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Tag: On Lion

  • On Lion: Full-screen apps on small screens are a blessing

    Wren in full-screen
    Wreen in fullscreen

    Lion’s fullscreen feature is truly a blessing. While the minimalistic Twitter app Wren might look great in fullscreen, it isn’t the type of software that truly benefits from this feature. The killer mix is the 11″ MacBook Air, combined with the Safari web browser for example. All nonsense disappears, your app is everything.

    Wren above shows that it looks awesome even if you have almost no functionality, and while I do think fullscreen makes more sense on smaller screens, I do occasionally use it on the 27″ screens at work as well. It just is so focused, and sometimes we need that little extra help to stick to what we’re doing.

  • On Lion: Fullscreen apps are great, but…

    One of the new features in Lion is that apps can have a fullscreen mode that essentially gives them a dedicated Space of their own. This is really sweet in some apps, but others just won’t work. (more…)

  • On Lion: My apps on Launchpad's home screen

    There is no doubt that Lion has a lot in common with iOS and its home screens. These are the apps that I have on my first home screen in Launchpad, the new applications launcher introduced in Lion, on my writing computer (which is an 11″ MacBook Air by the way):

    Launchpad home screen

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    I expect this to change, but this is it right now. What’s on your home screen in the Launchpad?

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  • On Lion: Adding more Spaces

    I still miss Spaces, but as it turns out you can add more of them from Mission Control (thanks @jakob) using the plus sign in the top right, which will only appear if you hover that area or if you hold down the ALT key (thanks @jholmberg). Sneaky design move, Apple!

    Add a space

    You can move apps between Spaces by dragging and dropping in Mission Control, or by right clicking on their icons in the Dock and use the Options menu. This is nice, but a way more cumbersome task than the previous solution with a dedicated options page where you easily assigned apps to specific Spaces.

    You still can, but you must remember to never close a Space in Missions Control because then any assigned apps will open in whatever Space you’re in. Never closing Spaces solves everything, I guess but I would’ve liked a dedicated settings page for this, like we had in Snow Leaopard.

    All that aside, I’m glad I was told about this feature. Spaces open and all is well. Check.

  • On Lion: I miss my Spaces

    The latest operating system for Mac from Apple is called Lion. Apple talks less and less about “OS X” when they mention Lion, and the version number is usually missing (10.7 if you wanted to know) from any information. It just works, as Apple and their cohorts tend to say.

    Is it perfect, this Lion-thingy?

    No, Google tells me there are a ton of bugs. Nothing too crucial although it might depend on what you’re doing with your computer, so I urge you to research that before updating your OS. (more…)