OSX Lion has got some amazing features, right out of the box. One great little feature discovered, which is similar to the new feature in iOS5 as well, Twitter integration. We’ve shown you how to get Google+ easily on your Mac, and now we are going to show you how you can easily tweet messages from anywhere inside of OSX Lion. The basics are just click and drag any text you want to tweet in Safari, Mail, etc. and OSX Lion grabs it and puts it into your tweet window using Twitter for Mac. Obviously, you will need Twitter for Mac installed to get this working.
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Apple Releases First Lion Update, Mac OS X 10.7.1 [Direct Download Links]
It hasn’t been much time since Apple launched Lion, Mac OS X 10.7, to the general public. There have been cries of various issues, specifically the unreliability of WiFi connections in Lion, due to which Apple has hurriedly released the first update, 10.7.1 to the general public. Weirdly, this build wasn’t even released to developers before general availability today while OS X 10.7.2 was seeded to developers.
Lion Tweaks allows you to make Lion look like Snow Leopard
OSX Lion is Apple’s newest glorious Operation System. However, several users are not happy with the way things work and fell inside of this new OS. There are many reasons to upgrade to Lion, but if you are already used to Snow Leopard and how things work, you will need to learn again. Lion Tweaks takes several of those annoying things and lets you turn them off.
How To Fix WiFi Dropping Issues in OSX Lion
If you are one of the unlucky users having issues with your WiFi after upgrading to Lion, then we have a solution for you. The folks over at OSX Daily have posted this neat little Bash Script to maintain your wireless connection. This walkthrough will show you how to create the script and it will ping your router every 5 seconds, allowing the connection to stay up and not drop.
Apple Releases OSX Lion Recovery Disk Assistant!
We’ve shown you how to make your own USB or DVD Recovery Disk, but now Apple has released it’s own official Recovery Disk Creator. Apple also started making recovery drives available for $69.99 from their Apple Care Site as well.
[How To] Fix Slowness in the Mac App Store
Another nuance has worked it’s way out of the cracks for OSX Lion, some users are experiencing the Mac App Store running a bit slow. Several users are experiencing the spinning busy ball that OSX uses when it’s busy. It is most commonly seen when browsing from app to app. There is most likely a bug or another issue related to this problem, but for now, the folks at OSX Daily have come up with a couple of temporary solutions.
How To: Bring back the Status Bar in OSX Lion
With OSX Lion, Apple was going for an iOS look; No scrollbars, no status bars, no anything bars. However, to some of us, those were useful to have. We’ve shown you how to get the scrollbars back, and now we’re going to show you how to get the status bar back.
How To: Disable Accent Character Menu in OSX Lion and bring back Character Repeat!
One neat little feature found in Lion is the ability to use accented characters with the push of a key. Literally! If you hold down a letter that has accented options, such as “a”, then you get a little popup giving you the option to use an accented character. This does however replace the default character repeat if you were to hold down the key such as yeehaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaw!
Add Native Support for Playback of Popular Video Formats in Mac OS X Lion QuickTime with Perian
One of the first things many people do after a fresh install of OS X Lion is to install VLC player because it plays almost every video format under the sun. As helpful as it is, VLC player is not easy on the eyes plus not everyone likes it. A better option is to install Perian, the swiss army for QuickTime. Perian is like those codec packages you find for Windows that enable native playback of all popular video formats in the default video player as well as in other places such as Quick Look. Also, did we mention it’s free?
How to Bring Back Scroll Bars in Mac OS X Lion
One of the major changes in OS X 10.7 Lion has been that Apple took a big step to hide scroll bars in windows by default. They only show when you’re scrolling else you’re very likely to get lost on what your position is while viewing a document. Apple has done this in an attempt to unify iOS and OS X scroll behavior but it doesn’t really work for everyone.