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    How to: Lock your screen

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    Back up drive-Partition or not?

    I wouldn't go with a partition. If I were you I would use disk utility to capture the disk then save it to your external. That way you can keep multiple backups, save on storage (as you can compress the disk image) and be able to use Apple Restore feature in disk utility if you ever needed to...
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    macintosh has ruined my life

    To get firewire disk mode hold T on startup, you should get the fire wire logo on the screen. Your Mac is then exactly the same as an external drive and you should be able to connect to another mac and run disk utility. Let us know if that doesnt work!
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    How can I SECURE a folder in OS X Tiger?

    A disk image will do the trick. Open Disk utility select new blank image from the file menu. Select a size for the image, make this quite big and under format select sparse image. This will make the disk image only as big as it needs to be. So while you may have made the image 1 or 2 GB the...
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    Xbox FTP!!!

    assign a static ip to your xbox, then using an ftp client just enter the address. The default username is xbox and password is xbox. You can test the connection using finder in the go menu select connect to server enter ftp://xboxIPAddress. You will be able to login, but not modify anything as...
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    Microsoft Flight Simulator for Mac

    the first version ever of flight simulator by microsoft was made exclusively for the macintosh. I remember many hours playing it on my Mac SE. It was on one floppy disk that the computer started off (startup disk). You could fly about 3 planes and fly between airports and could even do world war...
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    Hidden Dashboard Command

    v cool
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    Please don't call it a Macintosh

    What a rediculous thread. I would invisage that apple are infact on the verge of giving up on producing hardware. Maybe they will have someone that slaps an Apple Sticker on the beige box as it roll down the production line - not really caring if he gets it straight or not (much like the...
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    Rendezvous (.exe) Windows web developing

    you could use the host file on windows to point any domain name (valid or not) to any ip address - it looks there before it goes to DNS. You can do a similar thing with the host file in mac os x /etc/hosts but i recommend using netinfo. I used to do much the same thing when i was a webmaster for...
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    Dashboard's Shift+F12 Conflicts with Flash Publish

    speak of which, i just found a really cool feature. Just select a word then hit apple-control-d and a little popup appears attached to the word with its definition from dictionary. Mean!! Word of the day dipsomania
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    Dashboard's Shift+F12 Conflicts with Flash Publish

    go to system preferences, keyboard and mouse. Then keyboard shortcuts. There is a section called Dock, Exposé, and Dashboard. You can change all the shortcuts there.
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    Silly visual menubar glitch

    i remember a shareway utility that did something similar to this. I cant remember what it was but it may have been a calculator or something. The black box was a hot-point you could click and get a window up. Its a stab in the dark but fire up activity viewer and see if there and any apps you...
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    DNS/BIND tools for Mac OS X (client or server)

    webmin. http://www.webmin.com/ Its a web based perl powered admin utility for almost everything. Really easy to use and install. Very powerful. I work for an ISP and we use it to manage 1000s of domains
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