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only These Three New Featuresmade me want Lion, and I've mitigated all of themso I don't want Lion, nor any subsquent version of Mac OS X,and neither should any conscientious and responsible...
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Safari being two processesWhen a site has some javascript that hangs the web content process, I can still add new tabs, navigate in other tabs, etc.
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QuickLook now shows the pages of a PDF in scrollable sidebar:I just found this one and it is really helpful. I don't really need Preview anymore, as Quicklook suffices for almost all my PDF needs.
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Authentication dialogs shake when you enter your password incorrectlyThe "shaking head" animation that has long been used in OS X's login screen to indicate an incorrect password has been added to the...
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QuickLook in Mission ControlWhen in Mission Control, you can invoke Quicklook on a certain window that your cursor hovers by pressing space.
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Mail now displays custom headerUnder Mail->Preferences->Viewing->Show Header Detail->Customyou can specify custom headers that will be presented to you above the mails:
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Terminal.app now supports 256 colors.You can test this yourself by running the “Colortest: xterm 256 color test and visual colors list” script.Before (screenshot taken under OS X 10.6 Snow...
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OS X Lion comes with Vim 7.3 installed.Older OS X versions had Vim 7.2.$ vim --versionVIM - Vi IMproved 7.3 (2010 Aug 15, compiled Jun 24 2011 20:00:09)Compiled by root@apple.comNormal version without...
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App Exposé shows all windows of an application even windows in other spaces and full screen apps!
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Pinch to ZoomSnow Leopard had this feature, but it didn't work in every application. With Lion, this works in pretty much every application. A major one for me is Final Cut Pro. Being able to pinch to...
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System Preferences is so much faster when loading a preferences pane. Click on a pane and it loads almost immediately. I'm constantly amazed at this one every time I go into System Preferences.
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LaunchpadThis feature migrated from iOS brings the home screen of iOS to the mac.I have a few applications that I do not want sitting in the dock as they aren't used often. But I hated having to go...
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Lion allows you to create user names containing dots.The lack of this frustrated standardisation with our corporate networks back in Leopard. Now I have the same user name over Mac, Windows and Unix.
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I found that iCal allows you to drag an event (so you can open another one).Click on any event to get the popup:Then click on the areas in the green boxes of that popup and drag until it transforms...
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I don't know whether this is lion exclusive feature or not:three fingers momentum dragselect three finger dragging in the trackpad gesture panel.place 3 fingers in the trackpad still on the item you...
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Motion Blur in Mission ControlWhile Mission Control is open, press ⌘+M to enable a motion blur effect.You can see the effect when application windows gather/disperse to/from Mission Control and, also,...
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Wi-Fi Diagnostics are pretty and usefulOption-click the Wi-Fi status menu to reveal options such as Wi-Fi Diagnostics …It's very good for monitoring and testing wireless networks.If you prefer to not...
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Launchpad Background Wallpaper EffectsBeing able to change the Launchpad background effect with Control+Option+Command+B in 10.7.3 and 10.8, or ⌘+ B, is pretty cool. You can make any Desktop Wallpaper...
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Finder menu for video encoding / conversionThe ability to encode video and create different resolutions and sizes natively within 10.7CTRL Click on a video file and select "encode selected video"
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Finder gives better feedback when Trash has an errorSpecific, actionable feedback.
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Mission Control supports unique backgrounds per spaceThe ability to have different desktop backgrounds in different spaces. Set the background, add a space, then set a new background in that space. Not...
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Mail defaults to date sort by most recentIn Mail, when creating new mailboxes/folders, the emails are now sorted by default by date in descending order, i.e. freshest email first. Previously, you had...
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Quick Look to Track Shipments from within Mail.appI love the ability to track shipments straight from Mail.app without going to a browser...opens it right there in the thread for you with a neat little...
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Rich Text welcome banners for labs or corporate settingsI have to manage Macs at work, and it has always been a challenge to have an acceptable use login banner for people to agree to before logging...
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⌥⌘L opens the Downloads window in FinderIn Snow Leopard, this key combination was recognised by Safari.In LionSafari no longer recognises the keys (see comments beneath Safari download controls and...
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Terminal is more keyboard accessible⌥←⌥→Those are Apple's standard keyboard shortcuts for moving the cursor from word to word. And so on …
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Wireless Internet Sharing supports 5Ghz channels (802.11n)I use an old Mac Mini in my bedroom as a media center, and have used OS X's built-in Internet Sharing to make it act as a wireless access point...
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Man page viewer / smart data selectors in Terminal appI like how right-clicking on any text in Terminal and selecting Open man Page brings up a GUI-fied manpage window.It is far easier to read and...
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More International Localizations for system Text to SpeechThe new text to speech voices included in Lion (or downloadable, post-install) are now no longer US English only - but with many diverse...
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Finder: select items & create a new folder containing them.Upon having the thought to organize some documents, the workflow is much accelerated. Simply select the items, activate the service to...
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Finder remove (cut) happens after move is completeI love that you can move items in the finder by using ⌘-C to copy and ⌥-⌘-V to move. Kind of like cut and paste (which doesn't work), but it doesn't...
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Quick Look previews URL contents directly from Mail/iChatiChat and Mail have a way to preview webpage links. A small button (black square with a white down-arrow) appears when you hover the mouse over...
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Unsupported hardware noticesThis caught me off guard, but it did not make me smile:The icon in System Preferences has also been renamed from "Print & Fax" to "Print & Scan".
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Local Time Machine snapshotsWhen not connected to your primary backup drive, time machine can make use of the local hard drive for backing up changes. Yes, I know it doesn't produce any real reliable...
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Incremental backup with FileVault and TimeMachineFileVault no longer cripples Time Machine.Your data gets backed up whether you are logged in or not and the speed of the backups is much improved over...
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Smart Zoom on a two-finger double tapOnce you enable (or verify) the system-wide preference, two-finger double tap to zoom in Safari. It lets you zoom into the content of a web page, just like in...
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Mission Control: move all app windows by mouseIn Mission Control, to move all of an app's windows to another space has changed. You now do this by grabbing the app icon/badge on top of the stack....
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The three finger drag is confusingThe three-finger-drag gesture does what it says it will, not what I thought it would.What I expected:Put three fingers on the trackpad, move them, the window under the...
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Automator can send a URL to Quick Look rather than a browser.With automator, you can now make a website open as a web app.You just have to make Automator open a URL as a “Website Popup”.Very nice...
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The loupe magnifier in Preview (is smart and context-aware)Preview now has a magnifier. Select Tools → Show Magnifier to activate it. Its exact hotkey will depend on the localization being used; if...
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Multitouch gesture to activate the dictionary/thesaurus/WikipediaA three fingered double tap will highlight the tapped word and then bring up a nice sheet with all the results relevant to the selected...
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Mail.app is full of smiles and neat animationsIt's gotten a VERY serious overhaul, and feels integral and integrated into the OS itself. For the first time since I started using my gmail account...
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tmutil is a command line interface into Time Machine.time tmutil startbackup --block is full of win.You can now start a backup, time how long it takes, and know how much data was saved, all from the...
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Clamshell Mode simplified for external displaysIn Lion, if you want to use an external display with a closed notebook (also known as clamshell mode), you can do the following:Attach the external...
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Apps like Preview can quit themselves when not neededPreviously, when you opened something in Preview and you were finished with it, it was left running (in the background).Now, when you close whatever...
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The Zoom ⊕ button will attempt to maximizeThe Zoom button on the windows behaves more like Maximize on Windows OS rather than the old behavior where it usually made the window smaller (or the alternate...
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Safari opens new tabs relative to the current tabOpening new tab in safari does not go to the rightmost tab, but immediately adjacent to the current tab. Multiple tabs spawning from one page stack up...
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Mission Control enables new workflows(whilst frustrating some existing workflows)My wife was very positively pleased with how Mission Control improves her workflow. MC window grouping, MRU in App...
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Accessing accented characters has been made a lot easier.Just hold down the letter and a list of alternatives will show. Awesome.By pressing the number and continuing to type, the desired letter...
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I would like to call for a place to list some little things that surprise you about Lion. There are so many articles and lists of all the new features with information overload, I would rather focus...
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