Though Mountain Lion creep onto the scenery just this morning — with child guy are sly like that — I’ve already discovered a few delicious details about the apps in Apple ’s upcoming OS update for the Mac , thanks toeditorial theater director Jason Snell ’s hands onwith the computer software . Here are five app change I ca n’t hold back to see come to my Mac this summer .
Souped-up Safari searches
The Safari toolbar has been make over in Mountain Lion .
Safari gets a few nice tweaks in Mountain Lion , but none so squeamish as its new - and - improved hunting feature film , now built directly into the uniform resource locator stripe . Like a Transformer , it can change itself to fit your needs , whether you ’re research the WWW , your bookmarks and history , or text on the Thomas Nelson Page itself . you may also enter in a URL the in force old - fasioned way , or typewrite in a while of textbook and have Safari take back the top - value hunting outcome for that phrase .
Notifications will be adrift on your projection screen as banners or pop - ups .
The Safari toolbar has been reworked in Mountain Lion.
Sleek notifications
Growlis great for the apps it supports , but I personally ca n’t hold back to see Notification Center pop up on my Mac . Like iOS , you may tailor-make in System Preferences which apps alarm you ; whether they have banners , pop - up dialog , sounds , or nothing at all ; how many alerts per app you ’d like to see ; and whether you desire those apps to also boast badge notifications on their Dock image . flux this with a new two - finger gesture ( swipe from the correct edge of the trackpad inward ) and an optional keyboard shortcut , and warning signal for thing like Mac App Store update , and organizational bliss could soon be yours .
Selective Mail alerts
While it ’s great to have Notification Center on the Mac , some of us get far too many email message each day to deal with a apprisal foreverynew message that come in . gratefully , Mail in Mountain Lion will offer an selection for selective notifications within its taste Lucy in the sky with diamonds : you may choose to receive presentment for new dignitary substance , content only station from your contact , or message from one of your Smart Folders .
Simplified Preview toolbar
Preview ’s controls have been streamlined in Mountain Lion .
I love Apple ’s Preview software for doing agile edits on photos and gloss PDFs , but as the company piled more feature into the program , everything start obtain a little bit littered . In Mountain Lion , Preview turns down the visual noise without fall back any vaunted features : The fresh refine toolbar takes a cue from iPhoto and Apple ’s best iOS apps , simplifying tools behind single buttons .
Preview ’s annotations have taken a chapter from iBooks on iOS .
Notifications will float on your screen as banners or pop-ups.
Crop , Rotate , and Edit are the three big options along the top prevention for images , with Edit reveal a shelf below the main toolbar for all your corrective needs ; PDFs pick up Markup and Edit buttons , along with a search bar . On a PDF , Markup works similarly to Apple ’s iBooks software package : Highlight text by selecting it , then pick out your coloration and whether you want to tot up a preeminence .
Search tokens, meet Calendar
In Calendar on Mountain Lion , you could utilize multiple search token .
In Mountain Lion , Apple ’s iCal not only changes its name ( to Calendar)and get a nice interface modification — it benefit the Lion Finder ’s search tokens , too . The update app will not only automatically try and jibe your search word with events , organiser , location , and notes , but you could also build multi - term searches , too . call for to see every Girl Scout get together form by the scout group loss leader for the next year ? No trouble .
What are you excited about?
Preview’s controls have been streamlined in Mountain Lion.
Preview’s annotations have taken a chapter from iBooks on iOS.
In Calendar on Mountain Lion, you can use multiple search tokens.
