Mountain Lion Notification Center (Tutorial with Video)
One of the new features of the Mountain Lion operating system is the Notification Center. What are notifications? They are quick notes that appear on your screen alerting you to activity in your other apps. They are a lot like the notifications that you may have seen on an iPad or iPhone.
Depending on your preferences, notifications will scroll across your screen like a banner or pop up as an alert.
You can view all of your notifications, including ones you may have missed, by visiting the Notification Center. A two-finger swipe from right to left will get you to the Notification Center. You can also get to it by clicking the menubar icon in the upper right of the menubar.
Notifications are fully customizable and easily managed. That means you can choose which notifications appear, how often, how they look and how they sound.
To manage each of your notifications go to the Apple icon and choose Notification Center and System Preferences, or you could just click on the gear symbol at the bottom of the Notification Center.
You can specify whether notifications appear as Banners or Alerts. Banners appear and disappear on their own. Alerts stay on your screen until you take an action.
Depending on your preferences, notifications will scroll across your screen like a banner or pop up as an alert.
You can view all of your notifications, including ones you may have missed, by visiting the Notification Center. A two-finger swipe from right to left will get you to the Notification Center. You can also get to it by clicking the menubar icon in the upper right of the menubar.
Notifications are fully customizable and easily managed. That means you can choose which notifications appear, how often, how they look and how they sound.
To manage each of your notifications go to the Apple icon and choose Notification Center and System Preferences, or you could just click on the gear symbol at the bottom of the Notification Center.
You can specify whether notifications appear as Banners or Alerts. Banners appear and disappear on their own. Alerts stay on your screen until you take an action.
Any of the sounds can be turned off by unchecking the Play Sound button for those apps that you want silenced.
If you want to eliminate a particular notification, either deselect the Show in Notification Center check box or drag the app to the Not in Notification Center section of the list.
You can also change how apps are sorted in your Notification Center and specify the number of recent items the Notification Center displays for each app.
There are times that you may want to turn your notifications off completely. To temporarily stop all notifications just hold down the ALT key and then click on the Notification Center in the upper right corner of your screen. Once its gray, that means your notifications are off. You can also turn notifications off with a pause button that can be found in the Notification Center.
If you have any questions about the Notification Center or any other aspect of Mountain Lion, please contact us at 888-813-5558 or support@cranstonit.com.
If you want to eliminate a particular notification, either deselect the Show in Notification Center check box or drag the app to the Not in Notification Center section of the list.
You can also change how apps are sorted in your Notification Center and specify the number of recent items the Notification Center displays for each app.
There are times that you may want to turn your notifications off completely. To temporarily stop all notifications just hold down the ALT key and then click on the Notification Center in the upper right corner of your screen. Once its gray, that means your notifications are off. You can also turn notifications off with a pause button that can be found in the Notification Center.
If you have any questions about the Notification Center or any other aspect of Mountain Lion, please contact us at 888-813-5558 or support@cranstonit.com.