How to: Disable, enable OS X Lion resume, FTP, Library, 3D dock, more

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How to: Disable, enable OS X Lion resume, FTP, Library, 3D dock, more

11 August 2011 5,009 views 4 Comments

Whenever there’s Mac OS X feature users want to enable or go away, some eager beaver always steps with an app to automate the process. In the present case, “Frederick W” has a Lion Tweaks, which makes customizing OS X Lion a point and click breeze. Nevertheless, if you’re the get your hands dirty type, the Fairer Platform has tutorials for many of these tasks, too.

Lion Tweaks is a painfully simple application, or collection of AppleScripts if you prefer, that automates correcting many of the issues people have with OS X Lion. It’s free and the user comments/reviews has been positive.

Further, Frederick W is responsive in addressing issues as they come up. If you need further convincing, I tested the lot and all of those buttons seem to work just fine — YMMV.

That said, I wouldn’t recommend that you don’t remove Apple’s OS X Lion Addressbook skin as the “Aluminum” one provided with Lion Tweaks is orders of magnitude less attractive (fugly).

Real (wo)men get their hands dirty

Now, if you’re in the mood or an an inveterate do-it-yourself type, here’s a quick list of the hands on OS X Lion how to articles published here on the Fairer Platform:

— Get your Mac Back: Download, install Safari 5.0.5 for Snow Leopard
— Get your Mac back: Make Lion Dashboard translucent
— Get your Mac back: OS X Lion’s missing iSync
— Get your Mac Back: Fix OS X Lion scrolling
— How to: Make Library visible in Mac OS X 10.7 Lion
— How to: Turn on iTunes visualizers in OS X Lion

And, for those of you using a traditional mouse with Lion, you can greatly improve the experience by upgrading to either Apple’s Magic Mouse or Magic Trackpad. I chose the latter, but Lion without gestures is like a Ferrari running on bald tires.

Do you have a handy dandy OS X Lion tip or trick? Share it and a link in the comments below…

4 Comments »

Noibs said:

You said, “That said, I wouldn’t recommend that you don’t remove Apple’s OS X Lion Addressbook skin as the “Aluminum” one provided with Lion Tweaks is orders of magnitude less attractive (fugly).”

Wow. You had me…until you said that. The fake leather is the single ugliest thing Apple has ever done apart from the hockey puck mouse (ugly and nonfunctional).

If the rest of OS X Lion had fake leather and cloth, then maybe. But it doesn’t. Lion is plain and spartan and industrial. I had already removed the fake leather before Lion Tweaks was released, but it made setting my my wife’s Mac much easier. She hated the leather too.

# 12 August 2011 at 6:15 pm

paul said:

I am trying to send 25gb of recordings to my macbook pro from my iphone. i need to know my ftp address, username and password. I’ve spent two months trying to figure this out. Please help.

# 26 August 2011 at 1:16 am

the rocr (author) said:

Have you tried http://www.ftponthego.com/ ?

# 26 August 2011 at 10:33 am

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