![]() ![]() ![]() I’ll continue playing with Lion and report back on anything else of interest. AirDrop is an easy way to share documents across a local network.A Time Machine like utility allows you to go back to a point in time before you actually wiped out chapters 4- 30 of the book you have spent the last year working on. This will save you a lot of pain and time in the long run. Your best bet, IMO, is to find a way to upgrade to at least Lion (10.7), and preferably Mavericks (10.9). There are many security issues that have since been fixed. Auto-save in iWork apps (Pages, Numbers, Keynote), which keeps multiple versions of the document youa re working on. Apple no longer supports Snow Leopard, and Evernote no longer supports versions that run on it.‘Full Screen Mode’ for most apps, available with Ctl-Cmd-F (I had to change the gloabl search setting in Evernote which also had this shortcut to allow it to work).A newly designed Mail app, which is much better, particualry for searching.You can have multiple virtual desktops that have different applications within them, and scroll from one to the other with a three finger swipe. New Mission Control, which shows all your open windows, also available from the Dock.New LaunchPad, available from the Dock, which shows all your apps.You can change this setting in System Preferences. Note that the scrolling works like the iPad and may be the opposite of what you expect. Pinch to zoom in, or tap with two fingers. Drag four finger up to open “Mission Control”. Alfred is a productivity application for macOS, which boosts your efficiency with hotkeys, keywords and text expansion. New ‘Gestures’ on MacBooks – drag two fingers up or down the trackpad to scroll – drag two fingers left or right to go forward or back a page.Lion is not compatible with some old Mac software (that written for PowerPC), so do not upgrade if there are some old programs that you depend upon. During my install, it seemed to be stuck a number of times (28 mnutes to go for 28 minutes!)- it paid to be patient as eventually all went well. If it is ‘too late’, you can find Lion in the purchased section of the Mac App Store and download it on the mac (usng the same AppleID) without additional charge.Īfter downloading, installing is easy. Note: If you want to install Lion on another of your Macs and want to avoid another huge download, after downloading you can find the app ‘Install Apple Lion’ in your Applications folder and transfer it to the other Mac (across you’re lcoal network, or via a USB drive) You will need to do this before you install Lion, as it is automatically deleted after installation. The cost is $32 and the download is 3.5 Gb – huge! If you are on Leopard, or an even earlier ‘cat’, you will need to wait till the DVD version is released next month. If you are currently running “Snow Leopard”, you can download it from the Mac App Store The Mac App Store is also available from the Apple Menu. I did notice battery life improvements in Mavericks were significant too.Įven Lion, once it was patched to 10.7.4 was a LOT better than Lion was on release.Max OSX 10.7 “Lion” was released from captivity this morning. There's no reason it can't happen on the Mac once you start using software with known security vulnerabilities and no patches.Īnother possibility is to perhaps run a later version of OS X (or Windows for that matter, and run a Windows browser) in Parallels or Fusion, and use a supported browser that way, but IMHO it really is time to upgrade apps and get off snow leopard, if you plan to be using it on the internet.Īnd yes, if you can upgrade to Mavericks, i'd suggest that as it is still supported, and in my experience performance wasn't so bad compared to snow leopard. ![]() Web server gets infected, exploits the browser clients view it with. That sort of thing has happened before, not in the mac world, but with Windows and code-red, Nimda, etc. Safe computing habits aren't really enough these days due to the way that the trusted sites you visit can be compromised.Į.g., Macrumors gets hacked to host malware, and your browser is boned. ![]()
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