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Mac OS X Snow Leopard is full of built in features and utilities/programs that I use every day.These feature help increase my productivity. Here are some built in features in Mac OS X that make me choose Mac.
1.) Expose: With Expose you can see all your windows in a smaller size and click the window of your choice to bring to the front.
This increases productivity by making easier to switch between applications. Especially with the multi-touch trackpads on MacBook, MacBook Pro and MacBook Air, it makes using Expose easier with the 4-finger swipe.
2.) Spotlight Search: Sometime I know where something is and I even know the exact file name. I could go though Finder and find it myself but I just go up to the spotlight icon (or command-spacebar) and can search for the file. I can also search by address book and the built in dictionary on Mac OS X.
3.) Spaces: I can have up to 16 virtual desktops in Mac OS X. This also improves productivity because you can organize what you are working on by putting them in different Spaces. Though you have Expose to sort through your cluttered desktop, you can use Spaces to organize you desktop even more.
Those are 3 useful built in utilities/programs that help increase productivity while using Mac OS X.
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1.) Expose: With Expose you can see all your windows in a smaller size and click the window of your choice to bring to the front.
This increases productivity by making easier to switch between applications. Especially with the multi-touch trackpads on MacBook, MacBook Pro and MacBook Air, it makes using Expose easier with the 4-finger swipe.2.) Spotlight Search: Sometime I know where something is and I even know the exact file name. I could go though Finder and find it myself but I just go up to the spotlight icon (or command-spacebar) and can search for the file. I can also search by address book and the built in dictionary on Mac OS X.
3.) Spaces: I can have up to 16 virtual desktops in Mac OS X. This also improves productivity because you can organize what you are working on by putting them in different Spaces. Though you have Expose to sort through your cluttered desktop, you can use Spaces to organize you desktop even more.
Those are 3 useful built in utilities/programs that help increase productivity while using Mac OS X.
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Comment by Gibson on January 1, 2010 at 11:41pm -
I am not trying to win you over to pc, your happy with your mac, so stay with it!!
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Comment by Gibson on January 1, 2010 at 11:40pm
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Yeah do save your story for the day mac's start shipping their pc's like regular PC's CAUSE MAC IS A PC OK, it's just made by apple.
BLAH? When they ship one day as regular computers from apple, and with the option of both windows and mac, AMD AND INTEL, nvidia, and ATI, ALL THE HARDWARE WE WANT
then it will be higher then 8% versus the 92% Microsoft holds.
Don't hurtself urself man i have a mac in this house to but it's my vomit right now.
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Comment by Alexander Melton on January 1, 2010 at 10:19pm -
These features are built in, you don't need to download third party applications. Your a Windows person, you are part of the dark side for ever. Stick with you Windows, but you will not win me over with it. The reason I switched to Mac was not because of Windows itself, but I'll save that story for another day.
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Comment by Mab879 on December 31, 2009 at 5:54pm -
Good Post.
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