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OS X 10.8.1 Update May Improve Battery Life In Mountain Lion
If you’ve been having battery trouble since upgrading to Mountain Lion, there’s good news: yesterday’s 10.8.1 update may improve it some. Ars Technica tested it out on a MacBook Air and a retina MacBook Pro, finding that 10.8.1 brought their battery life back up by nearly two hours.
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Trick OS X Mountain Lion’s Dictation Into Learning New Words By Adding Fake Contacts
When Mountain Lion launched, we discussed how to use its new Dictaction feature effectively. It works pretty well on its own, but reader MDaemon wrote in with a handy tip: if you’re having trouble getting Dictation to understand words you use often, just create a fake contact for it — since the tool scans your…
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Set Up The Best Shortcuts For Mountain Lion’s Built-in Text Expansion
Surprise! Mountain Lion has a new secret feature: basic text expansion. Here’s how to set it up and some handy shortcuts to get you started.
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Get Mountain Lion Hacker-Friendly With This Huge List Of Command Line Tricks
Mountain Lion brings lots of small changes to the way Apple’s operating system works. It also locks down a lot of default behaviours that many people were used to in Mac OS X Lion. Thankfully, a group over at Github has compiled a huge list of the command line tricks that still work in Mountain…