Hour 1. Introduction to Mac OS X Lion

What you’ll learn in this hour:

• Overview of Lion’s New Features

• Multitouch Gestures

• Full-Screen Applications

• Mission Control

• The Mac App Store

• Launchpad

• Autosaving, Versions, and Resume

• AirDrop and Screen Sharing Enhancements

Apple refers to Mac OS X as “the world’s most advanced desktop operating system” and Mac OS X Lion is the newest version of this operating system. Throughout this book you will learn how to write code that harnesses the features of this OS both old and new.

Before we get into writing code that utilizes these new features, in this hour we’re going to take a tour of these features. After you know more about these features, you’ll find it’s easier to learn how to write ...

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