[WelMac] Welmac News & Update 9 Jan 06

[Jo Booth]

On 9/01/2006, at 14:40 , WelMac Announcements wrote:

> 4. SWITCHING APPS WITHIN EXPOSÉ
>
> Once you have Exposé invoked (you pressed either F9 or F10), you  
> can toggle through your open applications and Finder windows by  
> pressing the Tab key. Press the Tab key once and the next open  
> application and its miniaturized windows come to the front. Press  
> Tab again, it goes to the next open app. Want the previous app?  
> Press Shift-Tab.
>
> Showing off Exposé to a friend or co-worker who uses a PC is more  
> than a blast, it’s your duty, because even Windows XP still has  
> nothing like it. But if you really want to be a major hambone,  
> before you press F9 to invoke Exposé, start a QuickTime movie clip,  
> have a DVD playing, or have iTunes playing a song and click on the  
> Visualizer (heck, have all three going at once). When you press F9,  
> the QuickTime clip (DVD, iTunes, etc.) keeps playing even when  
> miniaturized. It’s fun to watch their face as it changes from  
> “Cool!” to “Why doesn’t Windows have that?”

Reminds me.. have you all seen the demo of CES Windows Vista, which  
is proposed to have Exposé-like features - in fact, it looks rather  
snazzy - much like OS X.  Might even compete with Tiger.. pity that  
by the time it comes out, we'll have 10.5 Cheeta :)

http://technorati.com/tags/Windows+Vista has a bunch of other  
links... but

See the CES Keynote with Bill Gates et al demo'ing the new Windows  
Vista features (note about 20mins in is the good bits)
http://www.microsoft.com/events/executives/billgates.mspx

And then see this:
http://tauquil.com/archives/2006/01/06/re-introducing-the-real- 
windows-vista/

Heh.

BTW: The new Windows Vista Flip 3D looks very similar to what you get  
when you hit F10 and hold down tab...


-Jo.
[hanging out for whatever cool thing Apple brings out on Wednesday at  
6am]


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Jo Booth
WelMac (NMG and VP)
http://forums.welmac.org.nz