Color Picker on Mac OS

There is an inbuilt software which comes with mac for picking the color on any pixel on the screen. It is called DigitalColor Meter. You can find it simple doing the Spotlight Search as shown below.

Then you can just scroll your mouse pointer around. It will tell you the color of selected pixel on the screen as shown in the screenshot below.

Mac OSX Lion

I am going to discuss the features which you can benefit only in this version of Mac OS X i.e. Mac OSX Lion.

1.  Mac App Store



















2. Full Screen Apps: Now you can  create enriched user experience by handling the full screen view in a very friendly way using recently added features of NSApplication, NSWindow, and the NSWindowDelegate Protocol.

3.  Aqua Theme with pop over feature like iPad, Overlay Scrollbars just like iPhone, iPad's scrollview's overlaying beautiful translucent scrollbar.Also the best part : Multi-Touch gestures and animations feature can be integrated in your mac apps now !!

4. AV Foundation: Do the changes to your audio/video input in real time !! Think about million possiblities it gives rise to.

5. Versions available just like SVN of your documents on your local machine itself ! How COOL !
Now I know what exact changes were done on what date on my document.

6. Auto Resume . If your restarts, then it will open in same state when it starts again .. Its already there in windows 7. I guess it doesnt excite me that much.

7. Sandboxing of apps on Mac just like iPhone OS.

8. File Accessibility management that simultaneous writes can be handled without error. :)

How to find out if your Mac OS is 64 bits ?

You can go to About this Mac as given in screenshot below

A new window pops up which displays information about your Mac which looks like in screenshot below

If your mac has Mac OS X 10.5 or greater then it is a 64-bit operating system.
Your processor information also lets you know ,if your processor is Intel Core 2 Duo, Intel Xeon, and PowerPC G5 then it is 64-bit processors.

And anyways all the recent Macbooks being shipped are 64 bits.