Kent Somerville- 2012

Moving files and folders from one place to another has become even easier. You no longer need to have multiple finder windows open. Simply use Command+C as always to copy one or more files, then use Option+Command+V when pasting, which will actually move the file from its original location to the new destination.

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If you ever need to look up a word in the dictionary fast but can't be bothered finding it from your apps folder. Try this quick and easy way. Select the word and doubletap with three fingers to immediately highlight it in yellow and call up the dictionary, thesaurus and Wikipedia information for your word.

Suppose you want to see at a glance which days are busier than others for an entire year. Go to iCal and select the year mode. This will show 12 months at a time using colours to represent your availability for each day, with busier days appearing more 'hot' than others.

At last, OS X Lion's QuickTime Player makes it easy to assemble multiple video files into one. Open the first file, then drag a second onto the same window. QuickTime Player will even scale or crop files to match. You can even trim the head or tail of any clip before committing to the new file.

OS X Lion makes searching in Spotlight far more usable with the ability to drag and drop found items right from the Spotlight window to another location - including an open email or via AirDrop.

After doing a search in Spotlight, hover your mouse over a selection and up will pop a Quick Look preview of that item. To get more information, hold down Command+Option keys to see where on your hard disk the file is saved.

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I am a teacher at Pt England School with a 1-to-1 netbook classroom. You can check out what we are doing in class by looking at our blog or class site.