By: Aseem Gaurav on July 30, 2012
Apple's brand new desktop operating system, Mac OS X 10.8 or Mountain Lion, has been downloaded 3 million times in just four days of its availability, thus making it one of Apple’s most successful OS release ever. Mac is currently available as a download from Apple’s Mac App Store for just $19.99.
The next version of OS X offers as many as 200 new features. Some are major like a new Notification Center, icloud integration, AirPlay Mirroring, system-wide Sharing and a desktop version of Messages. Others include Facebook integration, Dictation, AirPlay Mirroring and Game Center.
The new OS comes with a new iCloud feature that makes it easy for users to just drag and drop documents/ files to their cloud-based storage. Even developers can also add iCloud to their own apps.
Indeed, Mountain Lion has become a mature cat, which gives significantly higher speed as compared to its predecessor, and you can easily boot your Mac Air in just few seconds. Mountain Lion really brings the Mac into the iPhone-iPad family.
One of the best features of the new OS is its Notification Center, in which Apple has tried to give mobile-like features. You need to swipe your fingers from right to left on the edge of the trackpad, and a list of notifications in form a panel, will appears on the right side of the screen. Here you can view iMessages, Tweets, missed IMs and of course E-mails.
Similarly, log on to your Mac and keep track of all of the messaging systems available across Apple’s different hardware platforms like: iChat, iMessage, and then FaceTime. So no need to pick you iPhone to respond to the message that you friend has just sent you. The user interface in simple and easy to use.
Also the new OS comes equipped with the ability to share, for instance, you can sign into your Twitter, Flickr, or Vimeo accounts right in Mountain Lion's System Preferences. Thereafter you can share from apps like iPhone and Safari. Mountain Lion allows you to send tweets right from the Notification Center.
Moreover, there’s also ‘Do Not Disturb’ option which you can use to temporarily turn off notifications when you are working on something important and do not want to be disturbed.
Overall, Apple has done a good job in bringing to users a unified notification system that gives them more control over how they want their lapotp's Notification system to work. For $20, the new operating system is steal given the loads of the features the company is offering.
Download the new OS here.
Apple's brand new desktop operating system, Mac OS X 10.8 or Mountain Lion, has been downloaded 3 million times in just four days of its availability, thus making it one of Apple’s most successful OS release ever. Mac is currently available as a download from Apple’s Mac App Store for just $19.99.
The next version of OS X offers as many as 200 new features. Some are major like a new Notification Center, icloud integration, AirPlay Mirroring, system-wide Sharing and a desktop version of Messages. Others include Facebook integration, Dictation, AirPlay Mirroring and Game Center.
The new OS comes with a new iCloud feature that makes it easy for users to just drag and drop documents/ files to their cloud-based storage. Even developers can also add iCloud to their own apps.
Indeed, Mountain Lion has become a mature cat, which gives significantly higher speed as compared to its predecessor, and you can easily boot your Mac Air in just few seconds. Mountain Lion really brings the Mac into the iPhone-iPad family.
One of the best features of the new OS is its Notification Center, in which Apple has tried to give mobile-like features. You need to swipe your fingers from right to left on the edge of the trackpad, and a list of notifications in form a panel, will appears on the right side of the screen. Here you can view iMessages, Tweets, missed IMs and of course E-mails.
Similarly, log on to your Mac and keep track of all of the messaging systems available across Apple’s different hardware platforms like: iChat, iMessage, and then FaceTime. So no need to pick you iPhone to respond to the message that you friend has just sent you. The user interface in simple and easy to use.
Also the new OS comes equipped with the ability to share, for instance, you can sign into your Twitter, Flickr, or Vimeo accounts right in Mountain Lion's System Preferences. Thereafter you can share from apps like iPhone and Safari. Mountain Lion allows you to send tweets right from the Notification Center.
Moreover, there’s also ‘Do Not Disturb’ option which you can use to temporarily turn off notifications when you are working on something important and do not want to be disturbed.
Overall, Apple has done a good job in bringing to users a unified notification system that gives them more control over how they want their lapotp's Notification system to work. For $20, the new operating system is steal given the loads of the features the company is offering.
Download the new OS here.
