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Ivan's picture

Put your display to sleep at an instant

There are several reasons to put your display to sleep whenever possible:

  • Saves your display
  • Saves electricity
  • Saves power in a laptop battery
  • Saves private info on screen from preying eyes
  • Saves the whales

To put the display to sleep at an instant just press:
CTRL-Shift-Eject

rossgram's picture
45 pencils

Is that a Leopard thing? My G5 Mac with 10.4 doesn't seem to do that. Eep.

Ivan's picture

Sorry, it must be a Leopard thing. Thanks for checking on Tiger.

Anthony Proulx's picture
49 pencils

You could always do the hot corners thing, so that you can put you cpu to sleep or monitor to sleep via putting your cursor in the corner. I use this for my mac. If you are looking for it, Its in the screen saver section of your utilities.

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Luisroman's picture
2 pencils

Please do not send more advertaising

Ivan's picture

Dude, what are you talking about??? :)

steveballmer's picture
227 pencils

He's talking about all of this stuff you people have been sending out about helping free up some money in a bank in Nigeria!

CUT IT OUT!

http://fakesteveballmer.blogspot.com
I am not Steve Ballmer pretending not to be me!

Ivan's picture

funny!

steveballmer's picture
227 pencils

Not if you are the guy who is waiting for his garunteed 500% return on investment!

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frankda's picture
15 pencils

Great tip Ivan! But you lost me with the whales :P

How come?

Ivan's picture

Just a joke. :) Sorry

steveballmer's picture
227 pencils

That happens a lot here ....

;^ /

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Anthony Proulx's picture
49 pencils

free the whales!!

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henji4's picture
4 pencils

I usually set the bottom right corner to sleep display.
you can set it up in Exposé Tab.

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Anthony Proulx's picture
49 pencils

thats the corner i use too!

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zeropuntouno's picture
1 pencil

Nice Tip

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