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You don't need to spend money or waste time by upgrading the entire operating system of your PC. If you like a few features in a new OS, you can get them quite easily. More than , Mac computers were affected by a hacking attack, a sign that the once rarely targeted co is becoming a focus for hackers. MacBook Pro refresh brings in minor changes on the hardware front and comes loaded with the latest version of operating system - OS X Lion. Have you read these stories?
Covid jabs now at railway, bus stations Updated: Nov 11, , Activating Mission Control by clicking its icon in the Dock, with a keyboard shortcut, swiping up on your trackpad with three fingers, or moving the cursor into a hot corner causes the desktop picture to recede into the center the screen. At the top of the screen, each full-screen application creates a different Space, along with Dashboard, which is now a Space in its own right Figure 6.
Figure 6. Mission Control gives you an overview of your desktop, your full-screen applications, and groups windows from given applications together. You can drag windows from one desktop to another but not to the Spaces that are made from full-screen applications.
Once you exit Mission Control, you can switch between the different Spaces by using a keyboard command by default, Control-right arrow or Control-left arrow , or by swiping right or left on your trackpad with three fingers. Just as Mission Control is intended to make window management easier, the new Launchpad tries to do the same with application management. Shamelessly lifted from the iOS Springboard, clicking the Launchpad icon in the Dock or invoked with other methods, much like Mission Control hides everything else on your screen and makes your applications appear as icons in one or more scrollable pages, just like on an iOS device Figure 7.
Apple reserves the first page for its own applications, then the other applications in your Applications folder appear alphabetically on subsequent pages.
You scroll between pages using trackpad gestures or the right or left arrow keys. Just as in iOS, you can rearrange applications by dragging them around on the same page or between pages. By dragging icons on top of one another, you can create renameable folders Figure 8. Figure 7. Launchpad allows you to access your applications without having to dig into your Applications folder, and is designed for users who are already familiar with dealing with apps on iOS devices. Launchpad solves a familiar problem: most people prefer to keep the programs they use the most often in the Dock, but when you get a lot of programs in the Dock, their icons become ridiculously small.
But experienced users already use other solutions to deal with a plethora of apps I use an excellent utility called LaunchBar. Figure 9. Working along with Auto Save is the new Versions feature, which is kind of like Time Machine, but for documents within applications.
Pressing Command-S now activates the Save a Version command, which saves snapshots that record the history of the document. Every time you open a document, Lion automatically saves the current version. Like Time Machine, version history is kept hourly for a day, daily versions for a month, and weekly versions for the months before that.
You can compare versions, browsing through the current and past versions Figure You can copy and paste between versions, restore a previous version entirely, and even delete past versions if you like.
Figure You can click through your previous versions, and the document windows are live, so you can scroll previous versions and move elements from previous versions into the current version. When you launch an application, it appears just the way you left it. All the open windows, panes, and palettes come back just the same way they were when you quit. Any apps that were running reopen, along with their document windows.
Depending on how much stuff you have open, it may take a while to restart. But overall, Resume is brilliant. The Finder has changed in some interesting ways in Lion.
The new All My Files view is a search for files you might want to work with, including images, movies, presentations, spreadsheets, and more, divided by category Figure If you have the Finder window set to icon view, you can scroll each category horizontally, in the Cover Flow style.
You can use this in any Finder window, not just All My Files. The All My Files view shows you items in your home directory, separated by kind. Searching in the Finder is also improved. When you begin typing a term in the field, you get a pop-up menu that can limit the scope of the search terms. Got a trackpad? If so, Lion is going to give you a lot of new options. Gestures are a big part of Lion, and there are a bunch of new gestures that are baked into the system.
Some gestures are new, such as a double tap with three fingers, which makes a popover appear of the word under the cursor with the dictionary definition, thesaurus entry, and a Wikipedia link Figure Many of the things you can do with gestures you can do with keyboard shortcuts for menu choices.
You can discover all the Lion gestures in the Trackpad preference pane, with handy video that shows you how each gesture is done. Apple has reversed the scroll direction so that it matches scrolling on the iPhone and iPad. The Scroll direction: natural setting in the Trackpad preference pane makes the content on the screen move in the same direction as your scrolling fingers.
So if you scroll up with two fingers on the trackpad moving your fingers toward the screen , the document window will scroll down. One very welcome change in Lion is that you can now resize a window from any edge. The resize handle in the bottom right corner of the window is gone.
To resize any window now, just move your cursor to any of its edges and start dragging. Of course, dragging from a corner resizes the window in both dimensions. The new AirDrop feature deals with that problem by setting up a direct Wi-Fi connection between two Macs.
If both computers are connected to the same Wi-Fi network, no problem; AirDrop makes a direct peer-to-peer connection. In the sidebar of a Finder window, there is a new AirDrop icon; click it and you see icons of your machine and nearby AirDrop-capable Macs Figure AirDrop depends on the version of the WiFi hardware in your Mac, and is supported by most recent Macs.
AirDrop makes transferring files between Macs running Lion dead simple. As with any operating system upgrade, you have to balance the perils the time it will take you to learn new things, replacing or upgrading incompatible software with the benefits the cost of the upgrade, the usefulness of its new features.
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A 6 megabit per second business-class DSL connection, for instance, would require 1. It will be very interesting to see how this works out for Apple, as their perception of the power of the cloud may just run smack into the reality of quirky and slow network connections. Another potential hurdle is that this sole for now upgrade path is only available for Snow Leopard machines, because only Snow Leopard has the App Store software, added last January.
Of course, Apple would just as soon have older machines upgraded to newer models that will run Lion out of the box.
It's extremely important, then, that your organization develop a firm and clear policy about what to do about OS X Lion -- even if that policy can be summed up as "strictly hands off. How will your hardware handle the new version of OS X?
The requirements aren't raising any red flags in the Mac community, so it doesn't appear that Apple is forcing massive hardware upgrades to handle Lion.
From a strict hardware spec requirement, your machine needs at least an x processor. In the real world, that essentially puts the cutoff around or ; any Mac sold after that should be fine. Here's the list of compatible models with model numbers:. Obviously, the older the machine, the poorer the performance, though more RAM and faster disks will definitely help.
Obviously this won't be a factor for Snow Leopard users, but anyone still using Leopard or earlier will definitely need to keep this in mind. Software compatibility is going to be one of the hardest nuts to crack for Mac administrators, particularly those coming from older machines. True, Snow Leopard didn't support PPC hardware, but ever since Apple's transition to x86 processors began in , the company has thoughtfully provided Rosetta, an emulator package that would let users keep running older PowerPC applications.
For reasons that are currently boggling the minds of even hardcore Mac fans, Lion will not include Rosetta. That decision on the part of the Apple may be a bigger show-stopper than the download upgrade path. Customers who run PowerPC software including all current PowerPC machine users, naturally will have to upgrade their software to Universal versions if they want to upgrade to Lion.
This is a huge dead-end for PowerPC users; at least with Snow Leopard, even if they had to migrate to new hardware, they could hang on to their old software.
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