[unOfficial]Mac OS X Lion

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unOfficial Mac OS X Lion Thread

The guide to the latest operating Apple, Inc. has produced!

Welcome to the unOfficial Mac OS X Lion thread!
The Mac OS X Lion (OSX Lion) is a new operating system developed by Apple, Inc. Being the "sequel" to the OSX Snow Leopard, the OSX Lion has a few new features added in-store to the Mac OS family! That being, lets take a look at those new features!


OSX Lion Features

Here is the features that the OSX Lion features (XD) from A-Z. (Quoted from Wikipedia.)
  • Address Book now uses an iPad-like user interface.[18]
  • AirDrop – Lion-to-Lion direct file sharing via Wi-Fi Direct. No wireless access point required.[19]
  • Address space layout randomization – Address space layout randomization (ASLR), a security technique that puts important data in unpredictable locations, making it harder to target known weaknesses, is available for 32-bit applications, and "has been improved for all applications", in Lion.[20]
  • Apple Push Notification Service – Send over-the-air alerts, such as news updates or social networking status changes, using Apple's Push Notification service to applications that support APNS. APNS allows Mac OS X Lion and iOS clients to receive push changes to items such as mail, calendar and contacts from a configured OS X Lion Server.[21]
  • Auto-correction now behaves much like on iOS devices, displaying an iOS-like popup box.[22]
  • Auto Save – As in iOS, documents in applications written to use Auto Save will be saved automatically so users don't have to worry about manually managing their documents.[23] Auto Save cannot be disabled, which may cause confusion and problems.
  • Emoji support – Apple has added a new Emoji font commonly used in chat to express ideograms.[22][24]
  • Exposé in the Dock, a way of activating Exposé for a single application from the Dock, a feature added in Mac OS X 10.6,[25] is altered. One must now double-tap with two fingers on a dock icon to initiate single application exposé, or simply right-click or control-click and select Show All Windows.
  • FaceTime comes bundled with Lion.[11]
  • FileVault now offers full disk encryption and added security with XTS-AES 128 data encryption. Support for FileVault on external hard drives has also been added.[26]
  • Finder improvements – Finder search allows multiple search criteria to be specified without creating a smart folder, Finder search offers suggestions, files can be grouped by various attributes, and one can now merge files under two folders with the same name – a prompt will appear asking whether one wants to replace or keep both files.[27][28]
  • Font Book 3—Font Book 3 now provides more flexible displays of character glyphs supplied by a particular font face. Duplicate font files are now flagged with a warning icon, and can be fixed automatically or resolved manually.[24]
  • Full-screen apps – Native, system-wide support for full-screen applications running in their own space. Supporting applications display a new button at the top right of application window, this button opens applications in full-screen mode.[29]
  • High-quality multilingual speech voices – users can download new high-quality voices in more than forty languages and dialects.[30][31]
  • iCal has an updated user interface, an annual view, and support for a full-screen view.[32][33]
  • iChat now has support for logging into Yahoo! Messenger. Users can audio- and video-chat with other iChat users using their Yahoo! accounts.[34][35]
  • Languages/Localization – Arabic, Czech, Turkish and Hungarian are added as full system languages, to make the total number of twenty-two languages available in Mac OS X.[36]
  • Launchpad – An application launcher that displays an iOS-like icon grid of installed applications. It features the ability to make multiple pages and group apps into folders that function the same as folders in iOS.[37]
  • Mac App Store – An application store built in the image of the iOS App Store. Like in iOS, it will provide ways for shoppers to discover apps, one-click installation of apps, and one-click updates of all or selected installed applications.[5][38][39] Despite being announced as a future feature of Lion, the Mac App Store was released for Mac OS X Snow Leopard on January 6, 2011 as it was bundled with the Mac OS X 10.6.6 update.[40]
  • Mail 5 – Uses an iPad-like user interface, has a fullscreen-optimized view, uses chronological "Conversations" to organize messages,[41] and supports Exchange 2010 (but not through the Exchange ActiveSync protocol, as iOS).[42]
  • Mission Control replaces the "All windows" Exposé feature. It gives an overview of all running applications just like "All windows" but groups windows from the same application. At the top of the screen it gives quick access to the Dashboard, Spaces, and running full screen applications.[5][43]
  • Multi-touch gestures – Similar to iOS, additional gestures performed using a multi-touch input device (e.g. Magic Mouse, Magic Trackpad) will allow the user to scroll, swipe to different pages, and enter Mission Control.[44] While this is not the first official multi-touch support for Mac OS X, it has been expanded; other frameworks, such as Lux,[45] have already created multi-touch support.
  • Multi-User Screen Sharing—The built-in Screen Sharing feature now allows remote users to log into a separate user account from the one that is currently logged in. That means that while one user is logged into a machine, a second user can login to the same machine remotely, seeing their own desktop and user environment.[46][47]
  • Preview gains several features, including full-screen support and the ability to sign a document just by holding a signed piece of paper up to the camera.[48][49]
  • QuickTime re-incorporates some features from QuickTime Pro. New features cited include Copy/Paste, Insert Clip, Crop Video, Rotate Video, Resize, Trim, and more Export options.[49]
  • Recovery Partition – Apple has introduced a recovery partition that includes utilities generally found on the OS X discs. This partition will allow the user to restore their computer to its original factory state.[50][51]
  • Resume – Applications resume in the same state when re-opened as already seen in iOS.[52]
  • Safari – With full-screen mode and the new WebKit2 layout engine.[53][54]
  • System Information – This feature is a re-design of System Profiler, which has been completely altered with new views which display graphical information on displays, storage devices, memory usage along with other hardware information. The previous layout remains available by clicking "System Report". Early builds of Lion also used System Information as a replacement for "About This Mac",[55] although the final release reinstated the version of this dialog box found in Snow Leopard.
  • Terminal has extra features, including full screen mode.
  • TextEdit gains a new graphical toolbar with font selection and text highlighting. The new TextEdit also supports Apple's new automatic file saving and versions technologies.[56][57]
  • Versions – Time Machine-like saving and browsing of past versions of documents for applications written to use Versions.[23]
  • Vertical text – Lion supports vertical layouts for East Asian languages.[22][57]
The complete list from Apple can be found on Apple's website.[58]

Server features


Main article: Mac OS X Server
  • Wiki Server 3 – Making it easier to collaborate, share, and exchange information. Users can quickly switch between a server's home page, My Page, Updates, Wikis, People, and Podcasts. File sharing is simpler, and a new Page Editor is added for easy customization.[14]
  • WebDAV File Sharing – Lion Server delivers wireless file sharing for clients that support WebDAV. Enabling WebDAV in Lion Server gives iOS users the ability to access, copy, and share documents on the server from applications such as Keynote, Numbers, and Pages.[14]
  • Profile Manager – Profile Manager delivers simple, profile-based setup and management for Mac OS X Lion, iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch devices. It also integrates with existing directory services and delivers automatic over-the-air profile updates using the Apple Push Notification service.[14][59]
User interface changes

  • Redesigned Aqua user interface elements, including buttons and progress bars. The red, yellow, and green buttons in the window decorations have also been made smaller.[60]
  • Flexible window resizing from any corner or edge of the window,[61][62] similar to window resizing in Microsoft Windows and many window managers for X11.
  • The metal finish has also been slightly altered. It is now a lighter shade of grey than before and features a speckled texture.[citation needed]
  • On demand scroll bars now disappear by default when they are not being used, similar to iOS.[61]
  • Scrolling is reversed by default, to act more like a touch screen computer, so that content moves in the direction of finger movement on touch-pad or mouse, rather than the scrollbar moving in the direction of finger movement. Also, like in iOS, scrolling "bounces" when the scroll bar hits the top or bottom of the window.[63]
  • When resizing a window by clicking on the green button (left-top), a transform-effect animates the enlargement.[citation needed]
  • New windows fly to the front (like opening an app in iOS).[64]
  • The dashboard is now its own space in Mission Control, rather than in previous versions of OS X where the widgets simply flew in and the background dimmed. The "ripple effect" that was seen previously when adding widgets is no longer there due to this change. Users have the option to return to the old dashboard configuration in System Preferences.
  • Tabs, when selected, now appear as being pushed in and darkened as opposed to previous versions where selected tabs were highlighted in aqua blue.[65]
Dropped features

  • Front Row[66]
  • Rosetta, software which makes possible the execution of PowerPC software on x86 hardware, is no longer available.[66] This disables some programs that ran on previous versions of Mac OS X.[67] Programs requiring Rosetta to operate are not allowed to be distributed via the Mac App Store.[68]
  • Adobe Flash Player and Apple's Java Runtime Environment (JRE) are not included in new installations of Lion, but both can still be downloaded and installed manually.[66][69][70] Apple will no longer be actively maintaining its JRE, but Software Update will offer to download Snow Leopard's JRE if a user tries to run a Java program without there being a JRE installed.[71] Programs using Java are not allowed to be distributed via the Mac App Store.[68]
  • iSync, software used for syncing contacts and calendars to third-party mobile phones, is no longer included; however, iSync v3.1.2 from Snow Leopard continues to work.[citation needed]
  • Remote Install Mac OS X, software which allows OS X to be installed using the Remote Disk feature. Using Target Disk Mode, users can circumvent this omission.[72][73]
  • Apple USB Modem is not compatible with Lion.[74]
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I hope this guide is useful! I will be adding more things to this thread so it will be more like a "guide". And to all Mac users, good luck!:)

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New? Lion is just a service pack :P
There's a lot of new stuff there, actually. The document-wise version control stuff is kind of neat, though I imagine if you're working on a picture or something it could start to eat up a lot of space. There's some other neat stuff, too. Also, they finally added fullscreen support for applications (talk about overdue, Windows had that how long ago?). The revisions to sandboxing seem perfect from a security standpoint, I don't see why Windows doesn't take the same approach, to be honest.

http://arstechnica.com/apple/reviews/2011/07/mac-os-x-10-7.ars
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Lion also added options for file copying like replace, rename etc and Windows had that like a century ago? :P

And as for sandboxing, it would take Microsoft a good long time to make sure it's nearly completely flawless. Though having COMODO defeats that purpose with it's own sandboxing tool.

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Eh, I'll allow it.

But definitely check my signature for my opinions on the "visionary" behind it.
Sorry. I like Apple and I thought I would make a thread about the latest OS Apple made.
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Lion also added options for file copying like replace, rename etc and Windows had that like a century ago? :P

And as for sandboxing, it would take Microsoft a good long time to make sure it's nearly completely flawless. Though having COMODO defeats that purpose with it's own sandboxing tool.
Having it take a long time isn't an excuse. If there's one thing Lion does right, it's sandboxing and limiting what an application has permission to do. That's good security.

Of course, it's still a poor implementation of BSD that fails to be significant in any real market segment in my book. But to say there weren't any improvements would be a bit dishonest on my part.
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