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How To: Customize with Mac OS X Lion

Want to learn how to customize Launchpad and your desktop backgrounds in Mac OS X Lion? Well there are many different ways to customize your Launchpad’s background and the different desktops space’s backgrounds in Mac OS X.

First, if you want to change Launchpad’s background open up Launchpad then select Command + B which will take you through each background as shown above. There are four different backgrounds: clear with color, clear in black and white, blurry with color, blurry with black and white.

Next, if you want to change each individual background for each desktop space you have to right click on your desktop and select change background, then repeat on all of your other backgrounds.

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The Basics and More: System Preferences

Basics:

System Preferences is great because it allows you to control almost every setting on your Mac all in one spot. To start I am going to show you how to use System Preferences interface. To navigate around just click on the icons of what you want or you can search it in the top right hand corner. To track back just click the backward or forward buttons on the top left and to go to the main menu select Show All.

Advanced

The two panes that I use the most are Desktop and Screen Saver, and Mission Control. To use Desktop and Screen Saver’s settings you can navigate through it by going to the left where all the photos and screen savers on your computer will be. To select a background or screen saver just choose the desired photo or screen saver on the side. Sometimes it will bring you to a folder so you can sort from there. Personally, I just put photos on a slideshow and choose a default screen saver because it is the easiest thing to do.

Mission control is very simple, yet effective because it allows you to use many different shortcuts. For Keyboard Shortcuts you can change how to access the shortcut by scrolling down the menu next to it. Another thing that is very useful is the Hot Corners section where it allows you to scroll to any given corner and it will do what you had designated it to do.

Conclusion

System Preferences is a great way to control settings on your Mac all in one place. It can be a very simple or complicated application depending on how you use it with many ways to customize and secure your Mac.

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