10 Mac Apps Apple Just Destroyed With Mountain Lion
by Steve Kovach on Feb 17, 2012, 11:22 AM
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 Most of the new features in Apple's OS X Mountain Lion have to do with a suite of new apps that take advantage of iCloud. And a lot of those apps mimic features from popular third-party ones that we've been using on our Mac for some time now. If you want to live in Apple's world, a lot of those apps will quickly become irrelevant for you. Instead of using a bunch of third-party cloud services, Apple makes it a lot easier for everything to sync up using iCloud. Keep reading to see the apps Apple just killed. Messages just destroyed Adium  Until now, Adium was our favorite all-in-one messaging app for Mac. It lets you combine all your IM service accounts like AIM, Google Talk, MSN, etc. in one unified buddy list. But thanks to Apple's inclusion of iMessages in the new Messages app, we've decided to ditch Adium.
Trillian, another popular messaging app, is pretty much useless too  Trillian is very similar to Adium in that you can import your account from just about every major messaging service out there. Luckily, Trillian has an advantage: it's available for iPhone. Right now, Apple's app for iPhone only supports iMessages. If you want to access Google Talk or anything else, Trillian is one of the best apps around.
Until now, Growl was the best way to get notifications  Growl has been around for a long time on Mac. It's a popular notifications system for apps like Adium, Tweetdeck, Dropbox, and many, many others. It used to be free, but now it'll cost you $1.99 in the Mac App Store. Apple's new notifications system for Mountain Lion pretty much replaces Growl. Developers can now make their Mac Apps display notifications directly through Mountain Lion.
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