This incredible article is by Dodgy:

That damn mouse can get very annoying, you have to actually use both hands to get full use of the Mac, and honestly, I’m too lazy to do that. I find it much easier just to sit back, get comfortable, and lets my keyboard do the talking.

These easy to use (not so easy to remember) Keyboard Shortcuts will make using your Mac a breeze, and give you more control.

So anyway, there’s a long list of them, so let’s get started!

Shortcuts for freeze

Action Shortcut

Stop process Cmd + period
Force quit Application Cmd + Option + Escape
Force restart Cmd + Ctrl + Power key

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This article is courtesy of codez:

Mac OS X is vulnerable to the experienced hacker, but using the following steps, you can secure it enough so that only someone with physical access to the machine and about 20 minutes would be able to hack into it.

• The first step to securing your Mac is to limit who has access to the system. Unfortunately, all admins on Mac OS X are equal; any admin can edit any user’s permissions and all admins have access to any system preference. So to fix that, it is best to only have one administrator account and set the rest to normal users. Above the admin accounts, there is also the root account which has access to all the files on the computer, and the power to edit the permissions of any file.

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This article is by Heymbit (DagoWATT):

Hey, I know what your thinking: But Heymbit! I was told by some guy that Macs can’t play games!!! Well, you were lied to. Macs play games better than windfroze computers in my opinion. Anyways, it is true that more titles are released for windfroze rather than Macs, however there is a way to play them on a Mac without having Windows installed at all. I did not create this guide, this awesome guy named DagoWATT did, I’m sharing it with you as…well…it should be shared to create more and more cider ports. I’m going to also put a link at the bottom of this page for a mediafire file that will contain all you need to start porting today, besides the actual windfroze game and windfroze OS of course, those nut inculded. If you have any questions, want help, or want to request a game be ported, feel free to email me. So, without further annoyance, here’s the tutorial to port windfroze games to OSX:

Port Win games to MacOS X, using Cider and RegEdit
by Dago^WATT
ver 0.1B

What you need to do this: http://www.mediafire.com/?c21megbjtzq

Win Side:

1. Install your game on Windows (use Parallels, VMWare, CrossOver , BootCamp or Real PC)

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This article is by youthtech.com:

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Every mac user knows that pressing Command-Option-Escape will allow you to Force Quit an application. This comes in handy when that stubborn program locks up, or refuses to quit by normal methods.
Sometimes, however, trying to Force Quit an application doesn’t quite work the way you’d expect it to. If a normal Force Quit doesn’t work, try these steps:

1) Open the Terminal application. By default, this is in the Utilities folder, located in the Applications folder (and this application should
not be moved). You can also find it by searching “terminal” in Spotlight.

2) Type “top”. The top command displays various information about currently running applications, including CPU usage, memory info,
and some other stuff. If the COMMAND you’re looking for isn’t there, try stretching the window to make it longer.

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