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Lock your Mac's screen like in Windows, Snow Leopard edition

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 [...]

Tagged: Automator, bash, bsd, hint, keyboard shortcut, login window, Mac OS X, Services, Snow Leopard, Terminal, tip

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