{"id":5456,"date":"2012-07-29T20:49:52","date_gmt":"2012-07-30T01:49:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=5456"},"modified":"2016-06-10T14:35:44","modified_gmt":"2016-06-10T18:35:44","slug":"mountain-lion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/29\/mountain-lion\/","title":{"rendered":"Mountain Lion"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\r\n<li>The new &ldquo;Ask to keep changes when closing documents&rdquo; option makes me much happier using applications that support Auto Save.<\/li>\r\n<li>Even though I have LCD font smoothing disabled, Mountain Lion still uses it in PDF views, Safari&rsquo;s location bar, Mail&rsquo;s message view, and the dialogs for mounting encrypted disk images.<\/li>\r\n<li>It no longer seems to be possible to find and replace in Mail from the keyboard. After opening the Find banner, you have to click the check box to show the Replace field. (TextEdit has a separate menu command for opening the banner in Find and Replace mode.)<\/li>\r\n<li>There seems to be no way to turn off Mail&rsquo;s new &ldquo;Flagged&rdquo; mailbox. I use flags to mark important messages, not ones that need follow-up, so it&rsquo;s annoying that Mail is now showing that there are 60 messages that I have to deal with. Inbox zero is now impossible.<\/li>\r\n<li>&ldquo;Close windows when quitting an application&rdquo; is useful, but it&rsquo;s annoying that it also applies to the Finder; I don&rsquo;t want those windows closed. Update (2012-07-31): Stelian Iancu suggests that <a href=\"http:\/\/restoremenot.info\">RestoreMeNot<\/a> might help; I&rsquo;m not convinced that this solves my problem, but it looks like a useful utility.<\/li>\r\n<li>Safari 6 has unwisely removed the RSS button for subscribing to feeds. Daniel Jalkut has written a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.red-sweater.com\/blog\/2624\/subscribe-to-feed-safari-extension\">Subscribe to Feed extension<\/a>, which adds a similar button to Safari&rsquo;s toolbar. It opens the RSS feed if there is one, otherwise the Atom feed. I wrote a little <a href=\"http:\/\/c-command.com\/scripts\/safari\/open-in-netnewswire\">AppleScript to open the current Safari page in NetNewsWire<\/a>; this lets me choose from the full list of feeds. Update (2012-08-02): Jalkut has a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.red-sweater.com\/blog\/2681\/subscribe-to-feed-1-0b4\">new version of the Safari extension<\/a> that shows a pop-up menu of the feeds.<\/li>\r\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rentzsch\/status\/228637927285071872\">Avi Drissman<\/a> has <a href=\"https:\/\/code.google.com\/p\/chromium\/issues\/detail?id=138962#c6\">reverse-engineered<\/a> Safari&rsquo;s new progress bars in the Dock and in Finder.<\/li>\r\n<li>I was pleased to see that when you copy a URL from Safari&rsquo;s location bar, the scheme is added to the clipboard even though the &ldquo;http:\/\/&rdquo; or &ldquo;https:\/\/&rdquo; isn&rsquo;t shown. Update (2012-08-01): <a href=\"http:\/\/inessential.com\/2012\/07\/31\/copying_search_urls_from_safari\">Brent Simmons<\/a> wrote a script so that this works for search URLs.<\/li>\r\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/tidbits.com\/article\/13135\">Shane Stanley<\/a> notes that, as part of AppleScript Editor&rsquo;s new support for Auto Save and Versions, a uncompilable script is now saved in an RTF file or the resource fork.<\/li>\r\n<li>The checkbox to turn off smooth scrolling has been removed, but you can enter this command in Terminal:\r\n<pre>defaults write -g NSScrollAnimationEnabled -bool false<\/pre><\/li>\r\n<li>I like the scrollbar improvements.<\/li>\r\n<li>Preview still seems to be a <a href=\"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2011\/07\/23\/preview-regressions-in-lion\/\">regression<\/a> from the Snow Leopard version. It still can&rsquo;t remember that I like Single Page mode, and it still isn&rsquo;t AppleScriptable. Update (2012-09-20): <a href=\"http:\/\/www.betalogue.com\/2012\/09\/19\/mountainlion-preview\/\">Pierre Igot<\/a> notes that there is a new preference where you can choose Single Page Mode.<\/li>\r\n<li>It&rsquo;s great that it&rsquo;s harder to accidentally remove icons from Dock.<\/li>\r\n<li>The worst Lion offenses in iCal and Address Book have been fixed. Oddly, calendar events can no longer include AppleScripts.<\/li>\r\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/hibariapp.com\">Hibari<\/a> now supports Notification Center, but I wish I could get the old Growl notifications back. The notification center alerts aren&rsquo;t very useful because they don&rsquo;t show very much of the tweet.<\/li>\r\n<li>I prefer the way Growl let different notifications have different sticky values.<\/li>\r\n<li>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dpreview.com\/articles\/2709572707\/zebras-on-the-macbook-pro-how-the-picture-was-taken\">story behind the zebra desktop picture<\/a> (via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/incanus77\/status\/228260968935862272\">Justin Miller<\/a>).<\/li>\r\n<li>There are some <a href=\"http:\/\/apple.blogoverflow.com\/2012\/07\/interesting-new-unix-commandsbinaries-in-os-x-mountain-lion\/\">new Unix commands<\/a> (via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ObjColumnist\/status\/229288517988139008\">Bruno Fonzi<\/a>).<\/li>\r\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Catfish_Man\/status\/229279575027363841\">David Smith<\/a> notes the new &ldquo;plutil -p&rdquo; option.<\/li>\r\n<li>The <a href=\"http:\/\/support.apple.com\/kb\/HT5230?viewlocale=en_US&amp;locale=en_US\">Web Sharing checkbox<\/a> is gone.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<p>See also: <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/apple\/2012\/07\/os-x-10-8\/\">John Siracusa&rsquo;s review<\/a> (and <a href=\"http:\/\/siracusa.tumblr.com\/post\/27978338524\/about-my-mountain-lion-review\">about<\/a>), <a href=\"http:\/\/daringfireball.net\/2012\/07\/mountain_lion\">John Gruber&rsquo;s review<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macworld.com\/article\/1167804\/mountain_lion_apple_gets_its_operating_systems_in_sync.html\">Jason Snell&rsquo;s review<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.libertypages.com\/clarktech\/?p=4114\">Clark Goble&rsquo;s thoughts<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/apple\/2012\/07\/the-server-simplified-a-power-users-guide-to-os-x-server\/\">Andrew Cunningham&rsquo;s guide to OS X Server 10.8<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n<p>Update (2012-07-31):<\/p>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>You can <a href=\"http:\/\/hints.macworld.com\/article.php?story=20120726193230711\">Command-drag folders to Terminal<\/a> to change the directory.<\/li>\r\n<li>Brent Traut asks about <a href=\"http:\/\/stackoverflow.com\/questions\/11660895\/disable-anti-aliasing-fonts-in-xcode-4-4-in-mountain-lion\">anti-aliasing in Xcode on Mountain Lion<\/a>.<\/li>\r\n<li>Support for environment variables defined in <tt>~\/.MacOSX\/environment.plist<\/tt> has been removed.<\/li>\r\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.red-sweater.com\/blog\/2672\/can-i-get-your-address\">Daniel Jalkut<\/a> on <tt>NSContactsUsageDescription<\/tt>, which you may have noticed in <a href=\"http:\/\/c-command.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/05\/spamsieve-2-9-2\/\">SpamSieve 2.9.2<\/a>.<\/li>\r\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/tidbits.com\/article\/13147\">Jeff Carlson<\/a> on document auto-locking.<\/li>\r\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/apple\/2012\/07\/how-to-bend-mountain-lions-notification-center-to-your-will\/\">Chris Foresman<\/a> on Notification Center.<\/li>\r\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/hints.macworld.com\/article.php?story=20120725094628716\">slb<\/a> on Control-clicking in the Finder to encrypt a drive with File Vault 2.<\/li>\r\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.leancrew.com\/all-this\/2012\/07\/some-safari-6-stuff\/\">Dr. Drang<\/a> on the removal of Safari&rsquo;s font preferences.<\/li>\r\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/tidbits.com\/article\/13153\">Sharon Zardetto<\/a> on Safari 6.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new &ldquo;Ask to keep changes when closing documents&rdquo; option makes me much happier using applications that support Auto Save. Even though I have LCD font smoothing disabled, Mountain Lion still uses it in PDF views, Safari&rsquo;s location bar, Mail&rsquo;s message view, and the dialogs for mounting encrypted disk images. 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