WEBVTT - TechStuff Looks at OS X Lion 0:00:00.280 --> 0:00:02.960 Brought to you by the reinvented two thousand twelve Camray. 0:00:03.160 --> 0:00:08.880 It's ready. Are you get in touch with technology? With 0:00:09.000 --> 0:00:17.480 tech Stuff from how stuff works dot com. Hello everyone, 0:00:17.480 --> 0:00:20.800 and welcome to tech Stuff. My name is Chris Poulette 0:00:21.000 --> 0:00:23.920 and I am an editor at how stuff works dot Com. 0:00:23.920 --> 0:00:26.560 Sitting across from me since that's the way we have 0:00:26.680 --> 0:00:29.440 this studio set up, and really we can't do it 0:00:29.440 --> 0:00:33.560 any other way. It's senior writer Jonathan Strickland in the Jungle, 0:00:33.920 --> 0:00:39.839 the Mighty Jungle. Well you know, uh, you know, he 0:00:39.880 --> 0:00:42.720 doesn't tell me what quotes he picks before we do this, 0:00:42.960 --> 0:00:44.760 which is why I always chuckle because I'm going, oh 0:00:44.800 --> 0:00:51.000 see he picked that one. Yeah, um, but yes, wey. 0:00:51.760 --> 0:00:54.920 So today we are we are tackling something that many 0:00:54.960 --> 0:00:58.160 people have asked us about, and boy is that dangerous. 0:00:58.800 --> 0:01:03.080 You don't want to enjoy general tackle a lion sucker, 0:01:03.200 --> 0:01:06.600 l take your head clean off. Uh yeah. And if 0:01:06.640 --> 0:01:09.080 you're wondering why, because people have been asking about this 0:01:09.120 --> 0:01:11.120 for a couple of months now and we didn't get 0:01:11.200 --> 0:01:12.960 right to it. It's it's one of those things where 0:01:12.959 --> 0:01:15.119 we went, hey, this week, we should do mac Os 0:01:15.160 --> 0:01:19.200 ten lion no let's wait until next week. And then 0:01:19.240 --> 0:01:21.559 we we found out that, uh, you know something about 0:01:21.640 --> 0:01:25.120 Windows eight. They they announced it at the Microsoft Developer Conference, 0:01:25.120 --> 0:01:26.360 and we said, you know what, now would be a 0:01:26.360 --> 0:01:29.440 good time for us to do one on Microsoft's new OS, 0:01:29.520 --> 0:01:31.840 and we'll do Lion as well, so that we want 0:01:31.920 --> 0:01:34.840 to talk about Lion. Yeah, so we've you know, I'm 0:01:34.840 --> 0:01:37.480 not exactly sure when we're scheduling these. We haven't. We 0:01:37.480 --> 0:01:39.760 haven't sat down and scheduled them. But we have a 0:01:39.800 --> 0:01:42.360 Windows eight episode and we have a mac Os ten 0:01:42.680 --> 0:01:45.480 Lion episode, and we're recording both of them on the 0:01:45.520 --> 0:01:49.120 same day. Now. We've just finished recording Windows eight, but 0:01:49.240 --> 0:01:51.680 it may or may not have published yet. So we're 0:01:51.680 --> 0:01:54.760 going to just say that if this one's publishing first, 0:01:54.920 --> 0:01:57.640 don't worry Microsoft fans, Windows eight is coming. And if 0:01:57.680 --> 0:02:01.400 Windows eight came out first, boy, those Land fans didn't 0:02:01.400 --> 0:02:03.960 get upset because I didn't warn them at the beginning 0:02:04.000 --> 0:02:07.480 of that episode. Don't worry Apple fans. You're oh, we're 0:02:07.520 --> 0:02:10.480 recording it. Yeah, So let's talk about Lyon now. First 0:02:10.480 --> 0:02:14.080 of all, it is part of the mac OS ten 0:02:14.600 --> 0:02:17.960 family of operating systems, all of which have names that 0:02:18.120 --> 0:02:22.000 are big cat names. Yes. Now, um, I want to 0:02:22.040 --> 0:02:26.119 point out too that unlike Windows eight, which is coming 0:02:26.120 --> 0:02:29.919 out sometime in twelve, mac Os Lion is available today 0:02:30.000 --> 0:02:33.320 as at the time we're recording this, And but there 0:02:33.400 --> 0:02:37.720 is one big similarity which is, unlike in past operating systems, 0:02:38.800 --> 0:02:42.600 the two of these are taking cues from the mobile world. 0:02:43.480 --> 0:02:47.399 Many of of Lyon's early reviews came back and said, hey, 0:02:47.440 --> 0:02:49.320 this looks an awful lot like the Io S, which 0:02:49.360 --> 0:02:52.120 is the operating system that's used on the i iPod Touch, 0:02:52.240 --> 0:02:55.920 the iPhone, and the iPad UM. And we've suspected for 0:02:55.960 --> 0:02:59.119 a while that the mac os and the iOS were 0:02:59.200 --> 0:03:04.000 converging on a similar point and that maybe we'll get 0:03:04.040 --> 0:03:09.840 to a point where they are practically indistinguishable from each other. Now, granted, uh, 0:03:10.080 --> 0:03:13.960 you're always going to be able to run more complex 0:03:14.160 --> 0:03:19.919 and uh resource intensive UM applications on a desktop or 0:03:20.000 --> 0:03:23.560 laptop because it has more hardware resources to dedicate to 0:03:23.600 --> 0:03:27.400 that kind of stuff. But the actual experience of navigating 0:03:27.400 --> 0:03:31.679 the operating system should be pretty much, um well, very 0:03:31.680 --> 0:03:34.920 similar to the point where if you're familiar with one, 0:03:35.440 --> 0:03:38.640 the other feels natural to you. Yes, I think that 0:03:38.880 --> 0:03:42.120 these companies are trying to immerse you in their operating 0:03:42.160 --> 0:03:45.800 systems to the point where the whole environment. You have 0:03:45.920 --> 0:03:48.760 your tablet, you have your phone, and you have your 0:03:49.360 --> 0:03:52.080 computer of some kind, and they all look and operate 0:03:52.320 --> 0:03:54.760 very similarly. So I say, you know, I need a 0:03:54.760 --> 0:03:57.040 new phone, but I want to get the Q phone. 0:03:57.680 --> 0:03:59.320 I don't want to get the Q phone. Mean, everybody's 0:03:59.320 --> 0:04:01.720 got that, but I'm not familiar with that operating system. 0:04:01.760 --> 0:04:04.000 So I'm just gonna stick with this. Yeah, And also 0:04:04.480 --> 0:04:06.800 we should point out that we are recording this podcast 0:04:06.840 --> 0:04:10.600 before the official launch of iOS five. That's true, and 0:04:10.720 --> 0:04:14.040 iOS five is probably we we've already seen some hints 0:04:14.040 --> 0:04:16.680 of iOS five and what's gonna involve in what's going 0:04:16.720 --> 0:04:19.039 to uh the feature kind of features that's gonna have, 0:04:19.279 --> 0:04:22.760 but we haven't had a full rundown of all those features. 0:04:22.920 --> 0:04:24.960 And it may very well be that once iOS five 0:04:25.000 --> 0:04:28.080 has gone live, that the resemblance between iOS five and 0:04:28.240 --> 0:04:32.280 Lion is even closer than what we're talking about right now. Now. 0:04:32.279 --> 0:04:35.960 I've been using mac os ten since UH, since it's 0:04:36.080 --> 0:04:39.600 very first version. And like Jonathan said, UM, these have 0:04:39.680 --> 0:04:44.160 all been named for big cats, UM and UH of 0:04:44.320 --> 0:04:46.960 varying sizes. They don't go in any kind of order 0:04:47.000 --> 0:04:49.640 that can tally the cats get larger because tiger was 0:04:50.080 --> 0:04:53.920 a few versions ago, and tigers are bigger than lions. Well, 0:04:54.320 --> 0:04:56.960 so you might be saying, what are these versions they 0:04:57.360 --> 0:04:59.240 and and this is the other funny part. We have 0:04:59.320 --> 0:05:02.640 another number discrepancy, but this one at least is easier 0:05:02.680 --> 0:05:06.000 to explain than the Windows versioning system. Um. There are 0:05:06.040 --> 0:05:10.960 seven previous versions to mac OS ten point seven. They 0:05:11.000 --> 0:05:16.480 are Cheetah, Puma, jaguar, panther, tiger, leopard, and snow leopard. UM. 0:05:16.600 --> 0:05:19.160 The reason that there are seven previous versions of macOS 0:05:19.200 --> 0:05:21.080 ten and that this one is ten point seven is 0:05:21.120 --> 0:05:25.200 that Cheetah was actually ten point zero. UM. And I 0:05:25.240 --> 0:05:28.080 can tell you that cheetahs really don't prosper. It was 0:05:28.760 --> 0:05:32.000 it was clearly clunky Cheetah in the system, but that 0:05:32.040 --> 0:05:36.839 was right after they acquired the technology from next would 0:05:36.839 --> 0:05:43.000 you say that cheetah was a little spotty. So the 0:05:43.080 --> 0:05:46.520 thing that the thing is that macOS ten point six 0:05:46.560 --> 0:05:50.520 snow Leopard UH was considered more of a a bug 0:05:50.600 --> 0:05:54.799 fix and incremental improvements. And a lot of the stuff 0:05:54.839 --> 0:05:58.040 was behind the scenes, stuff like grand central um, which 0:05:58.080 --> 0:06:00.360 is not something you see and you know who look 0:06:00.360 --> 0:06:04.360 at that thing. It was designed to improve the way 0:06:04.600 --> 0:06:07.920 the operating system handled information, and it was kind of 0:06:07.960 --> 0:06:11.960 supposed to be transparent, like it's it's better, and there's 0:06:12.000 --> 0:06:14.520 not like a flashy new feature exactly. The idea was 0:06:14.600 --> 0:06:17.719 that this is supposed to improve the consumer experience without 0:06:17.760 --> 0:06:22.000 being intrusive. That is not the case with Lion intrudes 0:06:22.279 --> 0:06:27.320 way the heck Lion prowls yes on you. And I 0:06:27.360 --> 0:06:32.320 think I think, uh, you're seeing with both Windows eight 0:06:32.480 --> 0:06:36.400 and mac ows ten Lion that the major operating system 0:06:36.440 --> 0:06:41.160 manufacturers are unafraid to make major changes to the operating system. 0:06:41.200 --> 0:06:43.360 And you know, we talked about this in the Windows 0:06:43.400 --> 0:06:46.599 eight podcast, which you may or may not have already heard. 0:06:46.720 --> 0:06:48.400 I think we should go ahead and schedule at first. 0:06:48.960 --> 0:06:52.280 Why don't we do that? So but but we've talked 0:06:52.279 --> 0:06:56.560 about it before. But it's clear that uperating system developers 0:06:56.640 --> 0:06:59.880 are really looking at how people are using the mobile 0:07:00.120 --> 0:07:04.599 version of operating systems and how quickly people adapt to that, 0:07:04.720 --> 0:07:07.360 and then they're they're saying, well, what what can we 0:07:07.400 --> 0:07:11.360 take from that design element and apply to a desktop 0:07:11.520 --> 0:07:16.200 or laptop model so that our operating system is just 0:07:16.360 --> 0:07:20.160 as intuitive and easy to use as the mobile version 0:07:20.240 --> 0:07:24.000 of that operating system. Yeah. Yeah, well there are there 0:07:24.000 --> 0:07:28.240 are tons and tons of new features. Yeah, and a 0:07:28.240 --> 0:07:31.880 lot of them are are less than exciting. Um. You 0:07:31.880 --> 0:07:34.280 you did touch on this in the macOS ten article 0:07:34.720 --> 0:07:38.160 you recently wrote about floor how stuff works dot com 0:07:38.400 --> 0:07:40.800 um and and I mean there were things like voiceover, 0:07:41.040 --> 0:07:44.760 which supports twenty two different languages. Um. And makes it 0:07:44.800 --> 0:07:46.920 more accessible for people because you can actually have the 0:07:46.960 --> 0:07:50.840 computer read to you. I have an impairment or visual impairment, 0:07:50.840 --> 0:07:53.320 than this can be a way for you to work 0:07:53.320 --> 0:07:56.400 with this computer without, you know, making making it easier 0:07:56.440 --> 0:08:00.480 for you to access the applications and information on your device. 0:08:00.920 --> 0:08:02.440 This is the kind of thing that that I think 0:08:02.440 --> 0:08:05.080 a lot of people find less than exciting. But I 0:08:05.080 --> 0:08:06.960 think you know, it's a it's a nice feature, um 0:08:06.960 --> 0:08:09.320 And I just wanted to mention it simply because it 0:08:09.360 --> 0:08:11.680 does make computers more accessible for more people. Can I 0:08:11.680 --> 0:08:13.320 tell you one of the features that I actually think 0:08:13.480 --> 0:08:16.480 is I'm pretty excited about this is going to show 0:08:16.520 --> 0:08:19.480 you how lame I am. No, No, seriously, I really will. 0:08:19.920 --> 0:08:25.680 Launchpad launch Pad Launchpad is the quick of app that 0:08:25.840 --> 0:08:29.520 will open up a box that shows you all the 0:08:29.520 --> 0:08:33.600 the executable applications that are on your Mac. So, in 0:08:33.640 --> 0:08:35.199 other words, it shows all the apps that you can 0:08:35.320 --> 0:08:38.760 run in one view. And the reason why I think 0:08:38.760 --> 0:08:42.640 this is cool is because I'm a Lamo. I I 0:08:42.720 --> 0:08:46.320 am used to using the Windows operating system. When I 0:08:46.320 --> 0:08:48.840 say Lamo, I really mean I'm a Macnube. I own 0:08:48.880 --> 0:08:51.280 a Mac, but I don't use my Mac that frequently, 0:08:51.440 --> 0:08:54.800 so I still don't know all the shortcuts because I 0:08:54.840 --> 0:08:56.920 just don't use it that that much. I mean, I 0:08:57.000 --> 0:08:58.640 know that I could know them all if I actually 0:08:58.679 --> 0:09:00.840 put forth the effort. I just haven't done that, but 0:09:00.960 --> 0:09:04.080 I don't know all the shortcuts on accessing all the apps. 0:09:04.160 --> 0:09:06.360 And if it's not in my dock at the bottom 0:09:06.400 --> 0:09:09.520 of the screen, then I'm like, wait, where's my Where's 0:09:09.520 --> 0:09:11.480 the program I want to run? Because I don't see 0:09:11.480 --> 0:09:13.360 the icon down here, And then I have to open 0:09:13.440 --> 0:09:15.880 up Finder and I have to find the thing. And 0:09:15.920 --> 0:09:18.120 I know all you Mac users out there are saying, oh, 0:09:18.280 --> 0:09:21.600 calm on. A lot of the macusers out there are 0:09:21.600 --> 0:09:27.440 probably using something like Alfred or or um Quicksilver, you know, 0:09:27.559 --> 0:09:30.480 or or launch Bar or something like that too. You know, 0:09:30.520 --> 0:09:31.920 there's a key command and then you can type in 0:09:31.960 --> 0:09:33.360 the name of the thing and it just opens. Yes, 0:09:33.480 --> 0:09:35.520 there are things like that for Windows to right right, 0:09:36.080 --> 0:09:38.680 It's just that I'm familiar with navigating through Windows, so 0:09:38.679 --> 0:09:40.880 I don't have any There's no delay for me there 0:09:40.880 --> 0:09:44.880 because I've just I've used it so so much. Yeah, exactly. 0:09:44.880 --> 0:09:46.760 Once you know the once you know the way, and 0:09:46.800 --> 0:09:48.480 you've got used it a couple of times, you're good 0:09:48.480 --> 0:09:50.920 And I just haven't taken that that that time. Well, 0:09:51.000 --> 0:09:53.480 launch pad it opens up a window that shows you 0:09:53.520 --> 0:09:56.760 all the applications you can run. So, in other words, 0:09:56.880 --> 0:09:59.080 you don't have to worry about hunting for it in 0:09:59.120 --> 0:10:01.400 the dock or if it's not there, where do you 0:10:01.440 --> 0:10:03.679 find it? If it's not on your desktop, what do 0:10:03.720 --> 0:10:06.320 you do? And um, And that I think is a 0:10:06.360 --> 0:10:08.880 great feature for people who are new to the Mac 0:10:08.880 --> 0:10:12.800 operating system or people who just like the simplicity of 0:10:12.880 --> 0:10:15.480 doing it that way. Frankly, Yeah, except that I think 0:10:15.480 --> 0:10:17.360 if you've been using a Mac for a while, you 0:10:17.480 --> 0:10:20.880 probably have so many apps that opening up a window 0:10:20.960 --> 0:10:24.680 that has all of them listed is not really a 0:10:24.720 --> 0:10:28.120 great solution, which is why I use a launcher. Yeah, exactly. See, 0:10:28.160 --> 0:10:30.280 so for So for someone who's used MAX quite a 0:10:30.280 --> 0:10:33.719 bit and have experience with lots and lots of applications, 0:10:33.760 --> 0:10:36.720 and they have lots of applications, it's not an ideal, 0:10:37.360 --> 0:10:39.959 uh feature. But for someone who's brand new to the 0:10:40.040 --> 0:10:43.240 operating system who doesn't know their way around yet, it 0:10:43.400 --> 0:10:46.480 is something that makes it much more user friendly. Um 0:10:46.920 --> 0:10:48.960 especially I mean if you're like me, and you know, 0:10:48.960 --> 0:10:51.240 it's kind of like the old dog new tricks thing, right, 0:10:51.600 --> 0:10:53.880 I've had it beat into me that this is there's 0:10:53.920 --> 0:10:56.880 a very specific way that you go about to access 0:10:57.440 --> 0:10:59.760 the programs that are on your computer, and it's really 0:10:59.760 --> 0:11:05.080 hard for me to rewire that at this point. Well, 0:11:05.120 --> 0:11:09.000 another another trick they've taken from the iOS book. And 0:11:09.040 --> 0:11:10.480 you know, there were a lot of people who were 0:11:10.640 --> 0:11:14.120 saying that they kind of thought that iOS might be 0:11:14.160 --> 0:11:17.360 moving to the Mac. Um it's not there yet. This 0:11:17.520 --> 0:11:21.320 is definitely unlike again Windows eight. This is definitely a 0:11:21.400 --> 0:11:24.800 there's a line in between the two still, but there 0:11:24.800 --> 0:11:27.840 are a lot of similarities, including the ability in launchpad 0:11:27.920 --> 0:11:30.880 to group applications in folders as you would in an 0:11:30.880 --> 0:11:34.360 iOS device, and just your navigation Yeah, which actually, from 0:11:34.400 --> 0:11:38.920 what I understand, has caused some people to go bonkers, Yeah, 0:11:38.960 --> 0:11:42.840 because it's just your it's modeled after that mobile device 0:11:43.200 --> 0:11:48.200 um experience. So for example, when uh, when you are 0:11:48.400 --> 0:11:52.559 looking at a screen and there's more information on uh, 0:11:52.679 --> 0:11:54.520 let's say it's a website. So you're looking at a 0:11:54.520 --> 0:11:57.160 website and there's more information below the bottom of the 0:11:57.200 --> 0:12:00.360 screen that you cannot see. The way you look at 0:12:00.360 --> 0:12:02.640 that on us on a mobile device, as you put 0:12:02.640 --> 0:12:06.040 your finger on the screen and you move your finger up, 0:12:06.320 --> 0:12:08.640 and that pulls the page up so you can see 0:12:08.679 --> 0:12:11.760 the stuff that's lower down, right, So in other words, 0:12:11.760 --> 0:12:16.160 you flick up to see further down. Well, if you're 0:12:16.240 --> 0:12:19.560 using a mouse with a scroll wheel, the traditional way 0:12:19.840 --> 0:12:23.480 to scroll through a a web page that has more 0:12:23.480 --> 0:12:27.880 information further down is you dial that wheel towards you 0:12:28.120 --> 0:12:32.000 downwards and your fingers making a downward motion. Right, So 0:12:32.840 --> 0:12:34.679 uh yeah, so you're pulling the wheel towards you to 0:12:34.840 --> 0:12:38.880 scroll down. That ain't the way Lion does it. Lion 0:12:39.120 --> 0:12:42.720 apes the the model of the mobile device. So now 0:12:43.080 --> 0:12:46.320 in order to scroll down, you you push the wheel 0:12:46.559 --> 0:12:50.839 up away from you, not toward you. So it's opposite 0:12:50.840 --> 0:12:53.720 what it used to be, which when I first was 0:12:53.760 --> 0:12:56.800 reading the reviews, and that, and even Apple says, hey, 0:12:56.840 --> 0:12:58.400 you know, it's gonna take you a little while too 0:12:58.559 --> 0:13:00.880 to learn this, and if you really hate it, you 0:13:00.920 --> 0:13:05.120 can change the settings. So it's not like Apple makes 0:13:05.200 --> 0:13:07.560 you do this, it's just it's said as the default. 0:13:07.920 --> 0:13:10.480 I read so many people like, how do I change 0:13:10.520 --> 0:13:13.680 my settings? I can't scroll anywhere, I have to hold 0:13:13.720 --> 0:13:16.400 my mouths upside down, and I gotta be underwater and 0:13:16.440 --> 0:13:18.600 it only works with bacon's on the stove. I don't 0:13:18.640 --> 0:13:21.800 know what's happening. There might have been a bit of hyperbole, 0:13:24.120 --> 0:13:25.800 but yeah, it was one of the That was one 0:13:25.800 --> 0:13:28.040 of the first things I saw was that it wasn't 0:13:28.080 --> 0:13:30.160 talking about how slick the interface it was. It was 0:13:30.480 --> 0:13:34.320 I don't know how to scroll anymore. Yeah. That the 0:13:34.400 --> 0:13:38.400 gesture navigation, Um, it's gonna be easier for people who 0:13:38.679 --> 0:13:43.720 are using laptops with a touchpad. Um. Of course Apple 0:13:43.920 --> 0:13:49.040 also max with a touch pad now also, um, yeah, 0:13:49.040 --> 0:13:51.720 because they sell a magic what they call the Magic 0:13:51.760 --> 0:13:54.520 touchpad track pad. Sorry, yeah, and they also have the 0:13:54.559 --> 0:13:58.959 Magic mouse. What you can you can also scroll using 0:13:59.000 --> 0:14:02.679 your fingers, so um, and do other gestures as well. Yes, 0:14:02.880 --> 0:14:06.200 I know some people who do gestures at them. But 0:14:05.559 --> 0:14:07.560 U But yeah, I mean so you can you can 0:14:07.600 --> 0:14:09.760 do that. Another feature that I think is cool again 0:14:09.880 --> 0:14:12.120 sort of that falls in the same sort of buckets 0:14:12.160 --> 0:14:17.600 Mission control, which is sort of a uh refined version 0:14:17.679 --> 0:14:21.000 of expose a UM, which is a feature on a 0:14:21.040 --> 0:14:23.640 couple of previous versions of the macOS where you can 0:14:23.720 --> 0:14:25.840 hit the A button or use a you know key 0:14:25.880 --> 0:14:30.120 command UM, and it will show you every open window 0:14:30.480 --> 0:14:33.280 on on your Mac, all the all the active applications 0:14:33.280 --> 0:14:35.760 that are running at that point. Yeah. Now mission control 0:14:35.880 --> 0:14:39.720 shows you even more than that, including the dashboard which 0:14:39.720 --> 0:14:44.400 is where widgets are found. Um, any open window, full 0:14:44.440 --> 0:14:47.080 screen applications. Oh yeah that it also allows you uh 0:14:47.240 --> 0:14:50.040 lie and also allows you use full screen apps, which 0:14:50.080 --> 0:14:53.640 is nice. Yeah, so that that models after the iPad. Yeah. Yeah. 0:14:55.240 --> 0:14:57.640 It's kind of like a visual version of the task 0:14:57.720 --> 0:15:00.640 Manager for Windows. So for people who are who are 0:15:00.720 --> 0:15:03.160 used to Windows, who are thinking what does this mean? 0:15:03.600 --> 0:15:05.360 All right, so when you pull up your task manager 0:15:05.400 --> 0:15:07.280 and Windows, you want to see all the applications that 0:15:07.320 --> 0:15:09.600 are currently running. Maybe you want to do that so 0:15:09.680 --> 0:15:11.480 you you know, you can make sure that you aren't 0:15:11.520 --> 0:15:14.800 running any unnecessary applications. So that way your your computer 0:15:14.880 --> 0:15:17.600 is not running slowly that kind of stuff, same sort 0:15:17.600 --> 0:15:19.720 of thing, except this is a much more visual way 0:15:19.720 --> 0:15:22.680 of representing that. It actually literally opens up all the 0:15:22.720 --> 0:15:25.680 little windows so that you can get a bird's eye 0:15:25.760 --> 0:15:28.480 view of all the stuff that's happening on your Mac 0:15:28.560 --> 0:15:33.600 at that moment. Um. Expose A still exists, but expose 0:15:33.640 --> 0:15:39.840 A now handles multiple multiple windows in the same application UM, 0:15:39.880 --> 0:15:42.320 and you can you can control spaces, which is, you know, 0:15:42.360 --> 0:15:47.000 basically alternate desktops UM, which I use sometimes, Like for example, 0:15:47.000 --> 0:15:49.120 I'll have you know, music playing in one window and 0:15:49.120 --> 0:15:51.320 I really don't want uh, you know, I have a 0:15:51.320 --> 0:15:54.840 a browser window open where I'm working with all on 0:15:54.880 --> 0:15:57.360 all the tabs in that browser window are how stuff 0:15:57.360 --> 0:16:00.480 works dot com related where I'm looking up uh facts 0:16:00.840 --> 0:16:05.360 for the podcast or looking something up for or testing 0:16:05.680 --> 0:16:07.880 a page before it goes live. And I don't want 0:16:08.400 --> 0:16:10.120 my music player in the same window. I move it 0:16:10.160 --> 0:16:12.440 to another space so that I could, you know, keep 0:16:12.480 --> 0:16:15.120 my work stuff there and it helps me focus on work. UM. 0:16:15.160 --> 0:16:18.080 That's all part of mission control now, which I think 0:16:18.160 --> 0:16:21.000 is nice and I actually like the idea of grouping applications. 0:16:21.000 --> 0:16:24.280 I thought that was cool about Windows seven because one 0:16:24.280 --> 0:16:27.160 of my big complaints about earlier versions of Windows was 0:16:27.200 --> 0:16:31.120 you'd have you know, say, three browser windows open, and 0:16:31.160 --> 0:16:33.160 after a while with all the other stuff that you 0:16:33.200 --> 0:16:36.520 have open, they they they're so sliver thin that you 0:16:36.520 --> 0:16:39.080 can't tell which window is which without you know, tabbing 0:16:39.120 --> 0:16:41.920 through them. Um. And I like that the Windows seven 0:16:41.960 --> 0:16:43.680 has that, And I think that this is also a 0:16:43.760 --> 0:16:45.720 nice feature in mac os Lion. There are a couple 0:16:45.720 --> 0:16:47.280 of little different but there are a couple of features 0:16:47.280 --> 0:16:52.040 in Lion that I think are like killer features, features 0:16:52.080 --> 0:16:54.280 that make me want Lion and make me want to 0:16:54.280 --> 0:16:57.480 buy a new Mac. And this is confim Yeah, this 0:16:57.520 --> 0:17:01.880 is coming from someone who doesn't use the many Mac applications, 0:17:02.360 --> 0:17:05.240 but I just I love the fact that it's built 0:17:05.240 --> 0:17:08.280 into the operating system. Um. The first being the auto 0:17:08.320 --> 0:17:12.120 save feature, yeah, which is this is not can't stress 0:17:12.200 --> 0:17:15.040 how important that is that. This is another feature that 0:17:15.080 --> 0:17:19.119 I think a lot of people consider unglamorous. Uh. And 0:17:19.200 --> 0:17:21.640 you have apps that do auto save, yeah, I mean 0:17:21.720 --> 0:17:24.360 for all operating systems, but this brings it across the 0:17:24.600 --> 0:17:28.800 entire operating system. So basically, anybody who's using that part 0:17:28.800 --> 0:17:30.920 of the API for the Maco and you know, it's 0:17:30.920 --> 0:17:33.639 got it plugged into the operating system, it's going to 0:17:33.680 --> 0:17:36.280 auto save for you. And it's a it's kind of 0:17:36.320 --> 0:17:39.280 similar to UH time machine if you've ever used that. 0:17:39.359 --> 0:17:43.120 It's and there are actually three components to auto save. 0:17:43.359 --> 0:17:45.680 There's the auto save component, where it's saving the state 0:17:45.800 --> 0:17:49.919 of the computer automatically, so that way, should you should 0:17:49.920 --> 0:17:52.520 you shut down prematurely or whatever, the pet loss of 0:17:52.520 --> 0:17:55.480 power or whatever, you're able to get back to a 0:17:55.600 --> 0:17:58.000 state that's very close to what you were at before 0:17:58.000 --> 0:18:03.320 the power went down. UM. There is UH the resume feature, 0:18:03.480 --> 0:18:05.600 which is part of auto safe. Resume is where it 0:18:05.640 --> 0:18:08.800 picks up right where you left off. So let's say 0:18:08.840 --> 0:18:11.520 that you're in a document and you're editing a document. 0:18:11.720 --> 0:18:16.560 Chris does this occasionally. So you're editing a document and 0:18:17.080 --> 0:18:19.560 you have to shut down because it's time for you 0:18:19.600 --> 0:18:21.560 to go somewhere else, and you're you're in the middle 0:18:21.600 --> 0:18:24.199 of editing, so you you save your progress and you 0:18:24.240 --> 0:18:27.680 shut down and you go, Well, resume lets you when 0:18:27.680 --> 0:18:30.320 you launch that application again, it's going to open up 0:18:30.359 --> 0:18:35.480 exactly where you left off, including the cursor position, which 0:18:35.640 --> 0:18:39.560 so if you're working on page sixteen, you're the cursor 0:18:39.640 --> 0:18:41.600 is exactly like, yeah, if you were you, if you 0:18:41.680 --> 0:18:43.439 leave your cursor right where you left off, so that 0:18:43.440 --> 0:18:46.199 way you're you say, Okay, from this point forward, I 0:18:46.240 --> 0:18:50.119 need to continue editing. But I've done everything previous to 0:18:50.200 --> 0:18:53.640 this point. Now that sounds that might sound really mundane 0:18:53.680 --> 0:18:56.920 to you, but this is a huge help for people 0:18:56.920 --> 0:19:00.639 who do a lot of content creation and editing. Speaking 0:19:00.640 --> 0:19:03.080 as someone who does a lot of writing, this is 0:19:03.600 --> 0:19:07.520 incredibly important because sometimes once in a while, I'll write 0:19:07.520 --> 0:19:09.760 an article and I'll be on page three of my 0:19:09.880 --> 0:19:13.119 article and I realized, hey, there's this cool thing I 0:19:13.160 --> 0:19:16.960 should have written in page two, and uh, or maybe 0:19:16.960 --> 0:19:19.320 there's something that should be page three, and this is 0:19:19.359 --> 0:19:21.400 what I'm working on right now should really be page four. 0:19:21.600 --> 0:19:23.719 And I'll go back and I'll insert a new page 0:19:23.880 --> 0:19:25.760 and I'll start typing stuff, and then I have to quit, 0:19:25.840 --> 0:19:27.280 and I have to go do something else, and I 0:19:27.280 --> 0:19:30.600 have to come back. Well, having it pick up exactly 0:19:30.600 --> 0:19:32.920 where I left off means that I spend less time 0:19:32.960 --> 0:19:35.719 going through this document that I've been working in and 0:19:35.760 --> 0:19:38.560 figuring out where I need to pick up from. And uh, 0:19:38.640 --> 0:19:41.840 you know, if if I worked in a very chronological 0:19:41.920 --> 0:19:45.360 timeline specific way, it wouldn't be necessary because I would 0:19:45.400 --> 0:19:47.400 just go to the first blank spot in the document 0:19:47.440 --> 0:19:49.639 and that's where I would need to start. That's not 0:19:49.760 --> 0:19:52.640 how I work. So that featured to me is really important. 0:19:53.280 --> 0:19:58.080 And a third one is the version's feature. Now versions, 0:19:58.119 --> 0:20:01.840 what that lets you do is look the various iterations 0:20:02.000 --> 0:20:04.840 of whatever the file is or whatever the app is, 0:20:05.240 --> 0:20:08.800 so that you can see what what its status was 0:20:09.080 --> 0:20:12.960 each time it was saved. Okay, So here's the scenario. 0:20:13.680 --> 0:20:16.440 Hit me with it. I uh, I was working on 0:20:16.480 --> 0:20:19.560 a project my senior year in college on my Amiga. 0:20:20.520 --> 0:20:23.280 Um I had written they had Amiga's back when you 0:20:23.320 --> 0:20:27.200 were in college? Yes? Were? They made out of wood? Okay? 0:20:27.720 --> 0:20:29.959 So I was working on this on this one paper 0:20:30.160 --> 0:20:32.959 for my class. It was due. I can't remember exactly 0:20:33.000 --> 0:20:34.800 what time, but it was you know, afternoons, like two 0:20:34.800 --> 0:20:38.639 pm or something like that, and I don't know. I 0:20:38.680 --> 0:20:43.120 got really good at the keyboard command for saving, so 0:20:43.200 --> 0:20:45.919 you know, like you know, Amiga s to save it 0:20:46.560 --> 0:20:49.200 because they had you know, keys like the Apple command key, 0:20:49.240 --> 0:20:51.760 so you know, or the Windows key, so you know, 0:20:51.800 --> 0:20:53.960 I save that the document you know on type type 0:20:53.960 --> 0:20:55.720 type type, and I'd save it because I've learned the 0:20:55.760 --> 0:20:58.440 lesson that we all learned many times, where we don't 0:20:58.440 --> 0:21:00.239 save something and you come back and you go, oh, 0:21:00.600 --> 0:21:04.320 what happened to it? Somehow? He by the way, he 0:21:04.400 --> 0:21:06.520 does sound like that when it happens. Yeah, I was 0:21:06.560 --> 0:21:08.280 I was ready to do this. I was going, Okay, 0:21:08.280 --> 0:21:11.560 I'm gonna I'm gonna save this and print it. I hit, 0:21:12.000 --> 0:21:16.399 I hit something, I hit select all, deleted it, saved 0:21:16.400 --> 0:21:20.600 it and closed it. Somehow I just fat fingered it. Wow. 0:21:21.040 --> 0:21:24.920 So and so, like the worst possible the entire paper 0:21:25.320 --> 0:21:28.480 minutes before it was due. If I had had a 0:21:28.520 --> 0:21:30.960 feature like this, I could have gone to the previous 0:21:31.040 --> 0:21:34.040 version of the paper and at least had I don't know, 0:21:34.480 --> 0:21:38.560 nine and three quarters of ten pages left to you know, 0:21:38.680 --> 0:21:41.040