Tag Archives: Mac
Time to personalize – screensaver time
All you Mac users – go grab a screensaver! Or two… or forty. The screensaver “Strands” is my favorite:
40+ Eye-Catching Mac Screensavers
Teaching Microsoft on a Mac
I was watching a session from MIX09 this morning titled “Deep Dive into Microsoft Silverlight Graphics.” The session was hosted by Seema Ramchandani and surprisingly (though, not too surprisingly) she was conducting the session from her 17″ MacBook Pro. She’s teaching the intricacies of a Microsoft product from the comfort of Mac. Wonderfully [...]
Posted in apple, coding, development, hardware, notebooks, silverlight Also tagged apple, Macbook, microsoft, MIX, silverlight, teaching 2 Comments
Quick Tip: free up space in Mac OS X by removing printer drivers
If you’re looking to free up a little bit of space you can safely delete all of the printer drivers that come installed on your system by deleting all the folders in /Library/Printers. Should free up about 3 GB of space. Safe and effective.
Posted in Tips & Tricks, Utilities, apple Also tagged apple, drivers, free, hard drive, OS X, printer, space 2 Comments
Mac Security: Lock your Mac without logging out
My new favorite way to lock my Mac:
/System/Library/CoreServices/”Menu Extras”/User.menu/Contents/Resources/CGSession -suspend
This is a simple command that can be run from Terminal. You get a cool animation from your desktop to the lock screen, and you can’t get back in without the password. If you want to learn how to use Automator and set it up yourself, [...]
Web Browsers on the Mac | Switching to Safari 4