Sunday, March 18, 2012

Download OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion DP 2 - Developer News

Download OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion DP 2 - Developer News

The second developer preview of OS X Mountain Lion is available for download on the Mac App Store, Apple has informed those enrolled with its annual developer programs.

As usual, developers must get a redemption code from the Mac OS X Development Portal to be able to download the new OS X Mountain Lion preview.

The build number is 12A154q, and there are no release notes available at the time of this writing. However, early testers have been able to spot a few changes already.

For example, the updated developer preview brings Twitter integration with Notification Center. Both Twitter and Notification Center are iPhone and iPad features stemming from iOS 5, the latest major version of Apple’s mobile operating system.

The Mac maker has vocally expressed its intentions to unify the Apple ecosystem by fusing OS X and iOS together using their key features.

According to 9to5mac, testers now have the ability to receive Twitter for Mac notifications which arrive for @replies and direct messages. The updates are displayed as banners in Notification Center.

Next up, developers have noticed that Safari now shows an iCloud icon next to Share Sheets - another Mountain Lion features.

As you’d expect, the new iCloud integration with Safari allows you to keep open Safari tabs in sync across all your devices that use Apple’s web browser. As long as you’re logged in to your iCloud account, your open tabs are there on all your iDevices, Mac and / or PC.

Mountain Lion now warns users when an application wants to access their Contacts (formerly known as Address Book). The change is obviously an answer to the bad press stemming from the Path contacts issue which spurred investigations into other apps that collected personal information without the user’s consent.