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First look: Mountain Lion screenshots

By // July 26, 2012, 4:48 AM PST

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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.

  • AppStore

    Nothing new here, only tighter integration.

  • Contacts

    Contacts adds back the three column view that Address book once had in Snow Leopard.

  • Dictation

    Apple has added another iOS feature, dictation.

  • 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.

  • Game Center

    Game Center has been brought over from iOS along with features like multiplayer across multiple devices.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Mail VIP

    A new feature of Mail, VIP allows you to star people in your Contacts and have them appear in a special mailbox.

  • Messages

    Messages replaces iChat and expands its capability to SMS and MMS texting as well as incorporates FaceTime.

  • 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.

  • Notification Center

    The new Notification Center System Preferences Pane.

  • 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.

  • Reminders

    Like Notes, Reminders has been graphed into Mountain Lion.

  • Safari Tabs

    Safari now sports the iOS ability to view and navigate through all of your open tabs.

  • Slideshows

    Apple has now provided a new way to preview slideshow settings found within the System Preferences.

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