Posts By: Gary Rosenzweig

The invitation to next week’s Apple press event all but confirms that it will be about the next version of the iPhone. The invite shows the date, a 12, leaving the shadow of a 5, apparently referring to the iPhone 5.
Rumors have been suggesting that this event will be dedicated to the next iPhone, although reports are all over the board about what new features may be included. Many agree that it will include a new, smaller, dock connector and a taller screen. It is also possible that this event will include the announcement of a matching iPod touch.
However, most believe that a second event in October will focus on other products, such as the possibility of a smaller version of the iPad.

While I was skeptical at first about playing SimCity again, I have to admit this touch version of the game sucked me in just like the original. SimCity Deluxe for iPad has that same addictive feel as you try to please your Sims by zoning and building. Felt good to be mayor again.

The way you send web pages via email has changed with Mountain Lion. You now have many more options, if you know how to use it. First, click on the Share button in the Safari toolbar. Then, choose Email This Page. You can also choose File, Share Email This Page.
Then, when the page displays in an email message in Mail, you can change what you send. Want to be able to send just a link? Look over on the right side of the Mail message window. There is a pop-up menu there for “Send Web Content As.” Select “Link Only” to just send the link as before. It will even remember your setting for next time. You can also send the page as a PDF file, or the page as it would appear in Safari Reader mode.

“You tried to put a mountain lion in a 2008 enclosure? Didn’t you know they aren’t compatible!”

The best tool for building slideshows may be Keynote. You can easily import photos, arrange them, adjust the images, add shapes and text, and much more. You can combine multiple images on each slide and vary the transitions between them. You can use advanced techniques to make your slideshows unique.

iOS 6 should be launching this month for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch users. We know for sure that it will include a new Maps app with turn-by-turn spoken directions, Facebook posting directly from the Camera app and others, shared Photo Streams, Passbook, Facetime over cellular networks, Mail VIPs, and Do Not Disturb mode. Which new feature are you most looking forward to?

Here are three key techniques that everyone who surfs the web on their Mac should know. But using tabs, browsing history and page search you can move around quickly and find what you want.

Most Mac users use the Dock many times per day. So it would be worth the time to optimize your Dock. Add your most commonly used apps and remove others. Arrange your apps to make them easy to find. Add folders and files to the right side and set them to appear the way you want. Change your Dock settings to get the most from it.

We thought that instead of writing a book on Mountain Lion, why not do what we do best and create videos! So we’ve created The Video Guide To Mountain Lion. We put together 20+ videos with more than 2 hours of instruction, and made it super-easy to get by putting it in the Mac App Store.

This is a great way for beginners to get to know Mac OS X Mountain Lion, and for casual users to dig deeper into the features. The videos are unique, not something that can be found anywhere else. The app lets you jump easily from video to video and you can resize the window for better viewing, even going full screen.

Even if you are proficient in using OS X, you may want to consider recommending this to friends as a good way to jump in and learn more.

I was a huge fan of the original Atari game. So I’m a little disappointed that this 30th anniversary game is basically a clone of Temple Run. But that being said, Temple Run is a good game and Pitfall improves on it with different views and challenges. Plus, it gives us a reminder that the original Pitfall was an early precursor to today’s run-and-jump games. So worth getting, but I wish it came bundled with a version of the original game too.

“Let’s check my news feed. Civil wars, presidential election, Mars rover. What do you have?”
“The dock connector on the next iPhone might be a little smaller.”

In addition to being able to mirror newer Macs to Apple TV with Mountain Lion, you can also choose to send only your Mac’s audio to Apple TV. Just select it as your sound output in System Preferences, Sound, Output. Or, option+click on the speaker icon in the menu bar and select the Apple TV. This works well if your Apple TV is plugged into a home theater system, and you don’t necessarily need to turn on the TV or projector to use audio.

Lion and now Mountain Lion have changed the way commands in the File menu work. While many people are having difficulty adjusting, the new commands actually offer more functionality and make it easier to rename, move and duplicate files while working with the document inside an app.

While iMovie only lets you include one picture-in-picture at a time, you can use Keynote to merge multiple videos. The technique involves putting many videos on one slide, and then exporting the presentation as a new video. You can use this to create a variety of effects.

The new Notes app in Mountain Lion lets you create and view small notes. These are also synced across devices using either iCloud or another cloud-based service that supports notes.

38% still had trouble telling the twins apart, even after one started carrying an iPhone and the other started carrying a Samsung phone.

Big Fish Casino is a very nice casino app that includes many individual games, like Texas Hold’em, that are done pretty well. It is nice to see an alternative to Zynga gaining some traction. If poker isn’t your game, there is blackjack, roulette, slots and a few others. They are all tied in to your “fake money” wallet, so yo you can build up your score on whichever games you like the most.

To take a break from notifications in Mountain Lion, you can Option + click on the notifications icon in the upper right corner to turn them off. Option + click again to turn them back on, or they will resume tomorrow morning.

You can grab a small portion of a web page and use that to create a Dashboard widget. This gives you easy access to information from often-updated web sites. You can view the widget on your Dashboard screen or mixed in with your desktop.

A collection of miscellaneous tips on using Mac OS X Mountain Lion. Learn how to Save As, how to move files while working on them, how to set up multiple Time Machine drives, how to tweet from the Notifications Center, how to reorder the Finder sidebar, how to easily encrypt an external drive, how to email a web pages as a PDF and how to use LaunchPad to search for and launch apps. Also, find out the truth about pinning Notes.