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Bring Mountain Lion's Features To OS X Lion
Mar 11, 2025
A quick how to about bringing some of Mountain Lion's features down to Lion. Follow me on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/MichaelSteeber Follow Cult Of Mac on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/cultofmac For any links discussed in this video, check out http://www.cultofmac.com
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hey everyone this is Michael with Cult
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of Mac here and today I'm going to show
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you how you can get the basic features
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that are going to be introduced in OS 10
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mountain lion today I've been asked by
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people if they should buy a developer
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license so they can use mountain lion
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now if you know they should wait or not
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and I always suggest people wait because
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what you can actually do is with a
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couple different applications simulate
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the features that will appear in W 10
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Mountain line uh right now with current
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existing applications and I'll show you
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uh which ones today so one of the
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biggest new features with mountain lion
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is the integration of iMessage right
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into the OS and this is something that
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users who aren't on mountain lion can
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actually get today and you might know
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this one already uh but you can actually
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from Apple's website download a version
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of messages and it's still in beta but
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you can use it on Lon this version of
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messages is exact like the version that
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will'll ship with mountain line uh so
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it's very much the same as what you'll
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see and it replaces ey chat as you might
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know so if you want to download this and
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use it it's a little bit buggy but I'll
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have a link uh below the video that you
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can go and download messages beta
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another one of the big features in
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Mountain line is notification center as
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you can see here and it's very much like
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the iOS
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counterpart there's actually an
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application in the Mac App Store you
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might have heard of called grow that can
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simulate kind of the environment of not
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notification center it's not quite as
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clean or as polished uh but if you go up
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to the Apple logo menu and you select
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App Store and you search in the app
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store for grow you'll find the app and
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unfortunately it's not free uh but if
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you really like the idea of notification
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center and you haven't tried out grow I
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would definitely recommend it so grow
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just runs up in your menu bar here and
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you can show this rollup menu uh and
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this roll up when notifications come in
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is a lot like notification center and if
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you leave your Des for a while or
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anything this rollup will automatically
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show up and it shows you all your recent
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notifications for any apps you might
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have also if you go up to the grow
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preferences you have a couple different
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options here uh for the type of
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notification you want so for example
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this brushed one looks fairly similar to
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the actual notification style that
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you'll find in Mountain line so you can
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simulate that very well another big
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addition to Mountain line is the notes
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app that you would have typically found
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on the iPad and the iPhone and now
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that's coming to the Mac OS as well
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previously notes were managed within the
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mail app and now it has its own app so
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if you want to use the default Notes app
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that comes on all your devices you can
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still use it within mail in line and
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it's a lot like it is in Mountain line
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it's just not broken out into its own
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app but if you're looking for a good
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notes app that sys across all your
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devices kind of like notes does in
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Mountain line a good one I would
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recommend is is Evernote so Evernote is
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nice in that it works on all your
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devices the iPad the iPhone and the Mac
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so you can download and it'll syn across
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all your devices and it works very well
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and in some ways it's more full featured
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than the notes app uh with you know
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graphics and different things like that
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uh it's very nice in addition some
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people are excited about I'm personally
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not but a lot of people are is airplane
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mirroring and that's coming in M line as
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well so airplane mirring essentially
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lets you mirror what's on your Mac
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screen to an Apple TV now I don't have
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an Apple TV so it's not something I'm
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too excited about uh but if you want to
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do this with Lion you can download this
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application called air parrot so it's
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not free there's a limited trial and I
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personally haven't been able to test it
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out just because I don't have an Apple
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TV but it works in very much the same
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way as airplane mirroring will in
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Mountain line so this is something you
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might want to consider if you do have
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Apple TV and you think you'd use this
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feature a lot it actually looks like it
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has more preferences than the real
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AirPlay mirroring feature does in
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Mountain Li uh Apple's version is pretty
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stripped down and basic another feature
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Apple's been bragging about is
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gatekeeper so if you go into system
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preferences and over to
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Security you'll see that under General
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you have these new options to allow
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applications downloaded from anywhere
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the Mac App Store and identifi
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developers or just the Mac App Store and
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you have some different changes to your
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privacy settings in here that you don't
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find in line and Snow Leopard and older
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operating systems now while there's no
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real replacement for gatekeeper in Lion
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what you can do is install some security
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applications if you're worried about
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security I did a post not too long ago
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here on culac about how to secure your
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Mac from viruses in malware so if you
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want to go check that out I talk about
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some of the best security applications
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to get and they can be really helpful
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especially when fighting against new
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malware that's been coming to Mac OS 10
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so you also may know that the reminders
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application is coming to mountain line
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and it's just like the reminders app
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that you find in iOS 5 unfortunately you
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can't control the native reminders
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application in any way in line uh you
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can control the notes app but the
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reminders app is pretty much off limits
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so if you go to App Store there are some
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alternatives for the time being an
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option you might want to try is Wonder
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list uh it's a free application and it
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lets you create reminders in a similar
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fashion to what you would do on the
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reminders app now personally I like to
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stick with reminders I find it you know
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it's just basic and it's just what I
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need but you might like something like
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Wonder list that sinks across all your
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devices and you can create tasks pretty
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easily last but not least we have the
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iCloud integration unfortunately that's
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something that you can't really
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replicate in any way with any
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application
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in lion or below so well I'd love to
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tell you that there's an alternative
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that you can use at this time there
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really isn't and anything that you might
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use to sync your documents and
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applications with iCloud right now in
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Lion is more of a work around than
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anything and it's not as smooth as
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you'll find in mountain lion but there's
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a way that you can replicate at least
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most of the features of mountain line in
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Mac OS 10 line right now as always if
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there's anything that you'd like to see
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me do a hotu on make sure to send me an
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email this is Michael with cult Mac and
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I'll see you next time
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