By Usman on Aug 09 2011

"The latest Mac OS X 10.7 brings a whole lot of improvements along with a dozen iPad inspired UI features and animations. Although these improvements don’t come into conflict with UI design and core features of Mac Snow Leopard, many users hate the idea of bringing the iPad like UI elements and animations to Mac OS X. If you’re amongst those who want to keep Mac OS X 10.7 installed on your system but also want to toggle some of its new features, window options and animations on/off, Lion Tweaks is probably the best Mac Lion tweaking application that you can try."

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The following are some simple instructions to set up a new backup volume from scratch and have Apple Time Machine to recognize it:

♦ Find your machine name (machine_name) and run the following command in terminal (in this example we're creating a 250GB partition):

hdiutil create -size 250G -fs HFS+J -volname 'My Backups' -type SPARSEBUNDLE machine_name.sparsebundle

♦ The output should be something like machine_name.sparsebundle under your user's home directory.

♦ You will need to find your hardware UUID in the System Profiler.

♦ Create a file (using your text editor) and name it TimeMachine.MachineID.plist and add your machine's UUID to it.

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If you switched from Windows to Mac as I did. Sometimes it’s difficult to match all the new shortcuts from Mac with the Windows shortcuts. Here are some of the common Mac OS X keyboard shortcuts:

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