Now it includes the Standard Dictionary of Contemporary Chinese in Dictionary app. Mountain Lion included many popular Chinese features and services. I still have to type this article using keyboard, instead of talking to my Mac New features for China Sound cool, right? It didn’t work for me… Like iPhone’s Siri, OS X Dictation does not understand my accent. Now you can talk to your Mac and make it type for you. It used up 2GB out of 4GB RAM available on my iMac. With iCloud Tabs, the web pages you open on iPhone or iPad (iOS 6) will be available on Mac, too.
New Safari supports OS X gestures such as pinch and swipe. It features a Chrome-like omnibox input for search and web addresses. Safari 6.0 is the latest web browser version by Apple. Multiplayer game is cool but currently there are limited games that support multiplayer game for both iOS and Mac. With the Game Center app, you can play games against anyone on a Mac, iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch. I would like it (as well as popup) to move to left hand side of my second monitor. Notification Center is now fixed at the right hand side. While I like the feature but I would like more options to customize it. You can also tweet and update facebook status (coming soon) from Notification Center. It is one stop for all apps notifications. Notification Center is another feature ported from iOS to Mountain Lion. And, why do I need to have Messages on desktop while I have my iPhone beside me all-the-time?īy the way, you can use iMessage to send file attachment to yourself on OS X desktop without using email. Though I am a long time Apple and iPhone user, but I seldom use iMessage because not all my friends are using supported device. Messages on OS X allows you to send message as well as attach photos, videos, contacts and files to iOS users with iMessage. I use other ToDo apps that sync using iCloud, such as Due (App Store link). With OS X and iCloud, now I might use Notes to sync simple text among my iDevices and Mac. Reminders and Notes are iOS apps ported to OS X. I use ( “sign up via my referral link to get extra 500MB free spaceâ€). Personally, I seldom use iCloud for my files. With iCloud, you can sync files among your iDevices and Mac. Mountain Lion has better integration with iCloud, the Apple’s cloud storage. The following are the feature highlights and my thoughts about them. Mountain Lion featuresĪpple says that there’s over 200 new features in Mountain Lion. While previous OS X versions get their cat wallpapers (Tiger, Leopard, Snow Leopard, Lion), OS X 10.8 get Zebra wallpapers, instead of Mountain Lion. I have to disable the Mountain Lion gesture. It is handy but breaks my custom 3 fingers tap as middle mouse button click shortcut for Chrome. Mountain Lion assigns 3 fingers tap as Quick View and Dictionary shortcut.
Performance wise, I didn’t notice much different on my old iMac.Įxcept the few old apps that’s incompatible with Mountain Lion, all my apps are running smooth. The most noticeable change is the new Dock design. Any incompatible apps will be moved to Incompatible Software outside your user folder.ĭone! You have Mountain Lion installed! It is simple and easy! First impression The installer auto restart again and boot into Mountain Lion. Then, it will restart and start installing Mountain Lion, which took about an hour. It took few minutes to copy files to your Mac. The installer auto launch after download completed. READ ALSO: 5 Steps before you install OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion Depends on your Internet connection speed, you may take few hours to download the 4GB Mountain Lion installer.
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