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BusyCal 2 adds new views, menu bar quick entry, gives up Sync Services

by Mike Wehner (Oct 22nd, 2012)

It was already among the leading Calendar/iCal replacement apps for productivity aficionados, and now BusyCal has received a boost of new functionality with the release of BusyCal 2. The update includes improved iCloud functionality, and is also compatible with Google Calendar and other ...

Mountain Lion 101: Assign keyboard shortcuts to Mail outgoing accounts

by Kelly Hodgkins (Oct 10th, 2012)

Making its appearance again in Mountain Lion is the ability to assign a keyboard shortcut that'll enter an outgoing email account for a message you are composing in Mail. This feature was available in earlier versions of OS X, but was removed in OS X Lion. Now that the shortcut is back in ...

OS X 10.8.2 Supplemental Update 1.0 live in App Store

by Michael Rose (Oct 4th, 2012)

Do you have issues with certain Japanese characters not appearing in Mail? Are you frustrated by Safari's inability to access secure sites when parental controls are turned on? Or is your system having trouble starting up with more than 64 GB of RAM? If you answered "Yes" to any of these ...

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 ...

OS X Mountain Lion v10.8.1 update now available

by Steven Sande (Aug 23rd, 2012)

Apple has released OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.1, and the update is now available in the Mac App Store under the Updates tab. A manual installer is also available for download. In the support notes about the update, Apple recommends backing up your system before running the installer. A reboot is ...

VMware announces Fusion 5 with support for Windows 8

by Kelly Hodgkins (Aug 23rd, 2012)

Mac users that run Windows on their machines will be happy to know that VMware just updated its Fusion software to support Windows 8. The new Fusion 5 is also optimized for OS X Mountain Lion, so you can run the best of both desktop platforms when Windows 8 debuts later this year. The latest ...

OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion gripe list

by Michael Grothaus (Aug 17th, 2012)

To be sure, I think OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion is the best OS Apple has ever released. It feels like a completed version of what Mac OS X 10.7 Lion should have been. It's fast, it's clean, it melds some iOS concepts to OS X and, for the most part, it just works. That being said, no OS is ...

Microsoft has no plans for Retina display Office apps (updated)

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (Aug 15th, 2012)

There's someone who's kicking sand out of the Retina display sandbox, and that company appears to be Microsoft. Even though Microsoft boasted that Office for Mac is ready for OS X Mountain Lion, Macworld is reporting that users with Retina display MacBook Pros are describing a less-than-stellar ...

SlimBatteryMonitor a better menu bar battery monitor

by TJ Luoma (Aug 13th, 2012)

One of the annoyances of Mountain Lion has been the loss of the option to have the remaining battery time shown in the menu bar. Fortunately I can offer you not only a solution, but a better option, all for the low, low price of $0. I have used SlimBatteryMonitor instead of Apple's menu bar ...

OS X 10.8.1 seeded to developers

by Kelly Guimont (Aug 10th, 2012)

Version 10.8.1 of OS X Mountain Lion has been seeded to developers. There aren't any known issues listed in the release notes, just a short list under "Focus areas": Active Directory Microsoft Exchange in Mail PAC proxies in Safari SMB USB Wi-Fi and audio when connected ...

Set up Mountain Lion's text expansion options

by Mike Schramm (Aug 10th, 2012)

Lifehacker has a simple look at how to set up Mountain Lion's built-in text expansion (or, as Apple calls it, "substitution") options. In System Preferences, under Language and Text, you can go in and set up any number of text shortcuts that will expand into commonly-used phrases and ...

Put colorful Finder icons back in Mountain Lion

by Dave Caolo (Aug 10th, 2012)

OS X Lion introduced greyscale Finder icons in the side bar of Finder windows. They look nice, but many think their colorful counterparts were nicer. SideEffects lets you replace them. This simple Mac utility installs components that enable color Finder sidebar icons in both Lion and Mountain ...

Flip4Mac WMV tool launches public beta of v3

by Kelly Hodgkins (Aug 7th, 2012)

Mac owners who work in a Windows environment know how difficult it can be to play a Windows Media file on their laptop. One popular solution that lets customers play and edit a WMV/WMA file is Flip4Mac, a QuickTime component that is developed by Telestream and supported and hosted by ...

Mountain Lion 101: Silencing Notification Center alerts

by Dave Caolo (Aug 7th, 2012)

Mountain Lion's Notification Center is handy. It displays banners and alerts from notification-aware apps to keep you informed of changes, like a new Twitter mention, Calendar event or email message. That last one can get distracting, depending on how much email you receive. Here are some ways to ...