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By default, OS 10.7 detects and uses your device to decide whether or not to show scroll bars in on-screen windows. I prefer to have them always appear, so if you’d like to constantly see them in any window that’s scrollable, here’s how you do it:
No more scroll bar hide and seek…
Today’s software requires more and more RAM. And if you are like us, you often have many programs open at once, which can cause them all to run slower.
Add more RAM to get more power and supercharge your computer! These bundles will get your machine up to 8GB total and ship for free.
If you are not sure what RAM you need, see our “RAM Finder.”:http://www.smalldog.com/ramfinder/
_Dear Friends,_
We had our company picnic down at Plymouth State Park and it was a beautiful Sunday at Lake Echo. In between burgers and dogs, I spent a lot of time in the water playing with my grandkids who seemed to prefer to climb on my shoulders and have me launch them into the lake over just swimming around. I got them to do some races and breath-holding contests and they were still going strong when I made my way to the beach. Gotta love summertime.
It was a big week for Apple with the release of their quarterly financial results and the launch of OS 10.8, Mountain Lion. I’ll talk about both a bit later. I am simply amazed that when a company like Apple beats their own goals for profit and sales, posts record sales and earnings, __and__ makes a nearly $9 billion profit on $35 billion in sales for three months, anyone can call it “disappointing.” What an incredibly strong financial report from a company that continues to lead the industry and the world.
Apple released Mountain Lion from its cage on Wednesday, and naturally I was one of the first to download this $19.99 upgrade to Mac OS X.* It took about five hours due to the other 100,000 people trying to download it at the same time as I was. Once I had completed the 4GB download, installation was a breeze and it took only about 30 minutes to install on my MacBook Pro with Retina display. I will go over some of my first impressions below.
It is hard to believe we are in the last week in July. I had a friend set up a meeting with me for “next week” and when she said “how about Friday, August 3rd?” I had one of those hyper-time moments. It seems like just a blink of an eye ago that I had gotten my motorcycle out for the first time in the spring!
__*I had some answering to do to our IT Department, but it was worth it!__
The latest operating system for Mac, OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion, was released Wednesday.
“*Download it here for $19.99.*”:http://click.linksynergy.com/fs-bin/stat?id=19XpSnZWhPI&offerid=146261&type=3&subid=0&tmpid=1826&RD_PARM1=http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/os-x-mountain-lion/id537386512?mt=12%26uo%3D6%26partnerId%3D30 Note: If you have purchased a Mac on or after June 11, you may qualify for a free upgrade via Apple’s Up-To-Date Program. “*Click through here*”:http://blog.smalldog.com to read more on our blog.
Even though up here in Vermont we still think it should have been called “*Catamount,*”:http://uvmathletics.com/ we are excited about the new features that Apple has added. Here are a few highlights:
*1. iCloud*
You only need to sign in once with your Apple ID to set up iCloud in Mail, Contacts, Calendar, Messages, Safari, the Mac App Store, and FaceTime. Once this is set up, you can use “Documents in the Cloud”. This service allows you to edit a document and the changes appear across all of your Macs and iOS devices.
*2. Notes*
You can use Notes to keep track of whatever’s on your mind. You can attach photos, movies, and links to your notes. To make sure that they are always easy to find, you can pin important notes to your desktop.
*3. Dictation*
This feature will allow you to talk to input text everywhere that you can type. It will work with every app, works with the built-in mic, and does not require any set-up or training. Dictation currently supports English, French, German, and Japanese.
*4. Messages*
This feature will be familiar to anyone currently using iOS 5. It allows you to send unlimited messages to anyone on an iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, or another Mac. You can switch between your devices and keep the conversation going seamlessly. Messages also allows you to send and receive contacts, photos, and even HD video.
*5. Notification Center*
This is another feature taken from iOS. You will be notified about new emails, messages, calendar events, reminders, and more. The notification banners will appear right on your desktop and then hide themselves. You can swipe anytime to reveal the Notification Center.
Read more about Don’s first impressions below, and check out our blog to see more new features: “*Barkings! | The Small Dog Apple Blog!*”:http://blog.smalldog.com/article/12-new-features-in-mountain-lion/
It has been getting a little brown here in the Green Mountains with the lack of rain, but with a few storms this week, things are turning green and the vegetables/weeds are growing again. Blueberries are ready and early sweet corn, too!
Thank you for reading this issue of Kibbles & Bytes!
Your Kibbles & Bytes team,
_Don, Kali, Dawn & Mike_
This laser printer from HP makes it easy to print from all of your devices. Your Macs and iOS devices can all send print jobs to the P1102W wirelessly. Print in high-quality black & white at up to 19 pages per minute.
Save yourself trips to the printer and save money too!
It is very early for me to give first impressions of Mountain Lion because I just installed it late last night but my experience thus far has been quite positive. It installed very quickly on my MacBook Pro with Retina display and within about 1/2 hour, I was exploring the new features of the latest Mac OS.
Safari 6 has some great new features and one that was a surprising loss. Instead of having a separate search box for Google, there is now a single search box either to type in URLs or to do your searches. I have found that to be fast and much better in terms of finding information.
I discovered that Apple eliminated the RSS reader from Safari. I use RSS to keep up with a lot of things and was used to having the feed in Safari where I could see at a glance how many new feeds were there to read. Well, it ain’t there anymore, so I have to adapt and am now using Google Reader with an excellent App called “*Reeder*”:http://click.linksynergy.com/fs-bin/stat?id=19XpSnZWhPI&offerid=146261&type=3&subid=0&tmpid=1826&RD_PARM1=http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/reeder/id439845554?mt=12%26uo%3D6%26partnerId%3D30 ($4.99, opens Mac App Store). I am sure that there will be extensions built for Safari that will reintegrate RSS feeds, but this is one thing you might want to take a look at if you use RSS feeds.
Some of the other new features in Safari include a Share button that will allow you to easily share web pages via Mail, Messages or Twitter. The promised Facebook share feature does not seem to be there yet, unless I am missing it somehow. I like the new View Passwords feature in Safari preferences, too, which stores and allows you to see all the passwords you use for various websites.
One of the neatest features of Safari 6 is iCloud tabs. With iCloud tabs your open Safari tabs on your Mac are now open on your iPhone or iPad version of Safari and you can continue browsing as you switch devices. Unfortunately, this is not quite functional yet as it will require iOS 6, which is not scheduled for release until the fall.
Tab view works right now and is pretty handy if you use multi-gestures. At the righthand side of the tabs is an icon representing tab view. In this viewing mode you can use Multi-Touch gestures to navigate between open tabs. If you are not using tab browsing you are missing some of the most powerful features of Safari.
Moving from Safari, I decided to check out AirPlay Mirroring with my Apple TV. This is a great new feature that allows you to send whatever you have on your Mac screen to your TV wirelessly through AppleTV, in high definition. Mountain Lion adds a menu item to activate AirPlay mirroring and also to access the display preferences to set the correct resolution for AirPlay. Works smooth as silk. First, I just activated it and used my HDTV to browse around the net and explore Mountain Lion and then I decided I would try to play a video from my Mac. I was blown away at the quality of the picture and that the sound was automatically routed to my TV, too.
Contacts has a pleasant new feature that has a Groups column so you don’t have to keep flipping back to the groups page.
I haven’t tried dictation yet, but that might be on tap for tonight when I am in a quiet environment. If it works as well as Siri on the iPhone, I might be up late talking to myself. Grace will think I am having a conversation with someone but it will only be with my Mac…
iCloud is expanded to now include documents from Pages or Numbers, too!
One great feature in Mail that is new is the VIP indicator and VIP Mailboxes. You can designate anyone as a VIP by simply clicking on the star next to their name when you open their message. Then you have a VIP smart mailbox where you can just view messages from those VIPs. Very handy!
I have been using the beta version of the new iChat called Messages and the release version is great. iMessage allows you to send messages to anyone with an iPhone, iPod touch or iPad with iOS5 or better or to a Mac with Mountain Lion. iMessage will allow you to text message to any phone number, too! Another handy feature is that if you want to forward a message, all you have to do is highlight the message and choose forward.
There is a lot more that I haven’t had the time to check out but at “*$19.99, Mountain Lion*”:http://click.linksynergy.com/fs-bin/stat?id=19XpSnZWhPI&offerid=146261&type=3&subid=0&tmpid=1826&RD_PARM1=http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/os-x-mountain-lion/id537386512?mt=12%26uo%3D6%26partnerId%3D30 is a significant value and a must-have upgrade for your Mac!