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

Touch gesture to close Windows 8 metro apps

If you had installed the Windows 8 developer preview which was released back in September 2011 at the BUILD conference, you might have noticed that the new Metro style apps in Windows 8 are closed by the Task Manager.

Now a new video posted by WinUnleaked.tk site shows that there is a touch gesture support to close metro style apps.

 

 

Source: Neowin