Apple, after success products like iPad and iPhone 4, is now going to publish Mac OS X Lion officially.  A preview of OS X Lion was publicly unveiled at Apple’s “Back to the Mac” event on October 20, 2010. As said by the Apple site, it will be commercially available in Summers,2011.

It will bring many developments made in Apple’s iOS, such as an easily-navigable display of installed applications, to the Mac, and will include support for the Mac App Store, as introduced in Mac OS X Snow Leopard version 10.6.6. Lets see what had changed around the Mac OS Network for Lion version.

System Requirements

x86-64 processor (Macs with an Intel Core 2 Duo or later CPU).
DVD drive (also accessible via Remote Disc) or external USB or FireWire DVD drive for installation.

Specifications

Accord. to the “Back To The Mac” event, some new features are added to Mac OS X Lion. More features may be expected as the date approaches.

Address Book now uses an iPad-like user interface
AirDrop — Mac-to-Mac file sharing.
Auto Save — As in iOS, documents in applications written to use Auto Save will be saved automatically so users don’t have to worry about manually managing their documents.
FaceTime comes bundled with Lion.
FileVault now offers full disk encryption added security with XTS-AES 128 data encryption. Support for FileVault on external hard drives has also been added.
Finder redesigned.
Folder Merging — Unlike previous versions of OS X, one can now merge files under two folders with the same name. A prompt will appear asking whether one wants to replace or keep both files.
iCal has an updated user interface, with support for a full-screen view.
iChat support for logging into Yahoo! Messenger. Users can audio- and video-chat with other iChat users using their Yahoo! accounts.
Launchpad — An application launcher that displays an iOS-like icon grid of installed applications. It will feature the ability to make multiple pages and group apps into folders which function the same as folders in iOS.
Mac App Store — An application store built in the image of the iOS App Store. Like in iOS, it will provide ways for shoppers to discover apps, one-click installation of apps, and one-click updates of all or selected installed applications.
Mail 5 – Uses an iPad-like user interface, has a fullscreen-optimized view, uses chronological “Conversations” to organize messages, and supports Exchange 2010.
Preview gains several features, including full-screen support and the ability to sign a document just by holding a signed piece of paper up to the camera.
Profile Manager — Allows profile-based management of iOS devices and Mac OS X Lion
QuickTime re-incorporates some features from QuickTime Pro. New features cited include Copy/Paste, Insert Clip, Crop Video, Rotate Video, Resize, Trim, and more Export options.
Recovery Partition — Apple has introduced a recovery partition that includes utilities generally found on the OS X discs. This partition will allow the user to restore their computer to its original factory state.
Resume — Applications resume in the same state when re-opened as already seen in iOS. Because of this, the Dock no longer visually indicates whether an app is currently running or not by default – the original behavior can be restored in the Dock section of System Preferences.
Server — Mac OS X Server is now bundled with Mac OS X, rather than being a separate version of the OS.
System Information — This feature is a re-design of “About This Mac” and has been completely altered with new views which display graphical information on displays, storage devices, memory usage along with other hardware information.
Versions — Time Machine-like saving and browsing of past versions of documents for applications written to use Versions.

Rumors

Front Row is totally removed from Mac Lion.
A Java Runtime Environment (JRE) is no longer installed by default, but can be installed on demand.
Adobe Flash Player is no longer installed by default and must be installed manually^.
Rosetta, software which makes possible the execution of PowerPC software on x86 hardware, is no longer available.

Screenshots

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Tweeting is what we do after publishing posts. To place some minimal text that jumps upon the Tweet on Twitter will be more great instead of using a tweet button. Its made possible to count the number of tweets using PHP only, however if you want to sizzle it up, then its your way.

We have two ways of displaying number of Tweets for particular posts.

Using Tweetmeme API Key

Tweetmeme provides you an API key using which you can do more with it. Jean Paul of CatsWhoCode made his way of displaying the number of Retweets.  What you have to do is place the code below in your theme functions.php file.

function tweetCount($url) {     $content = file_get_contents("http://api.tweetmeme.com/url_info?url=".$url);     $element = new SimpleXmlElement($content);     $retweets = $element->story->url_count;     if($retweets){         return $retweets;     } else {         return 0;     } } 

After placing the code, save the file and place the below echo to display it anywhere on your site.

echo tweetCount('http://www.smashingeeks.com');

Using Your Backtype API Key

Backtype is a nice source from where you can fetch the number of tweets of a post as it collects all the data of it.

<?php $link = get_permalink($post->ID); $key = 'YOURKEY'; $url = "http://api.backtype.com/tweetcount.xml?q=$link&amp;amp;key=$key"; $request = new WP_Http; $result = $request->request( $url ); echo "<span class=\"result\">".$result['body']."</span> tweets"; ?> 

If you want to link it with twitter, then you can use the following.

$link = get_permalink($post->ID); $key = 'YOURKEY'; $url = "http://api.backtype.com/tweetcount.xml?q=$link&amp;amp;key=$key"; $request = new WP_Http; $result = $request->request( $url ); $json = $result['body']; $burl = getBitlyUrl(get_permalink($post->ID)); $posttitle = get_the_title(); echo "<span class=\"result\"><a href=\"http://twitter.com/home?status=RT @smashingeeks $posttitle: $burl \">" .$result['body']. "</span></a> tweets"; ?> 

Do not forget to change the YOURKEY with your API key of Backtype. Place the code anywhere you want to display the whole.

If there are more ways of doing it, you can share with us by comments.