Mac OS X 10.7 Lion, Apple’s Lion Eats the Mouse

Wipe instead of clicking, touch screen instead of mouse: Apple‘s new operating system Mac OS X 10.7, code-named Lion, has gesture control and operating concept for iPhone and iPad copied. We have previously tested whether the software does what Apple promises. Apple promises that the eighth edition of its operating system Mac OS X would be “the most advanced desktop operating system in the world still continue to drive “: A pretty brash announcement. According to Apple , the developers of 250 new features in the software with version number 10.7 and the Lion Code names have been incorporated. Many of them are normal users, however, hardly noticeable. But others are are striking and are important for Apple because they care for growing businesses and help new customers to enter the Mac world.

Especially the latter might be worth it for Apple. About half of all new Macs sold go of converts from the Windows world. The approach extends the company for years, by providing them with iPod, iPhone and iPad accustomed to its brand. A strategy that obviously works well, and Apple with its new operating system further underpinned: Mac OS X 10.7 includes a transfer helper software that automatically transfer passengers with their data from the old Windows PC to your new Mac can. Via the network copy of the “Migration Assistant” pictures, videos, text, music, and transfers as well as the settings of the e-mail accounts on the Mac. Even the chaos-file on the desktop and the background image moves the new data into the home helpers.

FIVE MAJOR NEW FEATURES IN MAC OS X 10.7
- Air Drop
Lion-users can interact with this Wi-Fi wireless technology with each other files. This direct, secure connections between the computers can be built without that you enter passwords. Networks using drag and drop.

- Mail
Apple‘s e-mail software is to include new search capabilities, new layouts and a new feature that is supposed to represent the e-mail threads have been more clearly expanded. Overall, the software has now become more professional, the chain of e-mail conversations does not always reliable.

- Safari
Apple‘s Web browser may have been added including a feature that lets you mark web pages for later reading.

- FileVault 2
The encryption software can now also external media, such as encrypting USB flash drives or backup disks in the background. In addition, there is now an ‘instant-Wipe “function that allows the encryption of the deleted sequence and the data can be rendered useless for strangers.

- Locating Features
Who wants to send Apple information on its usage habits, must now explicitly specify in the check box “safety”. Also there is a location services enable and disable individually, so you can all curious to prohibit programs also sniffing.

Converted PC user to quickly feel at home by themselves. But some changes Apple has made to the basic operation and appearance of the system can even trim long Apple users first. It starts with that window now have no more scroll bars. Apple says goodbye to a concept that the company has established itself with the GUI and the mouse in the eighties.

More gestures

The reason: scrollbars now need nobody, because hardly anyone today use a mouse. Finally, are three-quarters of the new Macs sold notebooks , and have the touch pad on which one wipes around with your fingers. So Mac OS X 10.7 was adjusted for scroll bars, and instead extended to several new gestures. Apple‘s calculus: Users that have been used with iPhone and iPad Touch gestures to be intuitive to use the same gestures and the computer.

That is true, however limited. No fewer than 14 such gestures can be by “TouchPad” check box on and off. Some of them are known and logically from IOS devices. Just as rotating an image by turns two fingers on the TouchPad in the direction you want. Others, however, must be simply learned by heart. For example, that selection can start a program when the thumb and three fingers gesture performs a reduction. Without the short instructional videos, as with the gestures directly visualized in the control panel, that would be too difficult to learn.

Confusing at first is that the scroll direction was reversed. So far it has pulled down with the mouse on the scroll bar to move the contents of the window to the top. With the Lion now works the other way around: Move two fingers on the touchpad on the top, the window contents moved upwards accordingly. It takes only a few days to get used to this new and very logical direction. Unless you work in between on a different computer, without Mac OS X 10.7. Who does that have to rethink all the time.

There is much in the new Mac OS iPad

Similar to the touch gestures Apple has tried in other places, the new Mac OS X on iPad habits to approach, without introducing real touch-screen technology. So you can now have a “LaunchPad” called list of all installed programs, call that looks exactly like the home screen of an iPad. In desktop windows there is the view “all my files,” the text, images, videos, PDF files and much more lists, no matter where it is stored on the computer. Perhaps an indication that Apple will one day completely disconnect its users from the file system. Just as on i-devices on which it has no folders and drives, but only to each app can view and edit data and belonging.

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