Lion’s Applications
Scott Mayers, Mike Lee · Apress eBooks · 2011
Depending on how Lion found itself on your computer, the applications you will find installed on said computer will vary. If you upgraded your computer from a previous version of Mac OS X, then all of your existing applications should be present and accounted for. If you purchased a new Mac that came with Lion, then it should also have iLife installed, plus any optional software you chose to have preinstalled. If you installed Lion on a clean, formatted volume, then you will only get the software that comes with Lion. Beyond essential operating system applications such as the Finder, Launchpad, App Store, and so on, Lion includes a useful collection of additional software including Mail, Safari, FaceTime, Address Book, iCal, iTunes, Photo Booth, Dictionary, and more. In the next section of this book we will cover the contact, communication, and Internet applications, and beyond that we will cover many of utilities and development tools, but that still leaves us with some fun and useful applications to cover. In this chapter we will provide an introduction to these applications, including