Essential tips and techniques on the Mac OS X features you use most! If you want the kind of hip, friendly help you'd get from friends on how to get the most of out of Mac OS X Mountain Lion, this is the guide you need. Jump right into the coolest new Mac OS X features like Game Center, Messages, and Notification, or get a better handle on the basic tools and shortcuts that will help keep your mountain cat purring. From customizing to using multimedia to syncing your Mac to other devices, this book saves you time and hassle, avoids fluff, and covers what you want to know most. New addition to the hip, savvy Portable Genius series of books that helps you get the very most out of your Apple lifestyle Provides essential facts, tips, techniques, and shortcuts Helps you jump right into cool new Mac OX X features, such as Game Center, Messages, and Notification Covers Mac OS X and Mac computer basics, including customizing your computer and workspace, troubleshooting and maintaining your Mac, browsing and manipulating images and multimedia, listening to music and Podcasts, and more Explains how to work with and connect peripherals, copy music to an iPod, add a printer, and sync a Mac to other devices Enjoy your new Mac OS X Mac to the max with Mac OS X Portable Genius.

Dwight Spivey is a product manager for Konica Minolta and has specialized in working with Mac operating systems, applications, and hardware for many years. He is the author of several books on OS X and Apple's iPhone.