Inside OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion GM: Go Full Screen on any display

In OS X Mountain Lion, Apple has taken an incremental step toward making OS X's new iPad-like Full Screen mode more useful: you can now pick which connected display you want to use.

Daniel Eran Dilger 13 years ago 86

Inside OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion GM: using iCloud as the smart, automated way to store documents

In OS X Mountain Lion, iCloud begins to take shape as the smart, automated way to store documents on a per-app, device independent basis, incrementally displacing the local file system that non-technical users have long struggled to comprehend and replacing it with a cloud-based service that connects and synchronizes desktop and mobile devices via the Internet.

Daniel Eran Dilger 13 years ago 67

Inside OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion GM: new iOS-style Accessibility

In OS X Mountain Lion, Apple is radically improving the layout of Universal Access features for users who are sight, hearing or motor impaired, and changing the name of its portfolio of features to match iOS: "Accessibility."

Daniel Eran Dilger 13 years ago 14

Inside OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion GM: AirPlay Mirroring

AirPlay, Apple's wireless audio and video distribution system, gets an update in OS X Mountain Lion, offering modern Macs with compatible hardware the ability to wirelessly mirror the screen to an Apple TV-attached HDTV display.

Daniel Eran Dilger 13 years ago 117

Inside OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion GM: Dictation & speech

In Mountain Lion, Macs are getting system-wide speech recognition, the same "Dictation" feature Apple gave the new iPad at the beginning of the year. While it works well, it does require a network connection.

Daniel Eran Dilger 13 years ago 62

Inside OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion GM: Safari 6 adds iPad-style iCloud-shared tabs

Safari turns 6 in this summer's release of OS X Mountain Lion, offering a new view of open tabs similar to iPad and a new iCloud tab-sharing feature, along with an offline Reading List, new website passwords browser, new privacy settings, and a feature that allows websites to send alerts to the new Notification Center.

Daniel Eran Dilger 13 years ago 35

Inside OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion GM: Notification Center gets more social, configurable

The new Notification Center service of OS X Mountain Lion, a feature borrowed from iOS, goes beyond its mobile sibling to offer a direct way to send tweets from the desktop. It does not however have iOS 5's live ticker updates for widgets such as Weather and Stocks, something OS X presents in Dashboard instead.

Daniel Eran Dilger 13 years ago 44

Inside OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion: Reminders app adds geofence location alerts

The new Reminders app in OS X Mountain Lion, borrowed from iOS 5, will also bring "geofence," location-based reminders to the desktop using opt-in location tracking.

AppleInsider Staff 14 years ago 40

Apple releases OS X Mountain Lion Developer Preview 2

Apple has released to developers its second developer preview of OS X Mountain Lion, one month after making the initial build available.

AppleInsider Staff 14 years ago 25

Inside OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion: Safari 5.2 offers to set up local Internet accounts

When users log into web accounts (such as Google) in Safari and opt to save their account login, the browser will now offer to also configure local native apps, including Mail, Calendar, Contacts, Messages and Notes, in this summer's release of OS X Mountain Lion, leveraging the same easy account setup pioneered by iOS.

AppleInsider Staff 14 years ago 17

Inside OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion: Safari 5.2 adds privacy settings, website alerts

Safari gets a minor overhaul in this summer's release of OS X Mountain Lion, offering a new website passwords browser, new privacy settings, and a new feature that allows websites to send alerts to the Notifications Center.

AppleInsider Staff 14 years ago 18

Inside OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion: Safari 5.2 gets a simplified user interface with new sharing features

Safari gets a minor overhaul in this summer's release of OS X Mountain Lion, offering a cleaner, smarter user interface with a unified search and location field and new sharing features.

AppleInsider Staff 14 years ago 88

Inside OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion: a Preview of how Apple is improving file renaming

Along with integrated support for iCloud, this summer's release of OS X Mountain Lion rethinks the document title bar to enable changing file names, and also (finally!) adds file name editing to open and save dialogs.

AppleInsider Staff 14 years ago 65

Inside OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion: a Preview of how Apple is enhancing the file system with iCloud

Preview, Apple's simple, utilitarian image and PDF viewer, offers insight into how the company plans to deeply integrate iCloud into apps and simplify and improve file management in general in this summer's release of OS X Mountain Lion.

AppleInsider Staff 14 years ago 52

Inside OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion: a Preview of how Apple plans to revamp the toolbar

Preview, Apple's simple, utilitarian image and PDF viewer, offers insight into how the company plans to change the standard toolbar in this summer's release of OS X Mountain Lion, organizing actions more efficiently and adding a context sensitive, iWork-style Format Bar.

AppleInsider Staff 14 years ago 62

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