On 10 Jan Macworld.com published Sound and vision: The Sound and Displays system preferences
by Christopher Breen. The topics covered include The Sound preferences - page 1, paragraph 2.

Sound effects tab - page 1, paragraph 3.

Alert sounds - page 1, paragraph 3.

Alert sound output device - page 1, paragraph 5.

Alert volume - page 1, paragraph 6.

On 3 January 2013 Macworld.com published another of Christopher Breen’s Mac 101 stories - Notes on notifications . It talks about the Notification Center feature introduced in Apple’s mobile operating system, iOS, that has found its way on to Macs in OS Mountain Lion. The topics covered include

The Notification Center’s purpose - page 1, paragraph 2.

The Notification Center menu bar icon - page 1, paragraphs 2 and 7.

Yesterday, 27 December 2012, Macworld.com published - The Mac's linguistic tricks - another article in the Mac 101 series. In it Christopher Breen returns to his exploration of Mountain Lion’s System Preferences with a look at the preferences settings accessed via the Language & Text icon on the Personal system preferences row.

After installing iTunes 11 I was a bit disappointed to find that some of the features available in previous versions appeared to be missing. Anyone suffering similar disappointment might be interested to read the nbcnews.com/technology/gadgetbox story " How to use iTunes 11's new features (and bring back the old iTunes look)" . I followed the tips in the paragraph headed “” Yes, you can get the old iTunes look back (sidebar and all) and now have my old favourites back.

I have yet to update to iTunes 11.0.1.

Today, 20 December 2012, Macworld.com published - About Mission Control - another article in the Mac 101 series. You might have expected this story to continue Christopher Breen's exploration of Mountain Lion’s System Preferences. His introductory paragraph explains why this is not the case. It says

On 13 December 2012 Macworld.com published another Mac 101 series article - Christopher Breen’s "System Preferences: General and Desktop & Screen Saver" . It includes

1. An explanation of how to open the System Preferences window in Mac OS X,

2. An outline of the items that appear in the window.

3. A description of the General and Desktop & Screensaver preferences that appear under the Personal heading.

Christopher Breen’s Macworld.com story - Mac 101: Diving into menus - briefly touched on the Dock and Dock Preferences. This week his Mac 101: Dealing with the Dock delves a bit deeper into what you can do with the Dock in Mountain Lion. In one of his introductory paragraphs he says

A number of websites are reporting that iPhone users who have upgraded to Apple's new iOS 6 software have been complaining that their mobile bills have rocketed after data usage has shot up. Some sites are also reporting allegations, made by some users, that phones may be consuming cellular data when they should be operating over WiFi.

http://www.infoworld.com/d/consumerization-of-it/watch-out-ios-6-can-jac... may be of interest. it includes a mention of

1. what iPhone 5‘s new Wi-Fi Plus Cellular option does;


This week Macworld.com’s Mac 101: Smart searching by Christopher Breen draws our attention to OS X Mountain Lion’s automated search feature: smart searches. The topics touched on include

1. Creating a Smart Folder.
2. Defining one or more search conditions.
3. Finding a set of files satisfying defined conditions.
4. Locating the New Smart folder command.
5. Narrowing a smart search.
6. Saving a smart search and retrieving it later.
   

This week Christopher Breen’s Macworld.com article - Mac 101: Seek and find - covers Spotlight and the File menu’s Find command in OS X Mountain Lion. The topics mentioned include

Spotlight .

1. As a calculator.
2. Defining a word.
3. Excluding private files and folders.
4. Filtering out some results.
5. Finding which one of a list of files (e.g. documents) is the one for which you are looking.
6. Indexing.
7. Launching a file within the application associated with it.
8. Launching applications.