Inside Mac OS X 10.7 Lion: Dozens of new high quality multilingual speech voices In Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, Apple added a very realistic new voice named Alex for text to speech features. In Lion, Apple provides dozens of even better quality voices in more than forty languages and dialects. AppleInsider Staff 15 years ago 0
Inside Mac OS X 10.7 Lion: Auto Save, File Versions and Time Machine Mac OS X 10.7 Lion makes a conceptual leap away from the Mac's original focus on opening apps to create files, launching a new task-centric interface borrowed from iOS. Lion apps can also auto save multiple Versions of the document for Time Machine-like recovery of previous iterations of a file. AppleInsider Staff 15 years ago 72
Inside Mac OS X 10.7 Lion Server: remote lock, disk wipe and administration In Mac OS X Lion Server, Apple brings iOS-like remote management features to the Mac, including "Find My Mac," remote wipe, and remote software and profile settings via push notifications. AppleInsider Staff 15 years ago 36
Inside Mac OS X 10.7 Lion: Crash or continue, push notifications Developers have noted two interesting features in progress within the Mac OS X Lion release, one being the ability to continue an application poised to crash, and a second being the foundation of push notifications in Mac OS X. AppleInsider Staff 15 years ago 33
Inside Mac OS X 10.7 Lion: Font Book 3, Emoji support Apple has enhanced its Font Book app for managing installed font faces, and has added a new Emoji font commonly used in chat to express ideograms. AppleInsider Staff 15 years ago 21
Inside Mac OS X 10.7 Lion: New Finder search, item arrangement views In Mac OS X 10.7 Lion, Apple has enhanced Spotlight search within Finder windows, while also adding new item arrangement view options to organize files within icon, list, column and Cover Flow views. AppleInsider Staff 15 years ago 48
Inside Mac OS X 10.7 Lion: Yahoo Messenger video and voice in iChat Apple has added support for Yahoo Messenger to Mac OS X Lion's iChat app, reportedly enabling text, voice and video chat over Yahoo's instant messenger protocol. AppleInsider Staff 15 years ago 55
Inside Mac OS X 10.7 Lion: Missing Front Row, Rosetta and Java runtime The latest developer release of Mac OS X 10.7 Lion excludes support for Rosetta (used to run PowerPC code on Intel Macs), Front Row, and Oracle's Java runtime, although Apple includes a mechanism to automatically download an updated Java runtime for Lion. AppleInsider Staff 15 years ago 268
Inside Mac OS X 10.7 Lion: new iOS-like About this Mac app After converted Mac OS X's Apple Menu to link to the new Mac App Store market rather than just linking to its "Mac OS X Software" web page, Apple has now turned its attention to the pedestrian "About This Mac," providing easy access to system details. AppleInsider Staff 15 years ago 38
Inside Mac OS X 10.7 Lion: New Migration Assistant helps Windows PC switchers Apple has added a new option in Mac OS X 10.7 Lion to simplify the process of switching from a Windows PC to a Mac via network import of old files. AppleInsider Staff 15 years ago 39
Inside Mac OS X 10.7 Lion: New window controls & gestures Apple is finally letting go of old windowing conventions that date back to the original Macintosh, allowing users in Mac OS X 10.7 Lion to fluidly interact with windows any way they like. AppleInsider Staff 15 years ago 127
Inside Mac OS X 10.7 Lion: Apple exposing beta to security experts for review Apple is inviting security experts to examine its developer preview of Mac OS X 10.7 Lion, apparently the first time it has expanded beyond its core developers to expose its new software to community scrutiny. Daniel Eran Dilger 15 years ago 27
Inside Mac OS X 10.7 Lion: Apple adds SSD TRIM support Apple has added limited TRIM support to the latest developer release of Mac OS X 10.7 Lion, which should enhance the long term performance of Solid State Drives. Daniel Eran Dilger 15 years ago 63
