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#Safari for mac 10.7 upgrade

Lion is initially available only as a download from the Mac App Store, which itself is only open to those who have already upgraded to Mac OS X 10.6.6 or later. The Front Row media playback suite has gone too, perhaps to encourage sales of Apple TV.

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Less well known is that Rosetta, the inbuilt emulator for running PowerPC apps, has been removed, so upgrading to Lion could also require that you upgrade other applications on which you rely. It's been well publicised that this version of OS X won't run on older PowerPC machines. So far, so good, but Lion isn't for everyone.

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About This Mac has a new, more graphical layout, with direct links to Disk Utility, upgrade instructions and the manual for your Mac on, and a pane that checks whether your machine is eligible for service and repair. This will be a boon for ad-hoc working groups meeting in coffee shops or libraries.įaceTime, the iPhone video-conferencing tool, has earned itself a place on the Dock (previously it was a 69p download from the App Store). Air Drop builds on the success of Bonjour, Apple's zero-config networking protocol, allowing Macs running Lion to see each other wirelessly, even if they're not connected through a router, and for the user of one to drop files on another. Other changes are important, but less likely headline grabbers. Being more obvious in its implementation, we found this a significant improvement, as it led to fewer unexpected malapropisms in our rotting writing. To reject the suggestion on the iPad, you'd tap it to do the same in Lion, just press escape. Rather than switching out words automatically without any warning, this system-wide tool now pops up a suggestion bubble that's accepted when you next press space or use punctuation. Mail has won itself a full-height preview pane and, for users with smaller monitors, the option to hide both this and your mailboxes, leaving just the message list visible.Įven the revamped auto-correct takes a cue from the iPad. There's another nod towards the Windows way of doing things in the Finder, which now has an All Files view that groups your files and folders by type, wherever they might be on your Mac. Previously, it had only been possible to do this from the lower right corner, which meant you often had to reposition the window halfway through resizing - a bone of contention for some PC switchers. One small but overdue change is the ability to resize application windows by dragging any edge or corner. Safari, too, is now gesture-enabled, with two-finger swipes moving you back and forth through your browsing history. Beside pinching and swiping, you can now push four fingers towards the keyboard to invoke Mission Control for an overview of all active applications, and while you can still use control and the arrow keys to switch between spaces (which are now set in a row rather than a grid), it's quicker to swipe between your virtual screens with three fingers.

Gestures like this five-finger pinch are more important in Lion than any preceding release. The Finder has had a revamp, with the new All My Files view organising your files by type.