250 new features of Mac OS X Lion Part.IV

Spotlight
Some discrete improvements in Spotlight, the search built into Leo. First, you can search the Internet and Wikipedia directly from Spotlight. Then two changes on the hit list: you can drag and drop from the menu and you can get a preview with Quick Look all elements with a simple mouseover.

System
Mac OS X Lion facilitates migration from Windows: the system not only collects the personal papers, but also contacts, calendars and mail accounts, but still photos. Many other changes are emerging as a new submission for the module About This Mac, four new languages (Arabic, Czech, Turkish and Hungarian), managing more content for Quick Look, the appearance of definitions from the dictionary with a double gap in a word ...

About this mac
Among the new more anecdotal note still a full-screen mode for the game of chess that always accompanies the system. More interestingly, we have already mentioned the Mac App Store, instant notifications of IOS are introduced in Mac OS X.

The general interface is evolving with the ability to resize a window from any side, or scroll bars disappear when the default does not scroll the content.

Terminal
Some news too, with a more modern terminal (full screen and more options for appearance), but also more sophisticated controls on the statutes and improved support for drag and drop.

Text
Several additions to Mac OS X Lion on the text, often additions from IOS. Taking a letter supported, we obtain immediately the corresponding accented characters.

Mac OS X also adds Lion iOS corrections, but the system automatically changes the language according to context. More anecdotally, Emoji IOS are emerging, the default font collection grows and new languages are supported.

TextEdit
The application of text default Mac OS X starts to taste the Lion with the support of full screen, automatic backups and versions. TextEdit also contains a new formatting toolbar, a search and support of Eye for attachments.

Time Machine
In Leo, Time Machine can backup to local hard disk when the external drive dedicated to the backup is not. It can also encrypt backups.

Privacy
Mac OS X Leo is hosting a new preferences panel dedicated to privacy, including management of geolocation in applications, or even sending a crash report. An icon also appears in the menu bar when an application locates the Mac.



Versions
This new feature is Time Machine a finer scale of a document. The application automatically saves each version and then presents the previous versions in an interface simple to use. We can then recover deleted items using copy / paste and constantly compare the current version and previous versions. In the event of the document, only the final version will be shared (read: Mac OS X Leo: Time Machine and insight into local versions).

Xsan
Xsan system is directly integrated with Leo and allows any Mac to access an Xsan volume. A new preference panel appeared to manage these particular volumes and Lion supports standard ALUA.

250 new features of Mac OS X Lion Part.III

Screen Sharing
In Mac OS X Leo, Screen Sharing now supports user accounts and allows you to connect to a computer already in use with another account (Remote access multi-user). You can also use an Apple ID to authenticate and a new observation mode only makes its appearance.

Photo Booth
It was a (small) surprise at the Keynote, Apple has updated Photo Booth, its application to take pictures with effects. It contains a full screen mode like all Apple applications, but new effects using face recognition. Photo Booth benefits (finally) FaceTime HD cameras and takes pictures in high resolution while videos can be shortened.

Full Screen
Applications can now integrate a full screen mode by default which is already active for applications from Apple. In this mode, only the application remains the dock as the menu bar disappears. Multitouch gestures can go a full screen application to another.

System Preferences
The new preferences system Lion centralize the management of Internet accounts in one preference pane. Some new options are also emerging, like the ability to hide indicators of the dock to open applications or reversing the pad.

QuickTime Player:
New editing capabilities for QuickTime Player and the new combination of multiple videos or video rotation. It can also save only a single part of the screen, whereas in the screenshot, the clicks are highlighted. New sharing options are also included in Leo.

Network
Mac OS X Lion has a new mode that allows access to data via the network without re-enable the entire system, thereby saving electricity. This mode activates neither the monitor nor the USB ports. Among the new features include the appearance of a window when a network requires authentication, support for NFSv4 and SMB addresses with DFS that facilitate reconnection.

Resume
This resets an application or even the entire system in the state where he or she was before her arrest, as in IOS. When turning off the Mac, you can also specify a starting from scratch, as was the case with Snow Leopard.


Restoration
Mac OS X Lion contains a hidden partition that can easily restore the system without optical disk, which is handy given the market only by the Mac App Store. The recovery mode contains several tools, including one that allows you to reinstall (possibly from a TimeMachine backup), but it also includes Safari to do research on your problem.

Safari
Apple's browser starts up to date with a full screen and new touch gestures, including the double tap to zoom and intelligent way to pinch to zoom in IOS. Safari improves support HTML5 and the CSS3, it contains a new list of downloads (a bit of future Firefox Safari) and a reading list for items that you do not want to read immediately (A function similar to Instapaper in Safari 5.1). Safari also practices sandboxing and application contains a new architecture that makes the browser more stable with a separation process.

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250 new features of Mac OS X Lion Part.II

FileVault 2
This is the major update to the document encryption solution for Mac OS X. With Leo, it is now capable of encrypting the entire drive and it also works with external drives (USB and FireWire). FileVault XTS-2 uses AES 128 to encrypt (a solution very secure), access to encrypted data is immediately after entering the password.

Finder
The Finder has a new default view to display all files sorted by category, a new option that was also around the Finder. The search box displays suggestions and intelligently filters the results, like in Mail. It can merge files, create a folder from a group of files or keep multiple files when drag and drop a file that already exists in the destination folder.


iCal
New interface for Apple's calendar application, we have already mentioned on MacGeneration.

iChat
Even if Apple puts more emphasis on FaceTime now, the messaging client iChat is not abandoned historic Lion in the contrary. It now includes Messenger; it offers a unified contact list and a unified status for all registered accounts. We can now perform a search in the iChat buddy list and can be extended by plug-ins.

Launchpad
LaunchPad Application Manager to iOS works just like in IOS or almost. We may set records for applications, delete them directly from the LaunchPad ... Only applications on the Mac App Store are entitled to all functions.


Mac App Store
Integrated with Leo, he also has three new features compared to that which was added to Snow Leopard. First of all purchases in-app that will finally allow developers to offer trial versions that can be clamped to unlock the application. Other new updates faster where only changes from the previous version will be recovered and finally instant notifications identical to those of iOS directly to inform users of an application.

Mail
Mail Mail LionBeaucoup novelties have already been mentioned on MacGeneration. This new version offers a completely new interface with a very practical view conversations and new research more quickly and efficiently. Among the new quieter; note the archiving of emails with one click or support Exchange 2010 notifications and holidays.

Mission Control
Replacing Exposé and Spaces, Mission Control offers control over applications with extensive use of multitouch gestures. The changes concern statement, but also and especially the new Spaces: everything is done from Mission Control and the dock. Confusing at first, this mode is much simpler and more intuitive.

Space Lion
New quieter Mac OS X Leo, you can now associate different wallpaper per virtual desktop.

Multitouch
They have been widely reported on MacGeneration. Remember they are even more present than in Snow Leopard and they make the trackpad Magic even more useful.
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250 new features of Mac OS X Lion Part.I

Following the opening keynote of WWDC 2011, Apple has posted on its website a long list of 250 new features for the next update of its system. Some innovations were already known thanks to the Developer Preview of the system, some others were not yet known. A Quick overview of all the new features here.


Accessibility
VoiceOver has 23 votes in many languages and we can even download new high-quality voice in the ad hoc panel preference. Leo also supports Braille, you can zoom in on an image only (the rest of the screen remains unchanged), the cursor is defined more and Apple has added a new mode drag and drop where you select the original item and point of destination and the system does the rest.

Accessibility lion voice
Airdrop
To simplify the sharing of documents, airdrop integrates seamlessly Finder Lion. The feature requires no configuration, just click on the icon to see immediately compatible computers on their network and send a file or folder. The transfers are secure (encryption in TLS), a firewall is automatically created and you keep control of operations (confirmation that you accept the file, possible cancellation of the transfer).

Overview
Overview of the many innovations have already been outlined MacGeneration.

AppleScript
The scripting language is not abandon Apple with Leo. The AppleScript editor contains some innovations, such as templates to quickly create a script linked to a rule by example. You can create applets Cocoa (AppleScript Studio to replace what?), Create scripts which focus on an application ...



Auto Save
Auto SaveCette function automatically saves the documents, everything is done transparently and automatically, even if you can duplicate a file or a block from the menu that will appear in the final version in the filename.

Automator

Automator can now change a process to move from one process to service a plug-in printing for example. The application manages versions and Auto Save, new Automator actions appear in Lion, in particular to manage RTF files.


Address Book
Besides a new interface, Address Book Lion improves its synchronization with Yahoo, it offers access to photos in iPhoto to complete the address book, it allows FaceTime to initiate a call or add birthdays without year.



Mac OS X LionDistribution
Mac OS X Lion abandons the physical medium. The next version of Apple's system will only be sold on the Mac App Store for € 23.99. We can install on any Mac with an account authorized iTunes Store.

FaceTime
The video chat application is built into Apple's Mac OS X Lion. Little new from what we already knew, except the addition of an expected full screen.
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Testing the iMac 27 "2.7 GHz Quad Core i5 Part.IV

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