Brace Yourselves, OSX Mountain Lion (10.8) is coming

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Brace Yourselves, OSX Mountain Lion (10.8) is coming

OS X Mountain Lion Preview

Coming on summer, personally I don’t find anything too interesting with this new OS version, hope I’m proven wrong once more details surface.

You can get the Beta of Messages here

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oh no!

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I have been waiting for iMessages on the Mac every since it came out for the iPhone.

I haven’t been home to install it yet, but I hope I can sign out or turn it off. I don’t want to get a whole bunch of txt’s on my screen during my sets. lol

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ahah.

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You can turn iMessage off, its just an app that you launch. The beta is available now on the Mountain Lion page. Ive installed it, syncs to your Contact list.

Its Notification Center that you want to be able to turn off. Im sure you will be able to. That would get really annoying very quickly.

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I went to install it, but it is not supported on 10.6.8 (Snow Leopard)

I have not upgraded to Lion (been hesitant) because everything has run so smoothly. I don’t want to upgrade and something go wrong.

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Agreed. It looks like an iOS-looking clone of Growl. I have several apps that use Growl notification…none of them have Growl support enabled because it’s a huge PITA.

If it’s configurable enough, though, I could see using it while DJing. Traktor (and maybe other stuff) can be set up to tweet your track list while you’re spinning. Having that happening and getting feedback at the same time would be cool while broadcasting…probably not in a club, though.

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I like where your head is at…

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I mean…I stole it from Ritchie Hawtin.

Still an awesome idea, though.

Besides, “I only accept requests through twitter” works a lot better than “go away,” and you get more twitter followers out of it…which makes it easier to sell yourself. And if their ideas don’t suck, you’ve got a list of tracks you can look into buying for your next gig…right there.

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holy shit!!! i didn’t know this app existed. Just downloaded and installed it.

Just played 3 songs to test and it worked flawlessy! .

@papo2 is my twitter handle just in case you want to check it out.

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sweet. I’m @josephsimoneau. Also, nice…love that Dinsdale track. Used it in my last demo.

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Started following you. That track is awesome. Everytime I play it, I get a few people ask me for the track info.

Thanks for the app information. I will be using this during my next set. I will also add a link to my mixlr page so people can see the song titles and listen too!

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Sooo here we go again :stuck_out_tongue:

Safari finally got an omnibar (like Chrome’s) and it’s a big plus. I haven’t played with the DP too much but overall it feels quite snappy, a LOT more than Lion’s DP1 so it’s basically Lion Plus!. Only Issue i’ve had so far is that you need to enter your Live ID on each app even if you did on the setup window after installing and the back/forward swipe isn’t working always, the rest of the gestures work nicely.

A big plus is that the OS now remembers if you unselected the option “Reopen windows when logging back in”.

I’ll surely post any incompatibility issues I find with Traktor and Ableton like I did with Lion before it got released.

If you guys have something you’d want me to test just say so.

Unlike with Lion betas, Chrome is fully functional.

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thanks padi!

are you running 10.8 virtually, or on a “test” machine?

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i’m dual booting on my lappy

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cool..

I read there are a few other things that changed too. See below just in case you are interested. I got this from lifehacker.com.

  • Access sharing options directly from Quick Look.
  • Search for applications in Launchpad.
  • Messages works with AIM as well as iCloud.
  • Apple Mail has a Priority Inbox-like feature called VIP.
  • AirPlay can be set as a sound output device for your entire computer.
  • Software Update lives in the Mac App Store.
  • Search directly from the URL bar in Safari.
  • Accounts for Flickr, Vimeo, and more can be added directly from System Preferences.
  • Interface enhancements have been made to Dashboard, the Universal Access system preference pane, and other areas to make them more iOS-like and easier to use.
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Can you disable the new features using defaults write … or some other way?

Can you disable Dock yet?

Compatibility with Maschine, Logic, SSL.

I mean…I’m going to test all of these things before I actually install it anyway, but…might as well.

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  1. mind explaining this a bit further?
  2. Nope
  3. I can only test Logic from that lot, unless someone is willing to send some test units :slight_smile:
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should be interesting with imessages

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Welcome.

To be honest i installed iMessage and then forgot about it.
Should give it a proper go.