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NewsApple examining Mountain Lion battery drain concerns
Many Mountain Lion users have been reporting that the operating system upgrade has lead to a noticeable drop in battery life on their MacBooks,...
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HelpHow to save search URLs in Safari 6
As you’ve probably heard, Safari 6 has a new combined URL and search field. If you type a search term into that field then press Return, you’ll...
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Features 1Up close with Mountain Lion: Power Nap
More than a few Mac users worry that OS X is becoming too much like iOS, thanks to the former gaining features obviously inspired by the latter. But...
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Help 4Mountain Lion and the ancient AirPort Base Station
Reader Nick Hamilton finds himself stuck between old hardware and a new operating system. He writes: I have an older AirPort Express Base Station....
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HelpClearing up Mountain Lion confusion
When Apple ships a new version of the Mac OS, it generally takes no more than 24 hours for the questions to come pouring in. Such is exactly the case...
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Reviews 1OS X Mountain Lion (10.8)
One year and one week since the release of OS X Lion, Apple is back with Mountain Lion, also known as OS X 10.8. Like Lion, Mountain Lion offers...
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FeaturesUp close with Mountain Lion: Notes
If you rummage around in your Mac’s Applications folder in Mountain Lion, you’ll still find a copy of Stickies, that venerable (some might say...
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NewsSafari 6 available for Mountain Lion and Lion, but not Windows
Apple’s latest version of its native web browser—Safari 6—debuted as part of Mountain Lion. It’s available for Lion users, too. But one...
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FeaturesUp close with Mountain Lion: Contacts and Calendars
Two familiar OS X applications get new names in Mountain Lion: Address Book becomes Contacts and iCal becomes Calendars. But the changes in both are...
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Features 1Up close with Mountain Lion: AirPlay Mirroring
When iOS 4.2 debuted, Apple changed the name of AirTunes—the feature that let you stream music from iTunes to an AirPort Express—to AirPlay, and...
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FeaturesUp close with Mountain Lion: Auto Save
Auto Save—a feature introduced with Lion that allowed you to browse back through previously saved versions of a document much like you retrieve...
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FeaturesUp close with Mountain Lion: Dictation
Though it falls short of full Siri integration, Mountain Lion’s system-wide Dictation tool does bring iOS’s transcription functionality...
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News 2Mountain Lion’s Dictation feature causes privacy concerns
With the launch of Apple’s OS X Mountain Lion comes the arrival of Dictation on the Mac. The new feature can convert speech to text within applications,...
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Features 2Up close with Mountain Lion: Safari
Safari has been around forever, and you might not think there was much that Apple could do to improve it in Mountain Lion. But in fact the company...
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Features 2Up close with Mountain Lion: Messages
Messages is not just a reskinning of iChat. Sure, the interface looks different. But in addition to its updated interface, Messages introduces a big...
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Features 1Up close with Mountain Lion: Reminders
Why should the iPhone and iPad have all the fun? In Mountain Lion, Apple continues its process of porting over the best features from iOS to the Mac....
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Blogs 1Hands on with Mountain Lion’s OS X Recovery and Internet Recovery
A major feature that debuted in Lion (OS X 10.7) and continues in Mountain Lion (OS X 10.8) is one I hope you’ll never need to use: recovery mode,...
