Thanks for that. In the Trackpad>More Gestures menu, there is a box to check for App Exposé, but that only works for the same app running multiple windows.
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Thanks for that. In the Trackpad>More Gestures menu, there is a box to check for App Exposé, but that only works for the same app running multiple windows.
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Love the dictation feature. The page scroll on the right-hand side of any webpage gets fatter now when you try to grab it.
Love the dictation feature. The page scroll on the right-hand side of any webpage gets fatter now when you try to grab it.
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defaults write com.apple.Safari NSUserKeyEquivalents -dict-add Back "\U232b"What does that code do? Enables backspace to go back in Safari 6.
Yep... same here too... on a new install.
Not that I go this way.. I usually enter via System Preferences.
Extreme Battery Drain....
And here I thought it was just mine...
"A number of MacBook Pro and MacBook Air owners who updated to the recently-released OS X Mountain Lion are complaining of battery performance issues, with some reporting their batteries only last half as long as when OS X 10.7 Lion was installed."
http://www.appleinsider.com/article...ers_reporting_laptop_battery_life_issues.html
And here I thought it was just mine...
"A number of MacBook Pro and MacBook Air owners who updated to the recently-released OS X Mountain Lion are complaining of battery performance issues, with some reporting their batteries only last half as long as when OS X 10.7 Lion was installed."
http://www.appleinsider.com/article...ers_reporting_laptop_battery_life_issues.html
You can also bring up the scrollbar by pressing two fingers on the trackpad. You don't have to scroll in order to bring the scrollbar up to grab it! Just two finger press and it comes up!
Now the battery icon in the upper bar doesn't show the remaining time, only the percentage
SlimBatteryMonitor is a pretty excellent battery indicator, small, free, and has _time_ as an option like the previous battery display.
I guess I sort of assumed notifications would (or should) show this, but in the configuration, Mac App Store/Software Update isn't shown as an option ... however, you do get notifications!
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Not really a feature new to Mountain Lion, as it always existed, but people may not know how to edit *.html files on the Mac
By default, TextEdit opens up an HTML page as formatted text, so all you see is what it would look like in Safari anyway... To see the code, head to TextEdit menu >> Preferences, Open and Save, and check "Display HTML files as HTML code instead of formatted text." Close TextEdit, and reopen for changes to take effect.
Easy.
Not really a feature new to Mountain Lion, as it always existed, but people may not know how to edit *.html files on the Mac
By default, TextEdit opens up an HTML page as formatted text, so all you see is what it would look like in Safari anyway... To see the code, head to TextEdit menu >> Preferences, Open and Save, and check "Display HTML files as HTML code instead of formatted text." Close TextEdit, and reopen for changes to take effect.
Easy.
Was that update for a 3rd party app from the MAS, or was it an OS X or Apple app update or something? I've had updates for 3rd party MAS apps a few times, but I haven't had a single notification appear for them.
Yeah, they were third party apps (it was actually three that had updates: Evernote, PST Bridge and File Viewer).
Just let them update, and the notification was cleared
I really dig on the notification implementation so far, can't wait to see how 3rd parties leverage it. I was using an email plugin called Herald, that got tossed during the mail update to ML, but this is much better and native.
Yeah, they were third party apps (it was actually three that had updates: Evernote, PST Bridge and File Viewer).
Just let them update, and the notification was cleared
I really dig on the notification implementation so far, can't wait to see how 3rd parties leverage it. I was using an email plugin called Herald, that got tossed during the mail update to ML, but this is much better and native.
Weird, maybe notifications will appear for updates later. Oh well, I've gotten into the habit of checking for updates often on my own anyway.
The latest Tweetbot for Mac (Alpha) update included NC support. I was able to test it out when someone mentioned me on Twitter, I received 2 notifications, one from Twitter, and one from Tweetbot. I'm liking that more and more apps are getting NC support.
Code:defaults write com.apple.Safari NSUserKeyEquivalents -dict-add Back "\U232b"
What does that code do? Enables backspace to go back in Safari 6.
This is perhaps the BEST tip in this thread. I can't thank you enough!
I think Preview now allows you to look up words within the app. I am pretty sure this wasn't possible in Lion, unless I'm mistaken.
EDIT: App Exposé no longer displays full screen windows.
EDIT: App Exposé no longer displays full screen windows.
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You've been able to look up words in all applications since 10.6.8 via a hotkey set in the Keyboard prefs, without opening the dictionary. (For me it was cmd+opt+D) Now it's much easier. (Three finger tap with default gestures, double three finger tap with BetterTouchTool)
This I find rather annoying. I already thought it was strange that you weren't able to invoke App Exposé from a full screen window in Lion. This is even worse.
How long has OS X had the "Create folder from selected items" animation? Select some files, right click one and press the Create folder choice and it makes a folder and then the files jump and file into it.
This may have been on Lion, I'm not sure!
Edit: I did this on the desktop
This may have been on Lion, I'm not sure!
Edit: I did this on the desktop
Another thing I noticed today is in Mail. If you have messages set to being threaded (or maybe this isn't needed) and you reply, you can access your reply from the Inbox by clicking the "return" arrow right next to the photo box in the messages listing.
Check this out to get the normal Save As from Snow Leopard back! And even still have Duplicate
http://www.tuaw.com/nock/2012/07/29/get-save-as-back-on-mountain-lions-file-menu-easily-and-without/ check out the update at the bottom to make it even cleaner.
http://www.tuaw.com/nock/2012/07/29/get-save-as-back-on-mountain-lions-file-menu-easily-and-without/ check out the update at the bottom to make it even cleaner.
More importantly Save As . . . is screwed
http://www.tuaw.com/2012/08/05/mountain-lion-bugs-chopped-battery-life-and-nonsensical-save-a/