These are some simple keyboard shortcuts you can use to quickly shutdown your mac. First off :
Shutdown Choice
If you want a quick menu option of shutdown command, press ctrl+eject, once you press that combination you will be faced with the menu below...
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Recently I was asked if there was a way you can find out what is preventing a mac from sleeping, my friends MacBook had stopped going to sleep. I told him to use the pmset command. Pmset is a way you can read and change many of your power management settings for your device.
On this occasion if you use the -g flag it shows you the current settings, this is from my machine below.
Last login: Mon Nov 7 20:02:37 on console
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I have already placed a few tips up about Chrome, this latest feature I really like. By looking at the Task Manager for chrome, you can see what resources a page is using, if you think that a certain site is causing your browser to perform badly, you can see exactly what resources it is using and from there you can kill the window/tab.
On the Mac version of Chrome you can get to this from the Window Menu, from there you can select Task Manager.
This is a very simple tip that I like to do every couple of months to speed up the opening times of iPhoto. Everytime I carry this out I notice a significant improvement. I also do this when I upload a large number of photos like I have just done after my holiday.
Before you click on the iPhoto icon then hold down the option (alt) and the command keys (cmd), for new mac users they look like......
A tip on how you could possibly reclaim some space on your machine....
A quick and easy way to close down multiple growl notifications, this is helpful if you are ever faced with the screen I just had.....
A simple guide on how to activate the status bar with Safari. This will then display the real location the link is taking you to, it will also help within Mail.app
These are some simple steps that will show you how to take different types of screen shots from within Mac OS. There are options to save the files to the desktop as well as storing the screenshots on the clipboard.
A few simple keyboard shortcuts you can use while inside the Save Dialog box, with these you can quickly switch to the more common places you may choose to save your files.