Being a Mac noob what is the advantage of upgrading from osx to mountin lion?

Cheers

 

Lots of new tricks, my favourite right now is voice recognition, I have a broken hand so it's bloody handy, this message was dictated not typed.

Here are some handy shortcuts


- “new line” is like pressing Return on your keyboard
- “new paragraph” creates a new paragraph
- “cap” capitalizes the next spoken word
- “caps on/off” capitalizes the spoken section of text
- “all caps” makes the next spoken word all caps
- “all caps on/off” makes the spoken section of text all caps
- “no caps” makes the next spoken word lower case
- “no caps on/off” makes the spoken section of text lower case
- “space bar” prevents a hyphen from appearing in a normally hyphenated word
- “no space” prevents a space between words
- “no space on/off” to prevent a section of text from having spaces between words
- “period” or “full stop” places a period at the end of a sentence
- “dot” places a period anywhere, including between words
- “point” places a point between numbers, not between words
- “ellipsis” or “dot dot dot” places an ellipsis in your writing
- “comma” places a comma
- “double comma” places a double comma (,,)
- “quote” or “quotation mark” places a quote mark (“)
- “quote ... end quote” places quotation marks around the text spoken between
- “apostrophe” places an apostrophe (‘)
- “exclamation point” places an exclamation point (!)
- “inverted exclamation point” places an inverted exclamation point (¡)
- “question mark” places a question mark (?)
- “inverted question mark” places an inverted question mark (¿)
- “ampersand” places an ampersand sign (&)
- “asterisk” places an asterisk (*)
- “open parenthesis” opens a set of parenthesis “(“
- “close parenthesis” closes a set of parenthesis “)”
- “open bracket” opens a set of brackets “[“
- “close bracket” closes a set of brackets “]”
- “open brace” opens a set of braces “{“
- “close brace” closes a set of braces “}”
- “dash” places a dash (-) with spaces before and after
- “hyphen” places a hyphen between words without a space
- “em dash” places an em dash (--)
- “underscore” places an underscore (_)
- “percent sign” places a percent sign (%)
- “copyright sign” places a copyright symbol
- “registered sign” places a registered trademark symbol
- “section sign” places a section sign
- “dollar sign” places a dollar sign ($)
- “cent sign” place a cent sign (¢)
- “degree sign” places a degree symbol (º)
- “caret” places a caret (^)
- “at sign” places an at symbol (@)
- “pound sign” places a pound symbol (#)
- “greater than sign” places a greater than symbol (>)
- “less than sign” places a less than symbol (<)
- “forward slash” places a forward slash (/)
- “back slash” places a back slash (\)
- “vertical bar” places a pipe (|)
- “smiley” or “smile face” places a “:-)”
- “frowny” or “frown face” places a “:-(“
- “winky” or “wink face” places a “;-)”
- “e g” places a “e.g.”
- “i e” places a “i.e.”

 

Can anyone confirm if V7 is compatitble?

 

Now Ron I shall be gentle with you being a mac noob but after this, you get no kid glove treatment

It is Mountain Lion or as we like to say 10.8

You mention upgrading from OSX but you tell us which version. I assume you have version Lion 10.7 if you have just bought a mac. If so then you qualify for a free upgrade (it is only £13 but you could spend that on moisturiser )

As for what benefits you would see from lets say Lion, as a noob user none, but TBH for that amount of money it is a no brainer

 

Cheers Swistopher when I first switched the computer on, I did do some updates from the app store, so maybe I already have I'm typing this from my phone do i'll have a look later, like you say say for £13 I might as well give it a go

 

The updates will be normal OS updates and iLife updates, like iPhoto etc.

You can always tell what version you have by going to the top left under the apple and selecting about this mac.

 

I've still not upgraded One point of note, they have removed the "Web Sharing" preference pane from 10.8. Apache and the other bits are still there, but you'll need to use the command line (might be some scripts out there as well) to start / stop / restart apache.

I believe the comment was that if you wanted web server capabilities, get ML Server.

Not a massive problem, but it might catch people out. I wasn't aware of it until I was reading an article on 10.8, and I use the personal websharing side of things to run development versions of sites.

 

Yeah, it did those updates and an OSx update, anyhooo I've bitten the bullet and downloaded it, 33mins to install

 

Press the function key twice to turn on dictation. A great help for the spelling challenged like me.

 

I've had terrible trouble with my email since I upgraded. Swiss will back me up.

And although it seems sorted now, I've had my aunt nagging me, saying she can't send emails to me, that they keep getting bounced back!

 

What is the bounce error? It could just be coincidence that it's happening now. I'd assume no-one else is having problems sending emails to you?

 

No my @me ,gmail personAl hosted email works fine

If its bouncing back either your aunty is putting it in wrong or it's something wrong with who you have email with

 

Well, turns out, my aunt has been putting the number '0' instead of the letter 'o' in my email address. Silly tart! She drove me scrofulous yesterday........5 emails, four texts, and four (or was it five? I was losing the will to live....... phone calls!).

Anyway.....(I haven't updated Swiss with this yet!), my gmail thingy was working for sending emails (after he'd fiddled with me remotely), but I then found out that I wasn't receiving replies to those emails. So, I went and changed my server option back to my O2, and entered 25 in the custom port box, and since then, (fingers crossed) it's been ok.

 

Sniggers