

In the Mail, Contacts, and Calendars section, you’ll be able to see all of the new services that is supported. Notification’s section in preferences allows you to automatically view the Notification Center supported programs on your Mac, allowing you to set whether a badge, banner, or alert pops up when needed. Notification Center will be one of the most useful parts of OS X as a way of unifying all of the notifications that occur on your Mac. This should be one of the first places you go to when you load up Mountain Lion. The first major change we see in preferences is Notifications. The new features, including Reminders, Notes, and the Notification Center, really makes the daily iOS user feel at home.

If you are an iOS user, you will probably love the integration. Ultimately, Mountain Lion is an OS that looks and feels more like iOS than ever. To minimize the possibility of this occurring, take a look at our guide to preparing your system for Mountain Lion. Chances are, if I clicked “retry”, the two hour download would have restarted. I used my better judgement and went along to install, ignoring the message, and it downloaded successfully. However, I still had the window open allowing me to continue on to install. My personal experience wasn’t desirable either.Īfter downloading Mountain Lion from the App Store, I immediately encountered a message saying that the app couldn’t be downloaded. Various Mac users I contacted have told me problems they have encountered, ranging from downloads stalling to error messages popping up in various places. It’s safe to say that a majority of individuals who downloaded Mountain Lion encountered at least one problem or even just a minor annoyance. Saying that downloading Mountain Lion wasn’t a walk in the park is a bit of an understatement.
