Every now and then i need to resize windows in Mac because of the simple reason that windows in Mac dont fit to fill the entire screen also they dont have maximize button which acts in a similar way to the maximize button in Windows OS. I really dont like the Mac’s approach of maximizing any window . Macs have a green button as a comparable control to Maximize button in Windows OS. This button has different behaviors - sometimes it increases the window size so as to fit the content ( Preview, Finder etc ) and sometimes it fills the entire screen ( Text Edit ). Thats why i generally pull the window to the size i want. 

Resize Corner in Mac window

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Being a Windows user i have used Alt-Ctrl-Del key combinations many times whenever the OS or any program goes not responding. This is actually my last resort in windows. But where is such key combination in Mac. Well i realised that there is similar application call “Activity Monitor” in Utilities folder on Mac Applications .  At first look i liked this tool called Activity Monitor .

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One of the most important part in your screen in Windows is “System Tray” . This is located at the bottom right of the screen in windows. In Mac “System Tray” equivalent is in the Menu Bar at top right . The particular part is called as menu bar Extras by Apple Human Interface Guidelines

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