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Dear Aunt TUAW: Help me find Mountain Lion posts

by Erica Sadun (Aug 2nd, 2012)

Dear Aunt TUAW, Hello, can you provide me with a link to access all the Mountain Lion 101 articles instead of having to bookmark each individually? Your loving nephew, Graig Dear Graig, This is probably something that should be in TUAW's site operations manual. (We don't actually ...

Maniacally cuckoo for Mountain Lion: App Store checker shell script

by Erica Sadun (Jul 24th, 2012)

In the spirit of Tim Cook's maniacal excitement about upcoming Apple products, I bring to you the shell script you can run repeatedly from the command line to check the App Store to see if Mountain Lion is ready for purchase. This is what I used last year to check for Lion; it worked. This ...

Getting Ready for Mountain Lion: Performing the upgrade

by Erica Sadun (Jul 24th, 2012)

Mountain Lion is almost here, arriving tomorrow on the Mac App Store. Are you ready to upgrade? First, make sure your Mac is Mountain Lion compatible. Apple offers a list of technical specifications, so you'll be able to upgrade with confidence (although Apple says 2GB of RAM is OK, we'd ...

TUAW Talkcast: Mountain Lion preview show, 10pm ET

by Michael Rose (Jul 22nd, 2012)

Tonight on the Talkcast, we're getting ready for the new top cat in town. The calendar is flipping past and the end of July is in sight, which means the release of OS X Mountain Lion is imminent. Our intrepid team has been helping you prepare your Mac for the new operating system via our ongoing ...

Getting Ready for Mountain Lion: Preview

by Erica Sadun (Jun 28th, 2012)

Preview, the app that lets you view pictures and read PDFs in OS X, is one of Apple's unsung heroes. There's so much you can do with this app. It goes far beyond simply looking at images. It's a minimal image editor. You can crop your pictures, reorient them, and export them to new ...

Getting Ready for Mountain Lion: Messages

by Steven Sande (Jun 27th, 2012)

In this series, Erica Sadun and I have talked about many of the ways that you can prepare for the upcoming release of OS X Mountain Lion and about some of the new features that are to debut with the new OS. One of those features, Messages, has been available in beta form in Lion since February. ...

Getting Ready for Mountain Lion: Dictation

by Erica Sadun (Jun 25th, 2012)

Mountain Lion is about to debut one of my favorite features ever: Dictation. With built-in support for speech-to-text, OS X Mountain Lion allows you to talk instead of type in nearly every app on the system. You'll be able to access dictation using a simple keyboard shortcut, a double click ...

Getting Ready for Mountain Lion: Share sheets

by Erica Sadun (Jun 21st, 2012)

One of Mountain Lion's most exciting features comes straight from iOS. If you're a mobile user, you're probably familiar with the "Share" button with its curved arrow shape. In iOS, you use this to redirect data to other apps. For example, you can tweet things, mail them, and so forth. In iOS 6, ...

Getting ready for Mountain Lion: Backups

by Steven Sande (Jun 15th, 2012)

Although most Mac OS X upgrades go smoothly, there's always a chance that something can go wrong. Hundreds of thousands of files are changed during an upgrade, so there's a possibility that one or more of those changes can cause your Mac to decide to not boot up properly. Without a backup, your ...

Getting Ready for Mountain Lion: Checking your Mac's vintage

by Erica Sadun (Jun 14th, 2012)

Will your Mac actually run OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion? Depends on its vintage. If you're new to the Mac, Apple's use of "vintage" identifiers (the introduction date for a model of Mac) can be a little startling to those used to actual model numbers. For example, you might own a Mac Mini from ...

Getting ready for Mountain Lion: Clean up your Mac

by Steven Sande (Jun 13th, 2012)

It's not too early to start thinking about getting your Mac prepared for Mountain Lion. By the way, I'm going on record as saying that Mountain Lion will be released to the public on July 18, 2012 -- if history repeats itself, Apple will hold its third-quarter financial call on July 17th and ...

Getting ready for Mountain Lion: checking for compatibility

by Erica Sadun (Jun 12th, 2012)

Does your Mac qualify for Mountain Lion? Not every system does, although if you're already running OS X Lion, chances are good that you'll be able to upgrade. Still, you'll want to check. The following hardware models will support Mountain Lion, according to Apple's specifications page: iMac ...