Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference is just over the horizon, and many of us are expecting to hear something about the future of Mac OS X. With that in mind, we cast our minds back to last year’s introduction of Mountain Lion. At...Show More Summary
In this week’s tip, I’ll discuss a cool feature that you may be wholly unaware of—even if you're a long-time Mac user. In Lion and Mountain Lion, click the Apple menu and choose About This Mac. Yeah, yeah, you’ve seen this before. But...Show More Summary
Last week we wandered about Mountain Lion’s Messages application to get a feel for the territory. In today’s lesson we’ll dig into some of Messages’ less obvious features, including screen sharing, initiating remote slideshows and presentations,...Show More Summary
It's certainly been a long time coming, but the latest version (2.2.1) of Twitter for Mac finally brings support for Notification Center in OS X Mountain Lion. Aside from the side-pane pings for your @replies and DMs, a number of fixes have been implemented that should stabilize your experience some more. Show More Summary
Reader Ron Sharp has a question that continues to puzzle some Mac users. He writes: I have an older Mac on a local network that is still using Snow Leopard—so it’s incompatible with iCloud. How can I share calendars between it and my...Show More Summary
If you own a Mac running OS X Mountain Lion and either a second or third generation Apple TV, you have the ability to display content from your Mac on your TV wirelessly with AirPlay Mirroring. If you are familiar with how AirPlay works for iOS with display mirroring, it's very similar. Show More Summary
In Santa Cruz, a young mountain lion accidentally wandered into downtown this morning, only to find out that it was not cut out for urban life. The mountain lion was spotted, stuck in a 20-foot-deep concrete aqueduct around 7:30 a.m., but it apparently couldn't jump high enough to get out (or was possibly just too lazy to figure out another exit). Show More Summary
A week following the previous build, Apple has released build 12D52 of the OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.4 beta to developers. Apple, once again, asks developers to focus on WiFi, Graphics Drivers, and Safari. We previously noted that 10.8.4 includes support for Mac computers with 802.11ac WiFi chips. While 10.8.4 is a minor update to OS […]
Notification Center, introduced with OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion, has quickly become an integral part of the Mac OS experience, replacing third-party apps like Growl and the like with a built-in system for notifying you of system and other events on your Mac. Let’s take a look, then, at five tips and tricks to help [...]Show More Summary
Name three dangerous animals. If you're the average person in America, your list probably includes sharks, snakes, bears or maybe even mountain lions. While all of these animals are efficient killing machines in their own right, three of them (guess which!) should barely register as a threat.
In Season 2 of the action series 24, Elisha Cuthbert's character, Kim Bauer, inexplicably won a staredown with a mountain lion. And so a fellow hockey WAG was no issue on Wednesday night in Toronto. In Game 4 of the Eastern Conference...Show More Summary
Just over a week following the previous build, Apple has seeded OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.4 build 12E47 to registered Mac developers. The update is available via the Mac App Store for developers and should be on the Mac Developer Center shortly. Apple, once again, tells developers to focus on WiFi performance, Safari, and Graphics [...]
Well, we're short a bear. But we're going to go with "Oh my" anyway, after a tiger, two mountain lions, and a variety of other wild cats were seized from a patch of private farmland in rural northeast Kansas. The animals were living in inadequate chain-link enclosures and weren't properly...
An easy way to keep your Mac healthy is to keep your apps current. Why? Bug fixes, security updates, new features—need I go on? Resolve to stay on top of updates in the new year. Upgrade to OS X Mountain Lion (if you can) If you haven’t...Show More Summary
In OS X Mountain Lion, you can set a Calendar notification for a repeating event on your iPhone, then get that notification on your Mac. Heck, you can even set a Calendar event on your Mac and get it when you’re out and about with your iPhone or iPad. It’s all a part of Apple’s [...]Show More Summary
Notes took a great leap forward with the introduction of iCloud and OS X Mountain Lion. Once a static app that sat on your iOS device, Notes now allows you to jot down quick messages and sync them across your Apple devices. In a post...Show More Summary
Tweet4th Avenue: Clement, just five minutes later: But I suppose the Golden Gate Park area can no longer support the other kind of cougar so this hunt is over. And to you headline writers out there, these days it’s mountain lion or puma, take your pick…
In a market crowded by ocelots, cows and mountain lions, it's nice to see an operating system that isn't named after an animal. The trend bucking OS? Debian's 7.0 update, Wheezy. Okay, it's technically the name of a penguin from Toy Story, but we'll give it a pass. Show More Summary
International Hunting Consultants - Representing Hunters with Proven Hunting Outfitters The Oregon House narrowly approved a hunting bill Tuesday that would overturn a voter approved ban on hunting mountain lions with hound dogs. Mountain Lion Hunting Bill gets Oregon House Approval International Hunting Consultants
Delicious Library 3, the library organization application from Delicious Monster, debuted on Thursday. This latest update embraces Mountain Lion, and also features, for the first time, iOS integration. (Though some may remember thatShow More Summary