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Turn Snow Leopard Into Lion
Mar 11, 2025
A little video about how-to adopt some of Lions features on a Snow Leopard machine.
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hey everyone today I'm going to show you
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how you can get some of the features
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from Mac OS 10 lion and bring them over
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to Mac OS 10 snow leopard before lion
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even comes out now with Lion right
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around the corner might you might be
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itching to get some of these new
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features and I was too so I found a
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couple different ways that you can kind
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of transform snow leopard if you will
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into Mac OS 10 line so we're going to
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start with the hardest one first uh if
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you've seen anything with Lion so far
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you'll know that there are no indicator
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lights under the applications in the
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dock this is something you can switch
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back on but if you find this nicer than
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the snow leopard's look and you want to
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change it to look like it doesn't line
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here's how to do it so first you're
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going to have to open up a new finder
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window and then you're going to have to
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go into the system folder within your
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main hard drive and then the library
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folder and then the core Services folder
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now it's best not to play around in here
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too much uh but from here you're going
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to want to scroll down to Doc and
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there's an application called doc right
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there and now you're going to either
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right click or control click on it and
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click show package
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contents and now another window is going
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to pop up and you're going to open up
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the contents folder as well as the
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resources folder on here you're going to
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see a lot of different
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files and you're going to scroll down
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until you find indicator lights so here
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they are right here indicator large all
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the way through indicator
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small so now make a new folder on your
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desktop or somewhere else safe uh and
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you're not going to want to delete these
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files that's pretty critical so you can
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select indicator large all the way
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through indicator small those are the
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files you need to work with and you can
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drag those in copy them to your new
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folder and you want to have a copy of
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these in case you ever want to restore
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for your Doc's old look so I'll keep
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those there do not delete those files
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put them somewhere safe I'll call this
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do not
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delete uh so leave those there and now
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the ones that are in this resources
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folder you can drag to the trash and
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it's going to ask you for an
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administrator
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password and you'll need that and all
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those are in the
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trash and what you need to do now to
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apply these changes first of all open up
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a new finder window go to the
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applications folder and scroll down to
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the utilities folder open that up and
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then from there open up activity monitor
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and then in the process list you're
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going to want to look for Doc and here
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it is right here I just select it and I
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go up and hit the little stop sign to
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quit the process and click quit and this
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is going to restart the dock and when it
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starts back up you're going to see the
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Chang is applied and now you have no
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indicator lights under your dock and
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this is just like Mac OS 10 line and
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once again it's very important that you
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don't delete those image files if you
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ever want
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to restore your doc to what it was
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before and in that case all you'd have
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to do is go back to that same resources
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folder I showed you and redrop the files
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in there and once again you'd have to
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type your administrator password to
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allow it and the next thing I'm going to
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show you is reverse scrolling so if you
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if you've seen any previews of Mac OS 10
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line you'll know that scrolling is
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reversed and that is for the trackpads
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as well as the mice so when you're on a
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web page or anything like that scrolling
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is going to be completely backwards from
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what you remember now once again this is
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an option you can turn off but if you
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like it and I found that I really do
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like it you can also enable this in Snow
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Leopard with an application called
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scroll reverser so here's the web page
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where you can downloaded and I've set up
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a a shortened URL and that is tr. us/
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scroll
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reverse so there's a download link right
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here and once you download it you'll see
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it up in your menu bar right here and
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you can turn on and off reverse
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scrolling and started at login so now if
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we go into Safari for example and go to
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a web
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page you can see that when I scroll
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everything is backwards from how you
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remember it you scroll like you would on
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a iOS device where you like kind of push
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up the page and push it down and this is
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just how scroll reversing works too and
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how it will work in lion and I think
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after maybe a day of usage it really
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does work good and I've come to really
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like it and so the next new major
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feature in Lion is Launchpad and this is
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a iOS style overlay for launching
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applications now if you want to get this
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in snow leopard right now and you can't
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really wait there's an application in
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the Mac App Store called quickpi and
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this pretty much gives you a Launchpad
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for snow leopard it works a lot like it
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and it's almost identical in lot of ways
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the only downfall is that it does cost
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$9.99 so you can see quick pick in my
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dock right here and I put it right where
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the Launchpad icon is located in Mac OS
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10 Lon right next to the finder icon and
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when you click on it all your
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applications drop in just like in
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Launchpad and you can scroll between
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different pages it works just like it
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and then you can click on an application
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to launch it's almost identical you can
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move things around although it's not
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quite as elegant as it actually will be
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in
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Mac OS 10 line you kind of have to just
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kind of work around but it still works
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the same and you can go up to the menu
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bar here and you can add different pages
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so here's another page and then if I
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click on this plus button here I can go
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to other pages and drag apps to a new
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page so that's kind of neat you have
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multiple pages and what you want to do
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to make this even more realistic is go
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up to the Quick Pick menu and click on
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preferences from here you want to select
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the Box click on page background to hide
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and then you'll probably want to get rid
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of show quickpi in the menu bar to make
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it as accurate as possible it's very
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very similar to Launchpad and lion the
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only thing that you can't really do is
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make folders now the next thing I'm
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going to show you is drop copy now in
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line there is a new feature called
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airdrop which basically finds Max on
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your same local network and from there
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you can easily drag and drop files right
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to them so once again there's kind of a
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snow leard replacement for this and it
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is is called drop copy and this is also
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available in the Mac App Store and this
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time it is free so that's even better
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and basically what it is it's not
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exactly the same as it is in line but
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here it's just a little bubble on your
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desktop and it just kind of sits there
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and what you can do let's say I have a
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file I just drag it and hold it over the
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little circle and it shows me every
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device that has drop copy running in
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this case I have it running on my iPad
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now you can have this running on other
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Macs as well and all I have to do is
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drag it over and onto the iPod little
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tile here and it'll connect to it and
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send the file and then you have a little
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uh sound there and now it does show up
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on my iPhone so that's how drop copy
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works and once you apply that to your
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system and have all the other tweaks
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installed you can get a real feel for
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what Mac OS 10 line is going to be like
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and you can feel like you have a kind of
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a sneak preview of it and I found that
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all these tweaks install are going to
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really make the transition from Snow
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Leopard to Lion a lot more smooth for me
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I'll be already used to it once I start
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using it so those are some cool tweaks
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to transform Mac OS 10 snow leopard into
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lion I hope you found this video useful
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and thank you for watching
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