Cult of Mac has put together a video of 30 of OS X Mountain Lion’s new features into a video that’s just two minutes long.
With more than 200 innovative new features, Mountain Lion includes:
• iCloud integration, for easy set up of your Mail, Contacts, Calendar, Messages, Reminders and Notes, and keeping everything, including iWork documents, up to date across all your devices
• the all new Messages app, which replaces iChat and brings iMessage to the Mac, so you can send messages to anyone with an iPhone, iPad, iPod touch or another Mac
• Notification Center, which streamlines the presentation of notifications and provides easy access to alerts from Mail, Calendar, Messages, Reminders, system updates and third party apps
• system-wide Sharing, to make it easy to share links, photos, videos and other files quickly without having to switch to another app, and you just need to sign in once to use third-party services like Facebook, Twitter, Flickr and Vimeo
• Facebook integration, so you can post photos, links and comments with locations right from your apps, automatically add your Facebook friends to your Contacts, and even update your Facebook status from within Notification Center
• Dictation, which allows you to dictate text anywhere you can type, whether you’re using an app from Apple or a third party developer
• AirPlay Mirroring, an easy way to wirelessly send an up-to-1080p secure stream of what’s on your Mac to an HDTV using Apple TV®, or send audio to a receiver or speakers that use AirPlay
• Game Center, which brings the popular social gaming network from iOS to the Mac so you can enjoy live, multiplayer games with friends whether they’re on a Mac, iPhone, iPad or iPod touch.
Additional features in Mountain Lion include the revolutionary new Gatekeeper, which makes downloading software from the Internet safer; Power Nap, which automatically updates your apps and system while your Mac is asleep; and a faster Safari® browser. New features for China include significantly improved text input, a new Chinese Dictionary, easy setup with popular email providers, Baidu search in Safari, and built-in sharing to Sina Weibo and popular video websites Youku and Tudou.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Dan K.” for the heads up.]
Why does MDN even bother with articles anymore? Half the width of the screen around the article is ads, there is usually a large ad within the body of the article, ads across the top, ads all down the page between the comments and commenting area, and now ads popping up over the bottom half of the scree. How expensive can this site be to run that they need so many more ads than any site I go to? The stupid thing is that they’re completely over saturating the site and I just automatically ignore the ads – especially when there are often 2, 3, or more for many of the companies advertising.
None of the ad clutter you describe is on the Universal app. I don’t perceive the oversaturation you do. Plus, the people running the site need to get paid to provide their awesome free service. So I think it’s good they have a lot of ads to perform that function.
They work extremely hard to stay up to date and the readership contibutes to this refresh as well. It’s the most prolific Mac site (as far as I’ve been able to measure). It has the manic energy that used to swirl around MacAddict magazine. It is Jon Stewart and Steven Colbert taking on the minions of darkness. And it’s free.
The ads? Yes; much like a buzzing cloud of parasitic wasps while trekking thru a hostile jungle in search of the headwaters of the Nile. For the intrepid, the journey may, I think, be worth the indignity of a head swollen from insect bites.
Installed yesterday … So far stable and solid….love dictation….
So, mxnt41, tell us what you really think.!!
I guess from your comments we will not be seeing you back for a while???
And to MDN, a big hearty thanks from me and many others. You take content from all over the web and bring it to me here in one convenient place. Sometimes the comments are funny, sometimes right on, and sometimes totally out in left field.
Hey its your site, but you let me comment so thats fine.
Thanks MDN again. And ignore the nay sayers… they have nothing better to do. LOL
Sure, Eldernorm, we ought to “LOL” at everyone else’s earnestly expressed opinions but yours because you are always so right.
Now lets talk about what they ignored:
Mail…tiny icons remain…still in monochrome
bounce feature in Snow Leopard…not restored.
Address book: no changing font size, no color
fonts …still.
iPhoto lots of esoteric functions at bottom of window
EXCEPT delete.
Copy/paste not changed since OS 7! No improvements.
These are basic issues abandon for esoteric B.S.
Spent the first minutes after booting into Mountain Lion turning the new “features” off.
I HATE the FUGLY wide tabs and Chrome ripoff search in the address field and the dumbing down of web addresses with grayed out addresses in Safari, but it seems less unstable than previous Safari. Activity has also been taken out for no apparent reason.
More hate- someone please write a program that removes the messages menubar icon from where search belongs and puts a search window back into Safari.
New ‘save as’ does not rename a file- it duplicates it. WTF? Does everything have to be ruined (dumbed down) to sell more MacBooks to the FarceBook crowd?
dictation is cool…BUT…don’t try SINGING. It will NOT understand…Here’s what I mean.
“Hey Jude don’t make it bad day goes inside of her leg in bed the man you or Julio Hall and then you will star to maintain a bad mood”
I don’t play games, I don’t do social of any kind, most certainly not Facebook, I am not going to use cloud services, I don’t do iMessage, I will not dictate to a computer, I have no use for sharing or Airplay, I don’t want any notifications and thus no Power Nap, and I don’t live in China. It seems that Mac OS is going in a direction I don’t care to go. The only reason to upgrade to Mountain Lion seems to be Gatekeeper.
My two cents.
Sounds like you just saved yourself $20.
In that case, thank the Lord for Windows.
Well, I don’t do Windows either.
Are you related to my housekeeper?