Lisa Spangenberg (medievalist@mac.com) has been developing software for the Mac, writing documentation, and editing Macintosh consumer books for 20 years. She bleeds in five colors, and thinks Terminal is the best thing since HyperCard.
I've written about QuickSilver as <a href="http://www.examiner.com/apple-products-in-national/my-top-five-free-mac-os-x-apps-quicksilver">one of my Top 5 Favorite Apps</a...
I'm a long-time user and fan of Bare Bones Software's BBEdit. It's a text editor, with very fast and simple to use searching, support for GREP, syntax coloring and support for a number...
Customizing the Finder ToolbarYou can still customize the button icons and various services on the Finder's Toolbar in Lion, but in Lion you use a special Finder menu option, rather than Command-clicking on the Toolbar itself as...
Resume is one of the new features Apple introduced with OS X 10.7 or Lion. Resume remembers the state of an application when you Quit the application, or even when you've logged off. Resume tracks and remembers...
The digital voices that read aloud text and system messages have been vastly improved. Lion ships with several basic default voices, but you can download a lot more, including non-English voices, and dialect English voices for British, Scottish...
If you hate the fact that in Lion scrolling down pushes new data up, you can set your scrolling preferences to scroll the way you want. Apple calls the Lion default "natural scrolling"; it seems to be inspired...
In the course of announcing stellar third quarter results today, Apple confirms that Lion will be released tomorrow. The new OS will only be available via download from Apple's Mac App store for $29.99. It's...
With the release of iOS 5 sometime in fall of 2011, Apple is phasing out Mobile Me. Some Mobile Me services will be replaced by new free iCloud services. If you're currently a Mobile Me subscriber...
When Apple releases Lion, OS X 10.7, won't work. That means that those PowerPC apps you've been using are not going to work. You can find out what apps you have that...
Apple will be releasing the much-anticipated OS X Lion this month. In fact probably in the next week or so. Here are some things you need to know about Lion:
Lion requires a Mac that's based...