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Jul 30, 2012

Mountain Lion upgrade for women

Just bought, downloaded and installed Mountain Lion.

Here some findings: If you are about to buy Mountain Lion too - check this link first to see if your favourite apps are compatible with this new Apple Operating System.  

Can your computer handle it?
Oh, and your mac should be at least a 10.6.8 version to upgrade to Mountain Lion. Why on earth Apple names its OS after big cats and doesn't mention it on your computer once its installed beats me...

Hear this Apple: we want a nice picture of the cat your version resides under, right under the apple icon!

So you if you want to know which operating system you have running on your mac: click on the apple-icon in the top left corner of your screen. Check 'About this Mac" and check the version number.

Then go to this wiki-link to see with which big cat that version number corresponds. You need that to check whether you first need to upgrade to a newer version before upgrading to Mountain Lion, or if you need to buy the Mountain Lion osx via the apple store.  

Still willing and able to install Mountain Lion?
 Well - that's really easy, but be sure to back-up your files first. Use dropbox, iCloud, Time Machine or discs if you have to. I didn't experience any problems (so far) but its better to save then to be sorry... Then its just click install and continue. Once its done, it automatically restarts and tadaaah - you have a Mountain Lion based mac.

Whats' new? 
Not to fancy new stuff - basically a performance improvement I suppose - but what ever new - it could use some colour! You don't notice much differences - but the finder looks very drab - grey greyer greyst. Bleh. The dock (where you find all your nice little app-icons) is dull too.

You can install the test-version (it works with me) to get the colour back to your findings sidebar: http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/43078/sideeffects/.

Apple favours its own applications and has placed them under an icon called 'launch pad' (looks like a rocket). I don't see the point of this, but Apple does: the colour of the apps look bright and shiny under launch pad. You'll notice that with some applications, you get the notification that you need Java SE 6 runtime. Just download and install and then your app should work again. I tested it on CyberDuck - and it works.

Jul 8, 2012

Power House

20 minuutjes - en fit for life tip van vriendin Barbara