Ok, better question. Do you know where those new ML wallpapers are located on the HDD? I want to add a few of them to my already existing wallpaper folder.
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10.8 All the Little Things!
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Ok, better question. Do you know where those new ML wallpapers are located on the HDD? I want to add a few of them to my already existing wallpaper folder.
I agree that Safari is way faster than it was in Lion ... and I still love the terrific trackpad on my late 2011 MBP 13 that allows swiping to go between screens in Safari. I know that's not new, but the increased response sensitivity is awesome.
At first, I didn't think there was much different with ML, but as I use it, I'm discovering a lot of little things ... nearly all already mentioned in this thread. Is it my imagination, or do the icons look brighter and more detailed in ML?
Also, I've activated the speech commands in Accessibility and downloaded the "Samantha" voice, which is like Siri on the iPhone 4S. It's a little buggy (or I am in learning how to use it), but one of the commands is "Tell me a joke". Sam said "knock knock", I said "Who's there" and she said "Digital". The humor escapes me, but it was cool anyway. The issue I'm finding is that the voice works one or two times after restarting and then doesn't respond until I do another restart. Any ideas?
Thanks for the tip on getting my name off the menu bar. Worked perfectly!
At first, I didn't think there was much different with ML, but as I use it, I'm discovering a lot of little things ... nearly all already mentioned in this thread. Is it my imagination, or do the icons look brighter and more detailed in ML?
Also, I've activated the speech commands in Accessibility and downloaded the "Samantha" voice, which is like Siri on the iPhone 4S. It's a little buggy (or I am in learning how to use it), but one of the commands is "Tell me a joke". Sam said "knock knock", I said "Who's there" and she said "Digital". The humor escapes me, but it was cool anyway. The issue I'm finding is that the voice works one or two times after restarting and then doesn't respond until I do another restart. Any ideas?
Thanks for the tip on getting my name off the menu bar. Worked perfectly!
Just discovered a three-finger swipe on a web page highlights text. Or, if you do the same on a photo, it will move the photo around the page as a "ghost" image.
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Click the line on the far right of the dock (near the trash), a double sided arrow appears. Drag that to change the size of the dock and icons.
Another thing in Safari ... when you swipe between pages or change tabs, the pages reload instantly. Before, you would get the same page you left and have to manually reload it.
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Click the line on the far right of the dock (near the trash), a double sided arrow appears. Drag that to change the size of the dock and icons.
Another thing in Safari ... when you swipe between pages or change tabs, the pages reload instantly. Before, you would get the same page you left and have to manually reload it.
You missed what I was asking. I was asking where those files are kept, because I want to copy a few of them and place them into a different folder.
If you're a Trackpad user, the scrollbar now appears when you put two fingers on the trackpad. Previously in Lion you had to jiggle your fingers to reveal the scrollbar.
The scrollbar also no longer blurs the content behind.
The scrollbar also no longer blurs the content behind.
I found out about that from John Siracusa's review...it was annoying having to scroll up and down just to see how far down in a page you were.
That's been the case since at least Lion. I use it all the time to highlight text
If you go to System Preferences > Users & Groups and click your picture, you'll see four tabs: Defaults, Recents, Faces and Camera.
On the Faces tab you'll see your faces from iPhoto in reverse chronological order.
Note that this only works if you have your own "face" album in iPhoto and have associated it with your "me" contact card.
EDIT: The same feature is available in Contacts when changing a person's picture — by clicking "Faces" you can select photos of that person from iPhoto.
EDIT2: You can also change your picture in Messages in the same way. Probably this is a system-wide feature.
On the Faces tab you'll see your faces from iPhoto in reverse chronological order.
Note that this only works if you have your own "face" album in iPhoto and have associated it with your "me" contact card.
EDIT: The same feature is available in Contacts when changing a person's picture — by clicking "Faces" you can select photos of that person from iPhoto.
EDIT2: You can also change your picture in Messages in the same way. Probably this is a system-wide feature.
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Resume doesn't necessarily fully restart an app anymore after a system reboot. A "blank" process requiring almost no memory is created and only replaced by the actual application process once you switch to the application. Interesting way to speed up the boot process when you use the Resume feature.
How do you make the Calendar sidebar show multiple mini monthly calendars like that? Mine only shows one and I couldn't find any options to change that.
P.S. It bugs me that they changed the names of some apps to match iOS but not others. Like System Preferences should just be Settings like in iOS. Also, it bugs me that the icons in System Preferences for General and Desktop & Screen Saver still have not been updated! They still have the wallpapers from Snow Leopard in them. Apple use to update those icons with new OS releases to match the new wallpaper of the new OS. Are they loosing attention to detail?
I also noticed that in Calendar they changed date selection in edit mode to let you pick from a graphical calendar instead of just typing in a date which is cool, BUT they DID NOT do that if you are setting the event to repeat. So now they have the new way, but forgot to implement the new way in a certain instance. Dropping the ball Apple!
Overall I am LOVING Mountain Lion though!
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I love the new dock. Very refined! Lightly frosted glass, not as busy and reflective, no cross walk, just a nice clean line separator, slightly curved corners, and the lights of active apps are now in the edge of the glass. Very sleek
P.S. Why didn't Apple rename Applications in Finder to Apps, and System Preferences to Settings?
P.P.S Haha
I really hope the next step this fall with an all new iTunes is to break it up into new apps for Music, Videos, Podcasts, iBooks, etc.!!! Then ML and iOS will be even more consistent and well organized!
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Calendar event dragging
You can drag an event in Calendar between the all-day zone to the hourly zone when in day or week mode. If I'm not mistaken, that wasn't possible in iCal in Lion.
Also, I'd like to add a "me too" to the growing list of Gmail users who are annoyed with the Archive function in Mail. If archiving in iOS goes to All Mail, it seems to me like it *should* do that in OS X too.
You can drag an event in Calendar between the all-day zone to the hourly zone when in day or week mode. If I'm not mistaken, that wasn't possible in iCal in Lion.
Also, I'd like to add a "me too" to the growing list of Gmail users who are annoyed with the Archive function in Mail. If archiving in iOS goes to All Mail, it seems to me like it *should* do that in OS X too.
something i've always wanted: after installing an app, the 'drive' would eject automatically when sending a .dmg to the trash...
I think so. I read somewhere they have to be open to show up on the Notification panel - those apps that are eligible to do so. I haven't seen badges on my email dock icon unless the app is open.
