OS X Mountain Lion Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Your Mac's connection to Harry Potter

by Steven Sande (May 17th, 2013)

The next time you wish to hack into a Mac, it may help to grab your wand and book of spells. At the NoSuchCon security conference this week, security architect Alex Ionescu presented a talk where he revealed that special undocumented code on a Mac's SMC (system management controller) can be ...

Mac 101: Temporarily disabling Notification Center

by Steven Sande (Feb 8th, 2013)

One gripe I hear a lot from OS X Mountain Lion users is that they sometimes get notifications bothering them at the most inopportune times. I know that when I'm working on TUAW TV Live, the last thing I want is something else to distract my attention when I'm already distracted by about 15 other ...

Mac 101: Mountain Lion's Magic Trackpad triple-finger tap dictionary lookup

by Steven Sande (Jan 22nd, 2013)

Let's say you're reading TUAW and you see that I've used the word "peripatetic" in a post. While some of you would know the meaning of the word, others might be doing a bit of head-scratching and fire up the Dictionary app on your Mac. If you have a MacBook with a multi-touch trackpad or a ...

Use Automator to get the Airport Utility 5.6.1 working on OS X 10.8

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (Jan 22nd, 2013)

When I acquired a second printer dedicated to making prints and photos, I decided to dig the older Airport Express I have out of a drawer and set it up to be a wireless print server for that printer. However, I ran into a bit of a snafu: the older Airport Expresses require AirPort Utility 5.6.1 ...

Daily Update for January 4, 2013

by Steven Sande (Jan 4th, 2013)

It's the TUAW Daily Update, your source for Apple news in a convenient audio format. You'll get all the top Apple stories of the day in three to five minutes for a quick review of what's happening in the Apple world. You can listen to today's Apple stories by clicking the inline player ...

Serial upgraders: OS X customers consistently upgrade

by Steven Sande (Dec 4th, 2012)

California-based Net Applications measures operating system and browser adoption rates by checking stats from visitors to about 40,000 Web sites. A Computerworld post today highlighted the fact that Apple's OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard), 10.7 (Lion) and 10.8 (Mountain Lion) have been adopted by Mac ...

Dev pre-release of OS X 10.8.3 available today

by Steven Sande (Nov 26th, 2012)

Apple has made a pre-release of OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.3 (Build 12D32) available for download on the Mac Dev Center today. According to an email received by TUAW, the seed note mentions that focus areas of the update are AirPlay, AirPort, Game Center and Graphics Drivers. One known issue -- ...

OS X Mountain Lion Supplemental Update 2.0 fixes keychain errors

by Steven Sande (Nov 21st, 2012)

Everybody's favorite cat, OS X Mountain Lion, has a new update this morning. But don't be surprised if you don't see it under the Updates tab in the Mac App Store -- OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.2 Supplemental Update 2.0 is "recommended for all Mac systems introduced in 2012." According to the ...

Clear for Mac, Clear for iPhone/iPod touch 1.2 announced

by Steven Sande (Oct 31st, 2012)

Users of the innovative Clear "to-do list" app for iPhone and iPod touch have some good news today; a Mac version of the app is on the way, as is an update to the original iOS app. The app is a collaboration of Realmac Software, Impending and Helftone. What's new? TUAW had an opportunity to ...

Digital Camera RAW Compatibility Update 4.01 supports Canon EOS M, Nikon D600

by Steven Sande (Oct 25th, 2012)

Apple today released the latest in a series of Digital Camera RAW Compatibility Updates that are designed to add RAW support for new digital cameras to iPhoto and Aperture. It's available now through the Mac App Store Updates tab or downloaded directly here. Digital Camera RAW Compatibility ...

TUAW TV Live: Brett Terpstra reveals Mountain Lion tips

by Steven Sande (Oct 3rd, 2012)

Welcome back to TUAW TV Live! While you may miss the smiling faces of my substitute hosts Kelly Guimont and Doc Rock, you'll get to see my relaxed post-vacation visage as well as that of today's guest -- the one and only Brett Terpstra. I've got the usual avalanche of accessories to demo, and ...

Apple releases OS X 10.8.2 with new Facebook, Messages and FaceTime features

by Kelly Hodgkins (Sep 19th, 2012)

On the same day it released iOS 6, Apple also dropped the latest version of OS X Mountain Lion. Version 10.8.2 adds new Facebook features including single sign-on, the ability to share links and photos via Facebook and the addition of Facebook notifications in Mountain Lion's notification ...

Daily Update for August 31, 2012

by Steven Sande (Aug 31st, 2012)

Chitika research: Mountain Lion on 1 of every 10 Macs

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (Aug 31st, 2012)

In news that really should surprise no one, Chitika Insights used web impressions to determine that a little more than a month after its release, OS X Mountain Lion has been installed on one out of every 10 Macs. Most of those installations took place within the first week of release, with an ...

How to get Notification Center to show you what's playing in iTunes

by Kelly Hodgkins (Aug 24th, 2012)

OS X's Notification Center was introduced in Mountain Lion and is now your one-stop location for all alerts. Besides the customary notifications for incoming emails and reminders, you can also use Notification Center for other content like the title and artist of the current track that's ...