For years, Mac users have been using Terminal, along with some apps, to customize the appearance of the Mac operating system. There are programs out there that can tweak the look of your dock, as well as customize dozens of other settings. One of these programs that has really stood out for OS X Lion is an app called “Lion Designer,” which is unique in that it offers a GUI (graphical user interface) to tweak the appearance of some Lion-exclusive features, such as Launchpad and Mission Control.
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Today, Apple released OS X 10.7.1, which is the first maintenance update for OS X Lion. You can get the update via Software Update and Apple’s download pages.
The update promises to make various fixes to the OS, including:
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Apple seems to have an interesting habit of using real-life models for its default wallpapers. For example, the default wallpaper for the iPad is based off a real-live lake called Pyramid Lake.
As for the OS X Lion galaxy background, it was found that the picture was actually based off a picture of the Andromeda Galaxy taken by astronomer Robert Gendler.
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A few weeks ago, we announced news that Apple was selling $69 OS X Lion USB drives through Applecare. Now, there is a high chance that Apple will be selling these USBs to the public, on August 15th. The product has reportedly shown up in the Apple internal system, and if anything, we can be sure that a release is imminent.
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Earlier today, Apple released its newest OS X 10.7.2 pre-release update – Build 11C37 – to developers solely for testing with iCloud features. At the same time, Apple also released the seventh Beta version of iCloud add-on installer.
As usual, this pre-release update is targeted specifically at developers so that they can refine and test out the new features in association with their own software.
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We at iTracki really like some interesting infographics, and we picked up on this one thanks to TUAW and thought we’d share it with you. The new file saving system in Lion is different from how it was in previous operating systems, so here are two nice infographics that show how saving used to be (The Age of the Dinosaurs), and how saving is now (The Age of the Lions). Hope you enjoy, thumbnails below, just click to enlarge.
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Earlier today, Apple released its “Lion Recovery Disk Assistant”, which provides an enormously useful feature for Lion OS X Users by allowing them to create a Lion recovery partition on either a USB or external hard drive. This means that users will no longer need a physical disk to repair or reinstall Lion.
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Apple has just released a new iMac targeted specifically at education administrations. The main difference is that it has lower specs than the new iMacs, and a cheaper price point to accommodate bulk buyers for school resources. The iMac costs $999 and comes with slower internals and a smaller hard drive. The specs are as follows:
Read More →Apple has released an update to the 10.7.2 developer preview of OS X Lion. They released the preview of 10.7.2 a little while ago after the release version of Lion was unleashed on the Mac App Store.
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Mac users have been complaining about system crashes they are having after upgraded to the newly released OS X Lion. Users are saying that Macs will crash and display a completely black screen, or just a graphics kernel crash.
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Contrary to our earlier report that the Magic Mouse was leaving us, it is actually just being replaced with a new model. Cult of Mac’s source told them that Apple was removing the part number for it from their inventory.
Read More →With the release of OS X Lion on the Mac App Store, Apple stated they would also make USB drives for installing available for those who couldn’t or didn’t want to use the digital download option. The drives are now available for purchase through AppleCare for $69 normally, but if you happen to find that you can’t use Lion’s built in recovery options, you can apply to get a free one.
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When the over 1 million people downloaded OS X Lion on launch day, few expected it to be Apple’s Vista (if you don’t get the joke, let’s just say that few expected it to run extremely slowly, much like Windows Vista did.) But a few users have been reporting a ton of Random Access Memory (RAM) being eaten up by a Safari process called “Safari Web Content.” This may be a bug for the new operating system, sometimes using up an entire gigabyte of RAM, with almost no tabs open in Safari. Obviously, with that much RAM being used by one process, the entire system would be extremely slow.
Read More →Here’s a story that you don’t hear every day, and I think its quite ironic. In WWDC 2011, we heard all about the Cloud, which gave us the feature to see all media that we downloaded from iTunes EVER, and redownload it all 100% free. Well now, an Apple customer was charged 122 times for OS X Lion. To the victim, John Christman, it probably doesn’t matter whether he has one or 122 copies of the same software. Oh except for the fact that one copy costs $29.99, while 122 cost $3,878.40. Damn.
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Yesterday, we wrote a tutorial helping users find out which apps would not be compatible with OS X Lion. We mentioned that PowerPC apps were the biggest ones that would lose support, and now we’re here to update you that many of Freeverse’s games are also not going to be updated for Apple’s latest operating system. Why, you ask? Freeverse cites concerns that the gaming experience in Lion wouldn’t be as good as it was for their games in Snow Leopard, and therefore will not be updating many of its games for Lion.
Read More →If you’re impatient about the incredibly slow download speeds you might be getting for the 3+ gigabytes that you must download to get OS X Lion, then you might want to stop right now and listen to the words of Jason Snell, editorial director of Macbook, and his Twitter tweet made this morning.
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