When I step away from my Mac at work, I want a quick way to lock the screen, and hitting a hot-corner with the mouse is problematic for me.

This hint details how to lock the screen from the keyboard by using Automator to build a Service in Snow Leopard.

First, check the General tab on the Security System Preferences panel to ensure that the Require password [some period] after sleep or screen saver begins box is checked.

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Users running Mac OS X with Bootcamp Windows may struggle to modify or update your documents and files in the Windows partition – usually it is in NTFS File System format which you can read the drive natively in Mac OS X but not write onto it.

Recently Amit Singh, a Google employee, releases a implementation called MacFUSE which makes it possible to use any FUSE (File-system in USErspace) file systems in Mac. And the most useful FUSE is the NTFS-3G Read/Write Driver, which ables system to load NTFS with read and write capability. This is truly the greatest news for dual booting Mac OS X and Windows XP or Vista.

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Earlier today Apple announced the availability of Snow Leopard, it will be available on August 28. To those who will be submitting tips and tricks for Snow Leopard kindly indicate it anywhere that it is for Snow Leopard by that it will help me sort things out properly and faster. thanks

Here’s another post regarding humor on Snow Leopard, too excited for its release…

“MacRumors has received a set of images claimed to be the retail packaging and disc for Apple’s forthcoming Mac OS X Snow Leopard,” Eric Slivka reports for MacRumors.

“If the images, which appear to depict the Portuguese version of Snow Leopard, are in fact authentic, it would mean that Snow Leopard discs are already in mass production,” Slivka reports.

Full article, with the images, here.