Today marks a milestone in Many Tricks’ history: the release of Lioness, our first app targeted at Lion, the next version of Mac OS X. (Technical details: Lioness isn’t really released in final form today, but in public beta form. That’s because Lioness is a Lion application, and Lion isn’t out yet.)

So what is Lioness, and why should you want it?

In case you weren’t aware, Lion will allow applications to auto-save their data at regular intervals, making repeated use of Command-S unnecessary. But Mac users have been forcing themselves to press Command-S over and over for decades, so we figured we’d take advantage of that muscle memory by creating a set of useful functions around Command-S.

Under Lion, Lioness will intercept those potentially-worthless Command-S keystrokes, and do the following: auto-save the frontmost document, copy the autosave document to any number of online backup sources, and display a Growl alert noting how much potential data loss you’ve averted by pressing Command-S.

More details can be found on the Lioness page, where you can also download the free public beta. Final Lioness pricing has not yet been set.

This entry was posted on Friday, April 1st, 2011 at 12:11 am by Rob Griffiths, and is filed under Products. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.