By running a Power Efficiency Diagnostics Report, you can view an analysis of your system and check common energy efficiency and battery life problems as well as check for errors and warnings for your power setup and hardware.
If the current setting for the Start Menu power button do not meet your needs, you can easily change it (to sleep, hibernate, or shutdown) through the following instructions.
With iCloud coming and AirDrop already here, it is very useful to set your Apple ID within Lion so that you can utilize these services.
This tech-recipe will explain how to use any photo in your stream or any of your Circles photo albums as your Android phone’s wallpaper. This of course only works with Android phones and requires having the Google+ app for Android installed.
By default, Lion’s Mission Control rearranges spaces based on recent use. If you have your spaces set up the way you want them and don’t want Mission Control messing this up, you can disable this and keep your spaces in their original position.
If you press and hold a letter in Lion, a popup will appear with the various accented versions of that letter. If you don’t use this and want to get rid of the distraction, you can disable it.
Many PDF files ultimately need a real signature to complete. Often people would print out the page, sign it, rescan it, and then email it. What a waste! However, for many people trying to scan in a signature and then paste it into the file was even harder. With OS X Lion, Apple has added an extremely simple way to add signatures to PDF files. Here is the step-by-step directions to do it.
In the development versions of OS X Lion, Apple has inverted the scroll direction. This is a logical progression to a more gesture oriented system; however, for many users it is confusing and breaks old habits. It is always hard to do exactly the opposite of what was previously learned. To revert to the older scrolling direction, follow these steps.
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.
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.
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