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Alerts
You can set your alerts to None, Banners, or Alerts that give you the opportunity to take action on your notifications.
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AppStore
Nothing new here, only tighter integration.
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Contacts
Contacts adds back the three column view that Address book once had in Snow Leopard.
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Dictation
Apple has added another iOS feature, dictation.
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Finder
The Finder now allows you to reorganize the locations column and has added the share button allowing you to share files with several different services.
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Game Center
Game Center has been brought over from iOS along with features like multiplayer across multiple devices.
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Gatekeeper
Though Gatekeeper is touted as a major feature of Mountain Lion, it is tucked away inside of the Security & Privacy setting as a simple setting.
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iCloud
A feature we are all soon to become very familiar with as more and more apps adopt it is the iCloud open dialog box. Here is where you will access any files that have been saved to iCloud.
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Mail VIP
A new feature of Mail, VIP allows you to star people in your Contacts and have them appear in a special mailbox.
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Messages
Messages replaces iChat and expands its capability to SMS and MMS texting as well as incorporates FaceTime.
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Notes
New to OS X is Notes. Notes works much like it does on iOS and allows you to store notes in the cloud making them accessible from many of Apple’s devices.
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Notification Center
The new Notification Center System Preferences Pane.
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Notification Center
Clicking on the icon located in the far right hand side of the Menu Bar reveals the new Notification Center. Swiping down with your track pad gives you an option to turn notifications off for a day.
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Reminders
Like Notes, Reminders has been graphed into Mountain Lion.
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Safari Tabs
Safari now sports the iOS ability to view and navigate through all of your open tabs.
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Slideshows
Apple has now provided a new way to preview slideshow settings found within the System Preferences.
Alerts
You can set your alerts to None, Banners, or Alerts that give you the opportunity to take action on your notifications.
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Wil Limoges is a Louisville, KY freelance web designer and Digital Savant at the vimarc group. He has had the pleasure of working for Apple as a Genius, loves science, and aspires to make great things!
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Wil Limoges is a Louisville, KY freelance web designer and Digital Savant at the vimarc group. He has had the pleasure of working for Apple as a Genius, loves science, and aspires to make great things!