Al Lustie's Tips and Tricks

I installed OS X 10.8 (Mountain Lion) on both our iMacs in the past ten days.  Here is a modest report of what I found.

• Most things are slower and take more keystrokes.
• It seems to be pretty solid.
• We don't use gestures, so that is meaningless (so far) for me or my wife.
• Apple says it will be fixing the terrible response time to 'waking up' after the computer has been asleep for awhile, but gives no timeline.
• The Launchpad is O.K., but not necessary.
• I think Spotlight might be a bit faster than in Snow Leopard, from whence I came.
• My Scrabble game loads, but does not work.
• MySolitaire XL will work for one game, then lock up.
• Solitaire 3D works fine, but is not as good looking as Solitaire XL.

I have not tried dictation, so I cannot comment on that.  Probably in a week or so.

iCloud works fine, but I don't use it much.

Connecting Bento for the Mac wirelessly to Bento for the iPad works well.

Notes for the iPad automatically sends me an email when I add to it.  It did not do that before installing Mountain Lion, but that might have been an IOS upgrade feature I missed.

Lil' Snitch no longer works.  I am hoping for an upgrade soon.

More when I know more.