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OS X: How to Lock Your Computer from the Menu Bar

contributed by Rob Rogers on April 20, 2011 under Mac OS X Leopard

If you are security minded and worried about others using your computer while your are away, you can easily lock your desktop to keep it safe from prying eyes.

OS X: How to Display Folder Size in Finder

contributed by Rob Rogers on April 8, 2011 under Mac OS X Leopard

By default, Finder’s List View displays the file size of individual files but doesn’t show the size of folders. This can make it quite time intensive when it comes to locating what is consuming so much of your drive space. Here’s how to enable the display of folder size as well as individual file size in Finder’s List View.

Convert OS X Lion DMG Installer to a Bootable USB Thumb Drive

contributed by Jimmy Selix on February 28, 2011 under Apple Mac, Mac OS X Leopard, Mac system administration

This recipe will explain how to make a USB Thumb Drive bootable with the OS X Lion Developer Preview installer on it and in turn allow you to install Lion on a Mac without an optical drive (ie Macbook Air line). We will need a copy of the installer dmg (not provided) and a 4GB USB Thumbdrive or Memorycard Reader w/memory card and a Mac to convert the dmg to a bootable usb thumb drive.

OS X: Make a Dashboard Widget of Your Favorite Facebook Game

contributed by Rob Rogers on February 26, 2010 under Mac OS X Leopard

Facebook has all kinds of cool games that are great to play, but sometimes you wish you didn’t have to deal with the distraction of the rest of the Facebook page. You just want to play the game. While I don’t recommend this for games like Farmville and MyTown (besides, they have fullscreen mode), it works great for games such as Bejeweled Blitz, Nuke It!, or ZyngaPoker.

OS X: How to Use a Screen Saver as Your Desktop Background

contributed by Rob Rogers on October 20, 2009 under Mac OS X Leopard

If you are bored with your desktop and want to give it a little style, or if you just want to impress your friends, you can run a screen saver as your desktop’s background to liven it up.

OS X: How To Burn A Multisession CD (or DVD)

contributed by Rob Rogers on October 19, 2009 under Mac OS X Leopard

If you would like to be able to burn a single disc, multiple times, OS X allows you to do this without having to buy rewritable CDs or DVDs. This allow you to maximize disc space usage as you can use the disc multiple times to burn smaller folders and files.

Macbook Air – Enable Four Finger Gestures on OS X Leopard 10.5.7

contributed by Jimmy Selix on May 12, 2009 under Mac OS X Leopard

This recipe is for all of you macbook air (pre-oct 2008 owners) who are lusting after those macbook pro and macbook air users w/the four finger gestures.

Leopard: Deleting a Boot Camp Partition

contributed by Rob Rogers on April 6, 2009 under Mac OS X Leopard

If you have installed Windows using Boot Camp, the partition has eaten away at some valuable hard drive space. When you are done with running Windows on your Mac and want to regain that partition space you can delete the Boot Camp partition without affecting the data on your OS X partition.