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what's happening Brian song here to welcome to the apple pie for all the good and bad inside the world of Apple and it's all about the news that no one saw coming apple's announcement for OS 10.8 mountain lion now you notice they've removed the mac from the name too and now it's just OS 10 apple's latest operating system that will be available later this summer really merges iOS and the mac OS deeply together for the very first time iOS users love the addition of notifications even if android users weren't that impressed so the vega is bringing the Notification Center to their newest cat you'll be able to see the notifications bar by sliding your two fingers to the left to reveal itself and notifications will appear as they happen in the top right hand corner with the ability to control how they're displayed in the preferences also mountain lion is completely integrated with iCloud support and it brings two new apps for you reminders and notes that will seamlessly sync to your iOS devices in addition to keeping your mail contacts calendar and more in sync across all your Apple devices now apples messages replaces i chat with a new look and feel it will let you send unlimited messages to anyone on an Apple device with the messages app it will also support aim jabber google talk and yahoo messenger directly in the app plus you'll be able to switch to FaceTime directly with just one click now another feature I'll use a lot is share sheets which will now enable you to share links photos and videos directly from different apps like Safari and others that can be posted on Twitter vimeo and flickr with mountain lions new ability to have automatic integration with those services OS 10.8 will also have airplay mirroring support that will allow you to stream what's on your mac to your HDTV with an Apple TV and this is a big-time feature that we've been waiting for on the mac platform and it's probably the most exciting feature for me and a few quick ones gatekeeper is improved security that gives you more control over what to download at your computer and where it's from to be sure it's not malicious game center support comes to the mac and you'll be able to compete against your friends and check out the leaderboards from your desktop plus the new OS 10 will bring support for many popular chinese services so there's an overview of what we expect to see an OS 10.8 mountain lion and there's no pricing or official release date yet now the other nugget that I can pull from this is if Apple's previewing mountain line for us now WWDC is going to be huge since there won't be a focus on OS 10 and yes I know what you're thinking it'll be huge as an iphone 5 huge plus think about it iOS 6 and possibly even more now developers have access to the mountain line preview right now and they'll also be able to get a look at the pre-release of Safari 5.2 that finally includes a unified google chrome like search bar and if you want to get your hands on the public beta version of the new messages app you can download it from this link here it only works if you have lines so it's a little bit of mountain lion on lion action that's hot now unfortunately when it comes to the new OS later this summer it might be time for you to upgrade your computers because several older macs will not be compatible including the early two thousand eight macbook air and intel core 2 duo macbooks from late two thousand seven to two thousand eight are out the mid-2007 Mac Mini and the 2006 polycarbonate IMAX and for those macs we wanted to honor them with a moment of silence I'm sorry a little emotional okay let's check out our app of the week the app of the week is clear and it's 99 cents right now and it's really the most innovative and fun to do list on iOS with a sleek UI and some major fidget factor now you have multiple lists and the color coding shows you the priority of the to-do item you can create a new item by either pulling down so it appears on the top tapping on the bottom so it's the last item or pinching apart so to appear between 22 dues swiping to the right completes an item and swiping to the left deletes it its main drawback is that it currently does not support a third party or webdav calendaring systems but at the very least it could build I cloud data support for the app in the future but it won't be integrated with your iOS or max reminders it's we're checking out and I'd recommend you give it a look I love it a lot so I wanted to make that clear to you all right onto the quick bites if you're wondering why people might be making a mad dash to sell their iPad tues on ebay multiple reports are claiming and others are confirming that apple's event will be held on March the seventh in San Francisco Apple has not released the official day but all signs point to wednesday marks the 7th so Circle your calendars and did you know it's also the same day that the board game monopoly was invented in 1933 hey Brian one no one else happened on that day baseball commissioner Ford Frick endorsed the use of the spitball thanks charlie all right guys Apple will be changing their policy and will now require companies and their apps that use address book data to explicitly ask for permission to do so this comes after a week that revealed some of the big names in the app world like Twitter Foursquare Yelp and more we're accessing transmitting and even storing users contact data on their servers without permission path was the first app that was exposed than others came forward and some even quietly changed their app to ask permission like Instagram did alright guys that's going to do it for this week's show email us at the apple byte at cnet com thanks so much for watching i'm brian Tong will catch you guys next time for another bite of the Apple you