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QuickLook in Mountain Lion's Mail Application
QuickLook, a feature of Mail in OS X Mountain Lion, includes a slick Slideshow option. Notice that there’s a QuickLook button in the header of messages you receive that contain one or more pictures, as [more…]
What the Heck Is an iMessage?
iMessage is Apple’s inter-device messaging protocol. That means you can send unlimited iMessages (instant messages) to anyone with an iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch running iOS 5 [more…]
How to Chat via Messages in Mountain Lion
If you’re a fan of the iChat application in previous OS X releases and wonder where it went in Mountain Lion, Messages is the answer. The program you knew and loved as iChat is now called Messages. Same [more…]
Chat with Audio and Video in Mountain Lion Messages
The greatest Messages feature is audio/video chatting, which is why it was once known as iChat AV. Apple dropped the AV part and changed its name to Messages, but whatever you call it, the program still [more…]
iTunes on Your Mac with OS X Mountain Lion
iTunes is the Swiss Army knife of multimedia software. After all, what other program lets you play audio CDs; create (burn) your own audio or MP3 CDs; listen to MP3, AIFF, AAC, WAV, Audible.com, and several [more…]
How to Watch Movies with DVD Player in Mountain Lion
The DVD Player application in OS X Mountain Lion includes snazzy little on-screen controllers. They enable you to watch your movies on your Mac in pretty much the same way you’d watch them on your TV with [more…]
How to Play Movies and Music in QuickTime Player
QuickTime is Apple’s technology for digital media creation, delivery, and playback. It’s used in a myriad of ways by programs such as Apple’s iMovie, by websites such as [more…]
Photo Booth Application in Mountain Lion
The Photo Booth application in OS X Mountain Lion provides all the fun of an old-time (or new-time) photo booth like the ones you sometimes see in malls or stores. It lets you shoot one photo, a burst [more…]
View and Convert Images and PDFs in Mountain Lion Preview
You use Preview in OS X Mountain Lion to open, view, and print PDFs as well as most graphics files (TIFF, JPEG, PICT, and so on). PDF files are formatted documents that can include text and images. User [more…]
How to Launch Safari from Mountain Lion
OS X offers built-in Internet connectivity right out of the box. OS X Mountain Lion comes with Apple’s Safari web browser, which you can use to navigate the web, download remote files, and more. [more…]
Part of the Series: Mac OS X Mountain Lion: 6 Tips to Browsing with Safari
How to Navigate with Safari's Toolbar Buttons
When surfing from your Mac with OS X Mountain Lion, you need to be able to navigate the Safari window before you venture into the depths of the web. The toolbar buttons along the top of the Safari window [more…]
Part of the Series: Mac OS X Mountain Lion: 6 Tips to Browsing with Safari
How to Create Bookmarks in Safari
When browsing with Safari from OS X Mountain Lion, you can mark favorite websites. When you find a web page you want to remember and return to, you bookmark it. Bookmarks are favorites, and favorites are [more…]
Part of the Series: Mac OS X Mountain Lion: 6 Tips to Browsing with Safari
What’s on Your Safari Reading List?
When you're bored and surfing the web from within OS X Mountain Lion, you can rely on your reading list for entertainment. The Reading List in Safari serves as a repository for pages or links you want [more…]
Part of the Series: Mac OS X Mountain Lion: 6 Tips to Browsing with Safari
How to Use Safari's Top Sites Page
The Top Sites page in Safari, the browser that comes with Mac OS X Mountain Lion, displays a selection of sites you visit frequently and will quickly become one or your favorite Safari features. [more…]
Part of the Series: Mac OS X Mountain Lion: 6 Tips to Browsing with Safari
How to Search with Google from within Safari
Looking for something on the Internet from your Mac with OS X Mountain Lion? Check out Google, the fantastic search engine that’s totally integrated with Safari to help you hunt down just about anything [more…]
Part of the Series: Mac OS X Mountain Lion: 6 Tips to Browsing with Safari
Create and Compose Documents in Mountain Lion's TextEdit
In all previous versions of TextEdit, when you launched TextEdit, the next thing you saw was a blank, untitled document. OS X Mountain Lion’s rendition of TextEdit, however, presents you with an Open dialog [more…]
How to Work with Text in Mountain Lion's TextEdit
TextEdit in OS X Mountain Lion operates on the “select, then operate” principle, as do most Macintosh programs, including the Finder. Before you can affect text in your document — change its font face, [more…]
Fonts Supported by OS X Mountain Lion
You can find many font formats with names like OpenType, Mac TrueType, Windows TrueType, PostScript Type 1, bitmap, and dfont. No problem — OS X supports them all. In fact, the only font format that Mountain [more…]
Manage Fonts with Font Book in Mountain Lion
Font Book in OS X Mountain Lion lets you view your installed fonts, install new fonts, group your fonts into collections, and enable and disable installed fonts. As usual, you find the Font Book application [more…]
How to Install Fonts Manually in Mountain Lion
To install any new font manually in OS X Mountain Lion, drag its icon into one of the two Fonts folders that you have access to. Why might you want to install them manually? If you install a font via the [more…]
Mountain Lion Dictation: You Talk and Your Mac Types
Mountain Lion is the first version of OS X to include Dictation, so you can now talk instead of type. It’s almost identical to the dictation feature found on the iPhone 4S and third-generation iPad. [more…]
Command Your Mac with Mountain Lion's Speech Recognition
Speech Recognition in OS X Mountain Lion enables your Mac to recognize and respond to human speech. The only thing you need to use it is a microphone, and all laptops and iMacs have a built-in mic these [more…]
Mount Lion's VoiceOver Technology and Utility
Mountain Lion’s VoiceOver technology is designed primarily for the visually impaired, but you might find it useful even if your vision is 20/20. VoiceOver not only reads what’s on the screen to you, but [more…]
OS X Mountain Lion's Text to Speech
Your Mac can speak to you using Text to Speech, which converts on-screen text to spoken words. If you’ve used Text to Speech in earlier versions of OS X, you’ll find that it’s pretty much unchanged in [more…]
AppleScript in OS X Mountain Lion
AppleScript is one of two technologies offered by OS X Mountain Lion that make it easy to automate repetitive actions on your Mac. AppleScript is “programming for the rest of us.” It can record and play [more…]
