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Now you can add your signature to PDFs

Ever wanted to be able to quickly sign a document you need to email without having to print it off, sign it and then scan it back on to the computer?  Well new in Lion is the ability to add

Mac OS X Lion Shortcuts

By Hugo Costa   With Lion,  Apple added an option to move a file after the Copy shortcut has been pressed! – Instead of regular CMD + C and CMD + V to copy & paste – Use CMD +

Lion borrows another element of the iOS’ soft keyboard

If you don’t remember the shortcuts to type à or è, or you simply don’t want to use the dedicated keys on your Keyboard, Lion offers a way to get accented letters using standard keys. When you’re typing, keep a key pressed

Mac OS X Lion Resume Tip

How to quickly close an application AND all it’s open windows.In Lion, Resume now allows Applications to resume any windows and documents left open when the Application is quit. For those of you like me that wish to quickly quit an application

Managing and deploying Time Machine in Lion

Quite a few environments are using Time Machine for their backup solution. But prior to Lion there hasn’t been a simple way to manage or deploy Time Machine. With Mac OS X 10.7 Apple has introduced a new command line

Lion Tip – Turn off your screen immediately

By Richard Mallion You can press CTRL+SHIFT+Eject to turn off your screen immediately. You can also combine it with the requirement to enter a password in your security settings  

Mac OS X Lion – Feature – Airdrop

By John Greenash.   Airdrop is a new feature built into OS X Lion to easily facilitate the transfer of data between two computers wirelessly without any configuration necessary. How often do you find yourself sitting in the office and

Lion Tip 8 Local Backups in Lion’s Time Machine

One of the most popular features of OS X has been Apple’s built in Time Machine software.  This innovative software easily allowed users to make complete backups of their operating system in case of hard drive failure or if they

Mac OS X lion – Tip no 7 – Spotlight New Feature

You can now use Quick View in Spotlight search results, including documents, web pages, contacts, emails and media files and can also expand word definitions from Dictionary. This will allow you to preview you documents and videos before you open