change your screen corners options in “dashboard and expose”. when you move your pointer to one corner, it will let you see all open windows and choose one to work in. you can take the option away that pops all windows up

Macs………..so easy even Ecobrad can use them. 🙂

I only have two of the hot corners enabled on our macs. Upper left corner is expose, upper right takes you to the desktop. Fuggin love it. It just makes getting to the desktop so quick and switching between open windows so easy. At work we use PCs and we have to have like 10 windows open at once. Life without expose and hot corners sucks. :thumbsdown:

One tip I’ve found with hot corners is that generally enabling all four is too much. The wife and kids also often activate expose in the upper left corner with they go to close an open window as the red/yellow/green browser control buttons are also on the left side. Being a little more precise with the cursor helps. Also as jcocci said, in your system preferences options under mouse and keyboard you can designate what those two buttons on the mouse do. Out of the box they are set to expose and pressing down on the trackball brings up dashboard. You can set these to do different things. Please tell me you’re still not rocking the left mouse click only that comes as the Mac default? Make sure you enable the right click as a secondary button (top right) on the mouse so you can have right click functionality.

Having used a mac lappy (wife and kids use the Imac) for the last couple years that has a multi touch/gesture trackpad I pretty much despise using a mouse (same for buttons on my phones). The mouse does less and requires more effort. I want to see Mac put out a keyboard that has their trackpad replace the number keys. Then you just use the keys for typing and the trackpad for cursor, no mouse. I’ve see at least one company make something similar. I bet we’ll see more someday.

Also lusting after a Mac tower right now to edit home movies. Might pull it off before years end. Haley is saving for a new mac too. 🙂

J and NM,
Have you guys upgraded to snow leopard yet? I’m not in a huge rush, should I be?

@holbyco wrote:

you’ll probably just need a firmware update for the printer and you’ll be back in action.

my advice on updates (software, firmware, hardware) is if it ain’t broke don’t fix it. the quicker wake up from sleep seems cool, other than that it all looks like like the same “buy me!” changes that apple throw out far too often.

:soapbox:

No this printer was never intended for Mac. I had when I switched from PC to Mac and was able to find a “hacked” driver to get it to work on the Mac, but with SL it won’t without some serious hacking that I don’t feel like doing. Its no biggie as its a cheapie printer and gives me an excuse for the new one anyway.

I tend to agree with if it ain’t broke theory but they did do some great things internally to SL. Plus at only $29. If it had been the usual $129 or whatever they charge I probably wouldn’t have. I also did a fresh install with SL not just upgrade.