Notes: Mac users will be means to emanate records that sync opposite all their Apple devices, to keep lane of their to-do lists. On a Mac, users will be means to supplement photos to their notes.

Reminders: Also pulled from a latest chronicle of iOS, Reminders will cocktail adult by a presentation system, behaving in a same approach that iCal alerts do now. Users can set Reminders to seem during a certain time of day and symbol equipment as finish once they’ve taken caring of business.

Messages: Messages will reinstate iChat on a new handling system, yet it will still support AIM, Google Talk, Jabber and Yahoo Messenger. Users will be means to send videos and photos for giveaway by a use to other Macs or iOS devices. Lion users who can’t wait for this summer can already download a beta chronicle of Messages from Apple’s Web site.

Game Center: The executive heart for games on iOS is also entrance to a Mac, and multiplayer games will afterwards work opposite all Apple devices. The Game Center also has built-in voice chat.

iCloud: There’s a whole lot of iCloud going on in Mountain Lion. The new OSX will sync documents, contacts, mail, calendar, Messages and FaceTime. It adds a choice to “Find My Mac” in a same approach users can register their iPhones for tracking in box they’re mislaid or stolen.

Twitter: Twitter is already baked into Lion, though there’s even some-more Twitter formation in Mountain Lion, Apple pronounced in a release. Users will be means to twitter directly from Safari, Quick Look, Photo Booth, Preview and some third-party apps.

Share Sheets: Sharing should be easier than ever in Mountain Lion, interjection to share sheets, that let users share links, photos and other calm by e-mail and Twitter. Users will be means to share things by apps from Apple and third parties.

AirPlay : Trying to inspire even some-more device integration, Apple is adding AirPlay, definition that it will be probable to put whatever is on your Mac on your radio — if we use a Apple TV set-top box. This is directed during presentations and video sharing.

Gatekeeper: Meant as a confidence feature, Gatekeeper gives users 3 options for installing program on their Macs. Users can put program from any source on their mechanism — presumably as they do now — or they can extent a program sources to only a Mac App Store or Apple-approved developers.

But no Siri: Mountain Lion might have brought a iPad feel to a Mac, though it neglected to pierce one quite renouned further from a iPhone — there’s still no Siri. Why’s that?

Wired’s Christina Bonnington has a integrate of hunches. For one, Siri’s substantially not scarcely as required on your laptop or desktop, because, well, we have a full keyboard. What creates Siri many useful is her ability to call adult discerning Web searches, send messages, etc., for we when you’re on a go and can’t be worried to fiddle around with your iPhone’s little keyboard. Bonnington also remarkable that a Mac microphone is not as befitting for Siri. The iPhone has dual microphones that are meant to be hold nearby your face, while Macs have one omnidirectional microphone.

She also records that Siri needs a consistent information tie to work, and given stream Mac laptops and desktops don’t have 4G (or 3G, for that matter) connections, it would be tough to keep adult a tie with Apple’s servers.

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