July 2011
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iChat lets you scroll back through your recently...
Like many IRC clients and developer utilities, iChat 6.0 in Lion makes it easy to scroll back through the messages you have sent to a buddy and re-send them. With your input focus in the text box, hold the Option key while pressing the up arrow to scroll back chronologically through each message you’ve sent. The messages populates the text box as if you had just finished typing it, allowing...
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Screen Sharing preserves your scrolling behavior
If you connect (from a machine running Lion) to a non-Lion machine using Screen Sharing, your scrollbar scrolling preferences are preserved. I.e. If you use the new iOS-style scrolling in Lion, scrollbars on the (non-Lion) remote machine use iOS-style scrolling as well.
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Play iTunes from OS X's album art screensaver
If you use the album artwork screensaver, you can mouse over an album cover and a “play” icon will appear. Click it and a song from that album will play.
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Lion can preview animated GIFs in Preview.app and...
Previously you had to download a Quick Look plugin, now it works out of the box.
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gingerforthesoul asked: do I really have to buy Snow Leopard to get Lion? an apple store guy specifically told me not to bother with Snow Leopard and just hold onto my money until Lion.
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How to make the Library folder visible under OS X...
OS X Lion hides the ~/Library folder from view in an effort to prevent users from tampering with sensitive files or unwittingly tossing out their precious data. It’s easy to get to your user’s Library folder with a simple Go > Go to Folder command in Finder, then typing ~/Library. But moapp found a Terminal command that can bring your library folder back into focus:
Open the...
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Navigate the Mac App Store via keyboard
You can switch between the Mac App Store’s main tabs like Featured, Top Charts, and Updates, as well as the search field, with fairly standard keyboard shortcuts. Featured is Command-1, Top Charts is Command-2, and so on. If you need to search, the generally system-wide Command-F shortcut gets you there quickly.
