


#Microsoft office 2008 for lion mac os x#
This feature was introduced in Mac OS X 10.4 ‘Tiger’ and was touted as being a way to check quickly and then dismiss it just as easily. Jobs the Dashboard feature allowed users to quickly access mini-applications (called Widgets) to easily find out information like calendar events, weather conditions, stock quotes and more. #3 Dashboard (Widgets): Before the App Store was a twinkle in the eye of Mr. After all icons can be changed, but why fix it if it isn’t broken Apple? I’m sure somebody can hack this and fix it, they did for iTunes. But sadly if you want to use Mac OS X Lion you’ll have to pretend that the sidebar is stuck in some monochrome display mode. They should have at least given us an option here. It was very simple and easy to see.īut now what do we have? Even more buttons, but no color! Sure the shapes are still there, but the colors were a nice and easy way to help your eyes quickly look for something that was oh so familiar to you. Purple is the Desktop, the Blue filmstrip is for Movies, the green arrow is for Downloads. Why on Earth would you want all of the icons and buttons to look like some gray blur? The colors and shapes help us quickly find what we’re looking for. Why did they do this? I honestly don’t have a clue. For whatever reason Apple thought it would be cool to ditch all of the color in the sidebar, and just replace it with plain old monocrhome buttons. #2 Monochrome Sidebar Icons: What is this 1992? Do I have a PowerBook Duo 230 with a greyscale screen? Is Apple afraid I’m going to hurt my eyes on all the color?! This is the same thing that happened to iTunes a few releases back. The first option is titled “Scroll direction: natural”, just uncheck the box next to it and you’re done! Thankfully Apple has given us a choice in the matter, we’re not so lucky for our next option… To shut this one off simply go into System Preferences and click on either ‘Mouse’ (if you’re using a mouse) or ‘Trackpad’ (if you’re using a trackpad). This scrolling feature basically reverses everything we’ve been used to for the past 20 years. Make sense? No? Don’t worry you can shut it off. Inverse scrolling (also called Natural Scrolling) mimics the iPhone’s scrolling habits, meaning if you move your scroll wheel or trackpad down, the page will scroll up. #1 Inverse Scrolling (Natural Scrolling): This is a feature that people either love, or they hate. Most of them you can change back easily to how they acted before in Snow Leopard, but some are here to stay no matter what.
#Microsoft office 2008 for lion how to#
In this little blog post I’ll go over some of the changes that I’ve discovered in Lion and how to get them back to how you may prefer them. Some of them may confuse a user who is upgrading or just make them plain unhappy that something is not as it once was. Some of them are little things that have been the same since Mac OS X’s earlier versions and were changed for one reason or another. While Lion offers a lot of nice new features it tends to mess with the things that previous users of Mac OS X were used to. Before upgrading it’s wise to backup your data and make sure your apps are compatible, Microsoft Office 2008 and Quicken are two examples of apps that won’t work with Lion. For the most part I really like it, Lion’s new features definitely out-weigh it’s flaws in my opinion. So Apple’s new version of Mac OS X is out, version 10.7 nicknamed ‘Lion’.
