I Have Lion - Ask Me Questions

[Cougarcat]

Tell me about it.

Pinch? Spread? Really? What ever were Apple thinking?! The most painful gestures! Hate it!!

Alas, swipe-four-fingers-for-desktop is no longer an option.

IMO it's easy once you get the hang of it. Place three fingers on your trackpad, just move them up a little bit while you move your thumb down. You don't have to do a huge spread gesture for it to work.

 

[appleguy123]

IMO it's easy once you get the hang of it. Place three fingers on your trackpad, just move them up a little bit while you move your thumb down. You don't have to do a huge spread gesture for it to work.

Oh, yes that is easier. I was trying to make a spock sign and failing. lol

 

[sniffies]

IMO it's easy once you get the hang of it. Place three fingers on your trackpad, just move them up a little bit while you move your thumb down. You don't have to do a huge spread gesture for it to work.

Silly me, I actually tried to execute the four-finger spread with my index, middle, ring and pinky (no thumb).

Now that you've mentioned thumb, I tried it, and it works quite well actually. Thanks for the tip.

By the way, in Trackpad pref pane, the very last gesture combination ("Pinch for Launchpad, Spread for Desktop") demos four-finger-swipe-up-for-desktop. Silly Apple. (yes, I know it's a beta)

 

[superstrikertwo]

Is there any way to show desktop anymore? IT used to be 4 finger swipe up.

Command + Expose Mission Control button (F3) same as in Snow Leopard.

 

[A Macbook Pro]

Command + Expose Mission Control button (F3) same as in Snow Leopard.

The new way on a trackpad is to spread all 4 fingers outwards. So your fingers start touching on the trackpad then spread them out across the trackpad and end with taking your fingers off the trackpad. Opposite gesture to go back to the app.

 

[Gnuff]

Is the server part of lion in this build, do you have to enable it at install, or is there an server.app in your applications? Possible to see anny screens of it?

 

[Stang]

I also have Lion too.

I thought I'd point out the new system profiler. Very sleek, with a nice new UI

 

[Steve Ballmer]

Is the server part of lion in this build, do you have to enable it at install, or is there an server.app in your applications? Possible to see anny screens of it?

It's part of the installation process but not checked by default. Checking all the server options adds about another 3 GB to the install.

 

[baddj]

Does lion add NTFS write support? really need this so i do not have to use my brothers computer to work on my windows server.

 

[paulsalter]

Are the new features configurable and can you turn them off if you dont like then

 

[theBigD23]

Has anyone noticed any differences in Time Machine? I don't see anything.

 

[Steve Ballmer]

Are the new features configurable and can you turn them off if you dont like then

You can turn off most of the Multi-Touch gestures and use traditional scrolling.

 

[ajaxodessa]

You can turn off most of the Multi-Touch gestures and use traditional scrolling.

WHERE? Didn't find anything at all in System Prefs about reverting to normal scroll.

 

[Steve Ballmer]

WHERE? Didn't find anything at all in System Prefs about reverting to normal scroll.

It's the very first option in Mouse/Trackpad.

 

[Yamcha]

The pirated version works just fine. I'm really liking OSX Lion so far, I can't wait to use it!

 

[Michaelgtrusa]

The pirated version works just fine. I'm really liking OSX Lion so far, I can't wait to use it!

A risky move.

 

[Steve Ballmer]

A risky move.

There is no risk in using the pirated version. It's the exact same copy you get from ADC, and both contact swscan.apple.com which is used only for anonymous system statistics and nothing more.

 

[apu1234]

What are the system requirements for Lion?

 

[Steve Ballmer]

What are the system requirements for Lion?

You need a minimum Core 2 Duo processor. Anywhere from 6-9 GB hard drive space. Apple claims you also need 10.6.6 installed but this is false.

Anything that can run Snow Leopard should be able to run Lion.

 

[Michaelgtrusa]

What are the system requirements for Lion?

Create a second partition.

 

[ThE.MeSsEnGeR]

any changes in Stickies.app?

 

[littleb2005]

Thanks appleguy123! Yeah that's what I meant.

I wonder how this capability will interact with Time Machine.

While the user is logged in, is the disk unencrypted, or is it real time encryption/decryption? I wonder..

A new level of security.

Keep all the data on your Mac even more secure with XTS-AES 128 data encryption at the disk level. Initial encryption is fast and unobtrusive — it encrypts everything in the background while you work. FileVault also encrypts for your external drives, and provides the ability to wipe all the data from your Mac instantaneously.

read the part about background while you work

also While the user is logged in, is the disk unencrypted,

wouldn't that defeat the purpose of whole disk encryption so i say not going to happen i have a funny feeling the disk encryption is like pgp where the passphase or master key will allow you to decrypt and encrypt at will

it encrypts everything in the background while you work

which is what truecryt and pgp does also

which means the drive probley is encrypted at all times unless you unencrypted it at some point

the only things am wondering about is will the lion install dvd be able to read the encrypted partition's going to be pretty hard to restore from a time machine backup if it cant

 

[AdrianK]

Does lion add NTFS write support? really need this so i do not have to use my brothers computer to work on my windows server.

I doubt it (don't have an NTFS drive to test). You can get NTFS r/w support on SL with NTFS-3G anyway.

 

[funrush]

any changes in Stickies.app?

No changes, still sucks.

 

[baddj]

I doubt it (don't have an NTFS drive to test). You can get NTFS r/w support on SL with NTFS-3G anyway.

Is that free? As would not want to pay for something that should be in the OS