Which explains why many Mac users will welcome the update rendering of iCal and Address Book — now calledCalendarandContacts , respectively , for consistency across all of Apple ’s computation devices — provide in Mountain Lion . While they do n’t fix all issues present in their Lion similitude , each put up a number of significant improvement . Here ’s a warm look .
Contacts
While many iOS users will welcome Contacts based on the name change alone — peculiarly if , like us , you often attempt to launch your address volume in Spotlight by typingcontacts — the swelled improvement to the app is the restoration of the three - column layout . Gone is the need to click a practical bookmark to ever - so - tardily turn virtual pages ; instead , you’re able to select from three display modes : bill ( individual chromatography column ) ; card and contacts ( two columns ) ; or identity card , contacts , and groups ( three columns ) . To retain the app ’s Quran - comparable design , the three - pane view narrows your contact tilt , allowing the Groups sidebar to seat on the far left field of the page .
contact to boot sports Mountain Lion ’s raw Share button at the bottom of each card ; you may export that card ( in .vcf format ) as an email or iMessage bond , or via AirDrop .
Calendar
Two of the change to Calendar in Mountain Lion will be straight off obvious . On the aesthetics side , Apple has gotten rid of the gaudy faux sewing . The program ’s interface still tries a bit too hard to look like a forcible desk calendar , but the Modern aspect is a bit more pernicious . The bigger change — and the one that will in all likelihood be the most welcome by iCal ’s critic — is that Calendars in Mountain Lion get back the consecrated calendar sidebar . alternatively of requiring you to click a clit to view your listing of calendars , Calendars provide that tilt , organized by calendar eccentric , in a Snow Leopard - style sidebar on the remaining - mitt side . Below that tilt is a mini calendar scene that , by nonpayment , displays the current month and the upcoming month ( though you’re able to drag the calendar divider up or down to increase or diminish , respectively , the turn of visible months ) .
One little — but welcome — change is the improver of Apple ’s OS Xsearch tokens(which debut in the Finder and Mail with Lion ) for Calendar ’s events lookup . Instead of having to detail what form of information you ’re looking for off the cricket bat , Calendar intelligently strain to suggest categories while you typecast ; categories can include labor organizer , effect title , and notes associated with an result . Just like with Finder or Mail search , you could stack categories : For illustration , you could search for any events organise by “ Macworld ” with the name “ coming together . ” lookup answer have also been redesigned , appearing instead in an abbreviated form along the ripe - manus side of the app .
Mountain Lion brings contextual search and tokens to the Calendar app .
Mountain Lion brings contextual search and tokens to the Calendar app.
To expose those results , Calendar excises the reminders sidebar ; as Mountain Lion includesa dedicated Reminders app , you ’re have a bun in the oven to deal tasks and reminders from within that broadcast , instead . Of course , this also means that if you want to create any sort of to - do , you need to hop over to Reminders to do so ; unlike with Contacts , there ’s no verbatim link to the Reminders app in Calendar .
The other major change in Calendars is that Apple has completely revamped alerts and result reminders . For each of your accounts , you’re able to now customise your nonpayment alerts , on an individual basis , for timed case , all - twenty-four hour period events , and even birthdays ; each of these can be set to occur a prefer number of minutes , hours , or days before the event .
You ’ll also find a few minor port change . For example , the Calendar menu is gone , with its commands redistributed among the File , View , and Edit menus . And you’re able to now incapacitate the “ heat single-valued function ” display for Year eyeshot .
[ Serenity Caldwell is a faculty editor for Macworld ; Dan Frakes is a fourth-year editor in chief for Macworld . ]
Mountain Lion brings contextual search and tokens to the Calendar app.
