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OS X Lion
£20.99Released: 20 July 2011
Version: 10.7
Size: 3.49 GB
Languages: English, Arabic, Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, TurkishOS X Lion is the next major release of OS X, the world’s most advanced desktop operating system. It includes over 250 new features that will transform how you interact with your Mac. Tap, swipe, and scroll your way through your apps using fluid Multi-Touch gestures that make everything you do feel more natural and direct. Full-screen apps take advantage of every pixel of your display — perfect for reading email, surfing the web, or browsing photos. Launchpad gives you instant access to all the apps on your Mac in a stunning new layout where you can quickly find any app and open it with a single click. And Mission Control brings together Exposé, full-screen apps, Dashboard, and Spaces in one unified experience. With a gesture, your desktop zooms out, displaying a bird’s-eye view of everything running on your Mac and making it easy to navigate anywhere with a click.
Multi-Touch gestures
• Fluid and realistic animations make gestures feel natural and direct.
• Tap or pinch to zoom in on text and images.
• Swipe left or right to move from one page to another in an app or switch from one full-screen app to another.
• Swipe up to enter Mission Control.
• Pinch to access Launchpad.
Full-screen apps
• A new full-screen button takes an app window full screen.
• Run multiple full-screen apps at the same time.
• Switch between full-screen apps and your desktop with a gesture.
• Apps stay full screen when you switch to another app.
• OS X Lion includes full-screen Mail, Safari, Preview, iCal, FaceTime, Dashboard, Screen Sharing, and Photo Booth.
Mission Control
• Brings together Exposé, full-screen apps, Dashboard, and desktop spaces.
• Gives you a bird’s-eye view of everything running on your Mac, allowing you to navigate anywhere with a click.
• Exposé view shows all open windows on your desktop grouped by application.
• Create and organize desktop spaces in Mission Control.
Launchpad
• A new home for all the apps on your Mac.
• Apps downloaded from the Mac App Store automatically appear in Launchpad.
• Launchpad automatically adds pages to accommodate all your apps.
• Apps can be organized on multiple pages and grouped in folders.
• The widescreen layout displays the message list and selected email side by side in full-height columns.
• The favorites bar gives you one-click access to your favorite mail folders.
• Search suggestions dynamically present the best matches for your search.
• Search tokens help refine search results based on people, subjects, mailboxes, dates, and attachments.
• Conversations automatically groups related messages, displaying them in chronological order and hiding repetitive quoted text.
Other great Lion features
• Auto Save automatically saves your changes as you go, so you never have to worry about losing your work.
• Versions keeps a history of your document as you work and presents it in a timeline you can browse.
• Resume reopens an app exactly as you left it.
• AirDrop is the simplest way to send files to anyone around you, wirelessly — no setup or special settings required.
• Reading List in Safari lets you easily save web pages to read or browse later.
Some features require an Apple ID and/or compatible Internet access; fees and terms apply.
Some features require apps developed to work with Lion.
Gestures require a Multi-Touch trackpad or Magic Mouse (some gestures are not available on Magic Mouse).
AirDrop is supported on the following Mac models: MacBook Pro (late 2008 or newer), MacBook Air (late 2010 or newer), MacBook (late 2008 or newer), iMac (early 2009 or newer), Mac mini (mid 2010 or newer), Mac Pro (early 2009 with AirPort Extreme card and mid 2010 or newer).
OS X Lion
£20.99Released: 20 July 2011
Version: 10.7
Size: 3.49 GB
Languages: English, Arabic, Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, TurkishOS X Lion is the next major release of OS X, the world’s most advanced desktop operating system. It includes over 250 new features that will transform how you interact with your Mac. Tap, swipe, and scroll your way through your apps using fluid Multi-Touch gestures that make everything you do feel more natural and direct. Full-screen apps take advantage of every pixel of your display — perfect for reading email, surfing the web, or browsing photos. Launchpad gives you instant access to all the apps on your Mac in a stunning new layout where you can quickly find any app and open it with a single click. And Mission Control brings together Exposé, full-screen apps, Dashboard, and Spaces in one unified experience. With a gesture, your desktop zooms out, displaying a bird’s-eye view of everything running on your Mac and making it easy to navigate anywhere with a click.
Multi-Touch gestures
• Fluid and realistic animations make gestures feel natural and direct.
• Tap or pinch to zoom in on text and images.
• Swipe left or right to move from one page to another in an app or switch from one full-screen app to another.
• Swipe up to enter Mission Control.
• Pinch to access Launchpad.
Full-screen apps
• A new full-screen button takes an app window full screen.
• Run multiple full-screen apps at the same time.
• Switch between full-screen apps and your desktop with a gesture.
• Apps stay full screen when you switch to another app.
• OS X Lion includes full-screen Mail, Safari, Preview, iCal, FaceTime, Dashboard, Screen Sharing, and Photo Booth.
Mission Control
• Brings together Exposé, full-screen apps, Dashboard, and desktop spaces.
• Gives you a bird’s-eye view of everything running on your Mac, allowing you to navigate anywhere with a click.
• Exposé view shows all open windows on your desktop grouped by application.
• Create and organize desktop spaces in Mission Control.
Launchpad
• A new home for all the apps on your Mac.
• Apps downloaded from the Mac App Store automatically appear in Launchpad.
• Launchpad automatically adds pages to accommodate all your apps.
• Apps can be organized on multiple pages and grouped in folders.
• The widescreen layout displays the message list and selected email side by side in full-height columns.
• The favorites bar gives you one-click access to your favorite mail folders.
• Search suggestions dynamically present the best matches for your search.
• Search tokens help refine search results based on people, subjects, mailboxes, dates, and attachments.
• Conversations automatically groups related messages, displaying them in chronological order and hiding repetitive quoted text.
Other great Lion features
• Auto Save automatically saves your changes as you go, so you never have to worry about losing your work.
• Versions keeps a history of your document as you work and presents it in a timeline you can browse.
• Resume reopens an app exactly as you left it.
• AirDrop is the simplest way to send files to anyone around you, wirelessly — no setup or special settings required.
• Reading List in Safari lets you easily save web pages to read or browse later.
Some features require an Apple ID and/or compatible Internet access; fees and terms apply.
Some features require apps developed to work with Lion.
Gestures require a Multi-Touch trackpad or Magic Mouse (some gestures are not available on Magic Mouse).
AirDrop is supported on the following Mac models: MacBook Pro (late 2008 or newer), MacBook Air (late 2010 or newer), MacBook (late 2008 or newer), iMac (early 2009 or newer), Mac mini (mid 2010 or newer), Mac Pro (early 2009 with AirPort Extreme card and mid 2010 or newer).
MacWidgets
Get all Mac OS X Dashboard Widgets !
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Post to your blog and stay up to minute with favorite feeds and discussions.
Get organized with widgets for everything from Main St. to Wall St.
Calculate & Convert
Measure twice, cut once. These widgets keep your calculations on the money.
You’re in command with widgets that speed up development tasks.
Track your email, find buddies, and send text messages to mobile networks.
Food
Discover local restaurants and mouth-watering recipes from your Dashboard.
Games
You should be working, but these widgets are sure to tear you away.
Information
Know it all with widgets for weather, tides, astronomy and more.
International
Search Australia or Austria with this worldwide collection of widgets.
Just For Fun
Fun widgets to brighten up your Dashboard.
What’s on? Look up TV listings, track hot movies, and show up on time.
Music
These widgets will have you singing, dancing, and tuning your iTunes.
Networking & Security
Manage and protect your wired world from your Dashboard.
News
Track the latest feeds from news agencies near and far.
Radio & Podcasts
Listen to live audio streams while you work or play.
Reference
From the essential to the esoteric, these widgets can ask anything.
Search
Leave no stone unturned with quick and powerful search widgets.
Shopping
Find deals, track orders and shop from your Dashboard.
Sports
Follow your favorite teams with widgets for scores, stats and TV time
Status
No worries — monitor everything from disk space to battery status.
Transportation
Get out the door on time with widgets for traffic, trains and timetables.
Travel
Plan your next trip with interactive maps and panoramic photos.
Webcams
Visit the world through the eyes of these webcam widgets.
↓ Download
Post to your blog and stay up to minute with favorite feeds and discussions.
Get organized with widgets for everything from Main St. to Wall St.
Calculate & Convert
Measure twice, cut once. These widgets keep your calculations on the money.
You’re in command with widgets that speed up development tasks.
Track your email, find buddies, and send text messages to mobile networks.
Discover local restaurants and mouth-watering recipes from your Dashboard.
You should be working, but these widgets are sure to tear you away.
Know it all with widgets for weather, tides, astronomy and more.
Search Australia or Austria with this worldwide collection of widgets.
Fun widgets to brighten up your Dashboard.
What’s on? Look up TV listings, track hot movies, and show up on time.
These widgets will have you singing, dancing, and tuning your iTunes.
Manage and protect your wired world from your Dashboard.
Track the latest feeds from news agencies near and far.
Listen to live audio streams while you work or play.
From the essential to the esoteric, these widgets can ask anything.
Leave no stone unturned with quick and powerful search widgets.
Find deals, track orders and shop from your Dashboard.
Follow your favorite teams with widgets for scores, stats and TV time
No worries — monitor everything from disk space to battery status.
Get out the door on time with widgets for traffic, trains and timetables.
Plan your next trip with interactive maps and panoramic photos.
Visit the world through the eyes of these webcam widgets.
MacWidgets
Get all Mac OS X Dashboard Widgets !
↓ Download
Post to your blog and stay up to minute with favorite feeds and discussions.
Get organized with widgets for everything from Main St. to Wall St.
Calculate & Convert
Measure twice, cut once. These widgets keep your calculations on the money.
You’re in command with widgets that speed up development tasks.
Track your email, find buddies, and send text messages to mobile networks.
Food
Discover local restaurants and mouth-watering recipes from your Dashboard.
Games
You should be working, but these widgets are sure to tear you away.
Information
Know it all with widgets for weather, tides, astronomy and more.
International
Search Australia or Austria with this worldwide collection of widgets.
Just For Fun
Fun widgets to brighten up your Dashboard.
What’s on? Look up TV listings, track hot movies, and show up on time.
Music
These widgets will have you singing, dancing, and tuning your iTunes.
Networking & Security
Manage and protect your wired world from your Dashboard.
News
Track the latest feeds from news agencies near and far.
Radio & Podcasts
Listen to live audio streams while you work or play.
Reference
From the essential to the esoteric, these widgets can ask anything.
Search
Leave no stone unturned with quick and powerful search widgets.
Shopping
Find deals, track orders and shop from your Dashboard.
Sports
Follow your favorite teams with widgets for scores, stats and TV time
Status
No worries — monitor everything from disk space to battery status.
Transportation
Get out the door on time with widgets for traffic, trains and timetables.
Travel
Plan your next trip with interactive maps and panoramic photos.
Webcams
Visit the world through the eyes of these webcam widgets.
↓ Download
Post to your blog and stay up to minute with favorite feeds and discussions.
Get organized with widgets for everything from Main St. to Wall St.
Calculate & Convert
Measure twice, cut once. These widgets keep your calculations on the money.
You’re in command with widgets that speed up development tasks.
Track your email, find buddies, and send text messages to mobile networks.
Discover local restaurants and mouth-watering recipes from your Dashboard.
You should be working, but these widgets are sure to tear you away.
Know it all with widgets for weather, tides, astronomy and more.
Search Australia or Austria with this worldwide collection of widgets.
Fun widgets to brighten up your Dashboard.
What’s on? Look up TV listings, track hot movies, and show up on time.
These widgets will have you singing, dancing, and tuning your iTunes.
Manage and protect your wired world from your Dashboard.
Track the latest feeds from news agencies near and far.
Listen to live audio streams while you work or play.
From the essential to the esoteric, these widgets can ask anything.
Leave no stone unturned with quick and powerful search widgets.
Find deals, track orders and shop from your Dashboard.
Follow your favorite teams with widgets for scores, stats and TV time
No worries — monitor everything from disk space to battery status.
Get out the door on time with widgets for traffic, trains and timetables.
Plan your next trip with interactive maps and panoramic photos.
Visit the world through the eyes of these webcam widgets.
Top 15 Terminal Commands
You'll find the Terminal in the Utilities folder within the Applications folder. To carry out any of the following commands you will need to copy/paste or type in the line of text then hit enter. For the most part, applications will need restarting before changes take place. For most applications you can just quit and open them again, but for the Finder and the Dock it is easiest to just type “killall Finder” or “killall Dock” into Terminal after the command.
To reverse any of them, just repeat the command with NO at the end instead of YES, or vice versa.
1. Make hidden applications' dock icons translucent.
2. Normally the arrows next to artists and albums in your iTunes library search the iTunes store when you click them.
This command changes them so that clicking will search your iTunes library instead.
3. This allows you to drag widgets out of Dashboard onto the desktop.
Requires the dock to be relaunched to take effect, so type "killall Dock" and press enter. Now, if you click and hold onto a widget in the dashboard and press F12 to return to the desktop, the widget won't disappear with the rest.
4. Force all mail to be displayed as plain text.
5. Set expanded save dialogs as default
(showing column/list view of folders rather than a drop down menu). Replace TRUE with FALSE to reverse.
6. Display the currently chosen screen saver to be shown as the desktop background.
Press Control-C or Command-. to stop.
7. Display useful system stats in the login window.
Replace "SystemVersion" with one of the following for different stats:
8. To remove accounts from the login window
Type this command with the short name of each account you wish to remove.
9. Skip disk image verification. Potentially risky, use with disk images from trusted sources.
10. Put double scroll arrows at both ends of scroll bar.
Use Appearance pane in system preferences to reset.
11. Disable the unexpectedly quit dialog that normally appears when an application crashes.
Replace "none" with "prompt" to enable again.
12. Set the history limit in Safari to a certain number of items and and/or a certain age.
13. Show hidden files in the Finder.
14. Enable the debug menu in Safari.
15. Deactivate Dashboard.
Requires the dock to be relaunched to take effect, so type "killall Dock" and press enter.
To reverse any of them, just repeat the command with NO at the end instead of YES, or vice versa.
1. Make hidden applications' dock icons translucent.
defaults write com.apple.Dock showhidden -bool YES 2. Normally the arrows next to artists and albums in your iTunes library search the iTunes store when you click them.
This command changes them so that clicking will search your iTunes library instead.
defaults write com.apple.iTunes invertStoreLinks -bool YES3. This allows you to drag widgets out of Dashboard onto the desktop.
Requires the dock to be relaunched to take effect, so type "killall Dock" and press enter. Now, if you click and hold onto a widget in the dashboard and press F12 to return to the desktop, the widget won't disappear with the rest.
defaults write com.apple.dashboard devmode YES 
defaults write com.apple.mail PreferPlainText -bool YES5. Set expanded save dialogs as default
(showing column/list view of folders rather than a drop down menu). Replace TRUE with FALSE to reverse.
defaults write -g NSNavPanelExpandedStateForSaveMode -bool YES6. Display the currently chosen screen saver to be shown as the desktop background.
Press Control-C or Command-. to stop.
/System/Library/Frameworks/ScreenSaver.framework/Resources/ ScreenSaverEngine.app/Contents/MacOS/ScreenSaverEngine -background7. Display useful system stats in the login window.
defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.loginwindow AdminHostInfo SystemVersion Replace "SystemVersion" with one of the following for different stats:
SystemBuildSerialNumberIPAddressDSStatusTimeHostName
8. To remove accounts from the login window
Type this command with the short name of each account you wish to remove.
sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.loginwindow HiddenUsersList -array-add shortname1 shortname2 shortname39. Skip disk image verification. Potentially risky, use with disk images from trusted sources.
defaults write com.apple.frameworks.diskimages skip-verify -bool YES10. Put double scroll arrows at both ends of scroll bar.
Use Appearance pane in system preferences to reset.
defaults write "Apple Global Domain" AppleScrollBarVariant DoubleBoth Replace "none" with "prompt" to enable again.
defaults write com.apple.CrashReporter DialogType none12. Set the history limit in Safari to a certain number of items and and/or a certain age.
defaults write com.apple.Safari WebKitHistoryItemLimit 2000 defaults write com.apple.Safari WebKitHistoryAgeInDaysLimit 3013. Show hidden files in the Finder.
defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles -bool YES14. Enable the debug menu in Safari.
defaults write com.apple.safari IncludeDebugMenu -bool YES15. Deactivate Dashboard.
Requires the dock to be relaunched to take effect, so type "killall Dock" and press enter.
defaults write com.apple.dashboard mcx-disabled -bool YESTop 15 Terminal Commands
You'll find the Terminal in the Utilities folder within the Applications folder. To carry out any of the following commands you will need to copy/paste or type in the line of text then hit enter. For the most part, applications will need restarting before changes take place. For most applications you can just quit and open them again, but for the Finder and the Dock it is easiest to just type “killall Finder” or “killall Dock” into Terminal after the command.
To reverse any of them, just repeat the command with NO at the end instead of YES, or vice versa.
1. Make hidden applications' dock icons translucent.
2. Normally the arrows next to artists and albums in your iTunes library search the iTunes store when you click them.
This command changes them so that clicking will search your iTunes library instead.
3. This allows you to drag widgets out of Dashboard onto the desktop.
Requires the dock to be relaunched to take effect, so type "killall Dock" and press enter. Now, if you click and hold onto a widget in the dashboard and press F12 to return to the desktop, the widget won't disappear with the rest.
4. Force all mail to be displayed as plain text.
5. Set expanded save dialogs as default
(showing column/list view of folders rather than a drop down menu). Replace TRUE with FALSE to reverse.
6. Display the currently chosen screen saver to be shown as the desktop background.
Press Control-C or Command-. to stop.
7. Display useful system stats in the login window.
Replace "SystemVersion" with one of the following for different stats:
8. To remove accounts from the login window
Type this command with the short name of each account you wish to remove.
9. Skip disk image verification. Potentially risky, use with disk images from trusted sources.
10. Put double scroll arrows at both ends of scroll bar.
Use Appearance pane in system preferences to reset.
11. Disable the unexpectedly quit dialog that normally appears when an application crashes.
Replace "none" with "prompt" to enable again.
12. Set the history limit in Safari to a certain number of items and and/or a certain age.
13. Show hidden files in the Finder.
14. Enable the debug menu in Safari.
15. Deactivate Dashboard.
Requires the dock to be relaunched to take effect, so type "killall Dock" and press enter.
To reverse any of them, just repeat the command with NO at the end instead of YES, or vice versa.
1. Make hidden applications' dock icons translucent.
defaults write com.apple.Dock showhidden -bool YES 2. Normally the arrows next to artists and albums in your iTunes library search the iTunes store when you click them.
This command changes them so that clicking will search your iTunes library instead.
defaults write com.apple.iTunes invertStoreLinks -bool YES3. This allows you to drag widgets out of Dashboard onto the desktop.
Requires the dock to be relaunched to take effect, so type "killall Dock" and press enter. Now, if you click and hold onto a widget in the dashboard and press F12 to return to the desktop, the widget won't disappear with the rest.
defaults write com.apple.dashboard devmode YES defaults write com.apple.mail PreferPlainText -bool YES5. Set expanded save dialogs as default
(showing column/list view of folders rather than a drop down menu). Replace TRUE with FALSE to reverse.
defaults write -g NSNavPanelExpandedStateForSaveMode -bool YES6. Display the currently chosen screen saver to be shown as the desktop background.
Press Control-C or Command-. to stop.
/System/Library/Frameworks/ScreenSaver.framework/Resources/ ScreenSaverEngine.app/Contents/MacOS/ScreenSaverEngine -background7. Display useful system stats in the login window.
defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.loginwindow AdminHostInfo SystemVersion Replace "SystemVersion" with one of the following for different stats:
SystemBuildSerialNumberIPAddressDSStatusTimeHostName
8. To remove accounts from the login window
Type this command with the short name of each account you wish to remove.
sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.loginwindow HiddenUsersList -array-add shortname1 shortname2 shortname39. Skip disk image verification. Potentially risky, use with disk images from trusted sources.
defaults write com.apple.frameworks.diskimages skip-verify -bool YES10. Put double scroll arrows at both ends of scroll bar.
Use Appearance pane in system preferences to reset.
defaults write "Apple Global Domain" AppleScrollBarVariant DoubleBoth Replace "none" with "prompt" to enable again.
defaults write com.apple.CrashReporter DialogType none12. Set the history limit in Safari to a certain number of items and and/or a certain age.
defaults write com.apple.Safari WebKitHistoryItemLimit 2000 defaults write com.apple.Safari WebKitHistoryAgeInDaysLimit 3013. Show hidden files in the Finder.
defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles -bool YES14. Enable the debug menu in Safari.
defaults write com.apple.safari IncludeDebugMenu -bool YES15. Deactivate Dashboard.
Requires the dock to be relaunched to take effect, so type "killall Dock" and press enter.
defaults write com.apple.dashboard mcx-disabled -bool YES
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