Initially upon firing up OS X Lion you may notice several things to be different, such as the lack of lights below open applications and the font in the Finder sidebar to be a tad bit too large. In light of that, here is a handy list of settings that you may have an interest in tweaking:
Indicator Lights - To become more iOS like Apple made the lights that appear below an application in the dock to signify that it is open an option. If you no longer have these indicator lights, head into the Dock pane of System Preferences and check "Show Indicator Lights…".
Sidebar font size - When you initially fire up Lion you may notice that the font-size in the sidebar of the Finder and Mail is larger than it was in Snow leopard. This can be easily adjusted by heading into the General pane of System Preferences and selecting "Small" in the Sidebar Icon Size drop-down menu.
Dashboard - Initially Lion sets Dashboard aside as it's own space, accessed by a swipe to the right with the trackpad or Magic Mouse. You can easily reverse this and make Dashboard an overlay once again by heading into the Mission Control pane of System Preferences and unchecking "Show Dashboard as Space".
Clean up Launch Pad - There is a handy little application called LaunchPad Control that easily handles this, allowing you select what you want to see and get rid of what you don't. Head here to download.
Finder Status Bar - To hide the system's complexities from the user, Apple has opted to hide the Finder status bar. To fix this, head into the View menu and select"Show Status Bar"
Hidden Library Folder - Apparently to prevent users from tinkering around in the Libraries folder and potential doing something very bad, Apple elected to hide the folder. For those of us power users out there who know what we're doing and need access to this folder this can be particularly frustrating. Thankfully a Terminal command comes to the rescue. So, fire up Terminal and enter the following command and it will be accessible once again: chflags nohidden ~/Library
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