Toggle display of hidden files in Finder with keyboard shortcut [Update 2]

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 [...]


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Lock your Mac's screen like in Windows [Update 1]

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 [...]


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Useful Mac OS X Terminal Commands

By madgunde, on Friday, September 22, 2006 at 11:01 am

Mac OS X is a very powerful OS. One of it’s most amazing traits is how well it scales from being dead easy to use for novice users to allowing power users near unlimited capabilities. The former comes from the excellent UI design and GUI tools that Apple has built, the latter from [...]


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