Is it free to upgrade or will a person have to pay? -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Alex Hall Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2012 10:24 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Loving Mountain Lion
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 <[email protected]> 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 > [email protected] > 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 [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > > -- Have a great day, Alex (msg sent from GMail website) [email protected] -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
