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Apple Subtly Change Keyboard Experience in OS X Lion

We’ve all been there,you have the Mac keyboard in front of you and suddenly you hear the beep-beep-beep as it tries to enter a thousand Xs into the Finder as you accidentally press the key. Well not in OS X Lion. Go on try it. Press and hold a key. No auto repeat.

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Secure iPad/iPhone Usage on Insecure WiFi

When I opted for an iPad I chose the 3G version so that I could use it when away from WiFi but as useful as this is it is still bound by caps on usage and can be variable in coverage.  The other day I was at an event and had these issues so checked [...]

OS X Screen Grab Shortcut ReminderOS X Screen Grab Shortcut Reminder

When putting together the earlier post I needed to grab some shots of the process and as always I’d forgotton the OS X screen grab shortcut keys so I thought I’d stick them down here.

Command-Shift-3 will capture the whole screen and save it Command-Shift-4 perhaps more usefully will present crosshairs to allow the capture [...]

Setting Up Snow Leopard VPN from PCF FileSetting Up Snow Leopard VPN from PCF File

Having recently upgraded to Snow Leopard one of the things that stopped working was my Cisco VPN client for access to my work network.  From reading around it seems a reinstall should solve this but rather than go down that route I decided to look to the built in VPN features instead.

The starting point [...]