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Security has always been a concern for all of us, specially when we are in our office. For which it is necessary that we lock our machine whenever we leave our workstation. Were you been on a PC, you would have tried Ctrl+Alt+Del and clicked on Lock Computer or Windows+L can do the job. Being on Mac very few of us actually know how to lock the machine using shortcut. Let’s learn it here Open up the System Preferences and open the Security section.  Now make sure that you have set you computer to require a password once the screen saver begins or once the computer has woken up from sleep as below. Now when you hold down the keys Control+Shift+Eject your screen will go black and after 5 seconds your computer will then require a password to log back in.

I remember an issue reported by a user last week who complained that his Mac asked for DVD region code multiple times for the same disc. This was in fact a PRAM or NVRAM issue. The user who called in was on iMac 27” so it was NVRAM which I had to fix. For readers who are not sure what NVRAM and PRAM is, can refer to my last post : What is PRAM and NVRAM . As we know that information regarding DVD region setting is saved in NVRAM of an iMac, so all I had to do is reset the NVRAM by pressing Command+Option+P+R before the grey screen appeared during the start up. Just by this small step, the issue was resolved.

Microsoft provided the most extensive look yet into the next version of the Mac version of its popular Office suite on Thursday at Macworld 2010 . The new product, Microsoft Office for Mac 2011, will arrive in time for the 2010 holiday season. Macworld spoke with several representatives of the company’s MacBusiness Unit, who told us the company is focusing on three things with this new release: better compatibility across platforms, improved collaboration tools, and a more refined user interface. Also, as Microsoft announced last August , the suite will include Outlook for Mac, which replaces Entourage as Office’s Email client. And, in keeping with Microsoft’s 2008 promise, the new version of Office will offer renewed support for Visual Basic , which was dropped in the 2008 version of the productivity suite. The new version of Office will incorporate document-collaboration features that take advantage of Microsoft's online storage features. With Office for Mac 2011, Mac...

Here is what Apple has promised about the new MacBook. On Tuesday, as expected the Leaked MacBook Refresh was made official.  The machine has 2.4GHz Core 2 Duo refresh with NVIDIA GeForce 320M graphics and longer 10-hour battery life which is really appealing, specially for the sales guys and others who, quite often are on move.  Germany, Taiwan, Hong Kong, US and some other locations were chosen to display MacBooks in Apple stores. With all those features and an Apple logo, it costs you only $999.00.  They claim to deliver in 24 hrs within US if you order it from here and also have offered attractive EMI options of 6, 12 or 18 month special financing options .  Wait, there is more for you, if you select Apple Education Discount, you can save big on all Apple products and this offer is available here . Before you plan to buy this one, I would rather suggest you to compare all the MacBooks and chose the best one for you. Global launch of th...

Download full version, they are 100% free. 100% Safe. Virus & adware scanned   Download for free | Mac OS X Software | Web Applications 1. HTML Purifier Categories: Internet Freeware Posted on Monday, May 10th, 2010 HTML Purifier is an open source standards-compliant HTML filter library developed using PHP. HTML Purifier will not only remove all malicious code (better known as XSS) with a thoroughly audited, secure yet permissive whitelist, it will also make sure your documents are standards compliant, something only achievable with a comprehensive knowledge of W3C’s specifications. Visit the developer's website   2. Slink Categories: Internet Freeware Posted on Wednesday, March 31st, 2010 Slink represents a very easy method to remotely connect to your home network in order to use iPhoto, iTunes, screen, file and print sharing. Slink is the easy way to remotely connect to ...