Now that the wait is finally over and Apple has made its latest desktop operating system available for download through the Mac App Store, the time has come for the public to give OS X Mountain Lion a whirl and see just what all the fuss is about. Mountain Lion has been getting some extremely positive press over the last few months due to the range of impressive new features which Apple has added, while at the same time taking some cues from the iPad & iOS and integrating them into the software in a move that could possibly spell the beginning of a future-proof and unified OS.
Apple's Safari browser, native to those running OS X, has just been updated to version 6, bringing with it a whole host of interesting new changes. Atop the menu is the Smart Search Field, which, like the omnibar on Google's popular Chrome browser, allows you to use one bar for typing web addresses and search queries.
It’s that time of the year again, folks, when Apple releases the next major release of its desktop operating system. The latest – OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion – has just been released on the Mac App Store for the reasonable price of $19.99. As I type this, hundreds of thousands of enthused Mac owners are downloading the OS, oblivious to the fact that some of their favorite apps may not work well after the upgrade.
The latest version of Apple’s desktop operating system OS X v10.8 Mountain Lion is – as of writing – is now available for download from the Mac App Store. It is all set to be installed on your Mac from the Mac App Store for just $19.99 which is a small price to pay considering all the new iOS-like features. In this post, we’ve listed eight of the best reasons why you should upgrade to OS X Mountain Lion today. Check them out after the jump, keep in mind that they are in no particular order!
One of the driving forces behind the popularity of cloud computing and services like Dropbox and Apple's iCloud is the level of accessibility that it brings, and in a lot of circumstances it can make day-to-day computing activities a lot simpler than before. Rather than having to make constant backups of information or carrying external hard drives or USB drives around with us, having important data and files stored in the cloud allows us to quickly get access to that information from pretty much wherever we are as long as we have a network connection.
It’s not a secret that today is the day when Apple announced their earnings and sales figures for the third quarter of 2012, but it may come as an exciting shock that the earnings call managed to slip in a little piece of information relating to OS X Mountain Lion.
Every year, scores of security experts gather up in Las Vegas, Nevada, for the annual Black Hat conference, and plenty of major companies have swallowed their pride and involved themselves in an event which doesn't view exposing security vulnerabilities as taboo. Apple, however, has always been a glaring absentee, but in a real turn up for the books, the Cupertino company has agreed to give a presentation at 2012's Black Hat, taking place this Thursday.
Apple is all set to release the next version of OS X – OS X 10.8 “Mountain Lion” – as we’ve received news that the company has sent out (or “seeded”, the correct technical term for procedure) the code complete Golden Master version of Mountain Lion to specialists at AppleCare. Check out the details after the jump.
Of all the features that arrived when iOS 5 reached the end-user back in October of last year, iMessage has been arguably the most significant, and by now allowing messages to be sent and received in a faster, more secure manner across a variety of platforms, it has to go down as one of the best in the business. Granted, it has its occasional downtime, but it's not bad as is, and with the service also arriving to the Mac with OS X Mountain Lion, it will almost certainly become the sole mode of quick communication to many Apple enthusiasts.
Firefox's well-documented six week release cycle means as soon as one version arrives, the beta of the next edition is no more than a couple of days away. True to that motif, just two days after Firefox 14 was released for Windows, Mac and Linux, Firefox 15 beta has arrived, which, among other things, takes care of a few nagging memory leaks.
