From what we can see on the Mountain Lion site, applications such as Messages, Notification Center, Reminders, Notes and Game Center will make an awesome appearance on the Mac platform!

Messages is basically iMessage that is an iOS 5 based application. It allows people with Apple ID's to message each other for free, kind of like RIM's BBM. Now that this is available on the Mac, it will obviously take away the iChat application and allow you to message people with both Macs and iOS 5 devices.

The Notification Center is almost identicle to the iOS Notification Center, which will create a brand new way to view your notifications on your computer. 

Reminders is self explanatory. It's exactly the same as it is on iOS, but tweaked to run on a Mac, and obviously it will run seamlessly with the iOS application and iCloud.

Notes will more than likely replace the Text Edit application currently on Mac OS X. With a better design and overall functionality, this will be perfect for people needing to take notes on the go.

Deep Twitter integration is also a new feature! Just like in iOS 5. For all Twitter addicts out there, this will be great.

Last but not least, Game Center leaps its way onto Mac creating an amazing experience for people who do a lot of gaming on their Mac. I'm guessing that this will only work with games bought within the Mac App Store, but it will be perfect for those challenging their friends with the latest games.

All these features and so much more can be found over at Apple! 

You can download the Messages Beta today and developers can get their hands on Mountain Lion today. Launch date is aimed for Summer 2012 for Mountain Lion.

So, what's your thoughts on Mountain Lion? Leave your comments below!

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I have a step-by-step guide on how to do this: 

1. Download iBooks Author from the Mac App Store.
2. Go to your Macs hard drive and go to /System/Library/CoreServices/SystemVersion.plist. Then, in SystemVersion.plist, change the string from 10.6.8 to 10.7.2 and save it. 
3. When it has downloaded, do not run it. 
4. Go back into SystemVersion.plist and change the 10.7.2 back to 10.6.8 again.
5. Now, right click on iBooks Author and click on 'Show Package Content'.
6. Go to Content/Contents/info.plist. Open it with your favourite text editor and find LSMinimumSystemVersion with the find tool on that text editor. 
7. Change the string on 'LSMinimumSystemVersion' to 10.6.8.

If you had any problems with this, comment below or email me at christianjupson@gmail.com.

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I love these speakers. One of the main reasons for that is that they are so small and portable, and yet they give out a great sound. At first, I thought I might as well put these little things at full blast to hear them. Well, I regret doing that. It shook my whole desk and monitor, and the sound went all throughout the house. But when I put them at full blast I realised that the bass on these speakers is absolutely phenomenal. As I listen through them now (with calm music), I can feel the bass through my wrists as I type. 

 The portability of the speakers are great. If I need to work away from home, I can pack them up in my laptop bag or suitcase, and I take them wherever I want. The speakers only come in white and are powered by USB and the sound comes through a 3.5mm audio jack. The white makes your desk look very modern and at the back of the speakers is a mini cable management system.

I could only find a couple of cons with these speakers. The first one is cable length. At the moment, I am having hide the speakers under my desk. Now this is good in some ways, but the fact that they won't fit on each of my 24 inch primary display is a bit annoying. and one small con is that the rubber feet on the bottom of the speakers don't have much grip, so they slide around a lot.

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The iBook G4 was Apple's entry-level laptop from late 2003 through mid 2006. The iBook G4 was a pretty affordable Mac at the time with the baseline 12" model coming in at $1099 until late 04' when they were dropped to $999. The iBook G4 was also a very portable computer compared to others at the time. The 12" model weighed only 4.9 pounds while to 14" model came in only one pound heavier. Both iBook models were only 1.35" thick. During the time that the G4 iBooks sold, they ranged in speeds from 800MHz to 1.42GHz. The last generation iBook G4 had 512MB RAM on the logic board while all of the earlier models had 256MB on the logic board. All of the G4 iBooks had one slot for RAM that could hold up to a 1GB stick of memory to add to the built-in RAM. 

My specific model is the late 2004 14" model with a 1.33GHz G4 processor, 768MB RAM, and a 60GB HDD.

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I have been using these products for a few months now; I will start by saying the keyboard is probably one of the best keyboards I have ever used although I have never really used keyboards such as Logitech gaming keyboards and apple keyboards long term. The feel of the keyboard is great! I can type super fast on it. The numeric keypad is great!

Although it all starts to go downhill when we get to the mouse, it can be used with both hands, left and right. But unlike other mouses like the magic mouse which I have used in the apple store quite often it just feels like something you would only want to use for 30 seconds at a time. It looks and feels plastic.

NOTE: It is a wireless set.

My personal opinion is to see if you can just get the keyboard and invest in a different mouse which is what I did.

I would give this set a rating of 5/10. 10/10 for the keyboard; 0/10 for the mouse.

- Keep a book of ideas. I do this for YouTube and TekSocial, because when I get round to writing an article I find it hard to think on the spot so my solution to this is to carry a book around with you at all times with ideas for articles. Such as my last one, Top 20 Basic iPhone Tricks.

- Let your ideas come naturally. It isn't easy to just sit at a computer suddenly and decide that your going to write an article. You have to let your ideas build, everytime you get an idea put it in your book. By the time you will have finished your article not only will it be quality, you will be proud of your work. Well that is what I find!

- Think, Build, Edit & Write. A simple four step rule for writing an article. Think: you have to think to get your ideas. Build: you have to write in your book to build ideas together. Edit: Make the finishing touches. Last but certainly not least, Write: Get your finished article and type it in or simply, copy and paste!

- Use bullet points or numbers like in this article I have used - in my last article I used 1) 2) ect. it is a great, simple and effective way of writing a great article.

- Keep it short. You want to keep the reader interested, just waffling on and waffling on and waffling on will put the reader of and the chances is are he/she won't finish reading your article.

- You don't have to do it all in one go! You can write a bit save it as a word document and then come back to it in an hours time.

- Some people think that if they get a good idea they should save it, DON'T! I always use my good ideas straight away. Your not going to miss it. You just have to use that thing inside your skull called a brain and think of another great idea.

That is how I write my articles and believe me it worked! 7 great steps to writing an article. Hope this article helped and I'll write to you guys soon!