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Joshua Johnson on January 17th 2012Tweet

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OS X Lion has now been around long enough for us all to dig in and really find some interesting functionalitythat is either completely hidden or just enough below the service that many users dont even know it exists.

Weve spent hours combing through Lion for secrets and put out a call on Twitter for your favorites. This postbrings over forty such hidden tricks and tips for your viewing pleasure. Enjoy!

Finder Tricks

1. Bring Back Finders Icon Size Slider

With Lion came a ton of visual changes to the operating system we know and love. Everything has a sort ofborderless appeal to it now with window graphics going right up to the edge and stopping suddenly without a

buffer of any sort.

This makes for a really slick looking operating system, but to achieve it Apple had to make some serious

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functionality sacrifices that Im not crazy about. For instance, the Finder no longer has the status bar at thebottom. Theres no quick reference for how many items are in a folder or a slider to resize the icons (a nicetythat we only just got in Snow Leopard).

Fortunately, this particular problem has a quick fix. These features arent gone, theyre just hidden by default.

Bringing them back is as easy as hitting/or going to View>Show Status Bar.

The long lost Finder Status Bar

2. New Group From Selection

Lets say you have a bunch of stuff scattered across your desktop that you want to throw into a single folder.The old way of doing this is to create a new folder, select everything but that folder, then drag all of the selecteditems into it. In Lion though, you can now simply select all of those items then Right-Click and choose NewFolder with Selection.

3. Merge Folders

Did you know you can have Lion auto-merge the contents of two folders? This one was tricky to figure out.Apple announced it on their site as a new feature in Lion but getting it to work is anything but intuitive.

If you have two identically named folders in separate directories, dragging one in with the other prompts astandard Replace dialog message. However, Option-Dragging the folder to duplicate it into the other directorybrings up an additional choice: merge. This will create one folder containing the collected contents of both ofthe originals.

Merging folders

4. Arrange Apps By Category
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The new Finder has dramatically improved the various sorting modes that are available. For instance, organizeyour files by date and youll see some nice subtle dividers that separate the content, making for a much morepleasant viewing experience.

If youre in your Applications folder, a new option pops up in this menu: Application Category. This willintelligently sort through all your App Store apps and place them in their corresponding categories.

Apps arranged by category

5. Close all Finder Windows

Have you ever found yourself with a ton of different Finder windows open and wishing that you could just kill

them all and start over? Look no further than a quick W, which will instantly close all open Finder

windows. Alternatively, you canClick the close button.

6. Drag Something Out of the Sidebar

At least once a week a random click and drag goes wrong in Finder and I end up with something in my sidebarcompletely by accident. Logic says that to fix this, youd reverse your previous action and drag the item backout to delete it from the sidebar, but this doesnt work.

However, you dont have to resort to the multi-step Control-clicking fiasco, instead try a Command-drag.This will successfully remove the item in the sidebar.

7. Fullscreen Spotlight Shortcut

Lets say you have a folder full of JPGs and you want to quickly go through them in a fullscreen image viewer.Try hittingSpace to instantly launch Quick Look in fullscreen. From here, use your back and forth arrows,


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view a grid or start a slideshow.

Awesome Lion Tricks

8. Show Dock in Fullscreen Apps

Another great Lion feature is the fullscreen mode that you now see on many apps. The immediate complaintthat many people have upon entering a fullscreen app though is that their dock no longer pops up from thebottom when moused over.

The truth is, yes it does. The action necessary to make it happen changes ever so subtly though. Typically, anymotion near the bottom of the screen will pop up a hidden dock. However in fullscreen mode, you must bringyour mouse all the way down to the bottom, then keep going. That little extra effort will tell OS X that youarent messing around with the app but instead want to see your dock. Its awkward to get used to buteventually it starts to make sense.

9. Add a Signature in Preview

Signing digital documents can be a pain. You have to print the PDF, sign it, then scan it back in. Who wants togo through that mess? Fortunately, Preview now lets you skip the hassle.

Open a document in preview and slide open the Annotations Toolbar by clicking on the little pencil buttonnear the top. From there, click on the Signature Button (the S with a line under it) and choose CreateSignature from Built-in iSight. Now just follow the on-screen instructions and sign a white piece of paper thenhold it up to the camera. Preview will even save your signatures for future use.

Adding signatures in Preview

10. Alternate Character Options

This one is something everyone (including me) finds completely by accident when they try to typenooooooooo! or a similarly repeating string of vowels in Lion. It turns out if you hold down certain letters onthe keyboard, rather than repeating the character, Lion pops up an iOS-like menu that allows you to choose analternate variation.


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Alternate Character Options

11. Address Book/iChat: Import Face from iPhoto

If you use Faces, iPhotos automatic face-detection feature, then adding photos to contacts in various Lion appsbecomes much easier. When editing a contacts photo, theres a little button at the bottom that will

automatically match the name of your contact to a face in iPhoto.

iPhoto Faces Button

12. Quick Duplicate Open File

I had a very difficult time adjusting to the lack of a Save As option in many of Lions apps, this is of course a


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result of the new Versions document system. One of the things that made it easier is knowing how to quicklycreate a duplicate of a document without running to the File menu.

Duplicate

To accomplish this trick, click on the filename at the top of a Version-enabled file like those from TextEdit.This drops down a menu of options, one of which allows you to quickly duplicate the file.

Command-Clicking on the same place (the filename at the top of the window) will give you the path to that file.You can click on any folder in the hierarchy to open it in Finder.

13. Move Download from Safari

The new Safari download manager that sits to the right of the search bar has some interesting functionalitybeyond double-clicking a file in the list to open it. You can also actually move the downloaded file out fromyour Downloads folder by clicking and dragging it right from the Safari menu into the folder where you want it.

Drag the download to move it to your desktop

14. Quick Look Previews in SpotlightSpotlight received a welcome improvement with the Lion upgrade, now when you hover over an item in theresults, a little Quick Look preview automatically pops up. The secret surprise is how well this works. Forinstance, if there are web pages in the results, you get an actual live web preview. Click on a link and it opens itin your browser. This is great for running a quick search for a site that you recently visited.


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Live web previews right in Spotlight

15. Drag from Spotlight

Another slight Spotlight improvement is the ability to drag and drop files right from your search results. Keep inmind that this action will copy a file to a new location, not move it.

16. Noncontiguous Selections in TextEdit

In TextEdit, you can hold down the Option to see the typical selection tool replaced by a crosshair icon. Usingthis will allow you to make a noncontiguous selection, presumably to make selecting columns easier.

Noncontiguous selections

17. Multiple Selections in TextEdit


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While were on the topic of cool ways to select text in TextEdit, try holding down the Command key andmaking a few selections. This allows you to select and copy multiple items at once. Unfortunately, it doesntallow you to then replace all of those selections with a single typed string like Sublime Text 2 does.

18. Play an Album From Your Screensaver

In Lion, the built-in Album Artwork Screensaver has some added functionality. You can now move your mouse

around without exiting the screensaver. Hovering over an album will enlarge it and give you the option to playit. Its a really fun way to see and interact with your music.

Click an album to play it

19. Delete Apps in Launchpad

Launchpad introduces a brand new way to delete apps from your Mac. In the Launchpad interface, click andhold an app to launch the iOS-style wiggle mode (or simply hold down Option). This will activate little closeicons on the apps that were installed through the Mac App Store. Clicking this wont only delete the app fromlaunchpad, itll throw it in the trash.


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Jiggle mode

20. View Recent Files in Expose

Theres a cool new way to view your recent items in several apps such as TextEdit and Preview. Activate theapp and hit your dedicated Expose Keyboard Shortcut (varies from older to newer keyboards). Not only willall of the open windows zoom out and organize themselves, along the bottom of the screen a strip of thumbnailswill pop up containing recently opened items.

Recent Files in Expose

21. Different Launchpad Backdrops

Heres one that Ill bet youve never heard about. The default view behind your icons in Launchpad is a blurred

out version of your desktop. You can actually change this by hitting B. This shortcut will toggle betweenblurred, normal and grayscale backgrounds.


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22. Proportional Window Resize

In Lion you can now resize a window from any edge, not just the corner. It turns out that this works similarly toresizing objects in many graphics applications. For instance, holding the Option key while dragging an edgewill also move the opposite edge. Also, holding Shift will move every edge exceptthe one opposite to theselected edge.

23. Double Tap to Define

In Snow Leopard, you could hitD while hovering over a word to bring up a little window with itsdefinition. In Lion, you can do the same thing with a three finger double tap.

Double tap with three fingers to define

Revert to the Old Ways

24. Turn off Natural Scrolling

This one was instantly the most requested trick when Lion first launched. The powers that be at Apple havedecided that the natural way for you to scroll is by imagining that youre actually reaching out and tossing the

page like you do on an iOS device. The problem of course is that on a desktop you have years of experiencesliding your fingers down to scroll down and up to scroll up. Suddenly being forced to reverse your thinkingresults in a mental barrier that many people dont see the benefit in getting over.

I recommend just getting used to it as it seems to be how Apple will do things from here on out, but if yousimply cant accept the change, you can revert back to the old way by unchecking Scroll direction: natural inthe Mouse section in System Preferences.


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Getting your scroll on the old school

25. Bring Back Scroll Bars

As I mentioned before, the major visual push in Lion was all about stripping out anything unnecessary from theuser interface. Some people like these changes, others cant stand them. As we saw before though, Appletypically gives you control over these changes.

Scroll bars are a very useful feature, their presence immediately lets you know that the page can be scrolled.When theyre hidden, history has taught us to assume that the page doesnt scroll. However, in Lion the defaultstate of scroll bars is hidden, they dont show up until you start scrolling. This can be confusing and frustrating

if youre too used to the old way. You can bring them back easily enough though, simply go into the Generalcategory in System Preferences and select Show Scroll Bars: Always.

Getting your scroll on the old school

26. Turn Off Restore Windows


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While were in the General section ofSystem Preferences take note of the Restore windows setting near thebottom. Sometimes this can get really frustrating.

For instance, if you have a buggy Safari extension that crashes on a certain page, having the browser continuallytry to reload that page aggravates the problem. Also, if you have an older Mac that takes long enough to start upan application, turning off the default action to restore the last session and all of its tabs can save a lot ofheadaches.

27. Old School Mail Layout

The upgrades to Mail were some of the best that Lion made as far as Im concerned, but theyre not foreveryone. If you miss the old Mail layout, youre in luck. Open up Mail Preferences and click on the Viewingtab. At the top youll see a checkbox labelled Use classic layout, check this and youre back to Snow LeopardsMail layout.

Mission Control

28. Make Your Spaces Stay Put

Being used to the way that Spaces worked in Snow Leopard, I simply couldnt get used to how Mission Controlwas always rearranging my spaces (aka desktops, Lion cant seem to decide what to call them). I like to haveeverything stay put with a set position for desktop 1, 2, 3 etc.

It all started making much more sense when I went into Mission Control in System Preferences and turned offAutomatically rearrange spaces based on most recent use. After you do this, you can once again enjoy thesanity of assigning an app to space 1 and having it stay there!

29. Magnify Windows in Mission Control

Mission Control is probably my favorite new feature in Lion. I use it constantly and definitely find it to be anextremely useful way to sort through the massive amount of windows that I generally have open.

One hidden feature here that youve probably never tried is to hit space bar when hovering over one of thesmall window previews. This will zoom into the window in a Quick-Look-like fashion so you can take a closerlook.


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Hit space over a Mission Control window

30. Focus on a Single App

This function is very similar to the on in the last tip, only it focuses on all of the windows in a given app,making them larger and dimming the windows from other apps. To accomplish this, hover over a cluster of

windows and scroll up.

31. New Desktop with Selection

In Mission Control, if you hover your mouse in the top right, a little + tab appears to create a new desktop. Ifyou ever have a window that you want to toss in a new dedicated desktop, simply grab it and drag it to the +tab.


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New Desktop with selection

32. Drag Files to Mission Control

While youre dragging a file, launch Mission Control and drop the file on an application to have it opened withthat specific app.

Oldies But Goodies

33. Instantly Show an App in Finder

When Im writing a review of an app, I always need to grab its icon for the post. This means going into theApplications folder and sorting through the million things that I have in there to land on the one Im looking for,which can be a pain. My old solution was to right-click on the app, go Options and click Show in Finder.

However, theres a much better way to go about this: simply Command-Click on any app in your dock and aFinder window will pop up with that app selected.

34. Kill and Yank

Ive mentioned this one before on AppStorm but its good enough to repeat. Have you ever had a situationwhere you needed to cut and paste something, but didnt want to lose what was already occupying yourclipboard? With Kill and Yank, you can!

Select the bit of text just like you always would, but instead of cutting the text, hit K to kill it. This isessentially like cutting it to an entirely different clipboard that doesnt affect your default clippings. Once

youre ready to bring it back, yank it withY.

35. Option-Click Icon in Dock to Show/Hide App

Option-clicking on an app in your dock has some interesting functionality. If the app isnt currently showing,

the frontmost app will hide and the app that you clicked on will be shown. If the app that you click on is alreadythe active application, then it will hide.


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36. Change Volume Without the Pop

When you adjust the volume via the keyboard, you get these little popping noises that help you identify justhow loud the volume currently is. If you want to be a little more covert about it, you can adjust the volumewithout these noises by holding down the Shift key while changing the volume.

It use to be the cast thatVolume Keys would allow for incremental volume changes on a smaller scale

than your typical click. Unfortunately, Apple axed this feature in Lion.

37. Quick Access System Preferences

Along the same lines as the previous tip, try holding down Option while hitting your volume or brightness keysto be taken to their corresponding System Preference panel.

38. Extra Menu Bar Info

Holding down Option while clicking on an OS X system menu bar item will often reveal some hiddeninformation and options. For instance, performing this trick on your MacBooks battery icon will show you thehealth of your battery. Also try it on the sound, Airport and Time Machine menu bar items.

Hold option to see more information

39. Move Menu Bar Items

Follow the same steps as the last tip, only this time hold down the Command key instead. This will give youthe option to rearrange your menu bar items! Note that this typically does notwork with third party menu barapps.

40. Auto Complete F5

This one is extremely handy for those of us that can never spell words like bureau and rendezvous right onthe first try. As youre typing in TextEdit or iChat, hit F5 or Option+Escape to bring up an autocomplete menuwhere you can select from various possible completions to the word youve started.


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Autocomplete

41. Delete Last Word or Line

When typing in OS X, to quickly delete the last word that you typed, hit Option+Delete. You can also hitCommand+Delete to eliminate the entire current line of text.

42. App Switcher Tricks

You probably already useTab to move to the next application in Application Switcher, but did you know that

with the switcher still open you can switch to

` to move your selection backwards? You can also use thearrow keys and even quit/hide applications all right from the switcher.

43. Disable Caps Lock

Do you ever really use Caps Lock? Me neither, but I do accidentally turn it on frequently. To prevent this fromhappening, you can actually disable the action entirely. Go into System Preferences and click on Keyboard.Then click on the Modifier Keys button near the bottom of this window and change Caps Lock Key tonone.

What Did We Miss?At this point youve either been blown away by a flood of amazing new knowledge regarding how to get themost out of your OS X experience, or youre patting yourself on the back for already knowing about all forty-three tips. If youre in the latter category, its your turn to try to impress us. Leave a comment below and let usknow about all your favorite hidden tricks!

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StefJanuary 17thReply

Just further to tip #35

First:

If you hold [option] and click on 1) any APP WINDOW that is NOT the current app, OR 2) click thedesktop: the current app will hide and the focus will go to the app whose window you clicked on.

(Its essentially the same as using the Apple+H shortcut, except it works even for apps who haveApple+H connected to a different function than hide such as Photoshop or Pro Tools.)

Second:

Do the same as above, except use [option]+[command] while clicking on another app. This time, all appswill hide except for the app whose window you clicked.

sam

January 17thReply

@ 19. Delete Apps in Launchpadclick and hold works justbutwhy not just press option key? it does the same but much faster or lets say it shows the delete button onevery app instantly.

JoeJanuary 17thReply

Hold down Ctrl and two-finger scroll up or down to zoom the whole screen in or out. As my eyes getolder my fondness for this one grows
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Michael Ebens

January 17thReply

Its actually a one-finger scrolling action, but obviously a second finger doesnt make anydifference. (Thats on my Macs anyway.)

JamieD

January 18th

It appears 2 fingers are needed maybe its based on the laptop you have

Charles

January 20th

Its whatever the Mac uses as the scrollwheel. Thats two fingers on a trackpad, one on amagic mouse. You can turn it on and off (and change the modifier) in System Preferences ->Universal Access -> Seeing tab -> Options (under Zoom) ->Use scroll wheel with modifierkeys to zoom (checkbox at the bottom)

ZakirahJanuary 27thReply

This only works for me if I hold down the Option button instead of Control. Not sure why.

ShivFebruary 24th

To Zakirah,

If you want it to work by pressing Control ( or any other key ), go to System Preferences >Accessibility > Zoom and change the modifier key under the Use scroll gesture with

modifier key to zoom
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Michael Ebens

January 17thReply

O.O Wow! This stuff is incredible. Thanks so much guys!

Ian Yates

January 17thReply

Merge Folders. Solid gold.

yawnJanuary 17thReply

in App. stack (Dock) you can hit cmd button with any letter and the app will be popped up. for example,if I like to open Yep app I hit cmd+Y and voila!

Agos

January 17thReply

Yeah, super secret half of those is either in plain sight or from the list of Lion features.

Dan BJanuary 17thReply

Indeed. I knew all of these.#ineedalife
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Terry

January 19thReply

You might be well versed in iOS features, and all that is mentioned above seems quite obvious toyou, but there are many such as myself who are not quite as familiar with these features or how todiscover them (recent migrant from Windows to Mac). So please flaunt your ego when it comes toyour personal achievements, and not in a public forum intended to inform the community.

JennyJanuary 22ndReply

Did you really mean to sound like such a smug smarty pants?

Everyone else. thanks a lot for the tips.

Zakirah

January 27thReply

Not everyone is well-versed on Mac OSX like you.. to me these are all new.

Patton77

January 30thReply

Also, english grammar is in plain sight, but it didnt stop you from writing half of those is insteadof half of those are

;)
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Ben

January 17thReply

I dont know if this is widely known butIf you hold CMD+SHIFT+4+SPACE you can take screenshots of windows instead of the whole screen.Useful if you want a clean shot of a particular window.

David

January 17thReply

Thanks for posting this use cmd+shift+4 a lot, adding the space bar makes it even sweeter ;)

Daniel

January 18thReply

Very cool. Had no idea about this little trick. Thanks.

Mark

January 24th

You can also add ctrl to that combo (or any screenshot keyboard shortcut) to have the imagecopied to the clipboard and not saved to the desktop.

So in this case, you hit ctrl+cmd+shift+4, space, then click and your window is now ready topaste.

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I use this a lot too. But without the SPACE bar. Just Cmd+Shift+4.

ahmed elsalahy

January 17thReply

TRY holding SHIFT while doing any thing like when u hit space to preview some thing or much moreother stuff , it makes it slow in a cool way , try it with mission control.

Murray

April 20thReply

Haha! Strangely satisfying! :)

I guess thats for when youre doing presentations, just ease it in

Aravind Ajith

January 17thReply

Not really SUPER SECRET!But a handy list.

Antonio Lopez

January 17thReply

You can Spotlight as a calculator. Cmd+Space and type an expression you need to calculate, e.g., 23 *(56.5 / 13.4)
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Coerv

January 17thReply

Do you have a tip how I can make it work again, that my all my application windows show, when I clickand hold its dock icon (the way it used to work in Snow Leopard)? I know I can achieve this by double-tapping, but I have a 4 year old MacBook that doesnt support this multigesture stuff. Besides I thinkdouple tapping is not as handy as clicking and holding.

dmcarefuldriverFebruary 24thReply

Right click on the dock icon > show all windows.

Not very convenient, but if youre trackpad doesnt support multi-touch youre out of luck.

At least you can assign a keyboard shortcut to view all windows of the current app. Actually, if youdo that, you can hit that and then switch to any apps by clicking it in the dock, as in SnowLeopard.

Murray

April 20th

The default shortcut key is CTRL & DOWN ARROW

Works well. Good tip!

Matthew JanssenJanuary 17thReply

36. Change Volume Without the Pop

There is a System Preference checkbox in the Sound settings to turn this off permanently. That is literallythe first thing I do when I get a new system. I cant stand hearing that noise every time I change thevolume.
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Seth HallFebruary 1stReply

Word

Prescott Perez-Fox

January 17thReply

That screenshot of Launchpad illustrates, yet again, how broken it still is. The fact that some apps dontget the X is ridiculous, as is the complete uninstallation of apps directly from Launchpad. It should atleast be an dialogue box.

Andrew

January 20thReply

The reason for this I believe is that only simple apps can be deleted like that. Most of the appsthat I installed with a *.mpkg file do not have an x, because their files are distributed in multipleareas. Apps where all I needed to do was drag and drop into the Applications folder do have an xbecause deleting them is tantamount to deleting any other folder on the drive.

Jason

January 17thReply

Command-click/drag a background window to move or interact with it without losing focus of the currentapp!

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February 24thReply

Wow i never knew that. Thanks, thats really useful!

nuc

January 18thReply

title is misleading :S

Yoshita

January 20thReply

Welcome to the Internet

AnonymousJanuary 18thReply

Awesome!

yvaverous

January 18thReply

How did you change the display font in Lion and what font did you use?

John M

January 18th
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Sweet list of tips. I knew some of them already, but a few of them will come in handy. Its nice to see a listof them all in one place.

daslive

January 18thReply

Muy til, gracias.

frkncngz

January 18thReply

invert screen colours: cmd + alt + ctrl + 8

MurrayApril 20thReply

That is fd up. Thank you.

mabi

January 18thReply

When using Quick Look on an item in Spotlight (hover the cursor over the item), press Option andCommand for a moment to see where the item is located (it appears at the bottom of the Quick Lookwindow)
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Carl

January 20thReply

This is the best OSX Spotlight tip ever! I always Command+click the item in the list to pop a newFinder window

Carl

January 20th

Also, just Command on the selected Spotlight item shows what criteria Spotlight matched foryour query. This is really handy when seemingly strange results appear in your list.

ZakirahJanuary 27thReply

Thanks for both tips! These are very handy! I love to use Spotlight but never thought it could locatethe item location.

And also the search criteria. Fantastic!

Harm

January 18thReply

Change the order of the spaces just by dragging them in Mission Control.

Its not really a hidden feature but strangely it was not possible when Lion was released. I believe theyfixed it with an update.

Harm

January 18th

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Change the order of the spaces just by dragging them in Mission Control. Does not work with my first
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(outer left) space.

Its not really a hidden feature but strangely it was not possible when Lion was released. I believe theyfixed it with an update.

Grigory V.

January 19thReply

#16 is system-wide actually.The only one I didnt know about is application category sorting :-)

MatthewDias

January 19thReply

on number 42 you can also use command-shift-tab to go backwards

iynque

January 19thReply

Heh when I sort applications by category, I get 333 of 432 items in the Other category.

CFJanuary 19thReply

For those getting old, buying larger monitors, but cant see the mouse pointer anymore. SystemPreferences:Universal Access:Mouse & Trackpad.

Unlike in Snow Leopard, zooming the mouse cursor/pointer no longer creates a very pixelated pointer.All the pointersthe arrows, the cursor, the Mickey Mouse glove, the plus signs when

copying/dragging filesare smoothly rendered.
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MarqueeMark

January 23rdReply

You just helped me recover a feature Id been crying about since I upgraded to Lion!!

Looking at the Trackpad Options I noticed an option for Dragging and next to it, a drop-downmenu for with Drag-Lock. YESSSS!!!

I have an older 17! MBP and when Lion came on the scene I noticed I couldnt select text or move

windows without having to click the bottom trackpad button. I HATE using the trackpad button.But now that I found the Drag-Lock feature again Im in hog heaven.

May you live to be a thousand years old, sir. quote from luggage salesman from Joe Versus the

Volcano

MitchJanuary 20thReply

@42 it works to go backwards if you already have command tabbed, but if not, it works really well totab between windows of the same application.

IanJanuary 20thReply

` doesnt move backwards in the application switcher,+Shift+Tab does.` Moves between openwindows within one application. You should also mention that to quit an application from the switcher,

you just need to hit Q while holding.

DannyJanuary 20th

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Boxee, NEVER TO BE DELETED. IT IS IMPOSSIBLE FOREVER.
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Juvenal

January 20th

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Burno

Hawk

January 23rd

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Tips 57, 13, 1617, 29, 3233, 3537, 39, 4043 are nothing new.

Many of these tips arent even mildly secret, theyre obvious but to the newest of Mac users.

Please dont exaggerate so f*cking much. Im sick of people constantly exaggerating. Modesty is aprecious rarity these days.

MarqueeMarkJanuary 23rdReply

Modesty is a precious rarity? Pot, meet kettle.

Mark

January 24thReply

In system preferences, trackpad, turn on Three Finger Drag. It is fantastic for anything you wouldnormally click and drag (resizing windows, moving files or windows, highlighting text, panning maps).

I turned it on not sure if Id like it but now I love it and I keep finding new ways to use it. Try it.
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Tarif

February 8thReply

This is amazing. I dont think Ill ever need to press the trackpad again (the sound it makes on newMBPs is so much louder than what Im used to with the button ones).

I dismissed this option for some reason when I got the new computer but youre absolutely right.

Thanks!

P.S. If youre a designer this option will change your life.

Tarif

February 8th

Worth noting though that youll lose other three-finger functionalities (like mission controland swiping between desktops) so will depend on your usage.

Im used to using hot-corners for expos anyway so Im fine with that.

Passing-by

January 26thReply

#42. Command+` is not for choosing other apps you launched in reversed order, but for choosing otherwindows (if any) within the current app. Im pretty sure but unfortunately I dont have a mac with me

right now. Can somebody check and confirm this for other readers to come?

Joshua JohnsonJanuary 26thReply

Its a context sensitive shortcut. It does what you say for windows, it also does what I say in theApp Switcher.
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Michael Schinis

January 27thReply

37. Enable Native iTunes Now Playing Notifications

Step OneLaunch Terminal from your Applications:Utilities folder.

Step TwoInput the following commands:

defaults write com.apple.dock itunes-notifications -bool TRUE

defaults write com.apple.dock notification-always-show-image -bool TRUE

killall Dock

Step ThreeAfter your Dock has been restarted you will notice now playing notifications appear above the iTunesicon.

RemovalTo remove notifications, input the following commands into the Terminal window:

defaults write com.apple.dock itunes-notifications -bool FALSEdefaults write com.apple.dock notification-always-show-image -bool FALSEkillall Dock

Im sure you will all love this as much as i do..

Grog MalBlood

May 6thReply

Is there any way to get the album art to replace the iTunes icon?

This is a really cool trick, thanks!

Matthew Guay

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My favorite keyboard shortcut for OS X that Ive recently learned: shift+alt+8 inserts the degree ()symbol. Very handy. Now if only long-pressing the o key would let you insert it like you can in iOS

dmcarefuldriver

February 24thReply

Alt-0 (zero) does the same thing, inserting the symbol

And in iOS, it is actually long pressing the zero that gets you the symbol. But unfortunately thatdoesnt work in Lion.

Val LeeFebruary 6thReply

Forwarded Messages and their Vertical Line or Lines:

To eliminate unsightly forward lines

In the forwarded message, highlight the entire message and go to Format in the top gray bar (menubar), and click Indentation. In side bar, click Decrease. It is done.

Val Lee

February 6th

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I must add:

In some cases, Decrease has to be hit more than once for total elimination.

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24. Turn off Natural Scrolling

If you are behind a iMac with a USB mouse you cant turn off Natural Scrolling. That part of thesettings isnt available! You need bluetooth mouse or trackpad.

Mike Mendiola

February 16thReply

Yes I was wondering. when I am uploading a file to email or to a website aka pic, or pdf file. When i amthe option of choosing my file is there a way that i can preview the entire file not just a small snapshotthat i see in the window. On a PC I could right click and open the file to see it. I have not been able tofind a way to duplicate that here. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Murray

April 20thReply

You could try highlight the icon for the file and pressing SPACE.

SPACE brings up a preview of anything thats highlighted, whether its an image, or a text file, oran MP3. Very handy!

N.R.February 22ndReply

Does anyone actually use Launchpad?

Emrah Omuris

February 22ndReply

I do.
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Rob

February 22ndReply

What I want is an easy way to force all of my finder windows to sort alphabetically (folders first) and bykind. So it would look like this:

Folder AFolder BFolder Ca_fileb_filec_filed_file

I loathe the sort by kind feature that breaks them into different panes. I want all my files visible.

radiophage

May 2ndReply

Have you checked out TotalFinder?

sdfsaf

May 12th

try clean up by

edsonpatricio

May 30thReply

One step closer of this: control + command + 2

For group by kind

And: control + command + 0
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For reverse it.

G. Galen

February 23rdReply

Hold down Command and click the title of the window (Safari, Finder etc.) to be able to see the pagehistory (Safari), file path (Finder).

Useful.

dmcarefuldriver

February 24thReply

For #36, you can turn off the popping sound altogether in System Preferences > Sound > Sound Effectsby unchecking Play feedback when volume is changed. That way you dont have to hold Shift everytime to change the volume without making the noise. Once you turn off the noise, you can hold Shift tohear the sound (it switches functions).

OitieFebruary 27thReply

Fantastic article on the new lion features, Apple are really stating to refine specific apps such as preview.About time!

Ryan Lei - Taiwan

March 3rdReply

In #21 (Different Launchpad Backdrops):The shortcut is control + option + command + B.

In #40 (Auto Complete F5):Just the esc will do the auto completion. No need for the option key.
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Tested on 10.7.3.Anyway, I learned a lot from these tips. Thank you!!

tenteApril 9thReply

always a comfortable decision to let someone else hold on to your business data. thanks.

seoApril 9thReply

There arent a lot of arguments that go against using a cloud based app, except for concerns regardingsecurity and cost.

Jair RojasApril 13thReply

El fondo de mi Illstrador que por lo general es transparente de un momento a otro se hizo gris como se vela aplicacin en pc y no puedo revertirlo si alguien le ha pasado o sabe como resolverlo le estara muyagradecido.Muchas Gracias

MurrayApril 20thReply

I have another tip:

If you have a minimized app, and then try to COMMAND & TAB to that app, it switches to the app, butthe app itself remains minimized.

If you want to switch to a minimized app and have it come up immediately
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COMMAND & TAB to it, and before letting go, hold down the OPTION key.Let go of COMMAND & TAB while still holding down OPTION, and it will switch to the app and bringup the app window!

Another tip, this one may be more obvious:

When you COMMAND & TAB through the apps, before letting go of COMMAND & TAB, press theUP key. This reveals all the windows for that app, including any that are currently minimized (anyminimized windows are shown at the bottom half of the screen). Click on the window you want, and itwill bring it to the front.

Great tips! Thank you!

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April 28thReply

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#36 i dont know about any body elce but [It use to be the cast thatVolume Keys would allow forincremental volume changes on a smaller scale than your typical click. Unfortunately, Apple axed thisfeature in Lion.] i can do this i didnt even know you could until i tried it and you can do it with thescreen and backlight brightness as well but i cant really notice a difference anyways its a shame as iwould like to incramentaly make the screen darker then apple set it to go

Clicking HereMay 26thReply

Heya im for the first time here. I found this board and I find It really useful & it helped me out much. Ihope to give something back and aid others like you helped me.

darrenMay 29thReply

I wish they didnt remove the little toggle on the preview in the finder when viewing a file. In snow

leopard, if you didnt want a preview, you could toggle the preview off, but in lion, you can remove theWhole preview column, but for people who use macs in a professional environment, its not goodenough, as you still might need the image info, just not the preview thumbnail.

blakeMay 30th

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does anyone know how to re-add the spaces icon in menu bar on lion

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How, can one have date photo taken or, date digitized (if that is practically the same) as a column infolder view? I think the answer is, one cannot based on my searching but possibly there is a trick there.If find the creation date and modified date to be useless in my folders containing photos, unless that datais next to date picture taken. I use EXIF Viewer and Picassa to determine date if needed, but would preferit in folder view. Thanks.

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