By madgunde, on Friday, January 1, 2010 at 11:24 pm
 Just a quick post to wish everyone a Happy New Year and all the best for 2010! 2009 was a rough year for me, so I have high hopes for 2010. Probably has a lot to do with “2010: The Year We Make Contact” being one of my favourite sci-fi movies. Really enjoyed the book the movie is based on,“2010: Odyssey Two” by Arthur C. Clarke as well, although I admit I watched the movie long before ever reading the book. If you enjoy reading science fiction which leans a bit more towards science fact than fantasy, I highly recommend the entire Odyssey series which include, “2001: A Space Odyssey”, “2010: Odyssey Two”, “2061: Odyssey Three” and “3001: The Final Odyssey”. Also, check out the movie 2010 if you haven’t seen it, but you might want to watch “2001: A Space Odyssey” first to brush up on the back story, but skip the last 10 minutes of the movie, it’s not worth your time. Everything leading up to that point is pretty good however.
Looking back at 2009, the most popular Art of Geek blog post was “Lock your Mac’s screen like in Windows, Snow Leopard edition”, which received a lot of comments from people who just didn’t seem to understand why we didn’t just use Mac OS X’s screen saver locking feature. Regardless, it’s nice to see so many early adopters of Snow Leopard visiting!
Sorry for the short post, but it’s late, and I want to squeeze in a viewing of 2010 before I hit the sack. 
By madgunde, on Wednesday, September 16, 2009 at 8:23 pm
 [Update 2] Still in early Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard discovery mode, I’ve started revisiting MacOSXHints.com much more regularly to find out what handy undocumented or at least not widely known tricks the new OS has up it’s sleeve. Today I came across this fantastic tip about how you can toggle the display of hidden files in any standard open/save dialog box just by hitting “Shift+Command+. (period)”. My first reaction of course was, “wow, what a great idea!”, followed quickly by, “about freaking time!” and ultimately, “wtf?, why didn’t they implement this in the Finder?!?”.
Well as the old saying goes, give a man a fish and he can feed himself for a day, teach a man to fish and he can get rich selling fish to other suckers (or something of the sort). So it is that Apple has given us the tools in Snow Leopard to fend for ourselves. Continue reading Toggle display of hidden files in Finder with keyboard shortcut [Update 2]
By madgunde, on Tuesday, September 8, 2009 at 9:20 pm
 Wow. Didn’t take long for Snow Leopard to render my previous hint on how to lock your Mac’s screen utterly obsolete.
This is one of the things I love most about Mac OS X: Apple just keeps adding features that often eliminate the need for third party solutions to simple problems. In this particular case, we’re going to use a combination of Automator, a terminal command, Snow Leopard’s new improved Services and a system-wide keyboard shortcut to enable a hotkey that will suspend the currently logged in user session and display the Login Window as though you had chosen the “Login Window…” option from the Fast User Switching menu extra. Continue reading Lock your Mac’s screen like in Windows, Snow Leopard edition
By madgunde, on Sunday, August 9, 2009 at 12:44 am
Just checking the blog stats and looks like we had our 100,000th visit yesterday! For those who are curious, here are the top five articles of all time on Art Of Geek and how many page views they’re responsible for since this blog’s start back in September 2006:
Useful Mac OS X Terminal Commands – 25,983
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By madgunde, on Tuesday, June 23, 2009 at 9:14 am
[Update 1] Anyone who uses Windows at work is probably familiar with the old Ctrl-Alt-Del <return> trick to quickly lock your screen when you step away from your computer. This displays a “This computer is in use and has been locked.” message which instructs you to press Ctrl-Alt-Del again to unlock the computer. Doing so [...]
By madgunde, on Monday, March 23, 2009 at 10:04 pm
A while back I wrote a review of the (then) new official iPhone blogging app from WordPress. Well, it’s been recently updated and from what I can see, they’ve resolved the limitations I identified back then, and added a bunch of new features to make it even more functional.
You can now edit your entire post, [...]
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