Re: Safari and Google

2014-08-17 Thread Chris
OK taking this a bit further, does anybody use FireFox as an alternative? If so, which extensions/add-ons related to privacy and security do you recommend? Or for that matter, anything that makes life easier. Chris On 16/8/14 Macs R We wrote: In fact, using the default Safari preferences,

Displaying a Sleep button on screen saver logins

2014-08-17 Thread Carl Hoefs
In OSX 10.9.4 Sys Prefs, under the Users Groups — Login Options, there’s an option that allows you to “Show the Sleep, Restart, and Shut Down buttons” on the login window. Is there such a setting somewhere that allows the Sleep button to be displayed when a password-protected screen saver is

Re: Displaying a Sleep button on screen saver logins

2014-08-17 Thread Carl Hoefs
Splendid! Short of some sort of dwrite incantation that magically makes a Sleep button appear, the Cmd/Opt/Eject combo works perfectly! Thanks! -Carl On Aug 17, 2014, at 9:06 PM, Macs R We macs...@macsrwe.com wrote: Hah! My first response was to answer, You could just use a feature of long

Re: Displaying a Sleep button on screen saver logins

2014-08-17 Thread Macs R We
Hah! My first response was to answer, You could just use a feature of long standing: the “'hot corner’” — but when I researched it I realized it can only put your display to sleep, not the Mac. Instead, just use the Apple keyboard shortcut for sleep. There are two of them, depending on