Aside from the prominent announcements of iOS 6 and the new Macbook lineup, Apple also revealed some plans they have for the latest version of Mac OS X: Mountain Lion (10.8)
Mountain Lion, which is scheduled to ship in July (via the App Store for around $20) already included some of the features announced yesterday (Messages, Reminders, Airplay Mirroring, etc). However, Apple did announce some new features that were released with Mountain Lion DP4 which many people do not know about. Among these features are Power Nap and Dictation which I've already written about, but there are some of these I forgot to mention:
Safari
Mountain Lion comes with a new version of Safari which apparently has the fastest javascript engine among all known browsers. It also includes a unified URL and Google Search bar similar to that of Google Chrome. Apple has once again declared this bar "smart". ML's Safari is also far better looking than it's antecedent and has new tabs that are smooth and visually appealing. Apparently, you can also scroll through tabs while seeing what's on them. (as shown above)
Facebook Integration
Facebook will be integrated throughout the OS, similar to how Twitter was on ML and very similar to how facebook integration will be on iOS 6. You can now post to Facebook from almost any inbuilt application on Mac OS X, view you Facebook notifications in notification center and even post directly to Facebook from notification center.
Another noticeable difference (although very minor) is that the menubar icon for notification center has changed from a tiny circular blob (in the old DP) to a few protruding bars (in the new DP)
Mountain Lion, which is scheduled to ship in July (via the App Store for around $20) already included some of the features announced yesterday (Messages, Reminders, Airplay Mirroring, etc). However, Apple did announce some new features that were released with Mountain Lion DP4 which many people do not know about. Among these features are Power Nap and Dictation which I've already written about, but there are some of these I forgot to mention:
Safari
Mountain Lion comes with a new version of Safari which apparently has the fastest javascript engine among all known browsers. It also includes a unified URL and Google Search bar similar to that of Google Chrome. Apple has once again declared this bar "smart". ML's Safari is also far better looking than it's antecedent and has new tabs that are smooth and visually appealing. Apparently, you can also scroll through tabs while seeing what's on them. (as shown above)
Facebook Integration
Facebook will be integrated throughout the OS, similar to how Twitter was on ML and very similar to how facebook integration will be on iOS 6. You can now post to Facebook from almost any inbuilt application on Mac OS X, view you Facebook notifications in notification center and even post directly to Facebook from notification center.
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| New notification center icon |
Another noticeable difference (although very minor) is that the menubar icon for notification center has changed from a tiny circular blob (in the old DP) to a few protruding bars (in the new DP)
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