#XQUARTZ MAC MOUNTAIN LION SOFTWARE#

#XQUARTZ MAC MOUNTAIN LION SOFTWARE#

Apple takes another crack at incorporating third-party software right into the OS and, hereby, making them obsolete.

Also, OS X and iOS are more compatible than ever, meaning I am less confused when switching between devices.

The new Notification Center means I no longer have to keep my Calendar open.

Mail Downloads are now stored at ~/Library/Containers//Data/Library/Mail Downloads.

X11, Mail, and Safari do not seem to be affected.

Applications are much happier to automatically terminate now try keeping TextEdit or Calendar open without a window.

I do not know why they love tinkering with long-established shortcuts. If you want it back, change your settings.

However, Apple got rid of the ability to hit “delete (⇧delete)” to go back (forward) in Safari.

I went ahead and changed ⌘⇧S to be”Save As”. Now, if you hit the option key (⌥) while in the menubar, you get the “Save As”.

The “Save As” button is back! I hated how it had been replaced by “Duplicate” in Lion.

Lion had problems with focussing on the right window when switching between Spaces it has been fixed.

You do not need to keep both versions anymore.

XQuartz is X11 and fully incorporated into ML.

I suggest that the 10.9 version of Time Machine be able to create a bootable clone. Now, ML also allows you to backup to multiple hard drives in case one fails (e.g., rotate your backups to different drives every hour).

Gone are the days when a backup hard drive could be read by anybody. Lion first introduced encrypted backups, (which had made me very happy), now ML extends that to networked drives. There are two big additions to Time Machine: encrypted backups to a network drive and being able to backup to multiple hard disks on a rotating basis.Here is a quick list of things that I love and hate about the three-week old Mountain Lion: Plus, it comes at the cheapest price ever – $19.99. So if you are waiting to see if there are any problems before upgrading (remember Leopard?), go ahead and take the plunge. The migration seems to have been flawless, as of now. In fact, I just restored from my Time Machine backup, and everything thing just worked! Really. I have also not had any problems with IDL, iObserve, IRAF, or any other astronomy package. I have gone through the Lion to ML migration twice and am happy to report that there were no problems.

Which of the 200+ features that Apple talked about are actually useful? What has been made easier? Or which software no longer works? We are almost three weeks into the era of Mountain Lion, so it is a good time to talk about the new cat and what changes it has brought about for us.

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