Weekend Quickie: 3 Tips and tricks to manage your Mac

Welcome to the Weekend Quickie!

Since there's nothing happening in the world (wait, did Anna Nicole use a Mac? No? She couldn't even spell 'Mac'? Oh, ok...), we will toss out a few useful tidbits that will make using your system as effortless as not knowing who the father of your child is!

Did you know:

  • You can add aliases to *anything* to your Finder toolbar?
  • You can create 'smart folders' to show you all of your documents at one time?
  • You can lock your screen without clicking anything?

Here's how to do it!

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  • grim
    Damn, I wanted to add that you can do it by creating a little apple script like:

    tell application "ScreenSaverEngine"
    activate
    end tell

    1) Save that in an applescript somewhere.
    2) Then open the Quicksilver preferences and go to Triggers.
    3) Add a new trigger by clicking on the plus Icon
    4) Type in the name of your script and select it (you might need to rerun your indexing for quicksilver so it gets the script)
    5) You can now add any keyboard shortcut you like.

    (Taken from the comments in http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20...)
  • grim
    You can also use quicksilver to lock your screen without clicking.
  • ScottMac
    Ah, but when you use the screen saver hot corner, you have about 1.5 seconds after it starts to 'undo' it, so an accidental corner move can quickly be nullified.

    And clicking the menubar item for Keychain access voids the 'without clicking anything' concept!
    ;)

    Good tip though, thanks.
  • minime
    Activate a passworded screensaver with hot corners is not actually a good idea. After a some days the accidental hits and the repeated
    entering of your password will really piss you off.
    IMHO the best way to immediately lock your screen on is to check the "Show status in Menu Bar" at the Keychain Preferences. Then clicking the new icon in the Menu Bar you 'll see the "Lock Screen" option.
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