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.
January marks six months since 10.7 (aka Lion) client and server was released. I’m lucky to have had the great opportunity to have installed at least five 10.7 servers into live environments for clients, in a variety of solutions and
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,
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,
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
By Richard Mallion Launchpad is the iOS-like application launcher that came to Mac OS X with the release of 10.7 Lion. I want to love it, but in its present format its not perfect. One of the biggest issues I
Has anyone else found it a pain that whilst entering Mission Control, that an application’s windows are stacked on top each other and you can only clearly see the foremost window? Well, i’ve discovered a multi-gesture to expand all
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
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
By Richard Mallion A couple of times recently I have been asked to recover Open Directory running on Mac OS X Server. Each time the server was an Open Directory Master and its LDAP database had become corrupted, causing authentication