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 .
I’ve found that clicking on the green ‘+’ button in the upper left hand corner of a window does not appear to have the same effect as on a PC. On the PC, doing so causes that window to go to full screen. On the Mac, it appears to only increase the window to the biggest size it needs to be, but does not go ‘full screen’ . Is there an easy way of quickly maximizing a window to use the whole page ? Its like reading a magazine article by opening it 1/4 open ? Or just pealed a corner at a time of a newspaper article instead of opening the whole page? . I cant have full focus on a particular thing i am doing ( like coding , surfing , text editing ) without having the window full sized. May be it is because i just came from windows world but Generally people need focus to what they are doing but in Mac how this can be achieved without having the active window full size.
Ok after so many years in Windows . Anyone who comes to Mac and sees the first elegant Mac Screen what action he is likely to do . I am sure that anyone will first click Finder icon at the bottom left of the screen because of the “Start” button was placed to this similar location in windows. In mac Finder will open User related Folders . Then where the hell is the start button ( windows mind searching to start something in Mac ) ? Is it the apple ( bitten ) icon at the top left corner of screen ? No that too will open Some system related tasks ( this comes close to Windows’ Start button ) . Continue reading »
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