With Lion installed I found myself missing a feature in the Finder that I didn’t even realize I used; the slider in the bottom right corner that resizes icons.  As trivial is this slider may seem, it turns out that I used it quite a bit; especially to resize photo thumbnails.  To get the slider back, all I had to do was go to the View menu with a Finder window open and choose Show Status Bar.  Et voila!  The icon adjusting slider is back!  No more pressing cmd + J to bring up the view options to resize icons.