Apple WWDC Keynote – Mac OSX Lion

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• Over 54m mac users worldwide
• Notebooks make up 73% of apple macs

At the recent WWDC, Phil Schiller presented on OS X Lion, which is the operating system for all Macs. It will be available in Spring.

Top 10 Features of Lion

250 new features for Mac OSX, these are 10 key features:

Full screen apps – no matter what size screen, more than one running at a time, like Safari, Mail, iMovie, iWork, etc

Mission control – Brings up a “birds eye view” of all apps docs pages you’re working on (three-finger swipe up). You can customise desktop spaces (screens), drag drop items, create new spaces.

Multi-touch gestures on touch pads

• Scroll, double tap/pinch to zoom, swipe
• Swipe apps/full screens (3 finger swipe)
• Safari – swipe left/right between browsing history (back/fwd)

Mac app store – built into Lion

• Software in app purchase – you can purchase you pc software direct on your screen.
• Delta updates (only update what is new, faster for users)

Launchpad – pinch motion makes all apps appear on screen, multiple pages possible, organise how you want

Resume – when you relaunch an app, it takes you back to where you were (doc, page, settings etc) – ie save and exit but for all apps and all options

Auto Save – saves settings and work in background as you work, lock, duplicate version, browse versions

Versions – auto save all versions, automatic but you can do manual snapshots too. You can also bring in certain aspects (eg image) from an older version to current version (rather than entire version).

AirDrop – share documents, peer to peer Wi-Fi based network allows you to share with those around you on AirDrop as well.

Mail – completely new mail, works in full screen, 2-3 column views, full height message window, message snippets on left, favourite folders at top, search suggestion (just start typing), conversation view links messages into conversations flow (strips redundant text like fwd fwd), file conversation string as is for later. Search works with people, subjects, dates etc. Mail still compatible with others not on Lion.

Other exciting features for OS X Lion

Plus

• Windows Migration available
• Lion Server
• FireVault (security)
• Spotlight
• FaceTime (over Wi-Fi & 3g)
• and lots more…

“When is Lion OS X available – and How Much?”

Lion available only within the Mac App store this July. If you purchase a new Mac now, Lion will be $free once available. Available for purchase for only AU$31.99.

Easy upgrade, buy and download instantly. One license can be used on any of your Macs, multiple copies not required.

Other WWDC Related Posts

• WWDC Wrap Up – see the full keynote
• iOS5.0 – available in Spring
• iCloud – new digital hub for your data

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1. Apple keynote at Macworld 2009 – iLife
2. Apple keynote: iTunes 9
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