BBC One - Doctor Who - Fun & Games. iMac App. iMac App. How to Use Dictation in Mountain Lion. Posted 07/26/2012 at 10:04am | by Cory Bohon With Mountain Lion, you can now dictate your text. While this isn't exactly Siri functionality we're talking about, Dictation is a step in the right direction for Mac users who don’t have the mobility or typing skills required to compose long emails or documents. The best part is that the new Dictation feature require third-party software manufacturers to make the function available. It works seamlessly with almost every application, including Microsoft Word. 1. Enabling Dictation You can enable the new Dictation feature in Mountain Lion by navigating to System Preferences > Dictation & Speech > Dictation. Here, you can also select the Shortcut key that you wish to use to activate Dictation.
Just as with iOS, any time you use the Dictation feature, your recorded voice will be sent to Apple’s servers in order to convert what you say into text. 2. A small microphone icon will appear below the cursor. Shortcut Words. Titanium's Software • Download. iMac App. How to make a bootable Lion install disc or drive. [Editor's note: This article is part of our series of articles on installing and upgrading to Lion (OS X 10.7). We also have a complete guide to installing and upgrading to Mountain Lion (OS X 10.8).] Unlike previous versions of Mac OS X, Lion (OS X 10.7) doesn’t ship on a bootable disc—it’s available only as an installer app downloadable from the Mac App Store, and that installer doesn’t require a bootable installation disc.
Indeed, this lack of physical media is perhaps the biggest complaint about Lion’s App Store-only distribution, as there are a good number of reasons you might want a bootable Lion installer, whether it be a DVD, a thumb drive, or an external hard drive. For example, if you want to install Lion on multiple Macs, a bootable installer drive can be more convenient than downloading or copying the entire Lion installer to each computer. Also, if your Mac is experiencing problems, a bootable installer drive makes a handy emergency disk.
Part 1: For all types of media. Want to make a Mountain Lion USB stick or SD Card Installer? Here’s how. Apple will not offer a USB or Optical Disk external installer to Mountain Lion (as far as we have heard). That does not mean you cannot sneaker net the install around your home, office or lab like Apple Store employees do (sometimes). Lion Diskmaker has been updated to allow you to make a bootable USB or SD Card installer on a 8GB piece of media. The process is straightforward: 1. Download Mountain Lion from the Mac App Store (Note: the default install deletes the installer image after installation, so you will need to re-download it from Mac App Store/Purchases if you already deleted it.) 2. 3. (Amazon has a great selection of 8GB and up USB Sticks and SD Cards starting at $4.99, by the way.) 4.
On a Retina MacBook Pro with a 8GB SD Card, the process took about 10- to 15 minutes. If you have any issues or want to make a donation (recommended), visit Diskmaker’s website. Cult of Mac Mobile » Work Around For Save As… In Lion [OS X Tips] When Lion debuted, the Save As… function had been removed from the File menu, and an interloper – Duplicate – was put in its place. The problem is that if you use Duplicate, you end up with two documents, one with “copy” appended to its name. In addition, Duplicate has no keyboard shortcut. This has made a lot of us sad. While we’ve reported that Save As… functionality is coming back in OS X Mountain Lion, that doesn’t help those of us using plain-old Lion right now. First of all, open a document in Text Edit, Apple’s built-in text processing program. Now, make some changes to the document. Go up to the File menu and click on it. Clicking on Duplicate and Revert will create a duplicate file with the word “copy” appended to the file name.
While this doesn’t bring back the keyboard shortcut, it does keep you from having to re-think and re-learn the perspective or workflow that you’ve built up over a ton of years as a Mac user. Got an iOS tip of your own? Via Mac OS X TipsRelated. How to Encrypt Your USB Thumb Drives in Lion. Posted 12/28/2011 at 9:03am | by Cory Bohon There are little options when you want to keep private things private in today's digital world. For securing native digital objects, encryption is your best option, especially when it comes to those easy-to-lose removable devices. Read on to find out how to keep your USB thumb drives secure by encrypting it and the files on it. Utilizing the new File Vault 2 encryption in Lion, Disk Utility can now take on the task of encrypting any of your drives. What You'll Need >> Mac OS X Lion >> USB Thumb drive (or another external disk) Encrypting Your Drives Before we begin, remember that all the data on the drive you will be encrypting will be erased.
To begin the encryption process, open Disk Utility (located in /Applications/Utilities). Once there, click on your thumb drive name in the sidebar, and then click on the Erase tab. After doing this, a dialog will appear, requesting that you enter a new password, and then verify it. Using Encrypted Drives.