**Transforming Snow Leopard with Lion Tweaks**

In this article, we will explore some exciting tweaks and features that can transform your Snow Leopard into a Lion-like experience. These tweaks are not official updates from Apple but rather third-party applications designed to enhance the Mac OS X user experience.

**Reverse Scrolling in Safari**

One of the first things you'll notice when using these tweaks is reverse scrolling in Safari. This feature was introduced in Mac OS X 10.6 Lion and reverses the direction of scrolling on trackpads and mice. When enabled, scrolling becomes like dragging up a web page or a document to move it down. If you're familiar with iOS devices, this might feel right at home. To enable reverse scrolling, download an application called Scroll Reverser from the Mac App Store. This application can be downloaded and set up in a matter of minutes.

**Enabling Reverse Scrolling**

To use the Scroll Reverser application, simply download it from the Mac App Store and follow the on-screen instructions to install it. Once installed, you'll find the application's icon in your menu bar. Clicking on this icon will allow you to toggle reverse scrolling on and off at any time. Additionally, you can enable reverse scrolling at login by following the same process as installing an application.

**QuickPi: A Snow Leopard Launchpad**

Another exciting tweak for Snow Leopard is QuickPi, a third-party application available in the Mac App Store. QuickPi offers a similar experience to the official Launchpad found in Mac OS X 10.6 Lion. With QuickPi, you can create a virtual Launchpad interface on your desktop, complete with drag-and-drop functionality and folder organization. To use QuickPi, simply download it from the Mac App Store and follow the on-screen instructions to set it up.

**Configuring QuickPi**

Once QuickPi is installed, you'll find an icon in your dock labeled "Launch Pad". Clicking on this icon will launch QuickPi and allow you to create a new Launchpad interface. From here, you can organize your applications into folders and drag-and-drop them onto the desktop or other folders. To customize QuickPi further, go to the application's preferences menu and select the "Box" option. This allows you to hide the background of each folder and make it easier to navigate.

**Drop Copy: A Snow Leopard Alternative to AirDrop**

Airdrop is a feature introduced in Mac OS X 10.7 Lion that allows users to easily share files between Macs on the same local network. While this feature is not available in Snow Leopard, there is an alternative application called Drop Copy that can provide a similar experience.

**Enabling Drop Copy**

To use Drop Copy, simply download it from the Mac App Store and follow the on-screen instructions to install it. Once installed, you'll find a small bubble icon on your desktop that represents the Drop Copy application. To use this feature, click on the little circle and hold it over any device with Drop Copy running (such as an iPad or other Mac). The application will then connect to your device and allow you to share files.

**Conclusion**

In conclusion, these tweaks can transform Snow Leopard into a more Lion-like experience. Whether you're looking for reverse scrolling in Safari, a Launchpad interface like QuickPi, or a way to easily share files with friends using Drop Copy, these applications have got you covered. By installing these tweaks and customizing them to your liking, you'll be able to enjoy many of the features that were introduced in Mac OS X 10.6 Lion.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhey everyone today I'm going to show you how you can get some of the features from Mac OS 10 lion and bring them over to Mac OS 10 snow leopard before lion even comes out now with Lion right around the corner might you might be itching to get some of these new features and I was too so I found a couple different ways that you can kind of transform snow leopard if you will into Mac OS 10 line so we're going to start with the hardest one first uh if you've seen anything with Lion so far you'll know that there are no indicator lights under the applications in the dock this is something you can switch back on but if you find this nicer than the snow leopard's look and you want to change it to look like it doesn't line here's how to do it so first you're going to have to open up a new finder window and then you're going to have to go into the system folder within your main hard drive and then the library folder and then the core Services folder now it's best not to play around in here too much uh but from here you're going to want to scroll down to Doc and there's an application called doc right there and now you're going to either right click or control click on it and click show package contents and now another window is going to pop up and you're going to open up the contents folder as well as the resources folder on here you're going to see a lot of different files and you're going to scroll down until you find indicator lights so here they are right here indicator large all the way through indicator small so now make a new folder on your desktop or somewhere else safe uh and you're not going to want to delete these files that's pretty critical so you can select indicator large all the way through indicator small those are the files you need to work with and you can drag those in copy them to your new folder and you want to have a copy of these in case you ever want to restore for your Doc's old look so I'll keep those there do not delete those files put them somewhere safe I'll call this do not delete uh so leave those there and now the ones that are in this resources folder you can drag to the trash and it's going to ask you for an administrator password and you'll need that and all those are in the trash and what you need to do now to apply these changes first of all open up a new finder window go to the applications folder and scroll down to the utilities folder open that up and then from there open up activity monitor and then in the process list you're going to want to look for Doc and here it is right here I just select it and I go up and hit the little stop sign to quit the process and click quit and this is going to restart the dock and when it starts back up you're going to see the Chang is applied and now you have no indicator lights under your dock and this is just like Mac OS 10 line and once again it's very important that you don't delete those image files if you ever want to restore your doc to what it was before and in that case all you'd have to do is go back to that same resources folder I showed you and redrop the files in there and once again you'd have to type your administrator password to allow it and the next thing I'm going to show you is reverse scrolling so if you if you've seen any previews of Mac OS 10 line you'll know that scrolling is reversed and that is for the trackpads as well as the mice so when you're on a web page or anything like that scrolling is going to be completely backwards from what you remember now once again this is an option you can turn off but if you like it and I found that I really do like it you can also enable this in Snow Leopard with an application called scroll reverser so here's the web page where you can downloaded and I've set up a a shortened URL and that is tr. us/ scroll reverse so there's a download link right here and once you download it you'll see it up in your menu bar right here and you can turn on and off reverse scrolling and started at login so now if we go into Safari for example and go to a web page you can see that when I scroll everything is backwards from how you remember it you scroll like you would on a iOS device where you like kind of push up the page and push it down and this is just how scroll reversing works too and how it will work in lion and I think after maybe a day of usage it really does work good and I've come to really like it and so the next new major feature in Lion is Launchpad and this is a iOS style overlay for launching applications now if you want to get this in snow leopard right now and you can't really wait there's an application in the Mac App Store called quickpi and this pretty much gives you a Launchpad for snow leopard it works a lot like it and it's almost identical in lot of ways the only downfall is that it does cost $9.99 so you can see quick pick in my dock right here and I put it right where the Launchpad icon is located in Mac OS 10 Lon right next to the finder icon and when you click on it all your applications drop in just like in Launchpad and you can scroll between different pages it works just like it and then you can click on an application to launch it's almost identical you can move things around although it's not quite as elegant as it actually will be in Mac OS 10 line you kind of have to just kind of work around but it still works the same and you can go up to the menu bar here and you can add different pages so here's another page and then if I click on this plus button here I can go to other pages and drag apps to a new page so that's kind of neat you have multiple pages and what you want to do to make this even more realistic is go up to the Quick Pick menu and click on preferences from here you want to select the Box click on page background to hide and then you'll probably want to get rid of show quickpi in the menu bar to make it as accurate as possible it's very very similar to Launchpad and lion the only thing that you can't really do is make folders now the next thing I'm going to show you is drop copy now in line there is a new feature called airdrop which basically finds Max on your same local network and from there you can easily drag and drop files right to them so once again there's kind of a snow leard replacement for this and it is is called drop copy and this is also available in the Mac App Store and this time it is free so that's even better and basically what it is it's not exactly the same as it is in line but here it's just a little bubble on your desktop and it just kind of sits there and what you can do let's say I have a file I just drag it and hold it over the little circle and it shows me every device that has drop copy running in this case I have it running on my iPad now you can have this running on other Macs as well and all I have to do is drag it over and onto the iPod little tile here and it'll connect to it and send the file and then you have a little uh sound there and now it does show up on my iPhone so that's how drop copy works and once you apply that to your system and have all the other tweaks installed you can get a real feel for what Mac OS 10 line is going to be like and you can feel like you have a kind of a sneak preview of it and I found that all these tweaks install are going to really make the transition from Snow Leopard to Lion a lot more smooth for me I'll be already used to it once I start using it so those are some cool tweaks to transform Mac OS 10 snow leopard into lion I hope you found this video useful and thank you for watchinghey everyone today I'm going to show you how you can get some of the features from Mac OS 10 lion and bring them over to Mac OS 10 snow leopard before lion even comes out now with Lion right around the corner might you might be itching to get some of these new features and I was too so I found a couple different ways that you can kind of transform snow leopard if you will into Mac OS 10 line so we're going to start with the hardest one first uh if you've seen anything with Lion so far you'll know that there are no indicator lights under the applications in the dock this is something you can switch back on but if you find this nicer than the snow leopard's look and you want to change it to look like it doesn't line here's how to do it so first you're going to have to open up a new finder window and then you're going to have to go into the system folder within your main hard drive and then the library folder and then the core Services folder now it's best not to play around in here too much uh but from here you're going to want to scroll down to Doc and there's an application called doc right there and now you're going to either right click or control click on it and click show package contents and now another window is going to pop up and you're going to open up the contents folder as well as the resources folder on here you're going to see a lot of different files and you're going to scroll down until you find indicator lights so here they are right here indicator large all the way through indicator small so now make a new folder on your desktop or somewhere else safe uh and you're not going to want to delete these files that's pretty critical so you can select indicator large all the way through indicator small those are the files you need to work with and you can drag those in copy them to your new folder and you want to have a copy of these in case you ever want to restore for your Doc's old look so I'll keep those there do not delete those files put them somewhere safe I'll call this do not delete uh so leave those there and now the ones that are in this resources folder you can drag to the trash and it's going to ask you for an administrator password and you'll need that and all those are in the trash and what you need to do now to apply these changes first of all open up a new finder window go to the applications folder and scroll down to the utilities folder open that up and then from there open up activity monitor and then in the process list you're going to want to look for Doc and here it is right here I just select it and I go up and hit the little stop sign to quit the process and click quit and this is going to restart the dock and when it starts back up you're going to see the Chang is applied and now you have no indicator lights under your dock and this is just like Mac OS 10 line and once again it's very important that you don't delete those image files if you ever want to restore your doc to what it was before and in that case all you'd have to do is go back to that same resources folder I showed you and redrop the files in there and once again you'd have to type your administrator password to allow it and the next thing I'm going to show you is reverse scrolling so if you if you've seen any previews of Mac OS 10 line you'll know that scrolling is reversed and that is for the trackpads as well as the mice so when you're on a web page or anything like that scrolling is going to be completely backwards from what you remember now once again this is an option you can turn off but if you like it and I found that I really do like it you can also enable this in Snow Leopard with an application called scroll reverser so here's the web page where you can downloaded and I've set up a a shortened URL and that is tr. us/ scroll reverse so there's a download link right here and once you download it you'll see it up in your menu bar right here and you can turn on and off reverse scrolling and started at login so now if we go into Safari for example and go to a web page you can see that when I scroll everything is backwards from how you remember it you scroll like you would on a iOS device where you like kind of push up the page and push it down and this is just how scroll reversing works too and how it will work in lion and I think after maybe a day of usage it really does work good and I've come to really like it and so the next new major feature in Lion is Launchpad and this is a iOS style overlay for launching applications now if you want to get this in snow leopard right now and you can't really wait there's an application in the Mac App Store called quickpi and this pretty much gives you a Launchpad for snow leopard it works a lot like it and it's almost identical in lot of ways the only downfall is that it does cost $9.99 so you can see quick pick in my dock right here and I put it right where the Launchpad icon is located in Mac OS 10 Lon right next to the finder icon and when you click on it all your applications drop in just like in Launchpad and you can scroll between different pages it works just like it and then you can click on an application to launch it's almost identical you can move things around although it's not quite as elegant as it actually will be in Mac OS 10 line you kind of have to just kind of work around but it still works the same and you can go up to the menu bar here and you can add different pages so here's another page and then if I click on this plus button here I can go to other pages and drag apps to a new page so that's kind of neat you have multiple pages and what you want to do to make this even more realistic is go up to the Quick Pick menu and click on preferences from here you want to select the Box click on page background to hide and then you'll probably want to get rid of show quickpi in the menu bar to make it as accurate as possible it's very very similar to Launchpad and lion the only thing that you can't really do is make folders now the next thing I'm going to show you is drop copy now in line there is a new feature called airdrop which basically finds Max on your same local network and from there you can easily drag and drop files right to them so once again there's kind of a snow leard replacement for this and it is is called drop copy and this is also available in the Mac App Store and this time it is free so that's even better and basically what it is it's not exactly the same as it is in line but here it's just a little bubble on your desktop and it just kind of sits there and what you can do let's say I have a file I just drag it and hold it over the little circle and it shows me every device that has drop copy running in this case I have it running on my iPad now you can have this running on other Macs as well and all I have to do is drag it over and onto the iPod little tile here and it'll connect to it and send the file and then you have a little uh sound there and now it does show up on my iPhone so that's how drop copy works and once you apply that to your system and have all the other tweaks installed you can get a real feel for what Mac OS 10 line is going to be like and you can feel like you have a kind of a sneak preview of it and I found that all these tweaks install are going to really make the transition from Snow Leopard to Lion a lot more smooth for me I'll be already used to it once I start using it so those are some cool tweaks to transform Mac OS 10 snow leopard into lion I hope you found this video useful and thank you for watching\n"