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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…

Gear Up Before considering whether or not the move to Lion is for you, makes sure your Mac can handle the new OS. Apple says OS X 10.7 requires at least a Core 2 Duo Mac with a minimum of 2GB RAM, at least 10GB free hard drive space, and Mac OS X 10.6.6 or…

It’s one of the reasons I enjoy teaching beginner classes. I love it when someone says “I didn’t know I could do that!”  So today’s column has some of those “I didn’t know I could do that” tips that have come up in recent classes.  Maybe there is one that you didn’t know either and…

So let’s pretend you’re writing an e-mail to your elderly Aunt Julia when you realize that you want to send her the details of that new first-person shooter video game. Rather than copying the content of the seven messages you received from Rockstar Games and pasting them one at a time into what you’re writing,…

What this means is that when I want to set one of my pictures as a desktop background, I hate using the System Preferences window to do it. It’s very small, and navigating through five thousand images to find the one I want within that pane is frustrating. This, Apple, is not user-friendly. Fortunately, you can set…

The update also boosts Snow Leopard’s defense against MacDefender and its variants. Apple’s patch notes: What’s included? Enhancements to the Mac App Store to get your Mac ready to upgrade to Mac OS X Lion. Resolves an issue that may cause Preview to unexpectedly quit. Improves support for IPv6. Improves VPN reliability. Identifies and removes…

True, many of the apps representing the more than 250 features in Lion were not mentioned in the Keynote. And, as it turns out, there are several new wrinkles added to the Finder in OS X Lion. The most notable is an All My Files view that shows all your personal files in a single…

TMO took the time today to chat with Aaron Patzer, VP/GM of Intuit’s Personal Finance Group, today about this. The executive came to Intuit at the end of 2009 when it acquired Mint.com, a company founded by Mr. Patzer.A Blast From The PastMr. Patzer explained that the PowerPC codebase for Quicken For Mac 2007 was…

The features are broken down into 38 different categories, including the ten overall categories Apple already showed us during the keynote. Accessibility Address Book AirDrop AppleScript Auto Save Automator Electronic Distribution FaceTime FileVault 2 Finder Full-Screen Apps iCal iChat Internet Restore and Utilities Launchpad Mac App Store Mail Mission Control Multi-Touch Gestures Networking Photo Booth…

Lion: Apple’s newest Mac OS Lion-compatible Macs OS X Lion requires a Mac with an Intel Core 2 Duo, Core i3, Core i5, Core i7 or Xeon processor. That means most Macs shipped after 2006 have at least the minimum horse power to run Lion. MacBook The first Core 2 Duo MacBooks shipped in November…

If you’re an experienced Angry Birds player, you already know the hard truth. Even if you managed to get a three-star score at every level, it would not get you anywhere near the top of the Leaderboard. Even if you exceeded the scores necessary to attain the higher bar of “Score Addict” achievements, you won’t…

The first trick involves turning on Safari’s Develop menu, which is done by going to Safari > Preferences, clicking on the “Advanced” tab, and then checking the “Show Develop menu in menu bar” box.This will add an extra drop-down menu in, well, your menu bar. If you’re designing websites, you can use the helpful functions…

To get started, select a group of pictures in iPhoto. Under the Photos menu, choose Batch Change, or hit Command-Shift-B. When you do that, you’ll be presented with some drop-down options on how you’d like to modify the items. My favorite way to do this is by setting the title to “text” and then clicking…