Lion tips

Mac OS X Lion’s been out for several weeks, and by now many of you have developed a feel for it. Meanwhile, we here at Macworld have gone way beyond the “feel” stage and moved to “what small nuggets of succulence can we unearth in this operating system?” In just over 40 minutes we present the fruit of our excavations in the form of a solid 25 Lion-specific tips presented for your listening pleasure by yours truly, Serenity Caldwell, Dan Frakes, Lex Friedman, Dan Moren, and Jason Snell.

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Mac Pundit Showdown XII

If a podcast tackles everything from Mac OS X Lion to the upcoming Steve Jobs biography to the scourge of trees around Apple’s proposed expansion in Cupertino, you can bet you’re listening to another edition of the Macworld Pundit Showdown.

We’ve assembled a panel of Mac experts–editorial director Jason Snell, executive editor Jonathan Seff, senior editor Dan Frakes, and senior associate editor Dan Moren—to field rapid-fire questions about current events affecting technology in general and Apple in particular. Find out who finishes on top in this four-way battle for pundit supremacy.

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New MacBook Airs and Mac Minis

After devoting the last few podcasts to all things Lion, we turn our attention to hardware—specifically, the MacBook Air and Mac mini updates that were announced the same day Mac OS X Lion arrived. Because these days, it all circles back to Lion.

Editorial director Jason Snell shares his thoughts on the MacBook Air, while senior editor Dan Frakes does likewise with the Mac mini. And Macworld Lab director James Galbraith sits in to tell us about how all the new models performed in our tests.

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Installing Lion

Lion has hit Apple’s App Store and a lot of your computers. While those first adopters have dived into the Lion’s mouth with feet forward, many more of you are waiting to install the latest version of the Mac OS. And because you are, we’d like to lend a hand by talking about the issues you’ll face when installing Lion. Macworld senior editor Dan Frakes joins me to do just that.

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Lion roars at last

Lion is here, and we've convened an early-morning edition of the Macworld Podcast to talk about Apple's latest Mac OS X release. I’m joined by editorial director Jason Snell, senior editor Jonathan Seff, and staff editor Serenity Caldwell to discuss the release.

While Lion rightly gets the bulk of our attention, we also have a few words about the MacBook Air models announced Wednesday by Apple as well as the apparent end of the MacBook.

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Tweet this!

Twitter, the 140-character social networking service, is an increasingly big deal. There are scads of Twitter users across the globe and it’s anything but uncommon to find that entities from big businesses to government agencies have a Twitter presence. In today’s podcast I speak with two Macworld editors, Scholle Sawyer-McFarland and Lex Friedman, who’ve recently participated in two unique Tweet-ups—one at the launch of the final space shuttle mission and the other, a meeting with the President.

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