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May 7	comment	How to save a file quickly and no need to wait for the external hard drives to “wake up”? -1 for rudeness in the comments.
Apr 23	comment	“@” symbol in password in applescript Note that on most Unices, you don't want to put passwords in command lines because they can then be viewed with `ps` and the like.
Feb 5	comment	How can I circumvent XProtect and re-enable Java Applets? FWIW, you should then manually disable Java in all your browsers except one, which you use only for the VPN. The Java exploits are bad news; all you have do is show up at an infected site and your computer is pwned.
Nov 21	comment	Why is Mountain Lion more security conscious? If it's a bad question, close it. Don't change it to a completely different question -- that's disrespectful to the OP. If you want the new question asked, ask it yourself.
Oct 30	comment	Dangers of limiting fan-speed Is there any way you can alter your office environment? It sounds to me like if something like spinning up fans disturbs your office mates, then there must be a lot of other mundane things that would do the same, and you'd lose productivity avoiding those things.
Aug 8	comment	How does Apple's Power Nap interact with File Vault? Certainly it's different than sleep-to-disk, isn't it?
Jun 5	comment	Lock keyboard in lion Could you shield the trackpad, maybe with some MacGyver thing that has suction cups?
Apr 10	comment	How to limit my Mac's exposure to malware? @Daniel, I wonder if there's a way to rephrase that useful point yet avoid the "don't use your machine" canard.
Apr 3	comment	Change Image Format of a Screenshot Be aware that lossy formats like JPEG will introduce compression artifacts that make your screenshots look worse.
Mar 27	comment	What exactly is a retina display? It's marketing mumbo jumbo, nothing more.
Mar 14	comment	Why won't closing the lid sleep my MacBook Pro with external monitor attached after upgrading to Lion? @XAleX, here's another. It's a hassle to mess with two monitors — there's a big gap, the virtual alignment often doesn't really match the physical alignment, etc. So if one's external monitor is big enough, the small MacBook LCD adds no value. FWIW, I love the Lion behavior, and the Snow Lion behavior drove me bonkers.
Jan 27	comment	Is it possible to display the current state of modifier keys? It's the only keyboard I truly like, and they don't make them anymore, despite the website still being up. datadesktech.com/desktop_sb.html
Jan 27	comment	Is it possible to display the current state of modifier keys? So, it turns out that my keyboard is funky in a way which confuses Keyboard Layout (i.e., keys which are down when the keyboard gets weird aren't registered as down by KL even though they are active when typing). However, that seems too nit-picky to not accept the answer, and perhaps it will become more robust in the future. FWIW, I have a PS/2 keyboard running through a Belkin F5U119vE1 PS/2 -> USB adapter.
Nov 9	comment	Decompressing .sit file The last time I tried the official StuffIt it was spectacular bloatware. I'd avoid it if at all possible.
Nov 9	comment	Where will the incident be reported to? It's always irritated me to no end that sudo is so crabby in responding to almost always perfectly innocent errors.
Nov 9	comment	What is the iPod touch's screen sensitive to? Along those lines, water is conductive, which is why the screen can go loopy if you try it use it in the rain or if your hands are wet.
Nov 9	comment	What is the iPod touch's screen sensitive to? Not quite - you need a voltage difference to generate an electric field. Your finger doesn't have that, so it can't generate an electric field. Rather, the screen essentially contains an array of capacitors, and if your finger is near one of these capacitors, it changes that capacitor's capacitance. That change is what's detected.
Sep 6	comment	View IE (6,7,8,9) on Mac? It's not browser snobbery; it's a legitimate recognition that IE6 is very obsolete and that making modern web designs compatible with it is difficult or impossible.
Aug 16	comment	Will Time Capsule work on a college dorm's WiFi network? You might also add a task management tool like The Hit List or Remember the Milk to help with these tasks. Add a repeating tasks for "back up" and you've semi-automated it.
Aug 16	comment	Why doesn't the red dot shut down the program? You're right about the single menu bar, but the Finder doesn't "own" the menu bar any more than any other app does.