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Top 10 Secret Features in Mac OS X Lion →

Number 6 is one of my favorites:

6. Add an Event to iCal by Typing a Phrase

Known as “Quick Add”, iCal now lets you just type a human-readable phrase to add a new item to your calendar. To do this, just click the + button in iCal and choose a calendar. You’ll get a little pop up that’ll let you enter whatever you want. Type something like “Movie this Friday at 7pm” and iCal will translate it into a new event.

Bonus iCal feature: Enter year view and you’ll see a heat map over the calendar. The warmer the color, the more you have going on that day.

Top 10 coolest features of OS X Lion →

Here’s one:

Mission Control

I was never a huge user of Spaces in Mac OS X Snow Leopard, they felt too clunky and hard to access and it was tricky to manage which apps ended up on which spaces. Now, with Mission Control there is a handy way to see all of the applications running on your computer as well as all of the Spaces available to you.

While you’re in Mission Control you can also drag any app to any space, assigning that app to it. This provides a nice visual way of managing Spaces and gives you a roadmap for your applications so that you can see exactly where along your lineup each app is. This way you always have a ‘cheat sheet’ for your Spaces layout.

In addition, you can use Mission Control to get an Expose view of any single apps open windows, as well as the last few documents that were edited in that app, if applicable. It makes for a very complete control center for your Spaces and an indispensable way to work on a the small screen of a MacBook.

Lion Launches Tomorrow

(via Lion Launches Tomorrow, July 20, On Mac App Store - Mac Rumors)

You know, the thing we could learn from Apple

Is that they don’t want to be the first to do something. They want to be the first to do it right.