Category: Tutorials

“Hi to everybody, does a keyboard shortcut exist for launching Launchpad?”.

It is possible to access Launchpad of Mac OS X Lion through the relative icon (a spatial nacelle in brushed metal) in the Dock or in the briefcase Applications, pinching with three or four fingers (according to the formulations in Preferences of System / Trackpad / Other actions), or bringing the cursor of the mouse in an angle of the monitor (shaping the option active Angles from the panel Desk and Screen saver or of Mission Control of the Preferences of System).

In more, in few clicks it is possible to shape Launchpad to launch him/it with a headrest shortcut or a key function. It is enough to open the panel Keyboard of Preferences of System, selzionare Dashboard and Dock in the column of sinsitra, therefore in the panel to the right to put the sign of sprouts to “Show Launchpad” and cliccare to the right of the name and digitare the combination of keys that is preferred or a key function I free (F5 or F6, for instance).

Time Machine of Lion has earned some new functions, but it is one of it that can return particularly useful: now it is possible to use a preceding hard disk of Time Machine with a new computer and to inherit the historian of the backup of the old Mac.

The process of migration is rather easy: it needs to connect the old disk of Time Machine to the new computer and to open the panel Time Machine of the Preferences of System. Lion will remember that a disk of backup has not been selected and it will show a dialogue box with a button to open the Preferences of Time Machine and a new option: It uses preceding disk. Cliccando this last will be visualized a list of the unities climbed on with the backup of Time Machine.

Once selected the old disk of Time Machine, another choice you/he/she will be given: to create entirely a new backup or “to inherit” the historian of the backup of the old disk. In this last case, the backup of Time Machine of the old computer will be migrated on the new computer. And’ the case to underline that if the migration of the backup of Time Machine effects him on the new computer, not on it will be able to use him/it more with the old Mac.

It deals with a notable footstep in before, in comparison to Time Machine of Leopard and Snow Leopard. In precedence, in fact, when a new Mac was purchased, it was possible to migrate the data from the backup of Time Machine to shape the new computer, but later, the existing backup were not recognized by Time Machine. The practice was created a new backup, losing so the historian.

It is possible to maintain the continuity of the backup through now more computers, so that to never lose the old data.

The development of QuickSilver, the popular one and apprezzatissimo it continues launcher for Mac OS X, despite his/her dad, Nicholas Jitkoff, in 2009 is passed to Google for realizare Quick Search Playpen (the alter ego of QuickSilver).How Butler ($20), Quicksilver. it is an excellent utility, that allows to quickly launch applications, documents, URL, songs of iTunes, preferred of the browsers etc. You automatically loads to the start of the Mac, he/she works in background and you/he/she can be recalled with the keyboard combination that of default is ctrl-space

The operation is simple: writing in the dialogue box the letters po, it for instance appears as first result pa.ges, the application of the suite of iWork of Apple. Pressing the key arrow on it is possible to visualize a list of file connected to the effected search. Thanks to the extreme ductility of Quicksilver, selecting from this list the application Paparazzi is possible to make him learn with the time that pa means Paparazzi (it is the application that I use for photographing a whole Web page).

With a click with the right key of the mouse on the icon of the application or the looked for file, the contextual menu of Action that shows various options appears: You open, Show, Glues etc. what you/he/she can subsequently be personalized in the preferences of Quicksilver. It deals above all with a particularly useful option for actions of routine. Must for example send a determined document every time that is required for e-mail, it is possible to add the action Email to. In this way, digitando the in partnership letters to the file to be sent away mail electronics, once that you/he/she has appeared in the window of Quicksilver it will be enough to choose the Action Email to send him/it by e-mail..

On-line they are available of the plug-in free for good part of the applications of the Mac OS X (Adium, Automator, Entourage, iPhoto, Mail, Transmit etc.).

Finally, always in Preferences / Triggers it is possible to combine a keyboard combination to quickly perform even more one determined action.

Quicksilver b60 is comatibile with Snow Leopard and Lion, and from the site of the developer it is possible to also unload the versions for Tiger and Leopard, and even for Panther.

The sharing screen of Lion has been notably improved. To start, is now not only possible to visualize the desk of another Mac, but also to share the screen for every account of the Mac, even if somebody else is using him/it with a different account.We for example suppose, that a remote Mac has two accounts consumer, Stephen and Alessandra. Stephen is currently working on the Mac with his/her account. From another Mac, Alessandra can select the Mac that appears under the voice “Shared” in a window of the Finder, to make click Shares screen and digitare his/her name consumer and the password in the resultant dialogue box. When he makes click on the button Connected, another window of visualization of selection it appears with two options. to ask to share the screen or to connect to a virtual desk. In the first case, a message appears on the other Mac that to Alessandra it would like to share the screen. If Stephen accepts the sharing of the screen, Alessandra can see what on the screen of Stephen is as also to check him/it.

If, he makes click instead, to connect to a virtual desk, you/he/she can be chosen to visualize and to check all the accounts to which access is had on the other Mac. You is able, for instance, to select the account Alessandra, to introduce the password, and the relative account will be launched in background on the remote Mac. The only indication that Stephen will have of what is happening you/he/she is the appearance of the icon Sharing screen in the menu bar of the Finder. Alessandra can work then with the Mac in remote, while also Stephen uses him/it.

Besides, Sharing screen now offers two formalities of visualization, Hardware and virtual Desk. The hardware is the formality of visualization to which has gotten used. When you/he/she is connected to another Mac through the sharing of the screen, you/he/she is shown the image of the remote Mac and in a panel also of the really. When the virtual desk is chosen, the image of the remote Mac is seen, but in this last the window appears than log-in grey with the accounts. The person that was seen the remote Mac, whether to introduce his/her own password to take back the control of the computer.

There is also a new formality it Observes (available also from the menu it Approves) that it allows to look at whatever action on the remote computer without interfering. The sharing of the screen has a toolbar personalizzabile and is possible to add the button Control / it Observes for a more rapid access. Ago his/her debut also another function, Instant screen, that together to it Observes you/he/she has directly been taken in loan by Remote Desktops of Apple, that allow to effect a screenshot of the Mac in remote.

Always from the new toolbar it is (or from the menu it Approves) possible to activate Proper for the window and to care or to send the Notes of the Finder.

As the other applications of Lion, also Sharing screen supports the formality to all screen.

Final considerations

Someone uses the version server of the Mac you mine to check more Mac, I use the application instead Sharing Screen. With Lion some useful and elegant improvements have been introduced, mine preferred is the possibility to connect as consumer on a remote Mac, while another person is locally connected. I like the idea to enter my iMac to house and to use some files without forcing who is using him/it to go out before.

It seems that all the consumers Mac have a preferred launcher, the three that they go for the greatest I am LaunchBar (€ 24), Butler ($20) and Quicksilver. But if you have not found the yet “pitcher of applications and file” ideal or is thinking about trying of of it new, I suggest you to free unload Alfred for Snow Leopard and Lion from the Mac App Store.

Alfred 0.9.9 allow to start the applications and search on the Web, Amazon (in Preferences / General it needs to point out the Country where it is us to get results “located”), and still more the all pressing few keys. A combination of keys (of default is Option-bar spaziatrice) can be assigned, to visualize the relative box of search, and then digitare the first letters of the application that it is desired to launch, or a key word to effect a search on the Web. Alfred will show a list of results. If the first one is what he is looking for, it is enough to press the key Dispatch and the application you/he/she will be launched or the open document. If what is looking for is not the first one of the list of the results, Alfred very kindly it assigns a specific combination of keys to every result to quickly (those of deafult are .-2, .-3 and so street) select them.

If is thinking about passing to one of these launchers, you keep in mind that Alfred is currently in beta, and the search works in different way in comparison to Quicksilver (greatest difference is that it deals with a rigorous textual search, therefore if you press “ff” you won’t find Firefox).

Alfred has profited of an important updating that introduces new functionalities as the support for the extensions, the integration with Growl and a new background inspired to Mac OS X Lion, besides it resolves the usual long list of bug.

Alfred 0.9.9, that it requires at least OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard or OS X 10.7 Lion, can free be unloaded by the Mac App Store

Apple has disclosed great details around its service of synchronization iCloud, included the prices. Steve Jobs had in precedence declared that the consumers of the devices Apple would have had 5GB of storage title free iCloud, it is possible to add others 10GB (that more other five gigabytes of free space ten, for a total of 15GB) for 16 European a year, 25GB for 32 European, or 55GB for 80 European a year.

It is interesting to compare these prices with the popular service of cloud-storage of Dropbox, that offers 2GB of free storage, 50GB for $120 to the year and 100GB for $228 for year.

Besides, Apple has released also to the developers a version beta of iCloud.com, that furnishes Mac Dev to the recorded consumers to the program a preview of the applications Web “iOS like” you syncronize with e-mail, contacts, calendars, iWork, and it Finds my iPhone.

Apple has not exactly said still when icCoud will be available for the great public, but the service is strongly tied to iOS 5, that it will arrive “this autumn.”