Apple Releases OS X 10.8.2 with Facebook Integration
Posted 09/19/2012 at 10:34am
| by Susie Ochs
Hey, look, more Apple updates. Head to the Mac App Store for OS X 10.8.2, iTunes 10.7, and a Java security patch.
Remember, in Mountain Lion, the Software Update application is gone. You can still find a Software Update option in the Apple menu, but it just launches the Mac App Store's Updates tab.

iTunes 10.7 isn't the brand-spanking-new version iTunes 11 that Apple showed off last week -- we have to wait until October for that, darn. 10.7 does add support for iOS 6 running on iPhone (5, 4S, 4, 3GS), iPad (3 and 2), and iPod touch (5th and 4th-gen), along with support for the available-for-preorder 7th-gen iPod nano. The update notes also mention "the latest...iPod shuffle," so maybe that iPod has slightly different internal firmware along with its new colors?
OS X 10.8.2 adds Facebook integration to Mountain Lion, with a single sign-on and the ability to share links and photos to your Timeline, like you already can share them with Twitter. You can pull your Facebook friends' contact info into the Contacts app, and have Facebook notifications show up in Notification Center -- which we don't recommend if you ever want to get any work done. (Faaaaace-borrrrrrg.)
10.8.2 has more new features and bug fixes too -- see the full list at http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5460 and some more info about the security shore-ups at http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1222.
Happy updating!