Tag Archives: Lion Tips

Lion Tip: Restore Finder Status Bar & Path Bar

By Kelly on Sep 23, 2011 • 2 comments

When Apple released Lion, they decided to hide one of the most useful functions of the Finder window. They thought it was a good idea to hide the status and path bars, the bars use ..

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Lion Tip: Change Finder Sidebar Icon Size

By Kelly on Sep 9, 2011 • 2 comments

With the release of Lion, there's been a good handful of annoyances that have made their way into the new operating system. Some of them you can get used to, or at least tolerate. ..

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Lion Tip: How To Delete Chess and Other Default Apps From OS X

By Kelly on Aug 3, 2011 • 17 comments

When I first installed Lion, I was rather surprised by an error that I received when I tried to delete the Chess app from the Applications folder. The error reads: "Chess" can't ..

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Lion Tip: Use Option and Shift To Change How To Resize Windows

By Kelly on Aug 1, 2011 • 0 comments

Resizing documents and even Finder windows have been fairly straight forward ever since OS X was first released back in 2001. With the release of Lion however, things have changed. ..

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Lion Tip: Switch Mail To The Classic Layout

By Thomas on Jul 29, 2011 • 0 comments

Not everyone's a huge fan of the new OS X mail layout. It's grown on me, but in case you just really dislike it, Apple have left a way for you to disable it. Open the Mail appli ..

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Lion Tip: Change The Mouse Scrolling Direction

By Thomas on Jul 28, 2011 • 9 comments

Apple made a rather irritating change when they introduced Lion. For some reason, they felt the need to change how things had always been in previous versions of OS X and decided t ..

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Lion Tip: Make Finder Open New Windows In Your User Folder

By Kelly on Jul 21, 2011 • 8 comments

Apple released Mac OS Lion yesterday, I'm sure you've probably heard by now. There's lot's of excitement going on for the new version of our favorite operating system, but there ..

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