[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 [...]
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Tagged: Automator, bash, bsd, Finder, hint, keyboard shortcut, Mac OS X, Services, Snow Leopard, Terminal, tip  44 comments 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 [...] Tagged: Automator, bash, bsd, hint, keyboard shortcut, login window, Mac OS X, Services, Snow Leopard, Terminal, tip 70 comments [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 [...] 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, [...] [Update 1] Like a lot of tech-savvy people out there, I’m using a Mac mini as the heart of my home theatre to play music, view photos, watch downloaded TV shows and movies as well as DVDs. I also do the occasional web surfing with it. For most of those uses, the tiny white Apple [...] If you’re both an iPhone user, and have a blog hosted or powered by WordPress, then you have something new to get excited about. WordPress for iPhone and iPod touch was released late yesterday on the iTunes App Store! I’m putting it through it’s paces by composing this post on my iPhone 3G. While the [...] |
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