If the current setting for the Start Menu power button do not meet your needs, you can easily change it (to sleep, hibernate, or shutdown) by following these instructions:
Depending on your video card, some sleep states may not be available on your computer. You can see what states are available as well as what states are unavailable and why. This is done by using the command-line utility, powercfg. Here’s how:
By using Ubuntu’s Power Management Preferences, you can set your laptop to either enter a Suspended state (also known as ACPI sleep) or go into hibernate mode. The Suspend setting is good for short periods of inactivity (or while you are plugged in) since it does use a small amount of power, while the Hibernate mode works better for longer periods of inactivity (or while you are on battery power) since it writes the RAM contents to the hard drive.
Instead of using the GUI (Control Panel | Power Options | Power Plan) to enable or disable Hibernate, you can do this from the command line.
If you want to conserve battery power, you can set your BlackBerry to turn off and on at set times by using the Auto On/Off function. I set mine to turn off at my bedtime and turn back on right before I am to awake so that it’s ready to go.
By running a Power Efficiency Diagnostics Report, you can view an analysis of your system and check common energy efficiency and battery life problems as well as check for errors and warnings for your power setup and hardware.
If the current setting for the Start Menu power button do not meet your needs, you can easily change it (to sleep, hibernate, or shutdown) through the following instructions.
With iCloud coming and AirDrop already here, it is very useful to set your Apple ID within Lion so that you can utilize these services.
This tech-recipe will explain how to use any photo in your stream or any of your Circles photo albums as your Android phone’s wallpaper. This of course only works with Android phones and requires having the Google+ app for Android installed.
By default, Lion’s Mission Control rearranges spaces based on recent use. If you have your spaces set up the way you want them and don’t want Mission Control messing this up, you can disable this and keep your spaces in their original position.
If you press and hold a letter in Lion, a popup will appear with the various accented versions of that letter. If you don’t use this and want to get rid of the distraction, you can disable it.
Many PDF files ultimately need a real signature to complete. Often people would print out the page, sign it, rescan it, and then email it. What a waste! However, for many people trying to scan in a signature and then paste it into the file was even harder. With OS X Lion, Apple has added an extremely simple way to add signatures to PDF files. Here is the step-by-step directions to do it.
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