AppleGrad

In Mac OS X 10.7 Lion, Apple introduced a new interface for the Mail application.  It mimics the Mail application on the iPhone and iPad.  If you want to revert back to the Classic Mail interface, you have the option to.  This is how:

• Open Apple Mail.
• Click Mail at the upper-left corner of your menu bar on the Mac.
• Choose Preferences.
• Select the Viewing tab.
• Check the first box at the top of the list called Use classic layout (screenshot below).

In Mac OS X 10.7 Lion, Apple introduced “Natural” scroll direction.  It mimics the scroll direction on their touchscreen devices, like the iPhone and iPad.  I have adjusted to the change just fine, but some users do not like this.  The good news is that you can change the scroll direction!  This is how:

• Open System Preferences on your Mac.  An easy way to open it is to click the Apple at the upper-left corner of your screen, then select System Preferences.
• You can then choose from the Hardware category, Mouse or Trackpad.  I have included images from both menus at the end of this post.
• You can uncheck the scroll direction box to switch back to the way you like it!

When removing Boot Camp from my Mac, it did not remove the partition from my hard drive.  This seems to be an issue that does occur to some users, but this is not normal behavior of removing Boot Camp.  To reclaim the space you can open Disk Utility on your Mac.  You can open the Applications folder, go into the Utilities folder, then open Disk Utility.  Or you can search Spotlight, the magnifying glass icon at the upper-right corner of your screen.

Once you open Disk Utility, select the hard drive in the left pane.  Then click the Partition tab.  You can then click and drag the handle at the bottom-right corner of the Partition Layout area.  Click the Apply button at the bottom right to save your changes.

You can also use this tip to resize hard drive partitions.

When you right-click a file on your Mac, a list of actions will appear.  If you go to the Open With menu, you will see a list of suitable applications that you can open the file with.  I notice once in a while that the Open With menu gets cluttered with duplicate applications.  There is an easy way to fix this:

• Open the application Terminal on your Mac.  You can find it by going to the Applications folder, then opening the Utilities folder.  Or you can search with Spotlight at the upper-right corner of your screen (the magnifying glass icon).
• After opening the Terminal application, paste the following text and press Enter on the keyboard afterward: /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/LaunchServices.framework/Versions/A/Support/lsregister -kill -r -domain local -domain system -domain user
• You can then quit Terminal and try right-clicking the file again.  The Open With menu should no longer contain duplicate applications.

Here is the original source where I found the solution to this issue.