What Mountain Lion Feature Are You Most Excited About? [POLL]

July 26th, 2012

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Adios iChat, Hola Messages! Apple’s new all-in-one messaging client combines Google Talk, AIM, Jabber, and Yahoo IM support along with the ability to send iMessages to contacts on a Mac or in iOS.

See our hands-on of the Messages Beta for more details.

First introduced in iOS 5, Reminders is now on the Mac. This means users can access and modify their reminders on the iPhone, iPad and Mac.

The interface is a dead ringer for Reminders on the iPad. It syncs instantly via iCloud across devices.

Another iOS transplant: Game Center. Users can access their iOS Game Center scores and stats. Even better, future games will allow users on iOS and the Mac to play head-to-head.

Apple’s note-taking app is now in OS X. The best part: notes sync automatically with iCloud, meaning they are instantly accessible on the iPhone or iPad.

In OS X Mountain Lion, users can add social accounts directly to the OS. This makes it easy to connect and share to Facebook (coming this fall), Twitter, Vimeo and Flickr.

One of our favorite features of OS X Mountain Lion: Airplay support. This makes it easy to share you screen — and any video on it — to a television with an Apple TV. All without wires.

There is lots of great new stuff in Safari 6, but we really love the tab view that makes it easy to flick across tabs with a trackpad or Magic Mouse.

Safari 6 for OS X Mountain Lion supports cloud tab sync with iOS 6 (currently in beta). This makes it easy for users to access the tabs open on the iPhone and iPad.

This feature is virtually identical to Chrome’s tab sync, but for Safari fans, it’s a great treat.

Just as users can share content from within iOS 5, they can now share images, files, and more directly from OS X Mountain Lion.

The share sheets depend on the program you are in, but you can usually send stuff to Facebook (this fall), Twitter, Messages and Mail.

Sending a tweet with a URL from Safari works the same as it does on iOS. It’s an easy way to share your favorite web pages.

Users can tweet photos from compatible apps such as Preview. The image is uploaded to Twitter’s official image service.

Notifications are now an official part of OS X. They can be controlled at an app level. By default, non-pressing actions will appear on screen for a few seconds before disappearing.

Swiping from the far right on the trackpad brings up the Notifications Center. This displays recent notifications by app in an easy to access way.

Users can also send tweets directly from the Notifications Center. This makes it easy to send a tweet without having to have an app or website open.

In Mail, users can now designate certain contacts as VIPs. They get their own starred folders and special notifications every time a message comes in.

OS X software update is now integrated into the Mac App Store. As a bonus, if you have Apple software that wasn’t purchased in the Mac App Store (such as iLife or iWork), updates to those apps appear in the Mac App Store updates panel too.

One of the new security features in OS X Mountain Lion is Gatekeeper. By default, it only allows apps that have been signed by a developer or were purchased in the Mac App Store to run.

This is just one more step to make sure that malware or other nasty software doesn’t accidentally find its way onto your Mac.

iCloud integration is coming to iWork via an update, but the platform is better integrated into OS X Mountain Lion.

In Preview.app, for instance, users can easily upload or access documents from iCloud directly from the app.

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Adios iChat, Hola Messages! Apple’s new all-in-one messaging client combines Google Talk, AIM, Jabber, and Yahoo IM support along with the ability to send iMessages to contacts on a Mac or in iOS.

See our hands-on of the Messages Beta for more details.

First introduced in iOS 5, Reminders is now on the Mac. This means users can access and modify their reminders on the iPhone, iPad and Mac.

The interface is a dead ringer for Reminders on the iPad. It syncs instantly via iCloud across devices.

Another iOS transplant: Game Center. Users can access their iOS Game Center scores and stats. Even better, future games will allow users on iOS and the Mac to play head-to-head.

Apple’s note-taking app is now in OS X. The best part: notes sync automatically with iCloud, meaning they are instantly accessible on the iPhone or iPad.

In OS X Mountain Lion, users can add social accounts directly to the OS. This makes it easy to connect and share to Facebook (coming this fall), Twitter, Vimeo and Flickr.

One of our favorite features of OS X Mountain Lion: Airplay support. This makes it easy to share you screen — and any video on it — to a television with an Apple TV. All without wires.

There is lots of great new stuff in Safari 6, but we really love the tab view that makes it easy to flick across tabs with a trackpad or Magic Mouse.

Safari 6 for OS X Mountain Lion supports cloud tab sync with iOS 6 (currently in beta). This makes it easy for users to access the tabs open on the iPhone and iPad.

This feature is virtually identical to Chrome’s tab sync, but for Safari fans, it’s a great treat.

Just as users can share content from within iOS 5, they can now share images, files, and more directly from OS X Mountain Lion.

The share sheets depend on the program you are in, but you can usually send stuff to Facebook (this fall), Twitter, Messages and Mail.

Sending a tweet with a URL from Safari works the same as it does on iOS. It’s an easy way to share your favorite web pages.

Users can tweet photos from compatible apps such as Preview. The image is uploaded to Twitter’s official image service.

Notifications are now an official part of OS X. They can be controlled at an app level. By default, non-pressing actions will appear on screen for a few seconds before disappearing.

Swiping from the far right on the trackpad brings up the Notifications Center. This displays recent notifications by app in an easy to access way.

Users can also send tweets directly from the Notifications Center. This makes it easy to send a tweet without having to have an app or website open.

In Mail, users can now designate certain contacts as VIPs. They get their own starred folders and special notifications every time a message comes in.

One of the new security features in OS X Mountain Lion is Gatekeeper. By default, it only allows apps that have been signed by a developer or were purchased in the Mac App Store to run.

This is just one more step to make sure that malware or other nasty software doesn’t accidentally find its way onto your Mac.

iCloud integration is coming to iWork via an update, but the platform is better integrated into OS X Mountain Lion.

In Preview.app, for instance, users can easily upload or access documents from iCloud directly from the app.

Mountain Lion is officially here. Mac users who are eligible for the updated operating system can download it via the Mac App Store for $19.99.

It follows last year’s release of Lion, which was not that well received. As Chris Taylor points out in his review of Mountain Lion, the new Mac OS is a clear step-up — and one that will likely get better when iOS 6 comes out this fall.

The divisions between OS X and iOS are breaking down, and Mountain Lion is evidence of that. For example, Apple has abandoned iChat in favor of Messages, which incorporates chat clients and iOS messaging. Game Center, Reminders, and Notes are also imports from iOS.

Social integration is also a big part of the new operating system. Twitter is baked into the system in many ways, and users can also add other social accounts such as Vimeo and Flickr. Facebook integration isn’t ready yet, but it will be come fall.

Whether you’ve downloaded Mountain Lion or not, we’re interested in hearing from you. What feature are you most excited about? Take our poll below and let us know your thoughts in the comments.

What OS X Mountain Lion Feature Are You Most Excited About?