Re-activate the Shutdown Dialog

When you press the power button on your Mac (installed with OS X Mavericks or Yosemite) your Mac falls into sleepmode. You can disable the power button’s directly sleep mode and have the ‘old’ shutdown dialog appearing instead, open OS X Terminal window and enter:

OS X Mail: Set minimum font size for HTML

When receiving e-mails containing HTML code in OS X Mail, you will notice that some e-mail messages comes with very small text. With this default write command it’s possible to set the minimum font size for text in HTML e-mails. In some cases changing the size of text will break the layout.

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Activate OS X Finder in Simple mode

The ‘Simple Finder mode’ hides desktop files, and won’t let anyone open a new Finder window. Only applications in the Dock can be launched. Note that Spotlight can still be used for launching items. This command could be a nice alternative for setting up restrictions without a guest user account. Click Finder ▸ Run Full Finder, and then type in your admin password to start Finder in normal mode.

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