If you're an OS X Lion user, you're probably aware of Launchpad, a new view that displays all apps installed on the system at a quick glance. While extremely convenient, it can become overwhelming for users who have a lot of apps installed. Thankfully, there's a new tool that lets you hide specific apps from Launchpad.
OS X Lion, which hit the market a few weeks ago, includes as many as 250 new features and enhancements. One of those is a brand-new set of desktop backgrounds which would look very nice on any operating system. That's why we put together an archive of all the wallpapers that are built into Lion which you can use with any operating system. Whatever system you're using, some of these will certainly look good.
If your computer usage requires as much processing power as you can get, one of the factors that might be holding you back from upgrading to OS X Lion might be a possible performance drop. It now turns out that both Snow Leopard and Lion perform similarly on the same hardware, with irrelevant variations that should not greatly impact performance, for good or worse.
Apple has today seeded build 11C26 of OS X Lion version 10.7.2 to developers. This is the first update to the recently released OS X Lion. The update is expected to bring iCloud support to the world’s most advanced operating system.
Are you a Windows 7 user aching for some roaring action on your PC? Well, installing OS X Lion on a non-Mac machine (i.e. a “PC”) takes a lot of work. But you can try out some of Lion’s features on Windows 7 for example: “Full Screen” on Windows can be replicated by simply maximizing a window/pressing F11. Quite innovative, no?
With OS X Lion out the gate and 1 million copies already downloaded, you might be wondering what's in it for you? This is a no-nonsense list of the 10 best reasons you should upgrade to OS X Lion today. Whether you browse the web all day, write essays day in or day out or just love your iPhone, Lion has something for you.
Apple set free OS X Lion to the general public yesterday. The only way to upgrade to the new OS was by way of downloading it from the Mac App Store. Apple has received its fair share of criticism for making Lion download-only. This limitation makes it so that if you have multiple Macs at home, you have to download Lion on each PC (yes, they are personal computers after all) separately. We’re going to solve this issue for you today, by making a Bootable Flash Drive of Lion!
One of the greatest features in Lion is the ability to maximize apps to full-screen, even in apps where traditionally a full-screen mode wouldn't make that much sense, as long as developers choose to add it in. If they haven't, luckily, there's a way you can implement full-screen mode yourself that works with most apps, system-wide.
Unless you have covered your eyes and ears for the last few hours, you're probably aware that OS X Lion, the iteration of Mac OS X, became available to consumers today. Aside from being available in the Mac App Store, it now turns out that Apple is releasing bootable USB thumb drives with the full installer loaded on them.
Just after Mac OS X Lion reached the Mac App Store, Apple released iTunes 10.4, an update for the well-known media program that includes several performance enhancements as well as support for Lion's new features.
