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Apple Releases First Developer Preview of Mac OS X Lion
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I'm glad this was kept as an option:
As much as I can appreciate application suspension, I like to know what is actively running at a glance.
Wow. Thanks. I knew I would be able to crack that from the defaults but there ya go in setting preferences. Great find, sir.
Cool. For me, its the indispensable terminal. Might be irritating in some circumstances and finder might be easy. But I'm so used to it that finder becomes irritating at some point. But that's just me I guess.
Intrestingly enough, it took me about one hour to get used to that new default touchpad setting with swipe directions, now its same with my iphone and ipad! I like it.
Also, I love how I can swipe with three fingers between "screens" and I feel stupid that I didn't notice that if I swipe past regular desktop to "west", there is Dashboard waiting! I already have safari, mail and ical at "fullscreen".
Also, I love how I can swipe with three fingers between "screens" and I feel stupid that I didn't notice that if I swipe past regular desktop to "west", there is Dashboard waiting!
I already have safari, mail and ical at "fullscreen".The former is an application that lacks complete OS integration; The latter is a hack. Neither are preferable to an official Apple solution.
Didn't you read requirements, it won't run in core duo machines, probably due lack of 64b support.
Thts the Mac App store, not the App Store, Don't you think?
The iOS 4 came with Folders, which will also be implemented into the Mac OS
What if?
the Mac App Store was a preview of what the already existing iOS store a.k.a. the AppStore has.
When FaceTime can come from the handheld iDevices to the Macs (the paid version for 99 cents) I don't think this is too far.
I see wht you did there!
You better off with Win7 then!
But wait, din't they incorporate the dockish option & kept what you wanted?
Looks like MS Loves you
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I don't know if this has been published yet, but another interesting thing regarding the beta involves all mouse movements being inverted. Ive got a magic mouse and in snow leopard scrolling down on it would make the page scroll down (like every mouse) now when you scroll down your actually scrolling up, up for down, left for right and right for left. I'm guessing this is another way mac os x and iOS are merging because these 'inverted' actions are how you control your iOS devices. You know, down is up etc.
I don't know if this has been published yet, but another interesting thing regarding the beta involves all mouse movements being inverted. Ive got a magic mouse and in snow leopard scrolling down on it would make the page scroll down (like every mouse) now when you scroll down your actually scrolling up, up for down, left for right and right for left. I'm guessing this is another way mac os x and iOS are merging because these 'inverted' actions are how you control your iOS devices. You know, down is up etc.
I'd prefer that Apple gave me a pony, but that's not their priority either. The vast majority of OS X users don't want/need tabs -- for those who do, there are sufficient (not ideal, but sufficient) third party solutions.
The Mac app store is what 10.6.6 gave to a Mac, the one where the Devs started downloading the dev build of Lion?
The AppStore is for HandHeld iDevices which is also on a Windows pc, The one that PpL get the Fart apps from, the one which is connected to with iTunes?
Its for Developers how *Pay* to get a early build, not for 12 years old who wanna say I got a copy of mac os x lion & I installed it on an imac g3 just to prove that Apple wants to sell new hardware for Money!
I like Anti-Intutive, love the sound & articulation, Its not an English forum, duh!
We are discussing an amazing OS in the making, Kill Joy!
unlearning can't be THAT difficult
I think the AirDrop has a seperate folder with the background of the Wi-Fi signals, inspite of which you still may be right
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Last time I checked, it was a 3 digit number (iThink $2xxs), or else, won't everyone who'd upgrade anyway get it instead of paying $129 for a single user version?
It is surely not untested, Duh!
iThink Steve is using Mac OS 11.3 or something.
Even if it is, its only a Software on a partition!
They seem to have included a whole new list of custom voices in Lion (which you have to download). They picked the most annoying voices for Australian English, but Serena from the United Kingdom list sounds pleasant and smooth:
It won't allow you to download them yet.
It won't allow you to download them yet.
Can anyone else running this confirm that their Folder animation on Launchpad is very judder when opening/closing them.
Everything else is smooth as butter, but the animation when opening/closing the Utilities folder is juddery and not at all smooth. Creating Folders is fine, all animations are smooth. Could be a bug or possibly my machine? Although, given how smooth everything else is I'm not sure?
Everything else is smooth as butter, but the animation when opening/closing the Utilities folder is juddery and not at all smooth. Creating Folders is fine, all animations are smooth. Could be a bug or possibly my machine? Although, given how smooth everything else is I'm not sure?
Sometimes it's not smooth, other times it is. A few other animations are like that.
Much like Windows 7, it seems Apple has turned off Desktop icons by default. Upon a fresh install of Lion onto my MacBook, only external drives were checked by default. But it's just a simple matter of hitting CMD+J and showing/hiding whatever you want.
As to not being able to download anything to the Desktop, 100% false. The Desktop was and will remain nothing more than just a glorified folder. Just because Apple's Lion site doesn't show files on the Desktop doesn't mean it's not possible.
I forgot to say; thank you for the information.
I've ended subscribing to the developer program in the end. It's running fine on mine. C2D 1.86GHz, Intel GMA950.
Yeah, I appreciate that the whole experience isn't going to be like a retail edition, but I was wondering if it was my machine or a minor bug as suspected.
So far I'm very, very impressed with Lion. I'm running it off a 150GB partition on my WD 1TB external drive, but I'm more than happy to run this as my main OS for now ... give Snow Leopard and my internal a little break!