Tag Archives: OS X Lion Tips

You can press and hold any of the hotkeys on a Mac keyboard to temporarily view Mission Control. Here’s a cool trick that could be useful if you use hotkeys or keyboard shortcuts to activate Mission Control, the Dashboard, or Launchpad (i.e. F3/F4). You might be used to tapping a …

You can sync files across iCloud-equipped Macs by using an unofficial feature tied to a little known folder hidden in OS X. We’ll walk you through exactly how to get this set up, allowing you to sync files and folders across Macs seamlessly, but first make sure you meet some …

Mac OS X Lion changed the way desktop background pictures are handled. In short, if the image is fit to or larger than your Macs screen resolution, it won’t tile. Likewise, the default OS X Lion wallpapers don’t have the option to tile or change how they are orientated on …

If you’re having trouble getting Lion to let you enable Find My Mac, you’re not the only one. It seems at least a few people are running into a problem where they see the below message in the iCloud preference pane, but clicking the update button (or running System Update …

Mission Control in Mac OS X Lion has a hidden motion blur effect that can be enabled quite easily: Enter Mission Control Press Command+M to enable motion blur You can then see the blur effect by moving about with the standard Mission Control actions, from entering and exiting into Mission …

Want to add some additional eyecandy to Mac OS X Lion‘s Launchpad feature? Open Launchpad and hit Command+M to enable a motion blur that is seen at various Launchpad events. You can immediately see the effect by swiping between Launchpad screens or by using the Command+Arrow keys to navigate around. …

Managing fonts on the Mac is incredibly easy regardless of what system software version you are using. We’lll cover the process of installing new fonts, deleting unwanted ones, and also restoring your default system fonts in case you mess something up. Installing New Fonts in Mac OS X Installing new …

These are instructions on how to set your Mac’s primary display when using multiple monitors. Setting a display as primary will force the menubar and dock to appear on that monitor. Step One Click to select System Preferences… from the Apple menu at the top left of your screen. Step …

Apple decided to remove the GUI for enabling and disabling FTP from Mac OS X Lion. Generally speaking, that’s not a bad move, becausemost times SFTP is available anywhere FTP is, and SFTP is far superior in terms of security. No one should be using FTP over the Internet. However, …

After 5 Lion upgrades, I ran across 2 machines that would not show any Finder windows, I could not see any open folders or the hard drives. They showed up under the windows list, under the Finder icon, and as large thumbnails, after a Show all Windows. But would not …