If you find the sidebar icons in Finder and Mail a little too big or small, you can change it from System Preferences.
From System Preferences > General, click on “Sidebar icon size”. A drop-down menu will give the options “Small”, “Medium” and “Large”. The default settings is “Medium”.
Words With Friends is social gaming at its best. Similar to an electronic version of Scrabble, you can play Words With Friends against a friend from your contact list, find a friend or play from a random opponent from its more than 20 million users. There is an HD version for iPad and ads supported free versions as well.
More and more musicians are using iPad as their tool for production and recording. Many are churning out entire songs solely on iPad. If you have doubt if iPad can produce anything decent, check out the videos.
If you find the options in System Preferences overwhelming, you can selectively hide those unwanted options from displaying.
Open System Preferences app. Click and hold on the “Show All” button to reveal a drop down menu. Select “Customize…” at the bottom of the menu.
From the customize screen, uncheck those options that you want to hide, and then click the “Done” button to save the changes.
As predicted, Walter Isaacson’s ‘Steve Jobs’ biography is Amazon’s best-selling book of 2011. It is remarkable considering that ‘Steve Jobs’ is only released in late October. The biography is an interesting read into the man for fans and non-fans alike.
If you use the dock but hate the blue indicator light below open applications, OS X Lion now allows you to turn the lights off. Go to System Preferences > Dock, uncheck “Show indicator lights for open applications”.
Path has just released version 2, with a revamped interface that is about sharing all aspect of your life, photos, vides, message, songs, location and even sleep. Called it a micro blogging app or life journal app, Path 2 is what the app should have been in the first place. The famous 50 person limit is increased to 150 in Path 2. Yes there is still a limit to the number of people you can share things in the app. And the app now sync your Path pots with Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare and Tumblr.
OS X Lion comes with a new “iTunes Artwork” screen saver, which displays album covers from your iTunes library as flipping grids of images. When you click on an album cover, the songs from the album will start playing.
The settings for screen saver is under System Preferences > Desktop & Screen Saver.
AirDrop is a new OS X Lion feature that provides an easy way to share files between Wi-Fi enabled Macs, using drag-and-drop right from within Finder. Unfortunately AirDrop is not available for all Macs running OS X Lion as the feature requires a Wi-Fi hardware feature available only on newer Macs.
If AirDrop is not listed on your Mac’s Finder window sidebar or under the Go menu, then your Mac doesn’t support AirDrop. Apple has a support document listing the Macs supporting AirDrop. Macs that are the same as or newer than the models listed below support AirDrop:
Apple Support Doc: Can I use AirDrop with my computer?
We have covered the built-in Emoji support in OS X Lion. Turns out that iOS 5 has the same Emoji characters for you when text is just not enough. In order to enter Emoji characters in iOS 5, you need to add the Emoji keyboard.
From Settings app, go to General > Keyboard > International Keyboards > Add New Keyboard. Look for “Emoji” and tap on it to add the keyboard.
Once a keyboard is added, it can be accessed from the globe icon on the keyboard during text editing. Each tap on the globe icon will toggle among the added keyboards from the Settings app.
