Lion; it’s finally here. If you haven’t already downloaded and installed Apple’s newest version of OS X, then let me tell you about it. Lion has a ton of new features, but to be honest, it still feels a lot like Snow Leopard. As such, it’s only $30, which only needs to be paid once for all of your Macs. Now, let me tell you what I’ve found so far in Lion, and offer a few tips along the way.

Mission Control combines Exposé, Dashboard, Spaces, and full-screen applications to give you one place to see and navigate everything running on your Mac.

Especially being a user of older and low-end hardware, I begrudge the amounts of RAM, processor cycles, and swapfile access that gets absorbed by the Dashboard. It would be great if Apple had provided the option to manually quit the Dashboard in OS X, but for whatever reason, they didn’t. Happily, it’s still not that difficult to disable the Dashboard and free up those resources.

Facebook chat is a little awkward… it’s stuck in the browser, and even if popped out, it still runs in Safari. By closing the window, or moving to a new tab, you close your chat. Fortunately, Mac OS X makes it easy to run Facebook Chat separately from Safari. Here are the two easiest ways: more »

At Macworld 2007, when Steve Jobs first let us see the holy grail, iPhone, he stated that the operating system it is running is Mac OS X. Most people took this to mean that it was a stripped down version of OS X, or Mac OS “Mobile.” At the All Things Digital Conference recently, we more »