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Mountain Lion has been unleashed!
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Apple released their newest operating system 10.8 a.k.a Mountain Lion yesterday. At a price tag of $19.99, it has really rocked the OS world, competing with the dominant Windows (which costs between $99 and $299 depending on which version).
Mountain Lion’s release, much like Snow Leopard (10.6) fixes many things under the hood, but there have also been vast improvements and upgrades on the surface level.
Some of the new features includes:
- Messages – Apple has now taken Messages out of beta. Messages brings together iChat, FaceTime and the iOS Messages. Now you can get your text messages on your computer as well as your phone. No more dodging ex’s!
- Notification Center – Taken right from iOS, you can now see your notifications right on your screen. Got an appointment? It pop’s up. New Mail? It pop’s up!
- Sharing made easy. With the new integration of Twitter, Safari can share your links. Find a great travel tip? Tweet away!
- AirPlay – some of the newest models Apple products (2011 models and newer) can now use AirPlay. This allows you to mirror your display on an AirTV. Want to show off the website with the car you’ve always dreamed of? Now you can. What to show your Facebook profile to your guests (why you would I don’t know)? Now you can!
- GateKeeper – this is one of the best features Apple is releasing with Mountain Lion. With the recent release of Trojans, such as the Flashback “virus”, Apple is taking steps to ensure its customers are protected. Gatekeeper allows you to control how applications are installed. For example you can only allow applications to be installed from the infamous Mac App Store.
More information is available from Apple directly here.
Mountain Lion sounds awesome – but clients please be hesitant about upgrading. A lot of applications have yet to upgraded to work with Mountain Lion. If you require a specific application in your day-to-day life, please check with the manufacturer (or us!) to make sure it’s 10.8 compatible.
As always Virtua Computers is here to help with your Macs. Work or live in Manhattan? Virtua Computers is here to help you upgrade and maintain your entire Apple network.
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Lion looks great, so far, techhum.com
Found an article on how to acecss the library in lion. Would have been nice if apple would have provided a users manual:In OS X, user accounts are structured so that most user settings and resources that applications need are located in the Library folder. As a result, when troubleshooting various problems with settings and applications you may be able to fix the problem by changing something in this folder. In versions of OS X prior to OS X 10.7 the Library folder was readily acecssible in the user’s Home directory, but upon upgrading to Lion people are finding the Library folder appears to be missing.The Library folder is in fact just hidden from view by default in Lion, instead of being available to easily browse through. While this may make troubleshooting some aspects of the system a little more cumbersome, it does make some sense given that most people will likely not acecss this folder on a regular basis (though if that’s the idea, I’m surprised that the System and global Library folders still remain visible).Apple has not made any changes to the Library folder, but instead has just made use of the Finder’s hidden flag to block it from view. Therefore, to acecss the Library you have three options available to you: The Library can be revealed in the Finder’s Go menu by pressing the Option key.[ol]Permanently unhide it Since the Library folder is just hidden with a Finder flag, you can undo this flag to make it visible again. To do this, open the Terminal utility and run the following command:chflags nohidden ~/LibraryAfter running this command the Library should become immediately available, without the need to reboot the system or log out and log back in.Use the Finder’s Go to Folder feature As with acecssing any hidden folder in the Finder, you can use the Finder’s Go to Folder feature by selecting it from the Go menu or by pressing Shift-Command-G with the Finder in focus. In the resulting window, type ~/Library in the field and click Go to open the Library folder.[li]Option-Go to the folderThe last option is new in Lion, and coincides with Lion’s default hiding of the Library folder, making it much easier to acecss than using the Go to Folder option, and nearly as easy as revealing it in the Finder. All you have to do is click the Go menu and press the Option key to make the user’s Library show up in the menu, and selecting it will open it in the Finder. Unfortunately there is no hot-key combination for the library, but for most intents and purposes this option will make the Library perfectly acecssible.