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To see what “All My Files” can do for you, open a new Finder window by clicking on the familiar blue smiley face icon in your Dock or by using the keyboard shortcut for a new window (it’s Command-N). After you’ve done so, choose “All My Files” from the Sidebar. Just like any other Finder…

From what I’m seeing on the Web, those people who are technical and who are getting published, either in blogs or the forums, are fairly upset about Auto Save. I think this is a normal reaction by experienced users who are accustomed to working a certain way. After all, from time to time, we all…

1. This how-to assumes you have some favorite desktop pictures, sized for your display on hand. Or you can just use the Desktop pictures that come with Lion. 2. Launch Mission Control. There are several ways to do that. Three finger swipe upwards. (MacBook or Magic Trackpad required and three finger swipe enabled in Trackpad…

Apple updated Lion on Tuesday with the release of “Mac OS X Update 10.7.1,” even though Apple officially changed the name of Mac OS X to OS X. The update includes four bug fixes, including sound and WiFI problems, and an issue dealing with transferring settings to a new Mac.  This is one of those…

Lion was released on July 20 and was touted as the first Mac OS ever to ship without physical media. On launch day, however, Apple announced that it would, in fact, sell a physical installer.Instead of offering a DVD version of Lion, Apple chose to sell the OS on a USB flash drive. The decision…

As of this writing, I haven’t found a utility that allows you to change the background of the Lion login screen, so you’ll have to do it manually. Here’s what you’ll need: Administrator privilege. A .png  graphic the same screen size in pixels as your login display and at 72 dpi (or more properly ppi). 1.…

So back to my premise.  If you have had your Mac for a few months and it is a fairly current model, then you probably have been learning on Snow Leopard.  Snow Leopard is great, but Lion is the future (at least for now).  I figure that if you want to really be a Mac…

Previously, all Macs included an optical drive and a DVD that would allow you to boot from it and reinstall the OS X. The latest version of iLife was included on that DVD.Nowadays Apple is moving away from clunky, rotating plastic discs. In addition, Lion’s hidden recovery partition allows you to boot, examine the main…

To get started, either click on the magnifying glass in the upper-right of your screen or use the keyboard shortcut to open Spotlight (it’s Command-Spacebar). The first thing you’ll notice after you type something in is the new “Web Searches” section in your results window.Selecting the Web option will unsurprisingly do a search within your…

The first thing to know is good news. You don’t have to pay US$99 and become a member of Apple’s Developer program to follow these instructions. You can download Apple’s Xcode 4.1 for free, and its installer will give you gcc, g++, and llvm-gcc nicely installed and ready for the command line. The bad news…

The update patches flaws that could allow an attacker to use maliciously crafted graphics, video or audio files to launch an attack on the victim’s computer and potentially cause crashes or run arbitrary code.The update is free and available through the Software Update application, or as a downloadable installer from the Apple Support Web site.

After installing the update, users should make sure the latest 1Password extension is running in Safari 5.1. To update 1Password’s Safari extension, do this: Launch Safari Choose Safari > Preferences Click Extensions Click Updates, then click Get Extensions Relaunch Safari 1Password is priced at US$39.99 and is available at the AgileBits Web site. The update…

Find a file in the Finder that you’d like to try this on, and either right-click or Control-click on it to bring up the contextual menu. Choose “Open With,” and then if you look at the bottom of the list of potential applications, you’ll see the “App Store” option.Clicking on that opens the App Store…

In a note to the Fed-Talk mailing list*, Apple Security Consulting Engineer Shawn Geddis explained: “With the release of OS X Lion, Smart Card Services are deprecated and will not ship as a customer functioning service. That does not mean that customers will be unable to continue to use their Smart Cards with OS X…

If you click on the Apple Menu in the upper-left of your screen and choose About This Mac, you’ll be taken to the familiar basic window with a little information on it. Choose “More Info” from there, though, and you’ll be treated to Apple’s new extended dance mix of the About This Mac window. It’s well-designed…

Lion doesn’t show window scroll bars by default To force Lion to always show window scroll bars, do this: Go to Apple menu > System Preferences Select the General Preference Pane Click the Always radio button under Show scroll bars You can enable window scroll bars in LionLion’s default setting should automatically show scroll bars…

In Finder, select the file you’d like to preview, and as you’ve probably been doing for forever now, tap the spacebar to activate Quick Look. The familiar window appears, but with a new option—in the upper-right corner, you’ll note that “Open with [default program]” appears. Neat!And if you click and hold on that button, you…

Cookie Detail in Safari 5.0.5However, Apple has, to put it politely, dumbed-down the display of cookies in Safari 5.1. If you select: Safari Preferences -> Privacy -> (Cookies and other website data:) -> Details, you’ll see a newly modified display.Cookie (abbreviated) detail in Safari 5.1To recover the ability to see the original cookie detail, do…

To begin, open System Preferences and choose Users & Groups (formerly the Accounts pane, which has been given a new moniker for Lion). First, you’ll need to click the lock in the lower-left corner and type in your administrator password to make changes. You still remember that for now, right? Then choose your account from…

1. The Terminal. The terminal.app is, of course, sacred in OS X, and nothing much has changed there. Apple has even improved the terminal in Lion and showcased it as a major app and added new features such as the full-screen terminal window, new appearance and status controls, and drag-and-drop proxy icons2. X11. The X…

Apple changed how the two-finger scroll gesture acts in Lion so it matches single finger scrolling on the iPad and iPhone. That means when you swipe down, the contents of the selected window pulls down, too. The scroll gesture in Snow Leopard focuses on the window scroll bar, so swiping down moves the bar down,…

OS X Lion ServerLion Server includes AFP, SMB and WebDAV support, a built-in email server with SSL, Push notifications and junk mail filtering, iCal server, Address Book Server, iChat Server, Wiki Server, Podcasting publishing support, TIme Machine server support, Xsan, and more. It also offers step-by-step walk-throughs for setting up server features, and includes remote…

Lion is available only as a download at Apple’s Mac App Store and the company isn’t offering a version on DVD as it has with previous version of OS X.Apple’s OS X Lion hits the Mac App StoreThe new version of OS X borrows several interface features from iOS on the iPad such as multi-touch…

Lion will replace Mac OS X 10.6, or Snow Leopard, as the company’s newest operating system for the Mac, and includes several features that started life as iOS elements on the iPad. The OS includes new multi-touch gestures for navigation,  an iPad homescreen-like Launchpad for organizing apps, and full screen view for individual apps.Apple to…