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Use any old windows keyboard with OS X Lion

Posted on Aug 8, 2011 in Mac, Quick Tips | 2 comments

Open System Preferences and go to Keyboard Select Modifier Keys… Choose your keyboard from the drop down menu. Change the keys how you want them. As a Mac user I change the windows keyboard to use Alt as the Command key on Mac which is how I’m used to it being. I also changed the caps lock into a command...

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OS X Lion: About Lion Recovery

Posted on Jul 20, 2011 in Mac, Quick Tips |

Every Mac geek upgrading or supporting Lion should keep this support article in there “back pocket”. OS X Lion includes a new feature called Lion Recovery that includes all of the tools you need to reinstall Lion, repair your disk, and even restore from a Time Machine backup without the need for optical discs. via OS X Lion: About Lion...

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Lion can reinstall itself over the Internet from the recovery partition | 9to5Mac | Apple Intelligence

Posted on Jul 20, 2011 in Cloud, Mac, Security |

Hacking this is going to wreak HAVOC! 9to5Mac discovered the existence of a new process called Find My Mac Messenger which presumably sits in the background. Upon receiving a ping from the Apple cloud to initiate the wiping procedure, the process presumably reboots the machine into recovery partition, which takes over to erase all user data. via Lion can...

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The road to Lion: How Lion’s new features evolved — Apple News, Tips and Reviews

Posted on Jul 11, 2011 in Mac |

Here is a good write up by Alex Layne outlining the new features in Lion. The latest update to our favorite OS code named after felids, Lion, is due out sometime this month (maybe as early as Thursday). To celebrate, we’re going to take a look at how Lion’s new features evolved from its predecessors, its little brother (iOS) and other sources as computers...

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