If you have not made the rounds over at StackExchange then you are going to kick yourself when you finally do. It’s so crammed full of gems that it’s hard to walk away without learning something new.
Here’s a list of people’s favorite gestures for Lion. Or how about auto-mounting volumes at login? Here are general questions about keyboard shortcuts on Mac OS X and some info about Mission Control usage.
If you have a Magic Trackpad and 3-finger window drag enabled, try dragging a window across your screen (given it some velocity) and lift up one finger. The window will slowly glide to a stop rather than abruptly sticking to window.
It feels very natural. I wonder if this is foreshadowing (a.k.a testing) of new interface effects meant to extend the idea of a physical desktop environment. The effect feels right at home to me.
Another simple but incredibly enjoyable Keyboard Maestro macro.
There are two predictable things about my daily workflow.
At the end of the day, my Mac desktop will be filled with open windows of all kinds. At the beginning of the day I will be annoyed by all of the open windows blocking my view of OmniFocus, BusyCal and Mail. I created a simple Keyboard Maestro macro to rectify #2.
Curio I’ve been using Curio from Zengobi for several years. I’ve found it to be one of the best ways to take notes on the Mac. It’s incredibly flexible and easy to use. The application has some nice features like built-in Evernote search and import, PDF import, and pasting of audio and video. Curio also is one of the easiest ways to make gorgeous mind maps. Whenever I sit down at my Mac to take some serious notes I use Curio as a sort of TrapperKeeper notebook.
After upgrading to Lion I quickly discovered that many of my custom macros that depend on Python were broken. A busy schedule meant that I put off researching the issue. Fortunately DrDrang’s recent post shed some light on the issue.
It appears that Lion uses a newer version of Python (2.7) and also has a bit more restrictions when installing packages. If you want to get your python customizations back you’ll need to perform some maintenance.
Today appears to be NVAlt day. Brett and Elastic Threads have exciting news about NVAlt 2.1 and the future of Notational Velocity. Not only is the new version Lion compatible but there are some fantastic new features like opening characters.
Nice solution from Don McAllister if you already upgraded to Lion but now want to make a USB installer.
Great post on the Red Sweater blog with instructions to implement Whole Disk Encryption on Lion.
The Difference Between the Dual-Core i5 and i7 MacBook Air — Shawn Blanc
I'd add that the i7 is also better if you virtualize other OS' through Parallels or VMware. Also remember, Handbrake is CPU intensive and benefits from Hyper threading.
Great series of essays by Dr. Drang that cover his evolution of writing everything in plain text files. His latest post discusses BBEdit and Textmate.
