Being more obvious in its implementation, we found this a significant improvement, as it led to fewer unexpected malapropisms in our rotting writing. To reject the suggestion on the iPad, you'd tap it to do the same in Lion, just press escape. Rather than switching out words automatically without any warning, this system-wide tool now pops up a suggestion bubble that's accepted when you next press space or use punctuation. Mail has won itself a full-height preview pane and, for users with smaller monitors, the option to hide both this and your mailboxes, leaving just the message list visible.Įven the revamped auto-correct takes a cue from the iPad. There's another nod towards the Windows way of doing things in the Finder, which now has an All Files view that groups your files and folders by type, wherever they might be on your Mac. Previously, it had only been possible to do this from the lower right corner, which meant you often had to reposition the window halfway through resizing - a bone of contention for some PC switchers. One small but overdue change is the ability to resize application windows by dragging any edge or corner. Safari, too, is now gesture-enabled, with two-finger swipes moving you back and forth through your browsing history. Beside pinching and swiping, you can now push four fingers towards the keyboard to invoke Mission Control for an overview of all active applications, and while you can still use control and the arrow keys to switch between spaces (which are now set in a row rather than a grid), it's quicker to swipe between your virtual screens with three fingers.

Gestures like this five-finger pinch are more important in Lion than any preceding release. The Finder has had a revamp, with the new All My Files view organising your files by type.

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