Inside OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion: Screen Sharing adds drag and drop file transfers

Remote Screen Sharing is enhanced in this summer's release of OS X Mountain Lion, adding support for drag and drop file transfers between the viewer and the remote desktop and enhancing support for virtual displays.

AppleInsider Staff 14 years ago 14

Inside OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion: Dashboard gets iOS-style widget organization

Dashboard gets a Launchpad-style widget organization feature in this summer's release of OS X Mountain Lion, offering a standardized user interface that will be more familiar to iOS users.

AppleInsider Staff 14 years ago 39

China Telecom expected to sell 3-5 million iPhones, Mountain Lion to reinforce iPhone "halo"

Apple's newest partner in China is expected to sell 3-5 million iPhones this year, boosting Apple's momentum during the summer while the release of OS X Mountain Lion will reinforce the iPhone's halo effect over Mac sales, writes analyst Ben Reitzes of Barclays Capital.

Daniel Eran Dilger 14 years ago 5

Inside OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion: Enhanced Printing & Scanning

Printing and scanning will be enhanced in this summer's release of OS X Mountain Lion, offering a cleaner user interface with simplified menu bar buttons.

AppleInsider Staff 14 years ago 27

Apple extends Mac App Store sandboxing restriction deadline to June 1

Developers now have until June 1 to make their applications compliant with the new Mac App Store sandboxing restrictions, Apple announced on Tuesday.

AppleInsider Staff 14 years ago 16

Mountain Lion focuses on Cocoa, drops X11 and deprecates Carbon Core

In a continuation of its efforts to prune OS X of bundled support for alternative platforms to instead focus on Cocoa, Apple's Mountain Lion depreciates more Carbon APIs and drops X11, although users will still be able to install support for running X Window System apps.

Daniel Eran Dilger 14 years ago 98

With Mountain Lion, Apple officially drops 'Mac' from OS X name

After priming the transition with "OS X" trademark applications years ago, Apple has now confirmed that the word "Mac" is no longer part of the name of its flagship desktop operating system.

Josh Ong 14 years ago 94

Mountain Lion brings new iOS-like file handling, iCloud App Library features

OS X Mountain Lion brings a new document handling experience to the Mac platform that offers an iOS-like, iCloud-based alternative to the conventional file system.

Daniel Eran Dilger 14 years ago 98

Share Sheets, Twitter integration to make Mountain Lion more social

While system-wide Twitter integration debuted in iOS 5 and is now coming to Mountain Lion, the new Share Sheets feature in OS X 10.8 will also allow users to quickly share links, photos and videos in a variety of ways.

Sam Oliver 14 years ago 8

First Look: Messages for Mac

Apple's new Messages app connects Macs with conversations initiated on iOS devices, as well as providing an easy way to initiate FaceTime conversations.

Daniel Eran Dilger 14 years ago 42

Gatekeeper is hidden in OS X 10.7.3 Lion, developers can preview it now

Though it will formally debut later this year in Mountain Lion, Apple has secretly included its new Gatekeeper feature in OS X 10.7.3 Lion, and developers can enable it now to test it.

Katie Marsal 14 years ago 6

Mac OS X Mountain Lion release signals shift in secrecy at Apple

Apple's upcoming "Mountain Lion" release of Mac OS X 10.8 is borrowing a feature from Microsoft: the prerelease software is being shown to journalists before developers.

Daniel Eran Dilger 14 years ago 51

Tim Cook admits Apple may further converge iOS & OS X, Macs could run on ARM CPUs

While he didn't hint at any definitive future plans, Apple Chief Executive Tim Cook did admit that all options are on the table for the future of the Mac operating system, including further converging iOS and OS X, as well as potentially running Macs on ARM processors like are found in the iPhone and iPad, or switching iOS to Intel.

Sam Oliver 14 years ago 106

Mountain Lion's Gatekeeper to bring optional app restrictions to OS X

The new behind-the-scenes Gatekeeper security feature in the upcoming release of Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion is one of the most anticipated additions to the operating system upgrade Apple unveiled on Thursday because it provides users with additional security options for installing and running third-party applications.

Josh Ong 14 years ago 47

Game Center for Mountain Lion to offer cross-platform play between Mac, iOS

With the addition of Game Center to OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion, Mac users will be able to play online competitively and cooperatively against gamers who have the same title for iOS.

Neil Hughes 14 years ago 14

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