![]() Monitor performance displays a graph of network signal strength, noise level, transmit power, and data rate.“Wi-Fi Diagnostics produces a report that can be sent to Apple for analysis.” OS X Lion has a new app located into System/Library/CoreServices: Wi-Fi Diagnostics will “diagnose your wireless network, record network events, capture network traffic, and turn on debug logs”. To enable it, open Mail’s Preferences, navigate to the Viewing tab and check “Include related messages”. app in Lion has an option in its Settings to enable “related messages” to achieve a conversation threading view similar to Gmail, which will fetch related messages (from the same sender or with the same subject) that aren’t part of the selected conversation. With the following Terminal command, the Command +D keyboard shortcut will be reassigned to the system “Don’t Save” action: defaults write NSGlobalDomain NSSavePanelStandardDesktopShortcutOnly -bool YES. If the files are still on your computer, the Application Windows shortcut will show “recent documents” below the open windows, which you can click to open again. ![]() ![]() The easiest way to see the feature in action is assign Application Windows a keyboard shortcut, open some documents in Preview, close those documents, and open another one. Just like Snow Leopard and Exposè, head over an application window, hit the spacebar, and the window preview will come in the foreground letting you see its contents in greater detail.Įxposè is now built into Mission Control, and the “Application Windows” part of it has been revamped in Lion to show both all windows and recently opened documents. If you want bigger window previews in Mission Control, you can Quick Look them. This is a simple one: Mission Control is easy to understand, but it can get busy pretty quickly if you have lots of apps open and you don’t use virtual desktops. Type this command in the Terminal: “defaults write -g ApplePressAndHoldEnabled -bool false” and OS X will go back to allowing you to keep a key pressed to type the same character multiple times. If you find Lion’s default behavior to display accented letters annoying, you can revert back to a more standard setting that will enable key repeating. You can assign a keyboard to show the desktop, application windows, and even move between spaces. Mission Control is a new feature that blends the best of Exposè and Spaces into a single intuitive UI, but the old keyboard-based options still hold true in Lion: if you want to activate Mission Control with a keyboard shortcut, rather than a gesture, launch System Preferences, navigate to Keyboard -> Keyboard Shortcuts -> Mission Control and manually type in your custom shortcut. Note: this won’t disable the sliding animation for reply in full-screen mode.Īssign keyboard shortcuts to Mission Control To disable the animation, type the following command in the Terminal (without quotes): “defaults write DisableReplyAnimations -bool YES” – then press Enter, and restart Mail. In Lion, hitting CMD+R to reply to an email message will play a new animation with the original message bouncing on screen to become a new window. Same as above, only it applies to window animations in replies from Mail.app. You can revert back at any time by replacing “NO” in the command with “YES”. To disable Lion’s new window animation, and get back to Snow Leopard’s standard one, type the following command in the Terminal (without quotes): “defaults write NSGlobalDomain NSAutomaticWindowAnimationsEnabled -bool NO” – then press Enter, and restart the Finder or other apps to see it in action. Whilst the new animation can be “cool” on the first 200 app launches, it can become annoying after a few weeks. As John Siracusa noted in his review, however, even this quick animation can have an effect on the user’s perceived nature of the “speed” of the operating system. In OS X Lion, application windows open with a new animation that makes a window quickly pop in from the center of the screen, and expand to its default width and height. Jump after the break for a second list of Lion tips and tricks you can try right now. Once again, we have collected the best tips sent to us by our readers and Twitter followers in an article that will (hopefully) help you discover new things Apple didn’t talk about at its developer events or in Lion’s promo video. Less than a week into Lion, the web has exploded with new Lion tips, Terminal hacks, and app tweaks. Lion was being welcomed with positive reviews, Mac users finally got their hands on the much anticipated upgrade, and people started digging deeper into the OS to discover functions and tricks not publicized by Apple in its marketing material and Mac App Store description page. In our first “Miscellaneous Lion Tips and Tricks” article we collected the best tips we received soon after Lion’s launch on the Mac App Store last Wednesday.
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