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Mountain Lion HiDPI Retina Images Already Enabled In OS X Lion

by Hamza Tariq - on Mar 23rd 2012 - No Comments

As the Apple has started the Retina-Display feature in its iOS devices, the developers out there with access over new beta software programs reported that Apple is now looking forward to port down the Retina Display into the MacBook Series, and on this claim the developers suggested some of their findings of the HiDPI Retina Images in the latest released developer previews of OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion. The developers have noticed the couple of art work present in the new-generation OS for Mac is carrying the doubled-sized artwork on the display for the clearance and suggests the arrival of new Retina-Display powered MacBook Series and iMacs.

It is reported that Apple is waiting for the Intel’s next-generation Ivy Bridge processors with integrated graphics to use inside the upcoming MacBook machines to enrich the MacBook series performance, reportedly the new Ivy Bridge processors are much powerful to produce Retina Display on the Mac machines, and bring the 4 times bigger resolution to the current Mac machine resolution.  However, in the latest testing of the new-generation OS X 10.8 developers found Retina-sized graphic in the couple of Apple’s stock application.

 

The developers have found out that the new Mountain Lion Messages app is widely running in HiDPI mode on display screens and produces Retina graphics on the display. You can check out the developers provided new comparison image showing the difference between Retina-enabled application and simple application on the screen.  It is reported that users could also be able to test this difference on their Mac machines, once the debuted Air Display application lands in the App Store that allow users to use the new iPad as their external display source, and provides a quick HiDPI resolution image of OS X on the new iPad.

Retina-Enabled image is said to be improving the user’s readability on the screen, as the images come very clearer and sharp instead of blurry.  It is also reported that Apple has enabled the Retina Display artwork as well in the new beta of OS X Lion, and planning to launch the new update of OS X Lion with HiDPI graphics support on new MacBook devices.

OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion Brings Location-Based Reminders With 2nd Developer Preview

by Hamza Tariq - on Mar 18th 2012 - No Comments

While Apple has already borrowed the number of iOS features to its new Mac OS operating system versions, starting with the OS  X Lion, Apple slightly porting couple of iOS features and UI elements to the Mac OS X, and then earlier this year with the first developer preview of OS X Mountain Lion, they highly ported number of features and notification center of iOS to the new-generation operating system.

With the new Mountain Lion OS X 10.8, Apple has already ported the iMessages, notification center, Twitter Integration, Reminders app like features in the new operating system. It is now reported that Apple has now updated the OS X 10.8 Reminders.app with some location-based features, like we have on the iOS devices that allow us to note done couple of reminders on our devices, and let them to remind us whenever we reached the place. In the first developer preview, there were no location-based reminders support in the Reminders app in OS X 10.8.

It appears that with this new interesting location-based reminders option in the Reminders.app of OS X 10.8, the Mac OS running device will automatically track its location using the connected Wi-Fi network across the country, and alert you when you arrive at specific location, and work exactly like an iPhone and iPad.

With the new OS X 10.8, Apple deeply integrates the iCloud into the operating system, and the new Reminders.app is also capable of syncing the reminders from Mac to iOS devices using the same iCloud account on different devices. It works very well, when you create a reminder on your Macbook using the latest OS X 10.8 and it automatically syncs on your different devices like the Apple’s iTunes automatically download option and Photo- stream.

Apple Releases OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion Developer Preview 2

by Hamza Tariq - on Mar 17th 2012 - No Comments

Right after the official new iPad launch across the world, Apple has now seeded the new developer preview version of the OS X Mountain Lion to the developers. Apple has just released the Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion Developer Preview 2 to the developers through their developer portal. The new developer preview version is available to download from the Developer Portal forum. The registered Mac OS X developer can download the latest Mountain Lion Developer Preview 2 from the Apple’s website by logging into their system.

 

The new 2nd developer preview of the OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion carries build number 12A154q. Just like the first developer preview, the latest build can be also downloaded from the Mac App Store with a redemption code, issued from the Apple’s Developer Portal.

 

Apple has announced the Mountain Lion officially on February 16th, and scheduled the new operating system to launch this summer. The new Mac OS X Mountain Lion brings a number of new features to the OS X operating system, like the addition of many iOS functions in the Mac OS X. Mountain Lion features many apps such as: standalone Notes and Reminders app, Notification Center, Gatekeeper, and more. In addition to these features, the new OS X 10.8 also features the new Messages app that ports the iOS iMessage service to the OS X devices.  Apple is rumored to be merging the iOS with OS X system, and with the launch of OS X Mountain Lion, we have seen many features of iOS are added now on the OS X system.