In Mac OS X there are several ways to lock your screen automatically. However, what if you only want to lock your screen when you want?

Here’s the answer, and it involves Automator.

MacUser: News: OS X thrashes Vista in battery life tests.

Good to know.

Sometimes it’s just nicer to have nothing in your browser but the page. In Safari/WebKit, this can be completed using either the Menu Bar or using Command + Shift + \.

This hides the Tool Bar. However, you’re obviously going to still need to access the Address Bar and you may need to access the Search Bar. This can be done using the keyboard shortcuts Command + L and Command + Alt + F respectively.

These shortcuts make the Tool Bar appear but only until the page changes. Another nice feature.

The Back and Forward functions can be completed with Command followed by either the left arrow or the right arrow.

Overall, a nice touch which should help those of you with smaller screens to see more of the web page.

I’ve now updated my PowerBook G4 to 10.5.5. There are many bug fixes and a few security updates. This has been a good 4 days for Apple with updates.

Recently, i’ve started reading comic books on my Mac. I find that my portrait monitor really helps for this, because of being a better “fit” in terms of aspect ratio. 

The program i use to view the comics is called Comical. It hasn’t been touched since 2006, but it has a Windows, Mac and the source.

Have you ever wanted to go straight to the folder of an icon on your Dock?

Whether you’re looking for the Applications folder or your Home directory, just hold down command or ⌘ and then click the icon on your Dock.

The directory that contains that item will now open in the Finder.