Apple OS X Mountain Lion

In a press release today, Apple announced the next major update of the Mac OS X codenamed “Mountain Lion”. Apple released Developer Preview of Mac OS X v10.8 Mountain Lion with over 100 new features. Some of which are similar to those in iOS 5 launched back on October last year.

Here is the overview of some of the new features:

Messages: Send unlimited messages to iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch, or Mac.

 

Notification Center: Notifications for mails, messages, reminders and many more.

 

Game Center: Play games against your iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch or Mac.

Twitter integration: Tweet right from your apps. OS X Mountain Lion keeps you on top of all things Twitter. Sign in once and you’re all set to start tweeting.

Gatekeeper: A more secure Mac. Under your control. Gatekeeper in OS X Mountain Lion makes the Mac safer than ever. It helps prevent you from unknowingly downloading and installing malicious software. And it gives you control over which applications to download and run on your Mac.

and many more…

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Update: With the announcement of OS X Mountain Lion, Apple officially drops the name ‘Mac’ from OS X Mountain Lion.

 

Sources: Apple, Neowin, MacRumors

iOS 5 now available

Apple released the iOS 5 and iCloud yesterday. iOS 5 and iCloud were announced by Steve Jobs at the WWDC conference in June 2011.

iOS 5 brings more than 200 new features like Notification Center, iMessage, Newsstand, Reminders, Twitter Integration, Over the air updates and many more.

iCloud which is the new cloud service, is the successor to MobileMe. iCloud is a free service with 5GB storage. With iCloud users will be able to sync their mails, contacts, calendar etc. on configured iOS devices and MacBooks as well. Also users can use Find My iPhone utility to locate their iOS device.

To set up iCloud, users need iOS 5 or Mac OS X Lion with 10.7.2 update.

After creating the Apple ID, visit: iCloud

Developers can now download XCode 4.2 with iOS 5 SDK from here

XCode 4.2 Requiremets: Mac OS X Lion 10.7 or later.

Mac OS X Snow Leopard with iOS membership can download XCode 4.2 with iOS 5 SDK from iOS Dev Center

Sources: Neowin, Wikipedia (iCloud)

A tribute to Steve Jobs

Steve Jobs, the co-founder and former CEO of Apple Inc. passed away on Wednesday after long battle with pancreatic cancer. Today the world has lost a visionary and creative genius who inspired and changed lives of billions across the world.

Steve's Life in pictures

Steve Jobs Stanford Commencement Speech, June 2005:

Thanks for being with us and changing our lives. Your legacy will be remembered for generations.

R.I.P. Steve Jobs (February 24, 1955 - October 5, 2011)