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OS X Lion: Top 10 Features in Under 3 Minutes

2011-06-07
hey guys johnathan here with TLD got a rundown of Mac os10 lying or actually I should say OS 10 lion Apple has dropped the Mac in front of the name nonetheless is gonna be available this July for $29 to the Mac App Store so the downside to that if you currently have leopard you must upgrade to Snow Leopard to gain access to the Mac App Store and from there you can upgrade to Lion now I know some of you guys you can be having questions so for those of you wondering how big lion is it's actually a four gig download sometng too painful and secondly if you guys are curious how would you do a fresh install of lion from what I've read you can actually download it to a USB Drive and install it that way just in case you want to do a clean install now I'm gonna give you guys a rundown of the top ten features Apple took us through at WWDC there's actually over 250 but let's go and start out with number one and that is multi-touch gestures now apps will actually be controlled through multi-touch gestures such as three finger swipes scrolls pinching and zooming number two is full screen apps so very similar to that of what you've seen on the iOS devices we will now see full screen applications on our desktop or laptops for those of you guys being smart number three is Mission Control what this is it's basically an expanded expose all of your apps open in an instance and they're grouped by each application number 4 will be the Mac App Store it's not really new but it's actually gonna be built into OS line and from there you'll be able to do in-app purchases kind of similar what we can do on iOS devices now number 5 is called Launchpad so that actually looks pretty cool you're gonna do a little pinch motion and all your apps are gonna be brought up to the screen so if you guys aren't catching on to a little drift a little things looking familiar it's looking a lot like an iOS platform brought to the desktop form factor number 6 is resumed so when you launch an app it's gonna bring you back to where you previously left off number 7 that's kind of goes hand-in-hand as autosave so you don't have to worry about saving it if you mess up it automatically saves it so you don't got to worry about doing that just in case the worst happens number 8 is versions essentially it's like a time machine for your documents so you can actually go back and see previous versions of what you did maybe three documents ago or three revisions ago that looks pretty cool number nine is called airdrop what that's gonna do is kind of essentially replace a USB Drive so if you have users and a specific network you can actually pick them send a file and bam they got the file number ten isn't improved may I'm not going to go over the complete rundown but what you need to know is it's gonna look a lot similar to iOS devices again so I think we have a theme here but I really look forward to is they're bringing conversations in the mail application and other than that that's just kind of a quick rundown of Mac OS excuse me OS 10 lion I keep forgetting they remove the Mac out of there so make sure to check out our previous videos there's a really really busy day we got III coverage or WWDC coverage lots of videos for you guys to check out as always feel free to subscribe and I will catch you guys later you
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