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When making the switch from PC to Mac, you'll notice that things are a little different. Most of the basic...

Window Management on Mac -

When making the switch from PC to Mac, you'll notice that things are a little different. Most of the basic functionality is the same, it's just that the interface functions are unique to each operating system. Program and application windows work in much the same way in Mac as in Windows but are controlled slightly differently. Permit us to demonstrate...

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Making the Move to Mac - #4 - Window Management

Butterscotch Tutorial Special Switching to Mac Part Four of Ten: Window Management Today, part 4 of our 10 part series of switching from the PC to the Mac, we’ll you look at basic Window functions. Now the Application Windows have the same basic function in the Windows as they do on the Mac, we just control them differently. So in order to show you these differences, I have a Windows XP Virtual Machine loaded here VMware Fusion and I have a Mac program TextMate loaded here with the document. So when Windows, to maximize the program you click here on the top in the square and it maximizes. To restore the program back to its original size, you click in the same area, takes it back. To minimize it, you click the minus sign. And then to close the program, you click the red X in the corner. On the Mac, it’s fairly similar. You click the green button to maximize, to restore it back to where it was, you click the green button again. To minimize the program, you click the yellow button and to close the program, you click the red button. Now, on the PC, each program has its menus built in to the top of that program, so you can scroll through the Menu Bar and see the functions of that program. That’s not true on the Mac, on the Mac, the program’s bar is up in the top in a task bar. So I have TextMate highlighted, so the TextMate menu is visible. If I switch to VMware Fusion, VMware Fusion menu is at the top. So it toggles back and forth any, what program you want to highlight. Another factor, doing the Mac and the PC that many people aren’t aware of is that both platforms are basically designed so that you can use them without a mouse, through the use of command keys. And so you just touch down this a little bit, in Windows and say Firefox or Internet Explorer, you can open and New Tab, a New Window by hitting Ctrl T. And you can close that same thing tab by hitting Ctrl W. On the Mac, you can open a New Window by hitting Cmd N and Cmd W. On the PC, you can use Alt F4 to close a program and on the Mac you can use Cmd Q. So in this particular area of Windows in the Window Management, the Mac and the PC are relatively similar. And that concludes Part 4.

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Butterscotch Tutorial Special

Switching to Mac

Part Four of Ten:
Window Management

Today, part 4 of our 10 part series of switching from the PC to the Mac, we’ll you look at basic Window functions. Now the Application Windows have the same basic function in the Windows as they do on the Mac, we just control them differently.

So in order to show you these differences, I have a Windows XP Virtual Machine loaded here VMware Fusion and I have a Mac program TextMate loaded here with the document.

So when Windows, to maximize the program you click here on the top in the square and it maximizes. To restore the program back to its original size, you click in the same area, takes it back. To minimize it, you click the minus sign. And then to close the program, you click the red X in the corner.

On the Mac, it’s fairly similar. You click the green button to maximize, to restore it back to where it was, you click the green button again. To minimize the program, you click the yellow button and to close the program, you click the red button.

Now, on the PC, each program has its menus built in to the top of that program, so you can scroll through the Menu Bar and see the functions of that program.

That’s not true on the Mac, on the Mac, the program’s bar is up in the top in a task bar. So I have TextMate highlighted, so the TextMate menu is visible. If I switch to VMware Fusion, VMware Fusion menu is at the top. So it toggles back and forth any, what program you want to highlight.

Another factor, doing the Mac and the PC that many people aren’t aware of is that both platforms are basically designed so that you can use them without a mouse, through the use of command keys.

And so you just touch down this a little bit, in Windows and say Firefox or Internet Explorer, you can open and New Tab, a New Window by hitting Ctrl T. And you can close that same thing tab by hitting Ctrl W.

On the Mac, you can open a New Window by hitting Cmd N and Cmd W. On the PC, you can use Alt F4 to close a program and on the Mac you can use Cmd Q.

So in this particular area of Windows in the Window Management, the Mac and the PC are relatively similar. And that concludes Part 4.

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