September 2005
Beginner to intermediate
528 pages
23h 55m
English
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34 switching to the mac: the missing manual
Status Bar
If you’re using the “bare-bones” window view described above, you can choose
ViewÆShow Status Bar to get a handy information strip just beneath the title bar in
every Finder window. It tells you how many icons are in the window (“14 items,” for
example) and the amount of free space remaining on the disk.
Otherwise, in normal Finder mode, those statistics show up at the bottom of each
window.
Terminology Differences
There are enough other differences between Mac and Windows to fill 15 pages. Indeed,
that’s what you’ll find the end of this book: an alphabetical listing of every familiar
Windows feature and where to find its equivalent on the Mac.
As you read both that section of the book and the chapters that precede it, however,
you’ll discover that some functions are almost identical in Mac OS X and Windows,
but have different names. Here’s a quick-reference summary:
Windows term Macintosh term
Control Panel System Preferences
Drop-down menu Pop-up menu
Program Application
Properties Get Info
Recycle Bin Trash
Search command Spotlight
Shortcuts Aliases
Taskbar Dock
Tray (notification area) Menulets
Windows Explorer Finder
Windows folder System folder
With that much under your belt, you’re well on your way to learning the ways of
Mac OS X.
Window Controls
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