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OS X Mountain Lion

Create new folders from selected files

14 Jan 2013
David Chartier
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file management, Finder, OS X Mountain Lion, shortcuts
A quick way to toss a bunch of files and folders into a new folder is to select them and use ⌃-⌘-N (Finder > New Folder with Selection). This
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OS X Mountain Lion shares to Twitter, Facebook, Flickr with style

12 Dec 2012
David Chartier
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Facebook, Flickr, Mac videos, Mail, Mail Contacts Calendars, OS X Mountain Lion, social media, System Preferences, Twitter, videos
If you select one or more files in the Finder, right-click, and use the Share option for a service like Flickr or Twitter, your files will
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Link your contacts with Facebook to get auto-updated details, clean up your address book

29 Oct 2012
David Chartier
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Contacts, Facebook, OS X Mountain Lion, sync
Contacts (previously Address Book) has long allowed you to select one or more cards and choose Card > Merge Selected Cards to help you clean up
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Mountain Lion has iOS-like dictation, easy shortcut

15 Oct 2012
David Chartier
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dictation, OS X Mountain Lion, shortcuts
OS X has long had text-to-speech features, but Apple added dictation in Mountain Lion with, of course, an obvious influence from iOS. By default,
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Rearrange full-screen apps in Mission Control

10 Sep 2012
David Chartier
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Mission Control, organization, OS X Lion, OS X Mountain Lion
If you use more than a couple full-screen apps in Lion or Mountain Lion, you can rearrange them in Mission Control to make switching between them
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Calendar in Mountain Lion automatically adds times for some events

29 Aug 2012
David Chartier
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Calendar, iCal, Mac polish, OS X Mountain Lion, polish, productivity
If you add a Quick Event to Calendar (formerly iCal) in Mountain Lion with the right name, Calendar will automatically assign it a time. For
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Open Notification Center with a two-finger swipe from the far right

15 Aug 2012
David Chartier
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gestures, multi-touch, Notification Center, OS X Mountain Lion, System Preferences, Trackpad

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Mac App Store in Mountain Lion can relaunch running apps after updating them

13 Aug 2012
David Chartier
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Mac App Store, OS X Mountain Lion, Resume, Save States
If the Mac App Store finds an update available for a running app, it’ll prompt you to allow it to quit the app in order to apply the
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Mail can display quick package tracking information

11 Aug 2012
David Chartier
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data detectors, Mail, OS X Lion, OS X Mountain Lion, package tracking, UPS
Like iOS 5′s support for tracking numbers, OS X Mail’s support for data detectors means that it can quickly display package tracking
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If you’re stuck offline, Safari 6 promotes Reading List for something to do

02 Aug 2012
David Chartier
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OS X Lion, OS X Mountain Lion, Reading List, Safari, Safari 6
If you don’t have an internet connection, Safari no longer delivers nothing but bad news. As of version 6, released in Mountain Lion and to
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