Mac OS X: How to secure an external hard drive.

Apple’s FileVault is great if you want or need to secure your entire home folder. Unfortunately, FileVault does not encrypt your data on a second hard-drive or a removable drive. If, like me, you use an external portable firewire hard-drive when traveling, you can you Apple’s Disk Image Encryption to securely encrypt [...]

OS/X Shortcuts - My Favorite Apple Short-Cut Keys

Here are my favorite shortcut keys for OS/X.

F9: brings up expose
F11: shows the desktop

Control-Eject: evokes the shutdown window

Option+Command+Eject: sleep (no confirmation dialog)
Command+Control+Eject: restarts (no confirmation dialog)
Control + Option + Command + Eject: shut down (no confirmation dialog)

Command+Option+Shift+Q: Log-out current user

Command-W: Closes current window
Command-H: hides current window

Command-Q: quits the current application
Command-Tab followed by Q: [...]

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