During the last night the Apple company has launched the second developer preview for the OS X Mountain Lion operating system and developers have the opportunity to install a build that should have much fewer bugs and should have much better performance. The new build has the code number 12A154q and Apple has not specified what exactly has changed in it, but below you have listed 3 of the most important novelties discovered so far by those who have installed this version of OS X on their own Macs.
I told you that in OS X Mountain Lion there is one Notification Center which works almost the same as in iOS and in the new build we receive notifications about direct messages or new mentions made on the Twitter social network. All applications provide notifications for this kind of interactions, but on the Mac there is no native method to be notified about receiving them, but Apple seems to have solved the problem in OS X Mountain Lion.
The second important innovation implemented in OS X Mountain Lion is the possibility to synchronize tabs via iCloud with all iDevices. Safari has a button on the left side of the menu that allows users to synchronize open tabs on Mac with Safari on iOS. Once you do this, those tabs will be open on the Safari browser on your own iDevices that are logged in to the same Apple ID.
Finally, we have implemented a new security system that notifies us when an application tries to access our contact book. Apple gives us the possibility to deny the access of that application to the contact book, but without it the application might not work properly or it might not work at all. The security measure was implemented after the scandals that took place a few weeks ago, scandals in which Apple was accused of not protecting users well enough.
That's all about OS X Mountain Lion Developer Preview 2, it can be downloaded by Mac application developers directly from their dedicated portal on the Apple website.
