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<title>10.7: New Finder Column View Preview Resize Bug</title>
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<dc:subject>System 10.7</dc:subject>
<description>As hints go, this one is more of a bug complaint than a hint, but the most recent version of Lion (10.7.5) introduced a bug in the Finder when in Column View which prevents you from resizing the last column/preview for files with long paths. I don't know if it is also a problem in 10.8, but in 10.7.4 there used to be a column separator on the right side of the last column containing the preview with a little area at the bottom that would allow you to grab the control and resize the preview. The preview would grow to fill as much space as possible.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;In 10.7.5, that separator went away, which is fine for files that have a short path from the left-most column to the right-most column. You can still grab the side of the window and resize the last column. But for files with long paths (which introduce a horizontal scroll-bar), it sometimes becomes impossible to resize the last column. So here's a simple work-around.&lt;ul&gt;  &lt;li&gt;Grab the right-most column separator (which is to th ...&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;</description>
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<title>Another way to fast-forward and rewind in QuickTime Player </title>
<link>http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20121125131802777</link>
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<pubDate>Mon, 26 Nov 2012 07:30:00 -0800</pubDate>
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<dc:subject>System 10.7</dc:subject>
<description>There are several ways to fast-forward and rewind in QuickTime Player so here is another one, that works on 10.7 or later. Clicking and holding the Play/Pause button for several seconds replaces the control with a slider. Drag the slider to the right to fast-forward and to the left to rewind. The speed, which is displayed in the upper left corner of the video, is controlled by how far the slider is dragged. Once the mouse button is released, fast-forwarding or rewinding stops.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; [&lt;b&gt;kirkmc adds&lt;/b&gt;: And if you have a trackpad, &lt;a href=&quot;http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20051019125405348&quot;&gt;this method&lt;/a&gt; is even easier.] 
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<title>Use Emoji in file and folder names</title>
<link>http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20121029072330939</link>
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<pubDate>Fri, 02 Nov 2012 07:30:00 -0700</pubDate>
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<dc:subject>System 10.7</dc:subject>
<description>It is possible to use Emoji in file and folder names. When typing a file or folder name, you can choose Edit &gt; Special Characters, click on Emoji, and add the symbols you want to use. They will display in the Finder as part of the item’s name. If you use them at the beginning of a file name, they sort above numbers but below spaces. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; [&lt;b&gt;kirkmc adds&lt;/b&gt;: We had a &lt;a href=&quot;http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20110801034622428&quot;&gt;hint last year&lt;/a&gt; about using Emoji in LaunchPad. I felt it was also interesting to point out that you can use Emoji in file and folder names. Personally, I wouldn’t want to put smileys on file names, but adding symbols can make certain folders stand out. You can even add folders to the Finder sidebar, and the Emoji will add some color to that drab gray area (whereas custom folder icons don’t display in the sidebar).] 
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<title>Spotlight keyboard shortcuts</title>
<link>http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20120920053130411</link>
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<pubDate>Mon, 15 Oct 2012 07:30:00 -0700</pubDate>
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<dc:subject>System 10.7</dc:subject>
<description>When viewing Spotlight search results, there are a number of shortcuts you can use to quickly perform actions or your search or its results. Simply move your cursor over an item, or use the arrow keys to navigate, to select items.&lt;ul&gt;	&lt;li&gt;View the search term in Dictionary: Command-D&lt;/li&gt;	&lt;li&gt;View the search term in a Quick Look &quot;look up&quot; dictionary window: Command-L&lt;/li&gt;	&lt;li&gt;View the search term in Wikipedia: Command-W&lt;/li&gt;	&lt;li&gt;Perform a web search for the search term: Command-B&lt;/li&gt;	&lt;li&gt;View a selected result in a Quick Look window: hover cursor over an item&lt;/li&gt;	&lt;li&gt;Reveal selected result in Finder: Command-R&lt;/li&gt;	&lt;li&gt;Open the Top Result: Command-T&lt;/li&gt;	&lt;li&gt;Open a selected result: Command-O, or Enter, or Return&lt;/li&gt;	&lt;li&gt;Display a Finder Info window for a result: Command-I&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;[&lt;b&gt;kirkmc adds&lt;/b&gt;: Any others? I listed this as 10.7, but I'm not sure they all work in Lion; I know some of them do.]
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<title>Rename and dock Finder sidebar foldiers</title>
<link>http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20120923131636467</link>
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<pubDate>Tue, 02 Oct 2012 07:30:00 -0700</pubDate>
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<dc:subject>System 10.7</dc:subject>
<description>You can rename folders in Finder window sidebars from a contextual menu. This also renames the folder that it links to, so use with caution. You can also drag a folder from the Finder sidebar to the Dock.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;[&lt;b&gt;kirkmc adds&lt;/b&gt;: This isn't new; renaming goes back at least to 10.6, but you can't drag a folder from the Finder sidebar to the Dock until 10.7. Nevertheless, it's not on the site, so it's worth mentioning]  
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<title>Assign a keyboard shortcut to Launchpad </title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 28 Aug 2012 07:30:00 -0700</pubDate>
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<dc:subject>System 10.7</dc:subject>
<description>If you use Launchpad, you can assign a keyboard shortcut to open it. Go to the Keyboard preference pane in System Preferences, then Keyboard Shortcuts, then Launchpad &amp; Dock. Select Show Launchpad, press Enter or Return, and enter your shortcut.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; [&lt;b&gt;kirkmc adds&lt;/b&gt;: It's worth mentioning this because, oddly, there is no default shortcut for Launchpad. (This is the case for both Lion and Mountain Lion.) While we're at it, here are some keyboard controls you can use when in Launchpad. Command-right/left-arrow moves to a different page, and Command-down-arrow goes into a folder.] 
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<title>Use two-finger scroll to change pages in Finder column View file preview </title>
<link>http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20120821155314289</link>
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<pubDate>Wed, 22 Aug 2012 07:30:00 -0700</pubDate>
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<dc:subject>System 10.7</dc:subject>
<description>If you're in Column View in the Finder, select a PDF and you'll see a preview of the file in the rightmost column. There are two next and previous arrows to switch pages, but you can also scroll using two fingers (or a scroll wheel on a mouse) to move through the document.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; [&lt;b&gt;kirkmc adds&lt;/b&gt;: This works with PDFs, but it doesn't work with Word documents, which seem to have recently inherited the &lt;a href=&quot;http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20120815055140262&quot;&gt;next and previous buttons&lt;/a&gt; in Column View previews.] 
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<title>Create folder from multiple selected items in Finder</title>
<link>http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20120816120534470</link>
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<pubDate>Fri, 17 Aug 2012 07:30:00 -0700</pubDate>
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<dc:subject>System 10.7</dc:subject>
<description>You can create a folder from a selection of files, instead of creating a folder first, then moving files in. In the Finder, select any files you want to put into the same folder. You can do this in any Finder window, including the Desktop or from the results of a Spotlight search (not the Spotlight menu itself). Right-click on any one of the selected files, and the top menu item is New Folder with Selection (&lt;i&gt;number of&lt;/i&gt; Items). When you choose that command, a new folder will be created, and the files literally leap into the folder (cute animation!). The new folder is called New Folder With Items, and you can change its name.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; [&lt;b&gt;kirkmc adds&lt;/b&gt;: This isn't new, it was added in Lion. But it's a nifty thing to be aware of; I use it often. My guess is that a lot of people don't know about it.] 
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<title>Disable automatic application termination in OS X </title>
<link>http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20120726192014497</link>
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<pubDate>Thu, 02 Aug 2012 07:30:00 -0700</pubDate>
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<dc:subject>System 10.7</dc:subject>
<description>If you leave certain applications running without any open windows, OS X will quit the application when it goes to the background. This happens with some Apple apps such as TextEdit and Preview, and perhaps others. There is no user setting to change this in preferences. Here is a Terminal command line to change this feature:&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;tt&gt; defaults write -g NSDisableAutomaticTermination -bool TRUE &lt;/tt&gt; &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; Change “TRUE” to “FALSE” to re-enable it.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; [&lt;b&gt;kirkmc adds&lt;/b&gt;: What's interesting is when OS X kills an application using this feature, the app still shows up in Activity Monitor. Matt Neuberg has a good overview of this at &lt;a href=&quot;http://tidbits.com/article/12398&quot;&gt;TidBITS&lt;/a&gt;. This has been around since Lion, and I'm surprised there hasn't been a hint yet. The submission specified Mountain Lion, and it's possible that this &quot;feature&quot; is more aggressive in 10.8, but I found mention of this command from before Mountain Lion.] 
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<title>Built-in font-sampling method</title>
<link>http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20120708022333618</link>
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<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jul 2012 07:30:00 -0700</pubDate>
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<dc:subject>System 10.7</dc:subject>
<description>Mac OS X now has a very basic, built-in font sampler, at least as of 10.7.3. If you don't care about having customized sample text, Font Book can do it without any add-ons.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; Select the desired fonts in Font Book, choose Print from the File menu, and choose &quot;Font Book&quot; in the pull-down menu for printing options near the bottom of the dialog (the one that also says Layout, Paper Handling, etc.). If you don't see this menu, click on Show Details to display it.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; You'll have the ability to choose from among three reports: Catalog (upper case, lower case and numbers, optionally grouped by font family and in a size of your choosing), Repertoire (a chart of every character that each font can print, also in a size of your choosing), and Waterfall (font details and the same basic sample in increasing font sizes of your choosing; seemingly one font style per page).&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;[&lt;b&gt;kirkmc adds&lt;/b&gt;: I don't know when this was added, but this is quite nice. For most people, this w ...</description>
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<title>Eject disk images when Finder sidebar is not visible</title>
<link>http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20120702124617309</link>
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<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jul 2012 07:30:00 -0700</pubDate>
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<dc:subject>System 10.7</dc:subject>
<description>In Lion, Apple did away with the button in the upper right corner of Finder windows, which allowed the sidebar to be toggled on and off.  I used this frequently for ejecting disk images after I installed new software.  Clicking on this button toggled the sidebar which allowed me to find the disk image and click on the eject button next do the disk image icon.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; With this button now gone, I needed a faster way to eject a disk image than opening a new Finder window and ejecting.  After playing around for a second I found out that by right-clicking anywhere in the mounted disk image's window, I could choose Eject &lt;disk image name&gt;. This is actually faster than the previous method I used.  I'm not sure how long that has been a feature, but in is in Lion.  &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; [&lt;b&gt;kirkmc adds&lt;/b&gt;: I'm assuming that the poster means that he uses this for disk images that open in their own windows without a sidebar visible. I would just press Command-Option-S to show it (or hide it). But it ...&lt;/disk&gt;</description>
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<title>Find out what's keeping your Mac awake</title>
<link>http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20120701234338952</link>
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<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jul 2012 07:30:00 -0700</pubDate>
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<dc:subject>System 10.7</dc:subject>
<description>Have you ever been annoyed to find that your Mac won't got to sleep when you tell it to? It turns out that in Mac OS X 10.6 and later, there's a simple way of finding out what's keeping your Mac awake.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; Run the following command in your Terminal:&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;tt&gt;pmset -g assertions&lt;/tt&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; In the first section of output, you'll see the status of two kernel assertions named &lt;tt&gt;PreventSystemSleep&lt;/tt&gt; and &lt;tt&gt;PreventUserIdleSystemSleep&lt;/tt&gt;.  An accompanying status of &lt;tt&gt;1&lt;/tt&gt; for either of these means that it is currently triggered.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; The second section of the output lists the processes which owns any enabled assertions, both by process id (pid) and bundle id.  If the verbose bundle id doesn't ring a bell, you can always use &lt;tt&gt;ps up &amp;lt;pid&amp;gt;&lt;/tt&gt;, or look in Activity Monitor, to find the name of the exact command associated with this process.
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<title>Download all your iDisk content before it's no longer available </title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jun 2012 07:30:00 -0700</pubDate>
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<dc:subject>System 10.7</dc:subject>
<description>With MobileMe shutting down, many users have thought to download their photos and files. An Apple e-mail that MobileMe subscribers received said, &quot;Download your photos and files. MobileMe ends June 30. Remember to download your Gallery photos, iDisk files, and move your iWeb sites before that date.&quot;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; If you have iDisk syncing turned on, you may think that the entire contents of your iDisk are on your Mac. This will be in a disk image in the Previous Local iDisks folder on your Desktop, when you turn of iDisk syncing. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; In many cases this is true, but you may not realize that some of the folders are aliases. So your local iDisk may not contain all of your files. The following folders may contain content that you want to save:&lt;ul&gt;	&lt;li&gt;Backup: holds old backups made with Apple's Backup application.&lt;/li&gt;	&lt;li&gt;Groups: if you created a group, you may have content in this folder.&lt;/li&gt;	&lt;li&gt;Library: this contains some synced files.&lt;/li&gt;	&lt;li&gt;Web: this folder contains s ...&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;</description>
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<title>Disable Autosave and Enable &amp;quot;Save As...&amp;quot;</title>
<link>http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20120604101520950</link>
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<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jun 2012 07:30:00 -0700</pubDate>
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<dc:subject>System 10.7</dc:subject>
<description>The autosave feature in OS X 10.7 has been a mixed bag.  It's nice that it saves things for you, but it's not nice that automatically saves things that you don't want to change permanently, or that the &quot;Save As...&quot; option has disappeared.  The good folks at &lt;a href=&quot;http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/27544/disable-auto-save-and-versions-in-mac-os-x-lion/52390#52390&quot;&gt;stack exchange&lt;/a&gt; have discovered a remedy.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; To disable autosave in TextEdit.app, run the following command in Terminal:&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;defaults write com.apple.TextEdit ApplePersistence -bool no&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;This disables autosave and versions, reenables the &quot;Save As&quot; option and hot-key (Command-Shift S), and reenables Command-D as a hot key for &quot;Don't Save&quot;.  &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; For TextEdit, you'll run into sandbox-related permissions errors with this with the old style Autosave, where it attempts to place a file name &quot;filename (Autosaved).txt&quot; in your working directory.  I don't know a good fix for that (if someo ...</description>
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<title>Possible solution for iChat connection problems over VPN</title>
<link>http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20120612030918555</link>
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<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jun 2012 07:30:00 -0700</pubDate>
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<dc:subject>System 10.7</dc:subject>
<description>This is very specific but I offer it as it may help others.  &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; Since upgrading to 10.7, using a VPN with manually set split routing, iChat does not connect.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; I have a setup whereby I connect to work via (Cisco) VPN configuration.  After connecting I modify the routing tables so that only the required traffic goes via the vpn tunnel; the default route is set to the Internet gateway.  &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; Since upgrading to 10.7 I have found that upon connecting and modifying the routes, iChat goes offline and won't reconnect.  &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; I happened upon a solution which is to change the IPv6 settings from Automatic to link-local only.  This setting is changed in the Advanced section (TCP/IP) of the Network System Preferences for the active Primary Interface (Wi-Fi in my case, but it would be equally applicable to any).&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; I cannot say with complete certainty that this is the cause but (a) as soon as I changed the IPv6 setting iChat went back to online, and (b) my rout ...</description>
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<title>Shift-Option modifier for fine brightness control</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jun 2012 07:30:00 -0700</pubDate>
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<dc:subject>System 10.7</dc:subject>
<description>In a comment to &lt;a href=&quot;http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20120603003748251&quot;&gt;a recent hint&lt;/a&gt; about using the Shift and Option keys to make finer adjustments to the volume of your Mac, user monolithic pointed out that these modifier keys also work with the brightness controls, F1 and F2. I didn't know that, and it looks like there's no hint for it on the site.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; So, to change the brightness just a bit, press Shift and Option, then press either F1 to lower the brightness, or F2 to increase it. Personally, I find this more useful than the volume controls, as I often would like to change by display's brightness by a half-step.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; This works in 10.7.4; if it works in other versions of Mac OS X, feel free to specify this in the comments.
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<title>AppleScript to disable rubber band scrolling</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jun 2012 07:30:00 -0700</pubDate>
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<dc:subject>System 10.7</dc:subject>
<description>&lt;a href=&quot;http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20120509063823940&quot;&gt;A recent hint&lt;/a&gt; gave instructions for enabling and disabling rubber band scrolling in Mac OS X Lion, using a Terminal command. This hint contains an Applescript to do the same, without having to use Terminal.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; Compile this script in Applescript Editor and run it. It will let you enable or disable rubber band scrolling.&lt;div style=&quot;margin-left: 20px; margin-top:10px; margin-bottom:10px; padding: 5px; border:1px solid; width:700px; height:155px; overflow:scroll;white-space:nowrap;resize:both&quot;&gt;&lt;pre&gt;display dialog &quot;Disable or enable rubber banding?&quot; buttons {&quot;Enable&quot;, &quot;Disable&quot;, &quot;Cancel&quot;} default button &quot;Cancel&quot; with title &quot;Rubber Band Control&quot; giving up after 15if button returned of the result is &quot;Disable&quot; then   do shell script &quot;defaults write -g NSScrollViewRubberbanding -int 0&quot;else if button returned of the result is &quot;Enable&quot; then   do shell script &quot;defaults delete -g NSScrollViewRubberbanding ...&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description>
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<title>Easily add text to the Login window and lock screen </title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jun 2012 07:30:00 -0700</pubDate>
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<dc:subject>System 10.7</dc:subject>
<description>To add text to the login window in Lion, there's no need anymore to use a system utility or to manually edit a plist file, as it was the case in earlier versions of Mac OS X. This can be useful to display an &quot;If found&quot; message.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; Go to the Security &amp;amp; Privacy preference pane of System Preferences. Under the General tab, check the second box, &quot;Show a message when the screen is locked,&quot; and then edit the message using the &quot;Set Lock Message...&quot; button.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; This message displays near the bottom of the Login window or the lock screen. You can make multiple paragraphs by pressing Option-Return to go to a new line.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; [&lt;b&gt;kirkmc adds&lt;/b&gt;: This was indeed covered several times in the past, and required futzing around with .plist files. There were hints in &lt;a href=&quot;http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20020921074429845&quot;&gt;2002&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20050616081448481&quot;&gt;2005&lt;/a&gt; and  ...</description>
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<title>Shift-Option modifier for fine volume control returns in 10.7.4 </title>
<link>http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20120603003748251</link>
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<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jun 2012 07:30:00 -0700</pubDate>
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<dc:subject>System 10.7</dc:subject>
<description>The ability to modify the volume in smaller increments was previously available in earlier versions of OS X.  Holding down Shift and Option before pressing the Volume keys on your keyboard would let you adjust the volume in quarter-steps.  This ability was absent in OS X 10.7, but has returned in 10.7.4. This is not mentioned in the release notes.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; [&lt;b&gt;kirkmc adds&lt;/b&gt;: Well, I've never used this, so I'm not sure whether it was indeed missing. If anyone has a pre-10.7.4 version of Lion running, can you test it? (I have one in a virtual machine, but changing the volume from the keyboard doesn't affect VMs.) This feature &lt;a href=&quot;http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20080112002445560&quot;&gt;first appeared in 10.5&lt;/a&gt;.] 
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<title>Fix possible hibernation activation in desktop Macs</title>
<link>http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=2012060101021939</link>
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<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jun 2012 07:30:00 -0700</pubDate>
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<dc:subject>System 10.7</dc:subject>
<description>I had some swapping issues the other day on my Mac mini, so I went into /var/vm to check how many files were there. I was surprised to find a sleepimage file; this is a file that is written when a Mac goes into hibernation mode. This file was about 9 GB - or the size of my RAM (8 GB) plus a bit. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Hibernation is only supposed to be used on laptops, but in an informal query of acquaintances (read: Twitter followers), I found that several people had seen this issue after the 10.7.4 upgrade.  In addition to the space used, hibernation mode means the Mac takes a lot longer to go to sleep. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20070302210328928&quot;&gt;This hint from 2006&lt;/a&gt; shows how to turn off hibernation and save that disk space. Essentially, you run the following command:&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;sudo pmset -a hibernatemode 0&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;(I didn't run the second command, and it doesn't seem to be needed.)&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; So, if you've found that your desktop Mac has lost a ...</description>
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