Welcome2Mac: Controlling iTunes and Locking Your Mac

Welcome2Mac is The MacTipper Blog's weekly tip where all the people new to Apple's latest operating system can get Mac tips to help them better use Mac OS X.

In this week's Welcome2Mac, we'll be taking a look at controlling iTunes and securely locking your Mac.


Controlling the basic functions of iTunes is really easy. The spacebar plays and pauses the music and the left/right arrow keys skip to the previous/next song. Selecting a song and pressing enter will play that song. What you probably didn't know is that hitting Cmd-Option-Right_Arrow will skip ahead a bit and hitting Cmd-Option-Left-Arrow will skip back a bit.


Setting your Mac to require a password when waking from sleep or screensaver is actually not the most secure method. In this case, any administrator can enter in their username and password to access your account. Instead, you ought to go to the fast user switching menu and select "Login Window…"