Mac OS X Lion: 9 things to know

Along with iCloud and iOS 5, Apple announced its new Mac OS X Lion at WWDC 2011 event. The new OS will be available in July from Mac App Store. The new Mac OS X Lion comes with more than 250 new features and 3,000 new developer APIs.

Out of its 250 new features, we shortlist the top 7 features that come integrated with the new Mac OS X Lion. Check out the brief synopsis of these features below:

Multi-Touch Gestures
The new Mac OS X Lion comes integrated with Multi-Touch gestures. It offers more intuitive and direct response to the users to offer more fluid and realistic gesture responses, including rubber-band scrolling, page and image zoom, and full-screen swiping.

Launchpad
It's a new, full-screen home for all the apps on your Mac. You just need to click the Launchpad icon in your Dock, and your open windows fade away, replaced by a full-screen display of all your apps. It helps you automatically access your downloaded apps from the Mac App Store at the Lauchpad. You have the freedom to arrange your apps, group them together in folders or delete them from your Mac with ease.

Full-Screen Apps
Now you can enjoy every inch of your Mac display withe the new OS X Lion that offers systemwide support for gorgeous, full-screen apps. Easy to switch between full-screen and desktop views, the Lion OS brings multiple full-screen apps open at once — along with multiple standard-size apps.

Mission Control
Wanna get a bird's-eye view of everything on your Mac? Well, Mission Control feature brings together full-screen apps, Dashboard, Expose and Spaces all at your screen display. With a single swipe on the trackpad, your desktop zooms out to Mission Control.

Mac App Store
The Mac App Store is the best way to discover apps for your Mac on your Mac. It helps you browse and download thousands of free and paid apps. And with the help of another new feature Launchpad, you can access all the new apps into this folder. Also, the Mac App Store keeps track of your apps and tells you when updates are available.

Airdrop
It's a new approach of sharing files with people nearby. With AirDrop, you can send files to anyone around you wirelessly — no Wi-Fi network required. All you need to do is to just click the AirDrop icon in the Finder sidebar, and your Mac automatically discovers other AirDrop users within about 30 feet of you. And to share a file, simply drag it to someone’s name. Once accepted, the fully encrypted file transfers directly to that person’s Downloads folder.

Lion Server
With a host of enhancements, the Server app — new in Lion Server — features a setup assistant that walks you through the server configuration process step by step. So now anyone can turn just about any Mac into a server. This feature allows file-sharing capabilities for iPad; includes improvements to Wiki Server, iCal Server, and Mail Server; and comes with Xsan built in.

Resume
Another cool new feature, the Resume helps you reopen apps you closed right where you left off. After installing software updates, no need to close your system or save your works - it automatically places it to the desired place. With Resume, you can restart your Mac and return to what you were doing — with all your apps in the exact places you left them.

Auto Save
No need to worry about saved data. Apple's Mac OS X Lion helps you with Auto Save feature to save your works automatically, even if you forget or system crashes without prior notice. Command S is taken care of with this feature as it’s an improvement for anyone who’s ever lost hours of hard work after forgetting to press Command-S.

Versions
It's another cool feature that charts the history of your documents, taking snapshots in time, and displaying them side by side with the latest versions in an easily browsable timeline. With this Versions feature, users can review the past versions of their compositions, restore a previous version, or copy and paste from old versions to new ones.