By default, Lion has the Status Bar in Finder disabled. If you are used to using the Status Bar to tell you how much room is left on your drive, how many items are in a folder, etc. then you can enable it.

By using Mission Control and gestures you can easily navigate between spaces and by binding apps to spaces, you can use these gestures to switch between open apps.

OS X Lion uses Mission Control as a way to display all open windows, full-screen apps, spaces, and Dashboard. If you don’t use Dashboard very often, you can stop it from appearing in Mission Control so that it only is displaying the apps and windows you use.

Apple is starting to move away from the traditional file system with OS X Lion. One of the consequences of this action is that the “Save As” command is becoming obsolete. Here I will describe why this is occurring and how to accomplish the tasks that were traditionally performed with the “Save As” function.

In Lion, the name for the individual logged onto the computer is displayed in the menu bar. Since this can take up quite a bit of room, you can save space by changing it to an icon while maintaining the fast user switching access.

OS X Lion gives you the option of trimming down System Preferences to display only the ones that you use most. By hiding the other panels, you will have easier access to the preferences you find yourself using most of the time.

If you want to display a custom message on the login and lock screens, Lion allows this, but the option is tucked away, so you might miss it. Custom messages can be quite useful as you could display your name and address or contact info if the computer is found by someone, or maybe just [...]

By using Lion’s Launchpad, you can easily uninstall any applications that you have installed from the App Store. This makes for easy cleanup when you are trying to make room for newer apps on your computer.

In OS X 10.7, the Library directory is hidden by default to prevent users from accidentally removing critical files. If you are an advanced user that needs access to the Library directory, it can easily be accomplished by using a simple Terminal command.

While it may be rare for your Mac to freeze or crash, you can set your system to automatically restart so that you don’t have to mess with it.