Apple is due to release its latest OS - Mountain Lion - in late summer 2012.
Apple programs bundled with OS X, such as Mail, Calendar, FaceTime and the App Store, use Notifications right now, but the feature -- like several other Mountain Lion additions -- will really come into its own as third-party programs start to support it.
His antics have since been mimicked by the Chicago Bulls' Benny the Bull and the Denver Nuggets' Rocky, an off-beat mountain lion.
Each uses an Internet service -- iCloud in the case of Mountain Lion, SkyDrive with Windows 8 -- to share data, settings and other items between multiple computers and other devices.
The OS X Mountain Lion Up-to-Date upgrade is available at no additional charge via the Mac App Store to all customers who purchased a qualifying new Mac system from Apple or an Apple Authorized Reseller on or after June 11, 2012.
ENGADGET: Apple brings Dictation to the Mac, tells Siri to stay in the car
For all of Mountain Lion's iOS-derived goodness, one highlight plenty of folks would love to see in OS X is still missing in action: Siri, the voice-controlled personal assistant.
New system-wide Sharing is built into Mountain Lion, making it easier than ever to share links, photos, videos and other files.
ENGADGET: Apple brings Dictation to the Mac, tells Siri to stay in the car
The idea was so big that it's overflown into Mountain Lion: More than most operating-system updates, this one riffs on the same concepts as its immediate predecessor.
Mountain Lion's new sharing features, also iOS-influenced, puts quick-sharing icons into the toolbars of the Safari browser, Preview, Photo Booth and other programs.
As expected, the newfangled Mountain Lion operating system touts a number of added features -- some of which bring it even closer in sync with iOS. In this week's issue of our e-magazine, the beast steps out into the spotlight and we offer a word or two (a few thousand, to be exact) in our full-length review of the software.
ENGADGET: Distro Issue 51 arrives with an in-depth look at Apple's Mountain Lion
Use Mountain Lion's Dictation feature in Windows apps, organize Windows "Metro-style" applications in Launchpad, and enjoy the brilliant Retina-display resolution in Windows applications.
And in 1965, selling motorbikes for a spell in Moses Lake, Washington, business became a lot more interesting when, fired up with a Wild Turkey or two, he did tricks to draw in the customers: jumping a car, then a car and a 20-foot box of rattlesnakes, then two cars, rattlers and a mountain lion, until a crowd came to watch him.
Mountain Lion will contain more than 2, 000 new features, including iMessages, speech-to-text dictation and predictive "smart search" in the Safari browser.
Norville's book is chockablock with helpful suggestions that are made all the more plausible and persuasive by stories of real-life people coping with horrific situations, including one woman who barely survived an attack by a mountain lion.
应用推荐