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Miscellaneous Lion Tips and Tricks

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Pressing Option in the Go menu to show the user Library is a nice tip.
 
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Thank you, very useful.
 
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The iOS-like method of typing accented characters looks cool, but does that mean you can't type a letter repeatedly by holding the key down?
 
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@Discerptor: thanks for the tip about the special characters, I didn't know that :)
 
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What are people using for blocking Ads in Safari 5.1? Adblock does not work for now.
 
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If you are in the app store and updating apps and want to cancel the download instead of pausing so that you can use the app press option then it will give the option to cancel.
 
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What are people using for blocking Ads in Safari 5.1? Adblock does not work for now.

I'm using the extension and it's working fine for me.
 
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What are people using for blocking Ads in Safari 5.1? Adblock does not work for now.

I have the AdBlock extension (2.4.14) installed and it works fine.
 

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