OS X Lion

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  • Lion: The Complete Macworld Review

    Combine the influx of new Mac users with Apple's development of iOS, and you get Lion, the most significant upgrade to OS X since its debut more than ten years ago. Can one OS please both Mac vets and novices? Jason Snell has the review.

  • How to Install Lion

    Can't wait to install the latest version of OS X? Before you do, read our in-depth guide to getting Lion up and running.

  • Upgrading to Lion at an Apple Store

    You can only download Lion through the Mac App Store. But if you've got a slow Internet connection or caps on how much data you can download, Apple offers a solution -- download the OS X update at one of its retail stores. Glenn Fleishman went to a store in Seattle to see how smooth the process went.

  • Bugs & Fixes: Mac OS X Lion application compatibility

    Which third-party applications have problems running in Mac OS X Lion? What should you do if and when you discover one of these conflicts? Here?s what you need to know.

  • Adobe Creative Suite's Lion limitations

    Adobe has published a series of tech notes on Creative Suite's compatibility issues with Apple's Lion.

  • 18 ways to view the ~/Library folder in Lion

    In Lion, your personal Library folder, at the root level of your Home folder, is gone. Actually, it's still there, but it's hidden. Here are a slew of ways to access it or, if you prefer, unhide it.

  • Farewell Front Row

    Yes, I come to bury Front Row. But there's a silver lining. After explaining why it met its largely unnoticed end, I offer a tip on what you can do to resurrect it under Lion.

  • Weekly Wrap: Lion, Lion, some other stuff, and Lion

    There's never a good time to take a break from reading Macworld.com for a week, of course. But this past week was perhaps the worst week to avoid the site in recent memory, as Apple let a rather enormous cat out of the bag. Join us as we run down the biggest stories from the week gone by.

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  • Opinion: OS X should embrace multiple displays

    Users with multiple monitors seem to have become second-class citizens on the Mac, but it's not too late for Apple to turn that around in the next OS X update.

  • Versions and Auto Save explained

    Can you transfer a Lion file that has multiple saved versions to another Mac and expect to browse those versions? No, and Chris Breen explains why.

  • Sandbox deadline delayed yet again to June 1

    Apple told Mac developers Tuesday that it would be extending the sandboxing deadline for all App Store apps yet again, this time to June 1. Additionally, Apple has confirmed that apps may remain on the App Store without sandboxing after this deadline, but developers may only submit bug fix updates for them. Macworld spoke with several app developers about their thoughts on the extension.

  • Ten exciting system changes in Mountain Lion

    There are a bunch of interesting changes to look forward to when Mountain Lion roars onto the scene this summer. But for those uninterested in flashy features, there are plenty of minor changes, as well. Here's a quick look at ten that caught my eye.

  • Opinion: Apple should add Siri to Mountain Lion

    Mountain Lion looks promising. But Lex Friedman hopes Apple will add support for Siri, the voice recognition assistant from the iPhone 4S, to the next iteration of the Mac OS as well.

  • Weekly Wrap: Mountain Lion, Mountain Lion, other stuff, and Mountain Lion

    If you missed the big news this week, boy are you in for some exciting reading: Apple announced a new release of OS X. But while that announcement and its aftershocks dominated the week's news, we wrote about a few other things as well.

  • Mountain Lion: Hands on with Mail

    When Apple released Lion (OS X 10.7), Mail received its biggest overhaul ever, gaining many new and noteworthy features. The changes to Mail in Mountain Lion are more subtle, though there are some nice improvements, along with one significant omission.

  • The Macalope Weekly: Can't we all get along?

    Sometimes maybe we shouldn't.

  • Mountain Lion: Hands on with Safari

    Though Safari didn't receive as huge an overhaul in Mountain Lion as other OS X apps have, it still got some love from the folks in Cupertino. Here are a few brief impressions of Safari's new features.

  • Remains of the Day: Mountain of trouble

    No idea is too crazy for Tim Cook, but you might be crazy if you opt for a real mountain lion over an operating system update. And while Apple may be pulling the iPad from unauthorized Chinese retailers, the auditors are pulling out their clipboards and shaking their heads over Foxconn's factories.

  • Opinion: Facebook integration a glaring iOS, Mountain Lion omission

    iOS 5 offered systemwide Twitter integration; Apple says similar integration is coming to the Mac in Mountain Lion. But what about Facebook?

  • Mountain Lion: What you need to know

    Got a question about Mountain Lion? We dive into the things you need to know about availability, features, and changes in the next version of OS X.

  • Five exciting app changes in Mountain Lion

    Though Mountain Lion snuck onto the scene just this morning, I've already discovered a few delightful details about the apps in Apple's upcoming OS update for the Mac, thanks to editorial director Jason Snell's hands on with the software. Here are five app changes I can't wait to see come to my Mac this summer.

  • Slideshow: Mountain Lion's new features

    The latest version of OS X is looking at lot more like iOS.

  • Mountain Lion: Hands on with Contacts and Calendar

    Many Mac users will welcome the updated versions of iCal and Address Book--renamed Calendar and Contacts, respectively--offered in Mountain Lion. While they don’t fix all issues present in their Lion counterparts, each offers a number of significant improvements. Here’s a quick look.

  • Messages: What works, what needs work

    Apple released Messages, the successor to iChat, in beta form. Staff writer Lex Friedman took a look at what's right about the updated instant messaging and iMessaging app, and what needs improvement.

  • Developers unsurprised, but cautious about Gatekeeper

    One of the new features in Mountain Lion is Gatekeeper, which can restrict users to running Mac apps from the Mac App Store and trusted developers. Developers had both positive and cautious things to say about the idea.

  • What's in a name with Mountain Lion apps

    Here are a few name changes to get used to with the upcoming Mountain Lion OS X.

  • OS X Mountain Lion is on the way

    Macworld's Jason Snell joins host Chris Breen to discuss the next version of the Mac OS--Mountain Lion.

  • Messages beta ready for download

    Apple on Thursday released a beta of Messages, the iChat replacement due in Mountain Lion.



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