OS X Mountain Lion – Power Nap, Sharing, Game Center and Safari 6

Continuing the presentation of the functions here, Apple demonstrated to everyone present at WWDC 2012 a system called Power Nap. This system allows Macs to work even when users close their lids, that is, instead of shutting down or going into sleep mode, they will continue to work and update all open applications, email, backup via Time Capsule, all without turning on the fans and without consuming too much energy.

Moving on, Apple announced the implementation of Game Center on Mac and the possibility to play games between Macs and iDevices. Those from Apple invited The Stig, yes the one from Top Gear, and demonstrated how users can play the same game in multiplayer on a Mac and an iDevice. Using an Apple TV, the company will allow Mac owners to do video mirroring from a MacBook Air in Full HD format and I think this function will be extremely interesting.

  Moving on to Safari 6, I will tell you that Apple has improved page loading speeds, added new animations for page navigation and implemented the Safari iCloud Tabs system that allows us to synchronize open tabs on Mac with Safari running on a iDevice, but only if both devices are logged into the same iCloud account. Safari can perform unified searches on the web, has a new tab display system and has implemented new multitouch gestures that allow you to open tabs, reload pages, share links or move from one page to another other. In the same idea, a system was implemented that allows users to share links on social networks from any application they are in.

  Having said that, I announce that OS X Mountain Lion will be released in July in the Mac App Store at the price of only $19.