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Monday
Jul252011

Mac OS X Lion Gripes and Workarounds

So now that I have used MacOS X Lion for a few days I figured I would share a few gripes and potential workarounds:

1) It's taking longer than I thought to get used to the reverse scrolling. After upgrading you scroll up to go down and down to go up. I understand this on a touch interface, but with a trackpad or mouse? Your trying to undo 10+ years of muscle memory Apple and it sucks.
Answer: Get used to it or cut it off in System Preferences.

2) Applications restore their previous state on re-launch. It's a handy feature for some applications, but not all. The issue is Apple only gave us the option to turn this capability on or off system wide.
Answer: You can turn this capability off per application by firing up Terminal and use the following command without quotes: “defaults write com.apple.AppName NSQuitAlwaysKeepsWindows -int 0”. Simply replace “AppName” with the name of the application. To see a list of apps visit your Preferences folder to confirm how the app name appears “com.apple.XXXX”.

3) No trim support for 3rd party SSD's. Come on Apple really. This was your updated release to provide trim support and you blow it by only making it turned on for drives you ship.
Answer: Open a Terminal and simply edit a file called IOAHCIBlockStorage, removing a string that makes TRIM work for only Apple SSDs. You can Google for the exact commands.

4) The iOS appification of Lion. Launchpad, Mission Control, full scree apps are useless. Sorry they just are. I don't want my Mac to be an iPad, thats why I bought the iPad...
Answer: Apple is moving towards a consistent experience on their devices. In a few releases we might just have an iPad with a keyboard called a Macbook *. Get used to it.

5) ZFS, where is it.

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