| See Your Way Clear with Expose
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Mac OS X offers a simple way to see what's on your desktop when you have a lot of windows open. It's called Exposé, and here's how you can use it.
Press the F9 key and Exposé instantly creates thumbnails of the open windows and displays them neatly on your screen. Click the window you want, and Exposé brings it to the front, switching automatically to the appropriate application.
 You can press the F10 key to create thumbnails of the open windows of
your current application. Or F11 to move all open windows to the side,
so you can see the files on your desktop.
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Customize Your Mighty Mouse
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Whether you're using a wired or wireless Mighty Mouse, you can customize it easily:
1. Choose System Preferences from the Apple menu.
2. Click Keyboard & Mouse; then click the Mouse tab.
You can program the four buttons on your Mighty Mouse, set scrolling options, and set response sensitivities for tracking, scrolling, and double-clicking.
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| Using Stacks
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Stacked in your favor.
Does your desktop get cluttered? You're hardly alone. So you'll love one of the most useful new features in Leopard: Stacks. A stack is a Dock item that gives you fast access to a folder of files. When you click a stack, the files within spring from the Dock in a fan or a grid, depending on the number of items (or the preference you set). Leopard starts you off with two premade stacks: one for downloads and the other for documents.
The Downloads stack automatically captures files downloaded from Safari, Mail, and iChat, and the Documents stack is a great place to keep things like presentations, spreadsheets, and word processing files. You can create as many stacks as you wish simply by dragging folders to the right side of your Dock. Pretty neat. |
