Subscribe to OSXDaily Subscribe to RSS Subscribe to Twitter Feed Follow on Facebook Subscribe to eMail Updates Shared on Facebook Shop at Amazon Ad Borderlands 2 25% off Today Only First-person shooter with RPG elements. OSXDaily on Facebook OSXDaily on Google+ Search OS X Mountain Lion Encrypt Time Machine Backups with OS X Sep 26, 2012 - Leave a Comment Encrypt Time Machine backups in Mac OS X Time Machine backups can be encrypted right from your Mac. This means the data is extremely safe from prying eyes and the very unlikely event of a cracking attempt, and it also means you’ll need a password to access the encrypted backups yourself. Enabling this feature can be done in two ways: Enable Encryption on New Time Machine Drives If you’re setting up a new Time Machine backup drive, enabling encryption is extremely easy: Connect the drive to the Mac, when asked to use the drive for Time Machine, check the box for “Encrypt Backups” Encrypt Existing Time Machine Backups Already using Time Machine? Enabling encryption is just as simple. With the Time Machine drive connected to the Mac: Open System Preferences from the  Apple menu and choose “Time Machine” Choose “Options”, select the drive to protect, and choose “Encrypt backup disk” or “Encrypt Backups” The wording varies slightly depending on which version of OS X you’re using. You will need OS X Lion 10.7.4 or OS X Mountain Lion 10.8 or newer to have the backup encryption option available, though the ability to encrypt existing drives only comes with Mountain Lion onward. Certain folders can be excluded from backups if they don’t need to be encrypted, but because they won’t be backed up you’ll need to handle backups of those files manually. For those who don’t need to encrypt all backed up data, another excellent option is to encrypt folders with password-protected Disk Images. That disk image file can then be backed up as usual to a Time Machine drive, but only the data stored inside of it will be protected instead. Comments: none Set Up Facebook Integration on your Mac with OS X Mountain Lion Sep 25, 2012 - 9 Comments Set Up Facebook in Mac OS X Facebook can now be integrated directly into Mac OS X. All you need is OS X 10.8.2 (or later) and a minute or so to get it configured. Once Facebook is setup in OS X, you’ll be able to post status updates from Notification Center, post directly to Facebook from Share Sheets, find your Facebook friends in Contacts, and even see a list of all Facebook notifications right in Notification Center. Open System Preferences from the  Apple menu Click on “Mail, Contacts & Calendars” Locate “Facebook from the list and click on it Add your Facebook username and password, then click “Next” and configure as necessary If you want to make further adjustments to how Facebook interacts with Notification Center, just open the Notifications panel inside System Preferences, find Facebook, and configure alert styles, the amount of items shown, and the type of Notifications to receive. You can also determine whether or not the status updater appears in Notification Center. Share to Facebook from Mac OS X Now that Mac OS X has been configured with Facebook, you won’t need to login again when sharing items from the web or from your Mac or posting statuses from Notification Center. Facebook can be fairly distracting, so if you get tired of notifications just temporarily turn them off to give yourself some quiet time to focus. While we’re on the topic of Facebook, don’t forget to Like OSXDaily and follow us there too! Comments: 9 Stop “Save As” From Changing Original File in OS X Mountain Lion

“Save As” is back in OS X Mountain Lion, but many users have complained of how it modifies the original file in addition to the newly saved file, thereby defeating the purpose of how many people use Save As. If this bothers you, you’ll be pleased to discover that from OS X 10.8.2 onward, there is now an easy option to toggle that prevents Save As from altering the original file when it’s called.

• Open a file and choose “Save As” as usual
• At the Save dialog window, uncheck the box for “Keep changes in original document”
• Save as usual

As long as that checkbox is not active, the original file will not be modified.
Though there isn’t a system-wide adjustment to control this behavior in all apps, you do only have to uncheck it once per application. In other words, if you uncheck it in Preview for one file, it will be automatically disabled for every other file opened in Preview app, unless it is checked again of course.