“Looking to make your Lion experience that much better, we’ve bundled together a bevy of tips and tricks that you really ought to have ready on your first trip into the new OS,” Greg Kumparak reports for TechCrunch. “Now, something to keep in mind: these tips aren’t one-size-fits-all. Read through the list and pick out the ones that sound good, and be sure to drop a comment if you’ve got a tip of your own.”
Nine things you should do after installing Mac OS X Lion:
• Leave It Alone For A Few Hours
• Check Out PDF Signing In Preview
• Reverse Mouse/Touchpad Scrolling
MacDailyNews Take: Suck it up. Give yourself some time to get used to something new. After a week with it, you might find you like it. You might also find yourself ready for whatever Apple has next. Apple rarely makes such changes without a plan – much of which is yet to be revealed. If, after a week or so, you find you just can’t adapt, then go back to the old way. But, to give up immediately is bad advice.
In OS X Lion, imagine a long sheet of paper; pull it down to see the top, push it up to see the bottom.
• Re-enable Dot Indicators Under Running Apps
• Launch Software update
• Disable Dashboard In Mission Control
• Give Filevault Another Chance
• Learn the new multi-touch gestures
MacDailyNews Take: Exactly our point above and contradictory to Kumparak’s advice to not learn OS X Lion’s default scrolling behavior.
• Disable Autocorrect
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: If you use OS X Lion on your desktop Mac, we recommend you take a serious look at Apple’s $69 Magic Trackpad
. We use them with our Mac desktops and OS X Lion just isn’t the same without them.
