OS X Lion: Top 10 Features in Under 3 Minutes

OS X Lion: Top 10 Features in Under 3 Minutes Just a quick compact rundown of Apple’s new OS X Lion Operating System coming this July via the Mac App Store for $29. Multi-touch gestures — Lion will have increased multi-touch gesture functions. The functions can be used with all Mac laptop trackpads as well as Apple's Magic Trackpad. The company put a lot of emphasis on this change, but I'm sure users will be able to assign hot keys to duplicate this functionality as well. Full Screen Apps — Apple has built new tools into its developer kit to make it easier for developers to use full screen functionality natively for their apps. Users will be able to run multiple full screen apps and switch between them using multi-touch gestures. Apple noted that all of its core apps will have this functionality built in when Lion launches. Mission Control — This is basically a merger of the Expose and Spaces functions (Expose lets you manage your open windows, Spaces lets you group application windows together). A two-finger swipe lets you go back through history; three fingers changes between apps. You can drag windows out of your main view into the spaces up top to create new spaces or add to an existing space. Looks extremely cool. Enhanced App store — "The Mac App Store has become the number 1 source for buying PC software," Phil Schiller said. Launchpad — Looks kind of like a Springboard for OS X. So, if you're a fan of navigating between apps via iPhone or iPad, then you'll ...

Channel: YouTube Video Length: 2m 59s Date Found: Tue, Jun 07 2011 4:03 PM Category: Technology Date Produced: Tue, Jun 07 2011 3:04 PM View Count: 0