Mac OS X Lion has more than 250 new features, and Apple has thoughtfully put together a list of all of them.
Here are some interesting nuggets plucked from that list…
Finder
- Has Search Tokens like the ones we saw in the Mail demo at WWDC
- Will finally offer to merge two folders of the same name when you try to combine them
- Has a new All My Files feature, which “gathers all your files no matter where they’re located”. Will it work a bit like Launchpad?
iCal
- Shows new Day and Year views
- Has a “Heat map” which shows your availability at a glance
Automator
- Can now cope with rich text
- Can convert workflows from one type to another (i.e., convert a system Service to a print plug-in)
- Comes with a bunch of new actions
System stuff
- Lion includes “a built-in restore partition”
- Recovery mode lets you use Safari to look stuff up online
- Every virtual desktop can have its own wallpaper image
- New “Low-power wake” mode allows the computer to wake up for stuff like file sharing and backups, without activating the monitor or USB devices
- New Privacy pane in System Preferences
- “Clean start” avoids Resume, so you can start from a fresh desktop
- When using Screen Sharing, you can log in with your Apple ID. You don’t need to have a user account on the target computer
- You can drag items out of the Spotlight results list
- Auto Saved documents can be manually locked to prevent further changes; all documents are automatically locked two weeks after they were last edited
- Use gestures inside Quick Look
- You can copy-and-paste between different Versions of the same document
- Resize windows from any edge, not just the bottom-right corner
QuickTime Player
- Lets you merge clips together
- And rotate clips
- Shows clicks while recording a screencast
Text stuff
- iOS-style auto-correction comes to the Mac
- Hold down a letter on your keyboard for quick access to accented characters
- New formatting bar and inline search in TextEdit
Spotted anything else in the list you like the look of? Let us know in the comments.
