Tag Archives: OS X 10.7 Lion

Lion’s Duplicate Feature Makes Sense♣
Tuesday, April 3 9:50 am - betalogue.com

Pierre Igot: I do have problems, however, with its implementation in Lion (Mac OS X 10.7). I have already talked about the totally unnecessary (in my view) elimination of the “Save As…” command in Apple applications, including the iWork suite. … Continue reading →

OS X Lion Adoption Not What I Expected♣
Wednesday, February 22 10:00 am - twitter.com

Federico Viticci posts MacStories stats: OS X stats: – 10.6: 51.98% – 10.7: 43.34% – 10.5: 3.57% – PPC 10.5: 0.52% – 10.4: 0.26% – PPC 10.4: 0.26% I am really surprised that on a Mac news site there is … Continue reading →

Dave Caolo Defends OS X Lion’s Launchpad♣
Friday, October 7 1:25 pm - 52tiger.net

Dave Caolo of 52 Tiger on OS X Lion’s Launchpad: I’d wager that “home users” get more use out of it than Mac veterans. I also feel that it does so spectacularly well. Apple has done a great job with … Continue reading →

Mac App Store Flaws

Tuesday, September 27 8:02 am

The Mac App Store is about nine months old, which is actually a decent amount of time in the technology world, but it hasn’t changed much so far. Many of the flaws that existed on launch still exist today, and … Continue reading →

Lion Includes Wi-Fi Diagnostics App♣
Tuesday, August 30 1:55 pm - hints.macworld.com

Mac OS X Hints with a WiFI diagnostic tool built into OS X Lion: Lion ships with an app called Wi-Fi diagnostics. It allows you to monitor Wi-Fi networks your computer is connected to and collect various kinds of information. … Continue reading →

Ridiculous Comparison of Lion to Vista♣
Wednesday, August 24 9:04 am - brooksreview.net

Ben Brooks compares upgrading to Lion to his Windows upgrade experience: With Vista my computer was barely useable, and honestly wasn’t useable for what I wanted to do on it for months. I made this point to my friend when … Continue reading →

Dropbox Updates Are Too Manual♣
Tuesday, August 23 9:31 am - tuaw.com

Erica Sadun on the latest Dropbox for Mac update: Dropbox normally uses a silent-but-deadly approach to handle its updates. Basically it installs it automatically for you sometime within a week or so of the new release. But would it kill … Continue reading →

Apple Releases Lion Recovery Disk Assistant♣
Wednesday, August 17 11:39 am - tuaw.com

Chris Rawson of TUAW on Apple’s Lion Recovery Disk Assistant: According to Apple, “Lion Recovery Disk Assistant lets you create Lion Recovery on an external drive that has all of the same capabilities as the built-in Lion Recovery: reinstall Lion, … Continue reading →

Redesigning the browser window | Antrops blogg♣
Wednesday, August 17 10:34 am - blogg.antrop.se

Henrik Eneroth måndag with an in-depth re-design of Safari: Safari in full screen mode works fine on a lap­top dis­play, but that expe­ri­ence doesn’t scale well. On a lar­ger screen, the UI becomes quite dif­ficult to use. Above all, I … Continue reading →

Rundown of Mac Uninstallers♣
Wednesday, August 17 8:18 am - lifehacker.com

Great piece by Adam Dachis of Lifehacker with the scoop on several of the OS X “uninstaller” apps that help clean-up files left over when drag going an Application to the trash. I have long been a user of AppZapper, … Continue reading →