[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 [...] |
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