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Apple Remote Desktop Admin update

by Steven Sande (Aug 23rd, 2012)

With all of the fanfare of a mouse creeping into a dark, dank basement, Apple updated the Apple Remote Desktop Admin app to version 3.6.1 a few days ago. Remote Desktop 3.6.1 requires either OS X Lion or OS X Mountain Lion. For Mountain Lion, the update is available via the Updates tab in the ...

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 10.8.1 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 ...

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 ...

Dear Aunt TUAW: Let me help people fix their notes on Mountain Lion

by Erica Sadun (Jul 31st, 2012)

Dear Aunt TUAW, I am writing you because I think you may want to publish this on your column, as a tip to your trillions of readers. On Leopard, Apple included Notes within Mail, an app I use exclusively. I wrote many notes on Mail, including to-do reminders and background notes. Enter ...

Daily Update for July 30, 2012

by Steven Sande (Jul 30th, 2012)

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 ...

Mountain Lion 101: Mail VIPs

by Steven Sande (Jul 28th, 2012)

This Mountain Lion 101 feature is a quickie -- Apple's Mail app now has a new feature called VIPs that gives you one-click access to emails from those very important people in your life. Emails from VIPs have a star next to the sender's name, and a mailbox for each VIP is added to the ...

Apple mistakenly issues OS X Server codes to users entitled to Mountain Lion

by Kelly Hodgkins (Jul 27th, 2012)

Apple may have had some trouble with its Mountain Lion redemption codes, which provide a free Mountain Lion upgrade to new Mac owners who purchased a system between June 11 through July 25 via the OS X Up To Date program. Instead of receiving a code for Mountain Lion, some customers are ...

Mac App Store easter egg: subtle but fun

by Steven Sande (Jul 26th, 2012)

Are you familiar with easter eggs? Not the type that you dye in pastel colors and hide in the back yard, only to find them a year later in a disgusting mess; no, these are fun little software "signatures" that developers put into apps. Well, although many Apple devices used to contain easter ...

Mountain Lion 101: Safari

by Steven Sande (Jul 26th, 2012)

Apple's venerable Mac Web browser, Safari, was updated to version 6.0 yesterday with the release of OS X Mountain Lion with many new features and one glaring omission. Safari 6 is also available for Lion users. First, let's talk about the omission -- while earlier versions of Safari offered an ...

Mountain Lion: Get your RSS button back in Safari 6

by Steven Sande (Jul 26th, 2012)

One of the most irritating omissions from Safari 6 -- the default Web browser in OS X Mountain Lion -- is that the RSS button has been removed from near the address bar. In fact, Safari no longer supports RSS feed reading natively, either. The feature page for Safari on Apple's site makes no ...

Mountain Lion 101: AirPlay Mirroring

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (Jul 26th, 2012)

One of the flagship iOS features to carry over to OS X Mountain Lion is AirPlay Mirroring, which allows users to mirror their desktop to an Apple TV. System audio can also be streamed to AirPlay-compatible devices, which means that apps without custom AirPlay support (like Spotify) can stream ...

Mountain Lion 101: The iCloud Document Library

by Steven Sande (Jul 25th, 2012)

One of my favorite features of Mountain Lion to demonstrate so far has been the iCloud Document Library. This is a way to store your iWork, TextEdit, and Preview documents in iCloud so that they are immediately accessible from other Macs on the same iCloud account as well as on connected iOS ...

TUAW TV Live: Even more Mountain Lion goodness

by Steven Sande (Jul 25th, 2012)

Hi, everybody! If you joined Erica Sadun and me this morning, we went over the complete feature set for Mountain Lion. This afternoon's show will be more like the regular feature, with some unboxings of new items that have shown up at TUAW Labs, but I'm sure we're going to have time to chat ...