![]() ![]() (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. #1628: iPhone 14 impressions, Dark Sky end-of-life, tales from Rogue Amoeba.#1629: iOS 16.0.2, customizing the iOS 16 Lock Screen, iPhone wallet cases, meditate for free with Oak.#1630: Apple Books changes in iOS 16, simplified USB branding, recovering a lost Google Workspace account.#1631: iOS 16.0.3 and watchOS 9.0.2, roller coasters trigger Crash Detection, Medications in iOS 16, watchOS 9 Low Power Mode. ![]() ![]() #1632: Apple Card Savings accounts, SOS in the iPhone status bar, Tab Wrangler, Focus in iOS 16. ![]()
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