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Mac 101: Locking your Mac with a hotkey, like you can with Windows

by Jason Clarke (Jun 19th, 2009)

One of the things that confused me the most when I switched to the Mac platform was the fact that there's no built-in way to lock the computer manually with a hotkey when walking away from it. This is something that was drilled into me from working in an office full of pranksters where leaving your ...

AppleScript to view next unread message in Mail

by David Chartier (Jul 21st, 2006)

If you've ever wished for the ability to go to the next unread message in Mail, instead of having to shuffle through all the unread ones, some enterprising AppleScript.net forum members have put together a script that might go well with your favorite app/script launcher, such as FastScripts. I tried ...

Immediately delete messages from Mail.app with a hotkey

by David Chartier (Jan 7th, 2006)

Sure, you can simply hit the delete key in Mail.app to send a message to the Trash, then empty the trash or go in and manually delete the message again to remove it for good. Or, you could use a simple, handy little tip that MacOSXHints tracked down to immediately and permanently delete any message ...

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