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Change the Default Font of Notes App in OS X Mountain Lion : The new Notes app in OS X Mountain Lion features a default font that is hard to read and looks a bit goofy. If you want a more professional looking font that’s easier on the eyes, you can easily switch the default font from “Noteworthy” to the always classic Helvetica. From the Notes app, pull down the “Format” menu Open the “Font” submenu followed by “Default Font” and select “Helvetica” for the cleanest looking font, or choose “Marker Felt” to match the default Notes font in iOS Changes take effect immediately. Helvetica is shown below: Formatting can be lost as you’ll see in this video: You can change it in the iOS Notes app too .

Google adding Siri, Google Now like functionality to its iOS Search app in a couple of days [Video] : Today, Google has announced that it is rolling, in a few days, out a new version of its its Google Search application for the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. The new version is notable in that it brings Siri and Google Now like voice search functionality to the App Store app.  The Verge  is on hand at the announcement, and they noted you can “ask for the weather in a natural way” and it will provide results. Search Engine Land is also on hand at the event, and they provide some more details. Notably, you can search mapping info, theme songs, and information about people, and conduct math calculations. This sounds just like Siri and Google Now, complete with contextual awareness. The app is not out yet: it’s coming in a few days. When it is, it will be available here in iTunes. Read more at the Official Google Blog .

Mountain Lion 101: Silencing Notification Center alerts : Mountain Lion 's Notification Center is handy. It displays banners and alerts from notification-aware apps to keep you informed of changes, like a new Twitter mention, Calendar event or email message. That last one can get distracting, depending on how much email you receive. Here are some ways to tame email alerts: Disable alerts and banners in System Preferences. Open System Preferences and click Notifications. Select Mail from the list on the right and then click None. You'll no longer see email notifications. Quit Mail. Apple's Mail app won't push notifications if it isn't running. Turn them all of at once. Open Notification Center on your Mac and swipe up to the very top. Move the slider labeled Show Alerts and Banners to the Off position to silence all pop-up alerts and banners (they still appear listed in Notification Center itself). Slide it back to On to restore alerts and banners. If you...

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Mac OS X Tips : This guy is good. If you want to tweak your login screen, make Automator workflows, or simply just learn some power Mac user tips, this is the website to go to! For example: Create your own EPUB ebook files using Automato r 13 things you didn't know about Preview Check it out! 'via Blog this'

Pretty interesting idea. Hands on keyboard.  Ubuntu Unveils New HUD Menu System, Dropping Traditional Menus (video) Geeky-Gadgets Ubuntu has unveiled a new innovative user interface system called Head-Up-Display (HUD) today which it has been testing, and has designed to replace the traditional menu system used by nearly every computer software application to date. The new user interface has been designed to provide a HUD that would search through all the possible commands to find the action you're looking for. Watch the video after the break to see the new user interface in action. (...) Original Story Ubuntu Unveils New HUD Menu System, Dropping Traditional Menus (video) © Geeky Gadgets , 2012. | Permalink | Unauthorized duplication and or distribution of our content is strictly forbidden © Geeky Gadgets , 2012 Sent with Reeder

How to Zip Files in Mac OS X OS X Daily Ever wondered how to make a zip file in Mac OS X? We recently demonstrated how to password protect zip archives , but in the comments a reader asked a more simple yet completely valid question: " what about just making a standard zip file? " Well, making zip files on a Mac is easy, and with compression tools built directly into OS X there is no need to download additional software or add-ons, here's how. How to Make a Zip Archive in Mac OS X You can use this to create zip files of files, folders, or both: Right-click on a file, folder, or files you want to zip Select "Compress Items" Find the newly created .zip archive in the same directory If a single file is being zipped, the zip archive will maintain the standard file name but append the .zip extension. If more than one file is being zipped, the archive will be named "Archive.zip", and if multiple archives are created, they ...