http://tidbits.com/ Apple is happy to tell you about the main features of OS X Mountain Lion, but you may not know about the details that TidBITS staff members have shared in this article of important (and fun!) Mountain Lion tips. en-us Copyright 2012 TidBITS Publishing Inc. Mon, 13 Aug 2012 00:00:00 EDT Mon, 13 Aug 2012 00:00:00 EDT editors@tidbits.com (TidBITS Editors) editors@tidbits.com (TidBITS Editors) http://tidbits.com/images/tb_logo_152x55.png http://tidbits.com/ 55 152 TidBITS badge http://db.tidbits.com/article/13147?rss#comments_15347 Mon, 13 Aug 2012 16:45:59 EDT http://tidbits.com/article/13147#comments_15347
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Do you mean that we no longer get a dialog telling us how much is left to copy and how long it will take? Or is this an *extra* progress bar?]]> http://db.tidbits.com/article/13147?rss#comments_15147 Mon, 30 Jul 2012 21:14:39 EDT http://tidbits.com/article/13147#comments_15147 http://db.tidbits.com/article/13147?rss#comments_15145 Mon, 30 Jul 2012 20:22:05 EDT http://tidbits.com/article/13147#comments_15145 http://db.tidbits.com/article/13147?rss#comments_15144 Mon, 30 Jul 2012 20:15:03 EDT http://tidbits.com/article/13147#comments_15144 http://db.tidbits.com/article/13147?rss#comments_15124 Sat, 28 Jul 2012 11:33:13 EDT http://tidbits.com/article/13147#comments_15124 http://db.tidbits.com/article/13147?rss#comments_15123 Sat, 28 Jul 2012 08:40:25 EDT http://tidbits.com/article/13147#comments_15123 http://db.tidbits.com/article/13147?rss#comments_15122 Sat, 28 Jul 2012 03:12:08 EDT http://tidbits.com/article/13147#comments_15122 http://db.tidbits.com/article/13147?rss#comments_15121 Sat, 28 Jul 2012 01:48:39 EDT http://tidbits.com/article/13147#comments_15121 http://db.tidbits.com/article/13147?rss#comments_15111 Fri, 27 Jul 2012 11:49:12 EDT http://tidbits.com/article/13147#comments_15111 Now you have Expose back IN Mission Control. Very awesome!]]> http://db.tidbits.com/article/13147?rss#comments_15109 Fri, 27 Jul 2012 04:40:04 EDT http://tidbits.com/article/13147#comments_15109 http://db.tidbits.com/article/13147?rss#comments_15108 Fri, 27 Jul 2012 02:46:27 EDT http://tidbits.com/article/13147#comments_15108
Fantastic and so simple.]]> http://db.tidbits.com/article/13147?rss#comments_15104 Thu, 26 Jul 2012 23:28:35 EDT http://tidbits.com/article/13147#comments_15104 http://tidbits.com/article/12593

"Of course, alternative approaches to duplicating and dealing with template-like files remain. You can select the file in the Finder and choose File > Duplicate (Command-D) to make a duplicate that you then rename manually before opening. Or, for files that you always want to duplicate, you can select the file in the Finder, choose File > Get Info (Command-I), and check the Stationery Pad checkbox. From then on, double-clicking the file in the Finder causes a duplicate to be created (with “copy” at the end of its filename) in the same folder as the original and then opened for editing."

I remember setting up stationary pad documents for my parents back in 1993 on their Mac Classic II under System 7. Back then the checkbox was called... "Template".

Is this option still available in Mountain Lion?]]> http://db.tidbits.com/article/13147?rss#comments_15101 Thu, 26 Jul 2012 20:41:02 EDT http://tidbits.com/article/13147#comments_15101 http://db.tidbits.com/article/13147?rss#comments_15099 Thu, 26 Jul 2012 17:48:54 EDT http://tidbits.com/article/13147#comments_15099 http://db.tidbits.com/article/13147?rss#comments_15098 Thu, 26 Jul 2012 17:45:13 EDT http://tidbits.com/article/13147#comments_15098 https://discussions.apple.com/message/19033491#19033491
This is a show-stopper for me.]]> http://db.tidbits.com/article/13147?rss#comments_15092 Thu, 26 Jul 2012 13:44:59 EDT http://tidbits.com/article/13147#comments_15092 http://db.tidbits.com/article/13147?rss#comments_15091 Thu, 26 Jul 2012 13:42:10 EDT http://tidbits.com/article/13147#comments_15091
If the former, then I disagree. All the reviews I've read indicate that Airparrot works passably, but performance (both for the machine itself, and the video quality) is not great.

If the latter, then that's why. Apple doesn't support things that they know will have lousy performance. This is the same reason they don't show the water-drop animation if you don't have a graphics card that can reasonably support it, for example.

Apple's Airplay Mirroring uses Intel Quick Sync Video, a hardware video codec system in newer Intel CPUs. It's 5x faster than GPU encoding, and 10x faster than software encoding.
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Overall I'm liking Mountain Lion. With the iCloud syncing enhancements, Pages just became immensely more useful. Though it is annoying that there's not a preference in the iOS versions to enable "smart quotes." Now my synced Pages documents have mixed "smart" and "straight" quotes and apostrophes.

My favorite non-obvious tip? This is not exclusive to Mountain Lion, but it's worth sharing anyway. I'm fussy about window size and centeredness on the screen. To achieve it, first I maximize a window. Then I hold down the Option key as I drag the right side of the window toward the middle (and again, from the bottom to the top). This keeps the window centered on the screen as the width (or height) is being reduced.]]> http://db.tidbits.com/article/13147?rss#comments_15089 Thu, 26 Jul 2012 12:03:57 EDT http://tidbits.com/article/13147#comments_15089
It's non-expanded state now automatically scrolls the movie posters, and the expanded state seems to have some additional changes as well: The inclusion of Rotten Tomato reviews, a font change, and a general cleaning up. It also seems to be more responsive than the previous widget.]]> http://db.tidbits.com/article/13147?rss#comments_15087 Thu, 26 Jul 2012 11:33:51 EDT http://tidbits.com/article/13147#comments_15087 http://db.tidbits.com/article/13147?rss#comments_15086 Thu, 26 Jul 2012 11:07:16 EDT http://tidbits.com/article/13147#comments_15086 http://db.tidbits.com/article/13147?rss#comments_15085 Thu, 26 Jul 2012 10:32:19 EDT http://tidbits.com/article/13147#comments_15085 http://db.tidbits.com/article/13147?rss#comments_15084 Thu, 26 Jul 2012 10:26:34 EDT http://tidbits.com/article/13147#comments_15084
Open Termina.app and write the following command line:

defaults write -g ApplePersistence -bool no

This should work fine!]]> http://db.tidbits.com/article/13147?rss#comments_15083 Thu, 26 Jul 2012 09:39:06 EDT http://tidbits.com/article/13147#comments_15083 http://db.tidbits.com/article/13147?rss#comments_15082 Thu, 26 Jul 2012 09:36:56 EDT http://tidbits.com/article/13147#comments_15082