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Clearing up Mountain Lion confusion

#1 Macworld

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Posted 26 July 2012 - 09:31 AM

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#2 veggiedude

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Posted 26 July 2012 - 09:45 AM

Since upgrading to Mountain Lion, I can no longer access 'Macsurfer.com' website. I first noticed this in Chrome, so I cleared the entire cache and restarted the browser, but the problem persisted. Today I decided to give the new Safari a twirl and I am finding it to be a delightful upgrade, and perhaps I will start using it more instead of Chrome. However, Safari is having the same problem - Macsurfer site will not load. Anyone else having this issue? My MacBook Pro can't be upgraded to 10.8 and it is having no such issue.

#3 JohanJohansson

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Posted 26 July 2012 - 09:46 AM

The dictation feature has very low accuracy for me, as a non-native speaker of English. Spacing long between words and speaking very slowly ups the accuracy to near-100%, but at that pace I can't even think, let alone formulate the next sentence in my head. Thus, my question is something along the lines of - how can I improve accuracy?

I tried reading the same phrase ten times, correcting the mistakes every time, but it still convolutes phrases and confuses "I found" with "iPhone", for instance, so it doesn't seem like it's actually learning (á la autocorrect) as I go. Do we know which engine it's on? Nuance, I've been told, but Dragon Dictate et al can be forced to learn. But not Dictate?

Anything that could up my accuracy is helpful. Thanks.

#4 TeaEarleGreyHot

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Posted 26 July 2012 - 09:51 AM

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When I type in a web address and press Return, I’m taken to a Google search page rather than the site I want to visit.

First, be a bit more patient. If you type and immediately press Return you won’t see Safari’s list of results—one of which will likely be the website you want to visit.

Hmm... well first off, I don't yet have Mountain Lion, so it may be premature for me to complain. But if what the quoted user says is correct, then I'm likely to be equally dissatisfied with the new Safari. When I type in an explicit URL into the nav bar, I expect my browser to take me to the site I specified. Not another googley site-full'o'bing that some yahoo thinks I want to visit. I expect my computer's software do do what *I* want. I can type faster than a search engine can guess what i want, and I do not care to be "patient" for it to offer guesses. So I really hope that's not how it works!

#5 airos

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Posted 26 July 2012 - 09:52 AM

I would like to see all the twits in the same way that Growl does, is that possible?

#6 walueg

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Posted 26 July 2012 - 10:01 AM

The only snag I hit was when I checked to see if my third party SSD had TRIM turned on after the update, it had indeed been turned off. I used TRIM Enabler to turn it back on and rebooted to good effect.

#7 doh123

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Posted 26 July 2012 - 10:03 AM

TeaEarleGreyHot, on 26 July 2012 - 09:51 AM, said:

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When I type in a web address and press Return, I’m taken to a Google search page rather than the site I want to visit.

First, be a bit more patient. If you type and immediately press Return you won’t see Safari’s list of results—one of which will likely be the website you want to visit.

if you type a URL it goes there... I've had no issues with that and I've been using it for weeks.

now if your going to Macworld.com and you type Macworld then thats not a URL... If you've been to Macworld.com before and you start typing it, it will figure out you want macworld.com and fill that in for you as the default hit, but some people on slower computers don't wait a second for it to find that and just type and press enter so fast that it didn't get completed so it just does a web search.

#8 cphoffman42

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Posted 26 July 2012 - 10:04 AM

TeaEarleGreyHot, on 26 July 2012 - 09:51 AM, said:

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When I type in a web address and press Return, I’m taken to a Google search page rather than the site I want to visit.

First, be a bit more patient. If you type and immediately press Return you won’t see Safari’s list of results—one of which will likely be the website you want to visit.

It isn't that it goes to google if you type in a full url, it's that people have gotten used to Safari filling in the gaps in urls. So, if you just typed "macworld", Safari 5 would add "www." and ".com", and you would end up here. Safari 6 assumes you want to run a google search on the term macworld. But, if you type "macworld.com", it knows not to do the google search and takes you directly to the site.

That said, if you wait like a 1/16 of a second before hitting Enter, you'll get recommendations beneath the address bar, the first for me being www.macworld.com. I can just click there and be done with it. (This functionality was also in Safari 5, fwiw).

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Posted 26 July 2012 - 10:04 AM

How do I get my iCloud to show up in Finder?

#10 HenryBouldin

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Posted 26 July 2012 - 10:14 AM

Still no scroll support for Magic Mouse? This is beyond frustrating.

#11 sirmarcos

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Posted 26 July 2012 - 10:15 AM

Why does Tweetbot Alpha work with Mountain LIon notifications at all? I thought that was restricted to Mac App store only apps, and the alpha is certainly not on the Mac App Store... Or does this mean any Mac OS X app can use Notification center on Mountain Lion?

#12 Chris Breen

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Posted 26 July 2012 - 10:21 AM

sirmarcos, on 26 July 2012 - 10:15 AM, said:

The Tweetbot appearance and behavior is confusing in many ways. It does have a Notifications preference, but I assumed that was for Growl.

#13 TonyMerriett

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Posted 26 July 2012 - 10:28 AM

my airplay doesn't work correctly...when i click on the icon, it turns blue for a second then returns to black and no airplay on apple tv...it was working until i updated the firmware for power nap

#14 JohnBarnes

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Posted 26 July 2012 - 10:30 AM

cphoffman42, on 26 July 2012 - 10:04 AM, said:

TeaEarleGreyHot, on 26 July 2012 - 09:51 AM, said:

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When I type in a web address and press Return, I’m taken to a Google search page rather than the site I want to visit.

First, be a bit more patient. If you type and immediately press Return you won’t see Safari’s list of results—one of which will likely be the website you want to visit.

It's not just Safari that filled in the gaps. I can remember browsers on pre-OS X systems doing this. It has long been a feature of Mac browsers, and one I thought Windows browser should also have. It won't be hard to adjust, especially for people who use Windows in addition to their Mac, but will still be missed.

The bigger issue to me is that everything you type in a unified address/search bar is going to Google (or other supported search engine). While they are probably not getting any personal information, it's none of there business what sites I am visiting. It's one thing if I choose to use their services to find something, but that should be my choice. Probably just a minor annoyance, but it bugs me on principal.

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