macfidelity

Most of us love Mac OS X as it just does what we expect. Unfortunaly this is not always the case :/

A good example is the eject-function of CDs/DVDs. It can happen that the drive seems just to be locked, not displayed at all or similar issues. I have seen several problems with CDs/DVDs on Mac OS X in the last 2 years while using it as my primary operating system.

There are several things you can try if you end in such a problem, lets hope one of the ideas work for you.

Things you can try:

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Ein Tip für die Keyboard-Junkies denen jede Mausbewegung mind. eine zuviel ist.

Wer seine Maus bevorzugt kann hier getrost aufhören zu lesen.

Traditionelle Wege den Bildschirmschoner zu starten

Ich arbeite da eigentlich gerne mit den Bildschirmecken und starte so auf Bedarf meinen Bildschirmschoner. Dies ist via Expose in den System-einstellungen bequem konfigurierbar.

Ein anderer Weg diesen zu starten wäre der die Bildschirmschoner-testen-Funktion in den Systemeinstellungen (nunja … Pfusch-Weg) oder eben das manuelle starten des entsprechenden Programmes welches sich unter:

/System/Library/Frameworks/ScreenSaver.framework/Resources/ScreenSaverEngine.app

befindet.

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Mal wieder was unterhaltsames aus dem Hause Apple.

Wie diverse Seiten berichten hat Apple mal wieder einen schönen Bug in der iPhone Firmware übersehen. so ist es wohl möglich die Lock-Funktion des Telefones mit einme sehr simplen Trick zu umgehen.

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How do you guys trigger your lock-screen function with Mac OS X ?

On my mobile mac i am using MarcoPolo to handle my locations ( work, home, friends etc…). It offers the option to password-protect the screensaver in one location and having a password-free screensaver on the other location without daily fiddling.

So if i need to lock my screen at work i just use Mac OS X Screen Corners (with 10.5: System Preferences -> Expose and Spaces) and start the screensaver which is password protected.

Today i realized another quick and easy way to lock a screen in Mac OS X 10.4 or 10.5 using KeyChain Access.

Howto:

• Open Keychain Access.app ( /Applications/Utilities/Keychain Access.app )
• Open the Preference Window (i.e. like in most mac apps: APPLE + , )
• In the General Tab select: Show Status in Menu Bar

This should enable a lock icon in your Mac OS X Menubar. Quite nice and easy solution to lock a screen if needed.

Links:

• Wikipedia about Keychain

From time to time it can happen that you want to try to delete your Trash but it seems to be locked.

Well the only possible reason is, that any other application is referencing to a file in your trash and thats why it is locked.

Well there is a easy solution, at least if you know some linux-commands.

In my case there was a *.html file in trash which was locked.

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