How to use Exposé for Mac OS X

One of the really nice features of Mac OS X, and one that many people don’t seem to know about, is Exposé. Exposé is a tool built into the Mac OS X operating system that lets you easily control what you see on your computer.  There are three distinct features of Exposé; one let’s you [...]

Add a little color to your desktop

Whether we like it or not, or desktops usually end up turning into a dumping ground for many of our digital files.  As we add more and more files it becomes more and more difficult to find what we’re looking for.  Luckily, Mac OS X has a simple solution – Color Labels.  While on your [...]

Make PowerPoint 2004 for Mac start where you want it to

I can’t tell you how many times I’ve seen people accidentally start their PowerPoint presentations in the wrong place.  Most people think that the only way to start a slide show is to click “Slide Show” in the menu bar and choose “View Show”.  While this is fine for starting a slideshow from the beginning, [...]

Quitting out of Mac OS X applications

Many people, especially those coming from a Windows environment, are not used to closing an application in Mac OS X.  Application windows in Mac OS X usually have three buttons, red, yellow and green.  The green button is a magnifying button that will expand a window to the size required to see all its information.  [...]

Keynote + Apple Remote = great presentation

Have you ever needed to give a slide show for a school project, but didn’t want to have to manually click on your laptop’s keyboard or mouse button to advance to the next slide?  Well, if you have a MacBook or a MacBook Pro and a program called iWork installed, you can stop having to [...]

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