Welcome to another gripping installment of MUO Team Spotlight, the twice monthly post which lets you know what our staff have been getting up to behind our backs.

As well as providing our writers with another form of online promotion, this feature also gives you the reader a wider range of posts to read.

This month, we will be profiling blog posts from Karl, Evan, Jack, Jonathan and Abhigyan.

1. Lock Your Snow Leopard Machine When Connecting With VNC

by Karl Gechlik @ Ask The Admin

Do you want to lock your screen when remotely connecting to your Snow Leopard machine using VNC? This is standard operating procedure on a Windows machine with remote desktop, yet the Mac can’t do it.

Follow these steps to create a automator task to lock your screen and allow another user to connect leaving your screen locked. This way snooping people cannot see the work you are doing.

2. How To Never Use Your Start Menu Again With Launchy

by Evan Wondrasek @ Techerator

As your computer becomes loaded with software, your desktop may become cluttered with shortcuts and also difficult to navigate through the Start Menu.

Launchy is an open source keystroke launcher for Windows and Linux that allows you to open documents, folders, bookmarks, installed software, and system utilities with a quick keyboard keystroke combination.

3. How To Download Facebook Videos Without Software

by Jack Cola @ Jack Cola

Downloading videos can be a real pain sometimes. You download all these programs, only to find out they don’t work. However, it can be really simple to download a video off the internet, and in most cases, all you have to do is look in the website’s source code.

This is a quick tutorial of how you can download a video off Facebook without any software.

4. The Costs of Video Game Development and Publishing

by Jonathan Bennett @ ZippyGamer

In this article, Jonathan discusses the costs and challenges that developers and publishers face when creating a new video game.

Jonathan goes into some detail about the costs of development, sales, and marketing.

5. The Best and Worst of the Apple iPad

by Abhigyan Banerjee @ Technokracy

A two-part series on what makes the iPad great/suck. Read to get an idea of what to expect from the next big thing from Apple’s stables.

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