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

Extended Apple employee hours point to rumored July 25 Mountain Lion release

Prep work for the rollout of OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion will reportedly culminate next week when Apple employees will be be tapped for overtime beginning July 25.

Mikey Campbell 13 years ago 13

Inside OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion GM: Game Center and Chess 3.0

Apple is expanding Game Center from an iOS play into the Mac arena with OS X Mountain Lion, enabling developers to add friend requests, recommendations and challenges as well as unlockable achievements and top score listings.

Daniel Eran Dilger 13 years ago 69

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

Mountain Lion update page confirms incompatibility with older Macs

As first hinted in February, Apple's upcoming OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion operating system update will not include support for certain models of Macs with older Intel chipsets with integrated graphics.

Josh Ong 13 years ago 94

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

Apple calls for developers to submit OS X Mountain Lion apps

Shortly after seeding the Golden Master release of OS X Mountain Lion, Apple has sent an email calling for developers to begin submitting apps for the upcoming desktop operating system update.

Josh Ong 13 years ago 15

OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion Golden Master seeded to developers

Apple on Monday seeded what is intended to be the final test version of its OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion to developers with no known issues, meaning that the next-generation operating system is all but complete and set for imminent launch.

AppleInsider Staff 13 years ago 47

Microsoft announces Windows 8 will launch in October

With OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion set to arrive this month, Apple's latest operating system will become available at least two months earlier than Microsoft's competing Windows 8.

AppleInsider Staff 13 years ago 54

Apple's Mountain Lion to offer automatic security updates

It was revealed on Monday that Apple's upcoming OS X Mountain Lion will feature an automatic security check feature that will ensure users have the most up-to-date software protection amid a growing number of Mac-targeted malware.

AppleInsider Staff 13 years ago 31

Apple releases OS X Mountain Lion Developer Preview 4 software update

Apple on Monday released a software update to the most current seed of Mountain Lion Developer Preview 4 one week after pushing out the original beta operating system last week.

AppleInsider Staff 13 years ago 31

Apple pulls Messages for Mac beta ahead of Mountain Lion

With OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion set to launch in July, Apple has pulled the link to download its Messages for Mac beta.

Katie Marsal 13 years ago 18

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