior was in the Time Machine pane of System Preferences.) Apple must have gotten the message that the nanny-esque feature was more annoyance than improvement, so in Mountain Lion the automatic lock feature is gone. Now in Mountain Lion, Save As is back! To access it, hold down the Option key while you open the File menu.Īuto Save Auto Locking - Under Lion, Auto Save included an auto lock capability - after a period of time, such as two weeks, a document would be locked automatically to prevent accidental editing should you open it later. Although you could work around this disappearance, many experienced Mac users found it annoying (see “ Subtle Irritations in Lion,” 17 August 2011, and “ The Problem with Lion’s Duplicate Command,” 27 October 2011). Save As Saved from the Dustbin - In 10.7 Lion, applications that used Auto Save lacked a Save As command. If you’re interested in Safari specifically, Sharon Zardetto has written up notable changes in her article, “ What’s New in Mountain Lion’s Safari 6” (27 July 2012). Rather than write yet another comprehensive review (see the work of our friends Jason Snell, John Siracusa, and Matthew Panzarino for that), we want to touch on features and shortcuts that you might not easily encounter on your own - or that we think are so cool You might look at the list of new features in OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion and think, “Ho hum, no big deal,” but a lot goes into a major update to an operating system. #1651: Dealing with leading zeroes in spreadsheet data, removing ad tracking from ckbk.#1652: OS updates, DPReview shuttered, LucidLink cloud storage.
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