Hello everyone, I am enjoying some of the new features within Mountain Lion. So far I played with the Notifcation Center, Message, and Dictation. I will cover some of the basics with these and installing Mountain Lion. First off, I am not an uber mac user, just a standard user with little to no experience with understanding anything outside fundamentals of Coive Over.
Installing Mountain is easy. As stated in a previous email, no worries. Just make sure you back-up your system. The only thing I did to prepare for the install was update my billing information. I did not update any software, run the checker, or anything else as my system is a Mac Mini from last year. The entire install took an hour from hitting the comfirm to buy button to logging in. Notification Center Set up: First thing to do is head to System Preferences, Keyboard, and then to the shortcuts tab. You will need to create a shortcut for the Notification Center, which is located in the Mission Control option. I am using Command Option Shift N for mine. Once done with the shortcut, head back to system preferences and go to the Notification Center. You have a table with the various apps that use the Notification center. Select each one you wish to receive either an alert, banner, or none alert. These pop up just like they do on the iPhone and iPad. Now use your shortcut to enable and play with the Notification Center. To move away from the center, either Command Tab or find the close button. Messaging I am really liking this feature. It using iMessage, so you can only sent a message to an email or another iMessage user. For this one, you need to dig it out from your Application folder, so hit Command Shift A or go through finder to find it. Once you find it, open it and insert your iCloud information. You will also want to go into the dock, and find the Message App. Hit VO Shift M and go down to Option and then keep in Dock. I say this, cause you will want this in your dock, unless you create a keyboard shortcut for it. The layout is as simple as Messaging is on the iPhone. Best part is, iMessages created on the Mac will appear on your iPHone and iPad with the same iCloud user ID. This allows you to carry on conversations from your Mac and then pick it up while traveling. Dictation Yeah, this works awesome, even with my mumbling Chicago-ish accent. Go back to System Preferences once last time and navigate to Dictation and Speech. Enable it and select your microphone. You will also need to select an activation method. The standard drop menu gives you Double Tapping of either the Function key, Command, RIght Command, or some other combination. When you are in a text field, double tap the key you selected and start talking. When you are done, double tap it again. Thank you for your assistance, Timothy Hornik timothy.hor...@gmail.com H: 785.856.1172 M: 785.330.3503 LinkedIn Profile: http://tiny.cc/7bfa5 Blog: http://www.samobile.net/users/timothy.hornik/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
