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Rundown of new changes in Lion Developer Preview 3

by Michael Grothaus May 14th 2011 at 9:00PM

In addition to the discovery of Nuance voices in Lion Developer Preview 3, other new features found in the latest Lion release have begun to leak out. As compiled by It's All Tech, here is a list of all the other known changes Lion Developer Preview 3 offers over previous versions.

  • New options in Mission Control System Preferences
  • There is a new animation when logging into the computer and displaying the desktop
  • New Reminders menu in iCal
  • New "next desktop" button in Dashboard space
  • New options when right-clicking ("Show Inspector," "Clean up," and "Sort" commands)
  • Compatibility to external displays has been improved (especially in Mission Control)
  • There is now a Mission Control app
  • Finder's toolbar has been slightly updated
  • Desktop wallpapers have been updated (and new ones have been added -- the lion image above is one of them)
  • Reading List has been enabled in Safari
  • New changes in Mission Control: Users can add "desktops" right from Mission Control by clicking "+" button. Users can close spaces from Mission Control. Mission Control no longer displays text "Desktop 1,″ etc. When hovering over desktop thumbnails, magnification of thumbnails are seen
  • Scrollbars now change color depending on the background (black background=light scrollbar and vice versa)

In addition to the above changes, TUAW reader Koobi wrote to tell us of another change he found: "In Lion, on Safari, using the Magic Mouse, if you use one finger and flick left to right, it will reveal (underneath) your previously viewed page history. You can flick back and forth to browse your Safari history, without having to press the back/forward buttons at the tool bar."

In the comments below, feel free to let us know of any other changes you find!



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Vince

To the added info about the magic mouse one finger thing... that was in preview 2 as well. Not a new update.

May 16 2011 at 1:49 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
dsdevries

i found that the genie effect is slightly modified. It is not a bit smoother.

May 16 2011 at 8:31 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
LeeRoy

I've noticed that the boot logo is now de-bossed, not sure if it has been mentioned elsewhere.

May 16 2011 at 4:52 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Simon

I haven't heard these voices, but I hope they are of the quality of the Acapela Group's voices, which seemed to be the best the last time I was looking for some non-english TTS (text to speech) voices. They're pretty expensive though.

May 15 2011 at 10:27 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Vince

Using gestures to control your browsing history in Safari was present in the original developer preview. I used it on my MacBook soon after I discovered it, but it's definitely not new to DP3.

May 15 2011 at 12:08 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Peter A. Forkes

The one feature that I would find INCREDIBLY useful would be better VPN support - I'd like to be able to connect OS X to my Netgear VFG318 router using the OS - this would require IKE with Preshared Secret/Key (not Certificate-based).

May 15 2011 at 12:18 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Don’t want to lose my membership

The preview app is almost unusable, but now it displays the file state (locked or not) in title bar, the thumbnails are on the left of the app instead of right, and you can see it in full screen mode.

But, it is almost impossible to use it with a PDF and the MBP trackpad, because the scroll / page jumping are really, really broken.

May 14 2011 at 11:03 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
mail

Wow. I'm really getting excited about this. I first 'saw the light' right when Leopard came out. Snow Leopard wasn't much of an upgrade in terms of user features, so it wasn't a really big deal for me. Lion, on the other hand, looks to have a 'lion's share' of new features. My first huge OS update as a Mac user. I can't wait! It just keeps getting better and better with each preview. Usually it goes the other way around. A ton of insane features, then it's progressively tamed down with each beta as they become more realistic with the help of developers/testers.

May 14 2011 at 10:20 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
boywithumbrella

The voices are there to check, but when I try to download them (I am in Germany and tried downloading the UK, German, and Japanese voices) Software Update (which us called to download those) says the "Voices aren't available to download at this time".

May 14 2011 at 9:54 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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Alex

They're there in DP2 also. I'm pretty sure they were there in DP1.

May 14 2011 at 11:39 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
notasailorboy

you can now view the bookmark toolbar on safari in fullscreen mode (thank god)

May 14 2011 at 9:37 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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