Tag: Mountain Lion

OS X 10.8, announced on February 16th, 2012.

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Preparing for OS X Mountain Lion Installation.

Apple has just announced the availability of OS X Mountain Lion Developer Preview. For those who are eager to download and install this Developer Preview should proceed with caution. Without breaking any NDA’s we can safely assume:

  1. It comes with delicious bugs and incomplete features.
  2. It is not ready as your production machine.
  3. Some of the applications might not work.

If you want to install OS X Mountain Lion Developer Preview, you might want to consider the following steps:

  • Do not upgrade any of your Snow Leopard or Lion systems. Starting with fresh install is preferable.
  • Use a dedicated hard drive for Mountain Lion installation.
  • Create the OS X Mountain Lion installation media using DVD or USB flash drive from the InstallESD.dmg (Show Package Contents on “Install OS X Mountain Lion Preview 1” then go to “ContentsShared Support”).

Don’t forget to report any bugs you find to Apple at http://bugreporter.apple.com/.

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OS X Mountain Lion: Messages

Apple announced the follow up to OS X Lion, codenamed Mountain Lion. One new feature Apple adding to OS X Mountain Lion is Messages.

Messages Beta requires Mac OS X 10.7.

Messages replaces iChat.

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Mountain Lion

Ever wonder what comes after OS X Lion? Apple announces OS X Mountain Lion.

Apple Press Release: Apple Releases OS X Mountain Lion Developer Preview with Over 100 New Features

Just like Mac OS X Snow Leopard that follows Mac OS X Leopard. OS X Mountain Lion is the “Toc” to OS X Lion’s “Tic”.

OS X Mountain Lion integrates more iOS features such as:

  • Messages. It replaces but keeps iChat features. Messages Beta is available for download.
  • Reminders
  • Notes
  • Notification Center
  • Game Center
  • Air Sharing
  • Twitter Integration

OS X Mountain Lion Developer Preview is available for download to registered Apple Developer. The program costs $99 per year.