Command Tab Screen
I am used to using Alt Tab in Windows to quickly switch between multiple window screens i have opened ( Multitasking 
). The similar key combination and feature is also present in Mac. The key combination in Mac is Command + Tab which is similar to Windows’ Alt + Tab. But i find Mac’s Command+Tab feature not of great use.
Preview application in mac Leopard does lots of things ( eg. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 ) . One of the thing it does is reading PDF files without having to install Adobe reader for Mac. I prefer using Preview for opening PDF files than Adobe reader because preview is quick and i feel it light as well. But today i found one limitation of Preview as a PDF reader though there may be many more preview cant do which Adobe’s PDF reader can do.
The limitation is in Preview if you have a multiple paged PDF document open and try to select a Large text . You cant just do it. Try it. By Large text here i mean that text extending in multiple pages say text in more than 1 pages or so. Preview can only select the text which is currently being displayed. You try to select the text with mouse and go down the page in the document Preview wont Scroll down as expected to select more text. Even without using mouse and instead using Shift+Arrow key combination the Preview wont let the PDF document scroll and you cant select text in the area not currently shown in front of you. This is so irritating. I had to download Adobe reader just to select the texts in the PDF document i was reading.
Well i have setup Spaces and Expose in my Mac . I have also configured mouse gestures to invoke Expose and Spaces in my Mac so that when i move my mouse pointer to upper left corner i see all of the open Windows . And similarly when i move my mouse pointer to lower right corner of Screen i see the Spaces. I frequently use the Expose than Spaces .
But today i kinda found a bug or limitation in the Expose of Mac. When i miniminse one of the open Windows and just within a second if i move my mouse to top left corner to invoke the Expose so that i can see all the windows Open . In this case i still can see the blank window space representing just minimized window . The occupying space of that window doesn’t have anything visible but when the mouse points hover over that particular space seems Expose gives information of the just minimized window and when clicked the minimized window gets focussed.
This doesn’t happen when i move the mouse pointer to invoke Expose after a Window which i minimized has completely minimized and stayed in the Dock. May be you couldn’t visualize all the things i have explained here — The below screencast should give a clear understanding about what i am talking about here.
A good read i found at mac360
With one exceptional criticism, I’ve been uncharacteristically silent about this issue. Macs are not as good as they used to be.
I’ve been using a new HP Windows Vista PC for almost a month. Guess what? Vista isn’t so bad.
Heresy, you say? Maybe not. I don’t think Windows Vista is better than Mac OS X Leopard, or even Tiger. Once a product has been on the market for awhile, a reputation grows, not always reflective of reality.
Vista’s reputation is carried over from Windows XP, the Swiss cheese of desktop operating systems, with more security holes than the Bush Administration.
That reputation is one of a buggy piece of software which isn’t fully backwards compatible, full of glossy eye candy, and requiring some modern, capable hardware to make it run decently.
How does that reputation compare to Mac OS X Leopard, which is loved by the Microsoft-bashing media and described as God’s gift to computer users everywhere (those who can afford it).
To hear the media pundits tell it, OS X Leopard is ultra modern, ultra secure, never crashes, runs only the coolest apps, is easier to set up, easier to learn, easier to maintain.
My view of reality is much different. To be honest, Apple’s recent Intel Macs and OS X Leopard are the two buggiest products the company has unleashed on customers in over a decade.
I’ve gone through five Macs in less than two years, and all of them have caused me constant problems; bad displays, bad keyboards, bad motherboards, bad hard drives, bad OS.
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