I finally upgraded my iMac from Snow Leopard to Mountain Lion. Once I knew I could run my main apps in the new operating system I decided to take the $20 plunge.
The downloading and installation went off without a hitch, as I expected. Spent a good chunk of the afternoon familiarizing myself with the new features that I had only read and heard about. It won’t take me very long to adjust to the new way of computing, but what is taking me a while to get used to is the scrolling in the opposite direction. Too many years of doing it the same way on too many computers.
Love the Notification Center, especially since Growl notifications stopped working with the last update to Snow Leopard.
One huge unfortunate that I did not expect was losing every single Stickies note I had written and saved. Luckily I had an fairly recent Stickies Database I could open in TextEdit and copy into the newly created database, but I still lost a few recent notes.
And I can now finally take full advantage of iCloud and all it’s syncing.
Plus, one of the main reasons for upgrading to Mountain Lion was so that I could download and begin using iBooks Author. I have so many ebook ideas I’d like to create from all my photos and then put online in the iBookstore.
Should be a fun next few days and weeks.
