One of my mac minis will not run it, I plan on upgrading fairly soon,
but I think I will watch the list traffic for a little while first just
to make sure there are no major issues. I may wait until 10.8.1, not
sure yet, I'm sure I will probably upgrade within the next few weeks.
Original message:
Good information, thanks! I plan to upgrade in the next few days,
maybe today, and I'll keep this all in mind.
On 7/25/12, Timothy Hornik <timothy.hor...@gmail.com> wrote:
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
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Blog: http://www.samobile.net/users/timothy.hornik/
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