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My New Mac, Snow Leopard Edition, 2nd Edition
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My New Mac, Snow Leopard Edition, 2nd Edition

by Wallace Wang
August 2009
Beginner content levelBeginner
512 pages
11h 9m
English
No Starch Press
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Defining a Hot Corner

You can define each corner of the screen as a hot corner to make your Macintosh do one of the following:

  • Start Screen Saver or Disable Screen Saver Turns on the screensaver right away without waiting for the screensaver's inactivity period (or prevents the screensaver from running)

  • All Windows Displays all windows as thumbnail images on the screen (equivalent to pressing F9)

  • Application Windows Displays thumbnail images of windows belonging to the currently active program (equivalent to pressing F10)

  • Desktop Hides all windows (equivalent to pressing F11)

  • Dashboard Loads or hides the Dashboard program (equivalent to pressing F12)

  • Sleep Display Puts Display to sleep

Here's how to define a hot corner:

  1. Click the Apple menu and select ...

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