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 .
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
WIndows Explorer supports FTP . I can directly type FTP address , authenticate myself and browse my remote server in a similar way i browse my local drives and folders . Even Windows Internet Explorer ( inbuilt internet browser ) supports it . But where is the similar feature in Mac . Continue reading »
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.
I generally tend to delete any item which i actually want to delete ( not to move to Trash ) by pressing key combinations Shift+Delete key in windows . But in Mac i dont find such shortcut key to permanently delete any item . Although the shortcut key for delete in Mac is Command+Backspace , this moves the item to Trash and doesn’t permanently delete it. Its actually ironic that you press key combinations still you are not able to Delete items permanently like in windows . In Windows deleting an item ( moving to trash ) is a single key press thing ( Press Delete key ) to do the same job in Mac you have to press two key combinations 
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