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. 

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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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• Your ego feels like it has a bit more room to move around.
• The Gap in Cupertino has a sale to get rid of the overstock on turtlenecks.
• The Apple guy is wearing a black arm band in the commercials.
• Bill Gates commits suicide (he always rips off original ideas from Apple).
• Apple’s stock price doesn’t have any digits to the left of the decimal point.
• His iPhone is forwarded to John Lasseter.
• A sudden run on floral bouquets in the shape of an apple.
• At the end of Strawberry Fields you can hear John Lennon say “I buried Jobs”.
• MacWorld keynote given by Noah Wylie.
• All next-generation Apple products are square and beige.
• All iPods only play “Nothing Compares 2 U” by Sinead O’Connor.

 

Mac Dock Item Jump

Mac’s Dock notification behavior is sometimes very irritating. Dock makes the dock items which are requesting my attention  oscillate.  When i am busy in some work and i accidentally click a dock item and if the Dock item has something which it thinks requires my attention , then it just starts Jumping and never stops untill i click on it and give attention. I dont understand why it Jumps forever. Wasn’t there anything Mac developers could think and put some new kind of notification behavior. I mean let the Dock item jump for some time and if it doesn’t get any attention from user just make it stop.

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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.

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