OS X Mountain Lion’s Best 10 Tricks: The Video Guide
Apple OS X Mountain Lion is now available for download. There are a ton of new features, but many of them are hidden or hard to find. Don’t worry, these are the best 10 tricks — each with a short, easy...
View ArticleShould You Upgrade to OS X Mountain Lion?
Apple’s OS X Mountain Lion is out, and it’s 14 quid. That’s cheap enough that the price alone probably isn’t a barrier to upgrade — it’s more about your individual needs. Here’s a quick guide to see,...
View ArticleThe OS X Mountain Lion Survival Guide
OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion is here. You’re probably going to read a lot about all the new features and how Apple’s out of ideas. Here’s a guide to what will make using all that Mountain Lion stuff easier...
View ArticleHow Is OS X Mountain Lion Working for You?
OS X Mountain Lion is now available to the general public, and you know what that means, right? Yep, bugs and glitches not exposed during the beta might crop up once millions of people install the...
View ArticleSome People Think Mountain Lion Is Steve Jobs—Wait, WHAT?
The current rumour now ramping through the internet is so dumb; so painfully stupid that Steve Jobs must be rolling in his grave: apparently, tonnes of irreversible imbeciles on Facebook and Twitter...
View ArticleApple’s Fancy “Power Nap” Lives, Sort Of
Apple’s answer to Intel’s new ultrabook asleep-but-still-updating “Smart Connect” thing, Power Nap, which allows your computer to wake up and pull down your email, update software and things, is now...
View ArticleOS X Mountain Lion: Everything You Need to Know
The public release of OS X Mountain Lion is available for download now. Is it worth it? Should you upgrade? We’ve got you covered. Here’s everything you need to know. Mountain Lion Review: OS X Needs...
View ArticleWhy Your Old Mac Can’t Use Mountain Lion Mirroring
AirPlay mirroring is one of the sweet new features that arrives on your Mac with OS X Mountain Lion—as long as you have a newer computer. But if you’ve got a pre-2011 Mac, it’s not going to work. Cult...
View ArticleHow to Fix Every Mountain Lion Annoyance With Third Party Apps
So Mountain Lion isn’t perfect. It’s got its flaws. But overall, it’s a solid platform, and a lot of the smaller issues that pop up can be fixed with third party apps. Here’s how to make everything...
View ArticleMicrosoft Got 99 Problems But Retina Graphics Ain’t One
The Retina Macbook Pro has a pretty gorgeous display, but not all apps are updated to take advantage of the massive resolution just yet. Most developers are going to be updating their apps to make them...
View ArticleHow to Get the Classic Mac Sounds Back Into OS X Mountain Lion
This morning I had a bad case of nostalgia. I listened to the classic “Quack” Macintosh system alert sound in a YouTube video and I thought about the good old days, when computing felt magical and...
View ArticleYou Can Grab Apple’s First Mountain Lion Update Right Now
Has updating your computer to Mac OS X Lion completely killed your battery life? Today Apple has released the first major update (10.8.1), and it’s rumoured to fix that problem for you. Here’s the full...
View ArticleFacebook Integration Continues Testing in OS X 10.8.2
Fancy more Facebook in your day-to-day life? Well, those in on the OS X 10.8.2 Mountain Lion beta have just been given an update with a focus on the Facebook integration, meaning you can look forward...
View ArticleFactoid: 10 per cent of Macs Now Roaring With Mountain Lion
It seems to be the case that if you make an update cheap and easily accessible then people will flock to the latest and greatest, which evidently is true as the speed of Mountain Lion’s adoption is...
View ArticleUsing Growl on Mountain Lion Just Got Way Less Annoying
An update to Growl will make notifications start playing nice with Mountain Lion. Growl version 2.0 is now integrated with the ML Notification Center. Up until now, it’s been a huge pain in the ass to...
View ArticleYou Can Build Your Own Apple Fusion Drive For Your Old Mac
Apple’s fancy new Fusion Drive promises to couple an SSD with a traditional hard drive for large-scale storage with lightning fast boot up and program launches. But a developer found Mountain Lion...
View ArticleWhat’s Apple’s Next Iteration of OS X Going to Be Called?
The rumour mill has just coughed up a pinch-of-salt name for the as yet unannounced, but totally presumed, OS X 10.9. How does Lynx sound? It fits with Apple’s penchant for big kitties, and considering...
View ArticleRumour: OS X 10.9 Will Get Siri and Apple Maps Integration
Apple is reportedly testing Siri and Apple Maps integration for the next-gen version of its operating system, OS X 10.9. It makes perfect sense that they’d test two marquee (if controversial) features...
View ArticleThis Code Will Nuke Pretty Much Any App on a Mountain Lion-Running Mac
Here’s something a little weird and potentially hilariously fun — there’s a little eight-character code that causes pretty much any app on a Mac to crash, instantly. Writing said code, which we had to...
View ArticleApple’s Latest OS X Update Fixes More Messages Bugs
Overnight, Apple released OS X 10.8.4, an update to Mountain Lion that (again) addresses some issues with Messages, as well as some miscellaneous bugs. Apparently, there was an iMessage quirk that was...
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