Michal Marek The new OS X Mountain Lion, with three million downloaded copies, became the operating system with the fastest launch in the entire history of Cupertino. We have already brought you a detailed preview of the entire system in one of the previous articles. Now we bring you some hints, tips and tricks related to the news and minor changes in OS X Mountain Lion.
Removing an icon from the Dock
Since the very beginnings of the Mac OS X operating system, its users have been accustomed to certain well-established ways that simply do not change. One is a simple method of removing any icon from the Dock by dragging it out of the Dock. Even by installing Mountain Lion, users will not lose this option, but a small change has occurred. Apple engineers tried to avoid the risk of unintentionally moving or removing items from the Dock. As a result, the icons in this bar behave a little differently when manipulated than was customary in previous versions of the operating system.
In OS X Mountain Lion, to remove the icon, it is necessary to move it from the Dock to a certain distance (about 3 cm?) and it takes a certain time (about one second) before the typical crumpled paper symbol appears next to the icon. This is a measure to eliminate the possibility of unwanted access to your Dock. The distance and time required for adjustments does not significantly delay or bother. However, when first experiencing Mountain Lion, this news may surprise some users.
The second alternative is to move the item we want to remove from the Dock to the Trash icon. In this case, a bubble with an inscription will appear above the Trash Remove from Dock, which confirms our intention. This method is neither new nor problematic.
The new option in Mission Control or Exposé returns
In Mac OS X Lion, Spaces and Exposé have been merged into a powerful new tool called Mission Control. It is certainly not necessary to re-introduce this popular option for summary display of windows and surfaces. In Mission Control in Lion, windows were automatically grouped by applications. In OS X Mountain Lion, there is a slight change compared to this. A new option has been added that allows the user to choose whether or not to sort windows by application.
Settings can be made in System preferences, where you must select a partition Mission Control. In this menu, you can then uncheck the option option Group windows by applications. In OS X Mountain Lion, both fans of modern Mission Control and lovers of the old classic Exposé will find something for themselves.
Lost RSS
After installing Mountain Lion, many users were horrified to find that in the native application Email the built-in RSS reader is no longer present. There are many options for receiving posts (feeds) of this type, and it is not a problem to find another alternative for this purpose. However, the problem some users saw was that they were denied access to their old saved feeds. Even here, however, there is no unsolvable situation, and older contributions can be accessed relatively easily.
In the Finder, press Command+Shift+G and type the path in the search box ~/Library/Mail/V2/RSS/. In the newly opened RSS folder, open the file info. plist. In this document you will find a URL that you can enter into any RSS reader to regain access to your "lost" posts from your Mail reader.
Tweeks
The application is also worth mentioning Mountain tweaks, which contains several small tweaks to modify OS X. One of the tweaks the application offers is, for example, the restoration of the older silver graphical interface in Calendar and Contacts. Some users are disgusted with the current "leather" texture and can make the graphical interface more pleasant for themselves thanks to this widget.
For more OS X Mountain Lion tips and tricks, check out this roughly half-hour video posted on YouTube by the server's editors TechSmartt.net.
Source: 9to5Mac.com, OSXDaily.com (1, 2)
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The Mission Control setup is exactly what I needed. Thanks for the tip!
Glory, I can remove the hideous abomination!
But the brown button labels remain :-(.
Glory, I can remove the hideous abomination!
praise for the end of merging windows in mission control, until now I didn't understand why written mail is listed under the mail application window. thanks a lot for the tip. remove the notification center somehow and activate sync notes from the iPhone 3g and I'm back with a functional mac-ios again
Mission Control vs. Exposure
In "Preferences-Trackpad-More Gestures" it is possible to set three fingers up=Mission Control, down=Exposé.
I personally like this the most, and as far as I know, this is also a new feature that was not in Lion.
I'm not at Mac OS right now, so I can't try it, but does it make a bit of sense to me - three fingers down to bring up Expose? Expose is all about active corners, isn't it? Or did I miss something?
if I'm not mistaken, you are, but expose is about aligning all the windows on the practice area, which changed to mission control. the use of the name exposee in the article is rather misleading. rather it should have been OR MISSION CONTROL GOT FUNCTIONS BACK FROM EXPOSÉ :-)
Yeah, that's right. It confused me that I always set active corners in the Expose section. Now I don't see why it was like that. But I enjoyed using it.
I didn't like it, but in mission control you have a "hot corners" button at the bottom and you can set it :-)
Well, I used it mainly when I was working on MB without multitouch control, it was only possible to use two fingers there. Now it doesn't bother me so much anymore and I have different gestures at my disposal. In addition, I still miss similar controls on the iPad - in Safari, I would like to go back a page with a gesture, just like in Mac OS.
But this is only an application expose (displays the windows of the active application) and this face was already in Lion. Only in the trackpad settings is it translated a little differently in the Czech localization (in Lion the Windows application was tusim and in ML there is the Expose application).