But in the process of announcing Mountain Lion's July release date, the company also breezed through a slew of other updates coming in the new operating system: Near the end of the Mountain Lion portion of the presentation, Apple's Phil Schiller displayed a slide listing oodles of other features. Here are a few that caught our eye:

Reading List, which debuted in Lion (OS X 10.6), is a Safari feature that lets you save Web bookmarks for reading later--your Reading List syncs between your Macs and iOS devices using iCloud. In Mountain Lion, the feature goes a step further by downloading each saved webpage--content in your Reading List displays in full--complete with text and images--even if your device lacks an Internet connection.

If that feature sounds familiar, that's because it's akin to the core functionality of apps like or . But Reading List won't offer the full feature set of those apps; rather, it offers a small taste of deferred Web reading--not unlike Apple's . (That feature, you'll recall, was introduced in Mac OS Tiger back in 2005, and, ironically enough, gets .)