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- Shiftgood, on 10/12/2007, -15/+158Remember when you had a PC and you were all "Macs are stupid i hate them". And then you got a 17" Powerbook and you were like "holy hell, macs are better than jesus" and then you were like "PCs are for dumbs".
I do. - MuTeD, on 10/12/2007, -5/+79http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v133/shyataroo/uberowned44.jpg
No, you can sorta do the same thing in Windows. - Judman, on 10/12/2007, -1/+64Um, I took a epicture in expose with at least 500, maybe 1000 chat windows open:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/judxapp/368984472/ - hode, on 10/12/2007, -1/+59To take it to 11.
- Coven, on 10/12/2007, -8/+55Try having that many windows open in Windows. A little error message would pop up that reads "You're ***** me, right?"
- ROFLance, on 10/12/2007, -6/+51"Command - `, if it's in just one application."
I ***** LOVE you. That's one of the only things about OS X that's been bothering me, but you saved the day. Thanks. - LordVoldemort, on 10/12/2007, -4/+46Command - `, if it's in just one application.
(Command - Tilde button) - baxtermaddux, on 10/12/2007, -7/+39i know one thing, if i tried this with XP my computer would be Bogarted in 2 seconds
- spidoman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+30I like Vista's BUT, it's still partially hiding them. I love expose because I can see them all completely.
- undersky, on 10/12/2007, -0/+30HOLY CRAP, YOU WON!
- LordVoldemort, on 10/12/2007, -3/+32Doesn't that depend on the computer? I don't really know.
- Ireland, on 10/12/2007, -0/+22When I saw Vista's implementaion of this I thought "wow", and when I went to use it I thought "huh?". The Mac idea is way easier, as many tech dudes on the web have already said. If you have 20 windows open say, and you're looking for one, and you know what it looks like. On the Mac you'll see it straight up right away, however on the PC running Vista even if you know what it looks like you still have to scroll through to find it and open it.
- KyleMistry, on 10/12/2007, -0/+20Flip 3D's just a fancier Alt+Tab, though. They still have yet to come even close to Exposè, which is by far more practical, since it gives you a view of all the windows, as opposed to just one window with a few behind it.
- TravisG5, on 10/12/2007, -0/+17Now he should get out of expose, and hold option while clicking minimize... so they all go down to the dock at the same time.
- davearter, on 10/12/2007, -1/+16I did something similar, except it went a bit weird:
http://minus-zero.org/manyfinders.jpg - mediaphile, on 10/12/2007, -2/+16OS X doesn't use memory that way. That's what makes it so efficient.
- PabloMac, on 10/12/2007, -2/+16If you don't know, you don't deserve to know.
- 35chililights, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13Paul: Dick, you ever wonder what's outside those walls?
Dick: That's dangerous thinking, Paul. You best stick to your work. - sleepwalkers, on 10/12/2007, -1/+14Shift-option minimize, if you're feeling a little frisky.
- venicerocco, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13Apple Store> Applications> CMD A> CMD O
Have a nice day. - mercurysquad, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12Wow... the pic linked to this article is NOTHING in comparison to what you've got there.
- enicholas, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11Expose is how Mac users manage their open windows. Under Microsoft Windows, all of your open windows are displayed on the taskbar. On Macs, open applications are shown in the dock, but not individual windows. If you want to switch to a particular window which is obscured, you press either F9 or F10. All windows (F9) or just windows belonging to the current application (F10) will smoothly slide into non-overlapping positions and scale down so that you can see them all. With F10 (application windows only) windows belonging to other applications also dim to make the selection easier. You then click on whichever window you are interested in, and they all slide back into place with the window you clicked on coming to the front.
It's much easier to understand when you actually see it happen. The pictures here are of course an extreme case, demonstrating that it still works even with a ridiculous number of windows open. With a more manageable number of windows, it's very quick and easy to select the window you're interested in.
Obviously it's a matter of personal preference whether you like Windows' or MacOS' approach better. I don't think anyone could reasonably disagree that MacOS more gracefully handles lots of open windows, though -- the Windows task bar simply does not deal well with lots of stuff open. Personally I find visually selecting the window I want to be far easier than doing so via whatever tiny amount of text fits into the Windows task bar button, as well. - RockBandit, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10Just think... if you had a 30" Cinema Display, all those little windows would be displayed at their actual size. ;)
- sleepwalkers, on 10/12/2007, -2/+12Vista's is more like the 3D alt-tab than something like Expose. Expose uses three keys do easily do three things: Move all windows to the edges of the screen and show the desktop, show ALL windows, and show all windows from a particular app. That's not exactly what Vista is doing, but they're both the same idea.
- unloud, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10I'd like to see him press Shift +F9. . . it would take forever at those speeds.
- macedes, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10expose is in my opinion the best feature on mac osx
- Rice, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9Dugg for Exposé, my favorite feature in Mac OS X.
- enicholas, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9@35chililights: Nope, the windows remain live views throughout.
- SirG3, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10Control-F4 if you want to go through ALL windows, provided you have full keyboard navigation turned on. I think it's in System Preferences > Keyboard & Mouse > Keyboard Shortcuts.
- umdigger, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Wow, that guy is a tag whore.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7that's a whole lot of windows opened... once on my work machine i hit expose and realized that i had about 50 windows open, nowhere near the 200-300 in this picture..
- AWidgetIHaveNot, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7As a potential switcher I have to say that is absolutely pointless but it absolutely ROCKS!
- MuTeD, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6*squeezes mouse*
mmmmightymouse - Ireland, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8Some guy down the bottom of the comments loves iChat; http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=368984472&size=o
/I guess tabbed chats in iChat 4 for Leopard would eliminate the need for this, not that anyone has this many friends :) - streetstealth, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6LordVoldemort-
I want you to know I logged in just to digg you up. I've been using OSX for half a decade and never knew that shortcut existed!
Why doesn't Apple put this stuff in the manual? - cintronben, on 10/12/2007, -10/+16My brother and I crashed a G5 on the opening day of an Apple store in Houston by doing too many.
- akkuma, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7I reached about 43+3(firefox,gaim,im) windows before explorer died on me not allowing me to open anymore. This is with a top notch computer built Thanksgiving of 06.
- Firehed, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5It looks like someone needs to try clicking that little red circle in the top-left once in a while. Or command-W if you prefer the keyboard. Mighty impressive, there.
I wonder why it kind of balls up the windows like that instead of spreading them out evenly and filling the screen. When I've had thirty or so windows open and Expose'd them, they never clumped up like that. - daines88, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4It's more than 300, see my reply on the picture page
- sleepwalkers, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4http://farm1.static.flickr.com/148/369196357_b23c20eb71_b.jpg
There you go. Mail freaked out and produced a white window that couldn't do anything. Not just "I can't render the proper graphics for the window!" but a totally worthless white window. - hokkos, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4My Ubuntu with beryl and a Geforce 5300 can only handle 23 nautilus :
http://hokkos.free.fr/photos/Beryl_100_Nautilus_expos%E9.png - PabloMac, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5"Stupid article...two hunder programs..."
!? - jeremy.heslop, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7LOL that is the first Spinal Tap reference I have heard in a while (first on digg for me).
http://www.spinaltapfan.com/atozed/TAP00160.HTM - allancorbett, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3It's pointless to open 1000 windows yes but it's brilliant when you have more than 2 or 3 open.
*moves mouse to bottom left* - KidneyPi, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Dugg, simply for showing people what Exposé is capable of.
I once had a customer in my tech shop who said his iBook G3 kept crashing. I couldn't replicate the problem. I had 150 Word windows, 150 Excel windows, 50 Powerpoint windows, and over 100 Finder windows open at once. It chugged a bit trying to load Exposé, but it worked. This was with a 700MHz G3 processor. I think it had 256MB of RAM, but it could have been 512. - Jawsh91, on 10/12/2007, -5/+8Lucky, I've never had to endure owning a PC, iMacs, eMacs, Powerbooks, Macbooks, everythhing. I even owned the original "Apple" the one you had to put in floppy disks for every app. A few days ago I ordered a 20" iMac, it 's in the mail right now :)
- Aupajo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3its not two hundred programs, its two hundred WINDOWS. not the same thing.
- Refrag, on 10/12/2007, -0/+335chililights, the windows are ALWAYS textures.
- darkyoshi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Yet you still spell it with all capitals. It's not an acronym, my keen observer friend.
- 35chililights, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3@enicholas
yea, your right. i was thinking of this:
http://www.objective-cocoa.org/fenetresvolantes/en/index_en.html
i knew i had read that somewhere, but the key part of remembering what application it was meant for eluded my mind.
i hear it only gets worse with age.
great. -
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