Tag Archives: System Preferences

Assigning Screen Shots to the Prnt Scrn (Print Screen) Keyboard Key

November 6th, 2010

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The Print Screen key, labeled Prnt Scrn on the Inspiron 1525 keyboard, is the universal key in Windows for taking screenshots. However, Mac OS X uses a much more arbitrary key-combination; the Keyboard shortcut is Command-Shift-3. Unbeknownst to many, OS X allows you to change many system shortcuts, including the shortcut for Screenshots. To change […]

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My Dock (Part Two)

June 6th, 2010

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My dock is a little more crowded than I would like, but then again, I launch the majority of my apps through Spotlight anyway (a quick Ctrl+Space to bring it up). It sits at the bottom of the screen with Hiding turned on so as not to take up any valuable screen real estate. It […]

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Working Ethernet For All!

March 18th, 2009

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As most of you may already know, there was a recent breakthrough with one of the many (although the number is rapidly dropping) problematic hardware devices in the Inspiron 1525. Ethernet, which is essential for those of us old timers that have only a modem and no router or just want slightly faster speeds, was […]

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