Finer Things in Mac

Before you could impress your friends with Exposé slow-mo. Now in 10.6 Snow Leopard, you can impress them a little more.

Another subtle Exposé UI refinement in Snow Leopard.

In Snow Leopard it is possible to switch Quick Look’s focus between windows in Exposé by either hovering the mouse over a different window or by using the arrow keys.

In Tiger (and I believe Leopard as well) drop-down sheets like open/save dialogs would fade out in Exposé. The problem with this was that when switching from one app to another with a sheet open, the sheet would hide *behind* the app so that you could not click anywhere inside the app, but there was [...]

While in Dock-Exposé, clicking on other Dock applications will show an Exposé view of that app’s windows, including any that are minimized (you can either click and hold on a Dock icon to enter this view, or press Tab while in Exposé All Windows mode to cycle through apps as well). Pressing Command+Tab will allow [...]

Learn a keyboard shortcut for sorting your windows alphabetically in Exposé under 10.6 Snow Leopard.

Hold the Shift key when launching Exposé, Spaces, Dashboard, minimizing a window into the Dock, or even when using a Dock Stack, and you will get a slow version of the feature’s animation.

You can click and hold on a window toolbar to drag, invoke Exposé, and maintain your hold to continue dragging once you get back out of Exposé. The window you’re holding will shift away from your mouse and into a position assigned by Exposé, but it’ll snap back into your mouse’s possession afterwards.
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Snow Leopard bug: window selection border is inconsistent
When using Exposé in Snow Leopard, some windows will have a much wider selection highlight then others. The window in this particular example is Skitch, and Path Finder 5.5.4 exhibits it as well.

Although Exposé has been vastly improved in Snow Leopard, Apple did let go of one of its great qualities in doing so. Under Leopard, although the windows were haphazardly thrown together instead of being neatly organized in a grid, they were all displayed at relatively correct sizes. So if you had a long and narrow [...]