#Lion tweaks app download

You probably don’t, so let Lion Tweaks download it for you. The one we’re interested in here is “Enable colour in the Finder-sidebar.” When you click the “Yes” button you’ll be asked whether you have “SIMBL”installed already.

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Your Finder windows will go from grey to colorful in just a few clicks. Click to download his “ Lion Tweaks” application. It comes to us from Norway, thanks to Fredrik Wiker, a 16 year old developer. Can be made to work with 10.10.11 via a work-around.įinally, there’s a simple method for adding color the the Finder’s sidebar in Lion. The good news is there’s a very nice app called XtraFinder which does a great job of colorizing things.

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For apps such as Chrome, which do not have a minimize button, it can be a little annoying-a quick workaround to get in and out of full screen, even when there isn’t a button, is to press Command + Shift + F.UPDATE, Wednesday, April 20th, 2016: Sorry to say, the Lion Tweaks application is no longer available from.

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You can also have both dragging options active simultaneously.įull-screen apps is a nice update for Lion, but it isn’t implemented perfectly across the board. Instead, it’s hidden in System Preferences > Universal Access > Mouse and Trackpad > Trackpad Options > Drag. But the way to switch this back to normal is not in the Trackpad tab, unlike for the Natural Scrolling feature. Instead, there’s a three-finger drag gesture-and, it may be a while before you get the hang of it. That’s it, you’re back to scrolling the way Snow Leopard did it.Īnother Lion tweak was removing the double tap to drag a file, the way it is done in Windows. Click on the check box, disabling natural scroll direction. To scroll normally, open System Preferences > Trackpad > Scroll and Zoom > Scroll Direction. If you’re not already an iOS user, Lion’s natural scrolling may take some getting used to-scrolling down requires an upwards swipe, which is strange without a touch screen. Go to Preferences > Viewing > Include Related Messages to get the streamlined Gmail feel in your Mail app. The best thing about Gmail for many is the threaded conversations view for mails, and the new Mail app supports this as well. Get Gmail style conversation view in Mail Or if you want to keep that clean interface, select the hard drive in Finder and press the space bar to get a quick look at the free/used space. To enable the status bar, open Finder’s menu bar, go to View > Show Status Bar. One issue with Finder is that if you don’t have the status bar up, you won’t get to see how much space you have on your computer. This doesn’t work with every app yet-for example Gmail-but all native apps support this already. Tap the correct number or click to get the accent mark you want. Hold down any letter while typing and a list pops up with accent options. No more, though, if you have the Lion OS.

This simple tweak can be used to give out your personal information-it may come in handy in case you lose your laptop.Īccented characters are actually easier to type on phones than on computers because a long press on most smartphones brings them up, while they require you to remember complicated key combinations on desktops.

You can go to System Preferences > Security and Privacy > General, and choose Show a Message When the Screen is Locked. Go to System Preferences > Desktop and Screen Saver and choose iTunes Artwork to enable this service.Ī login message isn’t new, but having a message for when the screen is locked is a nice touch. Clicking on any one of these will launch the music in the corresponding album. With Lion, you can set the artwork from the albums you have in iTunes as screen savers. Lionhearted: The focus is on a better user interface.