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Ways To Make Mac OS X More Like iOS
Mar 11, 2025
Simple Ways To Make Mac OS X More Like iOS http://skyjohn.deviantart.com/art/iOS-5-Notification-Growl-267924372 http://growl.info/
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hey everyone today I'm going to show you
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just a couple simple ways that you can
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make Mac OS 10 more like iOS so Mac OS
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10 lion brought a lot of iOS style
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features over to the desktop interface
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and while not everybody liked these
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features there are some people that
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really do like them and enjoy them as do
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I myself so the first thing we're going
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to talk about is actually a lock screen
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for your Mac and this can be found by
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going to the Mac App Store actually so
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if you select the Apple logo menu and go
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to App Store you can actually search for
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this program in the App Store and it's
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called lock
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screen and from here you should see it
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here it's
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199 and what it does is it brings the
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lock screen to your Mac so you can see
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the shortcut for lock is command l so if
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I select command L on the keyboard you
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can see that brings me to this lock
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screen and right now I just have this
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plain wallpaper up you can set this to
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whatever you want and you can slide the
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keys on your keyboard to unlock so I
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have it set up so that if I slide from
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shift all the way across to shift it
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unlocks my
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keyboard and you can configure this by
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going off to the lock screen menu and
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selecting preferences and this will let
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you set a pass pattern between three and
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12 characters that you can slide across
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your keyboard when you want to unlock so
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that's kind of neat and the next thing
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we're going to talk about is
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notifications so with iOS 5 there's that
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new notification animation that whole
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new style of the notification where it
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just kind of spins down from the top and
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just kind of rolls back up once the
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notification is finished and you can
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actually achieve this with an
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application called grow and this is
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available in the Mac App Store again for
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$1.99 but if you go to the download
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section on the page you can see some
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older versions of it which will also
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work on the Mac as well which are free
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and you can get grow grow.in and of
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course the link to this will be below
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the video so a lot of different
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applications support grow and with it
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you can display a lot of different types
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of notifications so once you install
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grow the next thing you're going to want
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to
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do is go to this page on Deviant Art
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which of course I will again have the
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link below the video that you can access
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that and you can download this iOS 5
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notification setup for grow so this not
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only replicates the look of iOS 5
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notifications but also replicates the
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animation of them too so if you go over
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here and select download file it'll
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download and then you can go up to your
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downloads button right here and open up
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this folder and in here all you have to
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do is open up in this case the white
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grow style and I can just install this
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so once grow is running I can go up to
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the little paw in the menu bar and
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select open grow preferences and from
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here I can set up how grow displays and
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I can go under dis the displays Tab and
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select the default style to be ios5
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notification white and as you can see it
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out on the corner here you can get a
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little preview of exactly how the
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notification will look and my last tip
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is a pretty simple one but it's still
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handy if you go up to the app logo menu
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and select system preferences and you go
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under the doc
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tab you might want to uncheck show
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indicator lights for open applications
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so getting rid of your indicator lights
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actually makes your dock just look a
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little bit more like the dock on iOS
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where you never see any indicator lights
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of any kind that's just a thing that you
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can do to more closely integrate the Mac
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OS 10 and iOS experience so there you go
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there's some easy things that you can do
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to make Mac OS 10 more like iOS if
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anything that you'd like to see me do a
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how on make sure to send me an email I
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hope you found this video useful and
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thank you for watching
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