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salazr

macrumors newbie
Jul 2, 2009
11
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When using dual monitors and you want to full screen an app, the primary monitor will get the app full screen, and the secondary monitor will get a grey frabric-y texture (screenshot'd), I've discovered no way to make the secondary monitor useful in any way when in full screen mode. EDIT: Not sure where that screenshot went, here's a direct link to it http://cl.ly/3K3k3W2P0J2B2T450o3K

Also spaces still isn't monitor independent (both monitors are treated as a single space instead of being able to switch to different spaces on each monitor)

Preview now has a magnifying loupe which I'm fairly sure is not present in 10.6.

Same thing here.

My dual monitor setup in fullscreen mode only uses one display.
 

AlphaDogg

macrumors 68040
May 20, 2010
3,417
7
Ypsilanti, MI
New System Profiler:

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In System Profiler, the link to Memory Upgrade Instructions leads to a 404 error on Apple's website.
 
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MattInOz

macrumors 68030
Jan 19, 2006
2,760
0
Sydney
When using dual monitors and you want to full screen an app, the primary monitor will get the app full screen, and the secondary monitor will get a grey frabric-y texture (screenshot'd), I've discovered no way to make the secondary monitor useful in any way when in full screen mode. EDIT: Not sure where that screenshot went, here's a direct link to it http://cl.ly/3K3k3W2P0J2B2T450o3K

Also spaces still isn't monitor independent (both monitors are treated as a single space instead of being able to switch to different spaces on each monitor)

Preview now has a magnifying loupe which I'm fairly sure is not present in 10.6.

So even if you move the app the the monitor the computer considers to second and go in to full screen mode from there, does the App stay on the second on that monitor and does the screen 1 go grey?
OK maybe a weird question seeing in full screen mode you don't expect even that app to have palettes, but can you push a secondary window from the full screen app to the other screen? Like xcode documentation.

I know the full screen mode is about removing distractions but if someone has two screens they probably pretty good at managing their own focus. Not to mention it seems like a waste of energy to show a grey image instead of blanking the screen.
 

theBigD23

macrumors 6502a
Sep 13, 2008
609
115
I'm having an opposite issue with Text Edit. Does anyone else think that the top bar where you change the Font Size, Font Type, etc is a little too small? Hard to see on a 27" screen.
 

dockingbay94

macrumors regular
Jul 29, 2010
101
0
Here's one no one has mentioned

Here's one no one has mentioned anywhere I've seen yet.

Disk Utility in 10.7 now supports specific S.M.A.R.T. data for internal hard drives. If you Get Info on your hard drive in the sidebar it will show you reallocated sectors, pending sectors, etc.

This will be a huge help to determine hard drive prefailure.
 

PaperMacWriter

macrumors 6502
Apr 5, 2009
260
0
FontBook 3

I just saw this over on AppleInsider - don't have Lion myself, but I'm pretty stoked, as I'm a bit of a Font geek :D looks like some welcomed improvments, if anyone would like to evaluate it :)
Stan
 

DoFoT9

macrumors P6
Jun 11, 2007
17,586
100
London, United Kingdom
Here's one no one has mentioned anywhere I've seen yet.

Disk Utility in 10.7 now supports specific S.M.A.R.T. data for internal hard drives. If you Get Info on your hard drive in the sidebar it will show you reallocated sectors, pending sectors, etc.

This will be a huge help to determine hard drive prefailure.

WOW. that is wonderful! i will be checking this out right away :)

screenshots?
 

DocNYz

macrumors 6502a
Jun 9, 2008
625
40
East Coast, USA
Here's one no one has mentioned anywhere I've seen yet.

Disk Utility in 10.7 now supports specific S.M.A.R.T. data for internal hard drives. If you Get Info on your hard drive in the sidebar it will show you reallocated sectors, pending sectors, etc.

This will be a huge help to determine hard drive prefailure.

Yeah this is great! Is it just internal drives? I too would love some screenshots!
 

153957

macrumors newbie
Jul 26, 2006
20
65
As for the new QuickTime features, can someone check if it also has a "Open image sequence" feature (it used to be in the File menu in QuickTime 7 Pro)?

If it is not there, can you check what happens when you drop an image, or multiple images onto the QuickTime application? (does it create a new movie with those images in sequence?)
 

sammich

macrumors 601
Sep 26, 2006
4,305
268
Sarcasmville.
Call me stupid but what is backwards scrolling?

Apple is iOS-ing OS X. And that includes bringing the same scrolling intuition as in iOS devices. That is: if you two finger gesture to the left, your content moves to the left. The better word is 'inverted' scrolling.

To put it another way: normally you move the 'viewfinder', but in iOS you move the actual document itself.
 

Gee4orce

macrumors regular
Jan 12, 2004
121
121
I just noticed the buttons in the button bar where you select your view mode look the opposite of Finder today. The depressed buttons are un-selected and the popped up button is selected. Hmm.

That threw me at first too - but it's actually quite nice: you can drag the highlighted 'tab' and slide it along to different sections of the tab bar.
 

DoFoT9

macrumors P6
Jun 11, 2007
17,586
100
London, United Kingdom
Apple is iOS-ing OS X. And that includes bringing the same scrolling intuition as in iOS devices. That is: if you two finger gesture to the left, your content moves to the left. The better word is 'inverted' scrolling.

To put it another way: normally you move the 'viewfinder', but in iOS you move the actual document itself.

that was the most confusing description ive ever heard read ;)

basically, when reading a document in iOS you flick up to scroll down. in SL osx you scroll down to, well, scroll down. in Lion osx you can scroll up to scroll down, and scroll down to scroll up. (this can be turned off thank god)
 

Ridge Racer

macrumors member
Mar 16, 2007
55
169
iSync has gone

iSync has gone in Lion.

So, if it doesn't re-appear in a later build there will be no more syncing of third-party mobile phones from Nokia, Sony Ericsson etc.
 

Gee4orce

macrumors regular
Jan 12, 2004
121
121
I think the biggest features from an average user's point of view are going to be the auto-save, versioning, and the state-restore after restart. These require apps to be updated though.

Preview running full-screen in 'Book' mode is the nicest way to read PDFs I've seen, although Preview does seem much more crashy at the moment
 

antmarobel

macrumors 6502a
May 8, 2009
528
184
Brasília
that was the most confusing description ive ever heard read ;)

basically, when reading a document in iOS you flick up to scroll down. in SL osx you scroll down to, well, scroll down. in Lion osx you can scroll up to scroll down, and scroll down to scroll up. (this can be turned off thank god)

Believe me you'll get used to this new in a matter of hours...:D And think about it...It's the right way to do it.;)
 
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