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Lion Tip : Rearrange Menu Bar Items

I have occasionally wanted to change the order of the menu bar items at the top right of my screen. Some i use more than others and fancy them in a certain order. Well, if you hold down the ‘Command’

Lion Tip: Customising System Preferences

Lion has a really nice new feature added to System Preferences allowing you to customise which preference panes are offered to each user. Individual preference icons can be manually hidden by the user thanks to the new “Customize…” menu item.

Lion Tip : Auto Complete

Auto Complete a word using F5 For those of us with poor spelling or for those times when you just have a mental block, you can get the built in dictionary to suggest words to complete a word you’ve started.

Lion Tip: List View in Slow Motion

Most of you will know that if you select to minimise a window, (using the ‘yellow jelly’ at the top left of a Finder window), whilst holding down the SHIFT key, that the action is performed in slow motion. Well,

Lion Tip – Multiple Files One Folder

Ever have the need to move multiple items into one folder? Well now in Lion there is a quick and easy way to do just that. Simply highlight the folders or documents you wish to place inside of a folder,

AirDrop has a Keyboard Shortcut

By Richard Mallion There is always something new to learn….. AirDrop is my favourite Lion feature but its always slightly awkward to get to as its buried in the Finder Window sidebar but help is at hand. Just press Command+Shift+R

Lion Server: SMB Shares and Permissions

By Richard Mallion Files saved on an SMB sharepoint may have group access removed when you save them. This can happen when applications use “safe save,” which is used to minimize data loss if the save process is interrupted. The

FTP on Lion Server

By Richard Mallion With Lion server Apple has relegated the FTP service to the command line. Its still there but now has to be enabled via the terminal. Here are some simple instructions on how to enable the ftp service

Magnifier in Preview for Lion

By Richard Mallion Sometimes  when viewing documents in Apple’s Preview application, especially PDFs, I need to zoom into a specific part of the document to look at some fine detail. Preview for Lion has a nice magnifier. This is in addition