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.

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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.

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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.

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Inside Mac OS X 10.7 Lion: New Dock, Finder & Desktop

Mac OS X 10.7 Lion reverses a trend toward user interface complexity, delivering a desktop computing environment that not only incorporates graphical elements of iOS, but also copies the intuitive simplicity of Apple's mobile operating system.

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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.

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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.

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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

Sources reveal Apple's new-look interface for Mac OS X Lion's Finder, Mail, and other apps

The developer preview of Mac OS X Lion released to developers on Thursday sports a new interface look akin to iTunes for the Finder, Mail and iCal, while applications like Address adopt design elements borrowed from the iPad. AppleInsider offers a first look.

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Sources detail new features in Apple's first beta of Mac OS X 10.7 Lion

Apple on Thursday issued its first beta of its forthcoming operating system Mac OS X 10.7 Lion, packed with new features like application persistence, full-screen applications and file coordination.

Neil Hughes 15 years ago 86

Apple releases dev preview of Mac OS X 10.7 Lion with AirDrop, FileVault

Apple on Thursday released a developer preview of Mac OS X Lion, which takes some of the best ideas the company has conceived for the iPad and brings them back to the Mac for the eighth major release of the flagship operating system due this summer. The beta also reveals a handful of previously undisclosed features such as AirDrop and FileVault

AppleInsider Staff 15 years ago 109

Apple may introduce user interface overhaul in Mac OS X 10.7 Lion

A new report shows that Apple has recently stepped up internal testing of Mac OS X 10.7 Lion, and also hints that the forthcoming operating system update could feature a new user interface design the next time it is publicly shown.

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