What’s new in Mountain Lion?
- Twitter:
- Photo Booth can set profile picture
- Facebook will come later
- Messages: iChat is now Messages
- Notification Center:
- Disable temporarily with ⌥-click
- Tweet from NC when Twitter account is configured in Sys Prefs
- NC will be disabled when presenting.
- Configure in System Preferences
- Growl
- Sharing:
- Shortcut to send: ⇧⌘D
- Set custom shortcuts per Keyboard Shortcuts
- Mail
- New options in Mail to send page, link, or PDF.
- Twitter from Notification Center
- AirDrop: AirDrop for older MacBooks
- Mail: VIPs
- iCloud: iCloud is everywhere
- TextEdit:
- Pinch to zoom
- Documents in the cloud
- Preview:
- Documents in the cloud
- Sharing
- Calendar:
- Previously named iCal
- The calendar list is back
- All “todos” have moved to Reminders
- Reminders:
- Is able to create location aware reminders
- Swipe between lists
- View multiple lists at once with ⌘-click
- Notes:
- Change default font
- Pin notes
- Safari:
- Do Not Track
- Smart search field combines search and address bar
- Offline reading list
- Saves articles for reading.
- Downloads articles over multiple pages.
- Syncs with iOS 6
- Tab view
- Pinch with two finger
- ⇧⌘\
- iCloud tabs syncs tabs with iOS 6 devices
- Finder:
- Inline progress for downloads and file copies
- Easy encryption of devices
- QuickLook with three-finger tap-gesture
- Game Center:
- Chess has Game Center integration
- Mac App Store:
- OS X updates integrated
- Apps push to other computer
- Notifications for updates
- Gatekeeper: Saves users from malware (hopefully)
- Time Machine:
- Backup to multiple locations
- Encrypted bakups
- Launchpad:
- Search is automatically highlighted
- Spotlight and Launchpad search for initial characters in apps, e.g. “ft” to find “FaceTime”
- Dock:
- New look
- Dragging icons inadvertently out of the Dock is now harder. Drag icon and hold it for a while until the “poof” appears
- Dictation:
- Auto Save:
- Document management directly from the menubar
- Move To…: doesn’t move to trash
- Rename…
- Save To…: is back, but is called “Duplicate”
- Revert to…
- Accessibility:
- Summon Accessibility pane with global shortcut: ⌥⌘F5
- Other:
- Full screen on any display
- Drag app to display and press fullscreen
- Doesn’t work with two apps…
- Drag and drop files in screen sharing
- Screen saver
- Photo Stream screen saver
- New screen saver slideshows
- Photo picker allows to choose Faces
- X11 and Java install on demand
- Exclusive for newer models
- AirPlay
- Mirroring requires “newer model” MacBook
- New H.264 video chip that is not built into earlier laptops is required.
- The chip is also found in the iPhone 4S, iPad 2 and 3. They are responsible for encoding the mirroring signal there.
- Power Nap
- Only available for customers of “SSD” laptops. Also only for newer models.
- Installs updates and runs backups while Mac is sleeping
- QuickTime X
- High performance H.264 encoding
- Also only for newer models
- This is not everything
Twitter: Photo Booth can set profile picture Facebook will come later Messages: iChat is now Messages Notification Center: Disable temporarily with ⌥-click Tweet from NC when Twitter account is configured...