How to upgrade OS to OS X Mountain Lion

Before you upgrade your Mac to OS X Mountain Lion you must know about
several information tips and trick how to upgrade OS to OS X Mountain
Lion. This tips according to CNet.

Whether you have been using Apple's latest operating system for the
Mac, OS X Mountain Lion, for a while now, or you are just installing
it, you'll benefit from reading through some of the tips below. Some
of them are ways to
improve on the overall experience, while others will bring back past
functionality. Let's get started, shall we?

1. Preparing your Mac

When upgrading the operating system, no
matter your platform of choice, it's always a
great idea to not go into it blindly. Be
prepared, and more importantly, make sure
you computer is prepared. Some of the prep is
stuff you should be doing anyway, so make
sure to give it a read if you are yet to upgrade.

2. Get started with Notification Center

Mountain Lion has borrowed a lot of features from iOS, including
Notification Center. With
OS X now having one convenient place for
organizing notifications on your computer,
you'll more than likely end up using it to some
extent. It's best you know what it does and
how to customize it.

3. Options for accessing Notification Center

One thing not discussed in the getting-started
guide for Notification Center is all of the different ways to access
it. The guide touched
on gestures but left out keyboard shortcuts
and hot corners. This post will lay out all of the
options and shortcuts to revealing Notification Center for you.

4. Growl and Notification Center

Since we are on the topic of Notification
Center, we should probably talk about the
popular OS X notification platform Growl. If
you're interested in integrating your Growl
alerts into Notification Center, this post is
made for you.

5. AirPlay mirroring

Another big feature brought from iOS to OS X
is AirPlay. If you have a compatible Mac, you
can now mirror your Mac's display to your TV
through an Apple TV. For a video
demonstration, check out this post.

6. AirPlay-only audio

If mirroring your display isn't something you
want to take advantage of, but you want to
stream the audio from your Mac through your
TV, you can do it with a few clicks of the
mouse.

7. Dictation

Using dictation to type out a quick response in
Messages, a blog post, or even a lengthy e-
mail can save your fingers from pounding
away on the keyboard. Using dictation on
Mountain Lion is simple, with almost no setup
required. Just make sure you have an Internet
connection

8. Preview open tabs in Safari

Safari 6 was released alongside Mountain Lion,
bringing a slew of new features to Apple's
beloved browser. One of them is the ability to
quickly preview all of the open tabs in your
browser window. This is another feature that's
similar to what's found on iOS. It works well
and comes in handy if you're in the habit of
leaving a lot of tabs open.

9. Bring back Web sharing

It's possible to bring back Web sharing, a
feature that went missing in Mountain Lion,
with a little work. If you're comfortable with
Terminal, you'll feel right at home enabling
Web sharing on Mountain Lion. If you aren't
comfortable with Terminal, Topher Kessler
does a great job laying out the required steps
in a simple manner.

10. VIPs

We all have a shortlist of contacts whom we
deem a VIP -- someone whose e-mails we
respond to immediately. You can now mark
those contacts as VIPs and treat them as such
in Mail on Mountain Lion. You can even limit
Notification Center to only show alerts for VIP
e-mails and no one else.

11. Restore Save As

OS X Lion took away a functionality users had
grown accustomed to over the years: Save As.
There was plenty of bellyaching and
bemoaning the missing feature throughout the
OS. Enough of it, in fact, that Apple has
brought back the feature in Mountain Lion.
You'll need to do some setting up to get it to
work, but it's back!
Apple returns Save As to Mountain Lion
Expose, I missed you
Another change in OS X Lion that upset users
was in how Expose behaved. In Mountain Lion,
you'll need to uncheck a box in system
preferences, and the old beloved Expose
feature of displaying all open windows, instead
of just one per open program will be restored.
Restore classic Expose behavior in Mountain
Lion

Keep it secure

You can now encrypt a disk volume with a
simple click, securing your data with almost no
effort. There are some caveats that you need
to be aware, however, of before you dive right
in.
Apple adds encryption contextual menu
options to Mountain Lion

Sync Notes with Android

The new and improved Notes app on
Mountain Lion is built to be used with Apple's
iCloud service, allowing for easy syncing
between all iCloud-enabled devices. This guide
will not only show you how to sync iCloud
devices, but also how to sync your Android
devices with the Notes app.
Syncing Notes from Mountain Lion Macs to iOS
and Android
Sync iOS with Mountain Lion
iCloud is built into OS X Mountain Lion from
the ground up. Between syncing documents
from Preview and Pages to contacts and
calendars, iCloud is handling it all. As such,
you'll want to make sure your iOS device is
taking advantage of as much of the cloud as
possible. This great walkthrough will show you
how easy it is to be achieved.
How to sync your iPhone, iPad with Mountain
Lion via iCloud
source: cnet

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