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With the yesterday’s Mountain Lion launch, Apple updated its iWork productivity suite, as well as iPhoto, iMovie and Aperture. Updates for Pages, Numbers, and Keynote include support of the high-resolution Retina display ^[2] on the next-generation MacBook Pro ^[3].

New features in Pages 4.2, Numbers 2.2, and Keynote 5.2 according to Apple, are:

iCloud: Store documents, spreadsheets and presentations in iCloud and keep them automatically up to date across your Mac, iPad, iPhone, iPod touch, and the Web. Changes made to a document on one device automatically appear on all your other ^[4] devices.

Dictation: Speak words, numbers, or sentences and watch them appear in your document, spreadsheet or presentation ^[5].

As for iPhoto 9.3.2, the update adds new sharing options with the Messages application ^[6] and Twitter, and it also features performance and stability improvements.

Aperture 3.3.2 supports compatibility with Mountain Lion, and contains following improvements:

• The update addresses issues that could affect performance when entering and existing Full Screen mode
• Auto White Balance can now correct color using Skin Tone mode, even when Faces is disabled
• Projects and albums in the Library Inspector can now be sorted by date in addition to name and kind
• Includes performance and stability improvements

iMovie’ changes, according to Apple, are:

• Fixes an issue related to third-party QuickTime components that could cause iMovie to quit unexpectedly
• Resolves stability issues when previewing MPEG-2 video clips in the Camera Import window
• Fixes an issue where audio was not included when importing MPEG-2 video clips from a camera