When Lion was new, I put up a post about clearing out information on saved applications states. Saved application states are a new feature in Lion that remembers the screens that were open and where each was when you quit applications. The reason for that post was that those states were causing a few minor issues with applications. There are a few applications that the saving of application states is really awesome for. I think it will mostly be different for each persons workflow. Personally I like saving the state of Terminal, Safari and a few others. However, the state of some others can be a bit annoying for me.…
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Airport becomes Wi-Fi in Lion
If you run networksetup and do a -listallhardwareports in OS X Snow Leopard, you’ll see that the Hardware Port: for en0 (on an MBA at least, but you should get the point even if it’s a MacPro) is AirPort. If you run the same command in Lion, you’ll notice the the hardware port is now Wi-Fi. This change cascades to any commands like -listpreferredwirelessnetworks where the hardware port might get called on. For most of my scripts for assigning AirPort networks, etc I was able to mostly just find-and-replace AirPort for Wi-Fi, provided I didn’t use AirPort anywhere else (e.g.$AirPort, etc).
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SMIME in OS X Lion
In a previous article I showed how to get and install an SMIME certificate. Now let’s look at installing it into Mail. It’s really, really hard. First, open Mail. Then, click on the Mail menu and select Preferences. Then click on Accounts. Then click on the account you got an SMIME cert for. Then, in the TLS box, select the certificate you want to use. Next, go to compose a new message. You will see the little disclosure triangle to the left of the From dialog. Click on it and then check the box for the lock and the icon to the right of that, meant to look like a…
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Get Your Library Folder Back from the Lion
In OS X Lion, user libraries (~/Library) are hidden. If you want to make it visible, use chflags. To use chflags to hide a file, simply type chflags followed by hidden and then the folder. For example, let’s say you wanted to hide your ~/Library folder before you compiled a new copy of an operating system. Just run the following to hide it (or re-hide it once you provde you can unhide it): chflags hidden ~/Library And then let’s say you wanted to unhide it ’cause you realized that it’s one of those folders best left visible: chflags nohidden ~/Library You can also use the SetFile command (both are located…
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Big Changes in Lion Server
OK, by now I’m sure everyone has heard that OS X Server is a download off the App Store. For a whoppin’ $50 you get the OS that was once called “Open Source Made Easy” until someone at Apple realized that GPLv3 might mean that Open Source doesn’t always mean “free as in beer”. Wait, did I say that out loud? Point is, there are bigger changes here than just moving the server to the App Store. There are also some pretty big changes to the GUI of OS X Server. The first and most obvious is the LoginWindow, which is different in OS X in general. It obviously looks…