September 2005
Beginner to intermediate
528 pages
23h 55m
English
Content preview from Switching to the Mac: The Missing Manual, Tiger Edition
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108 switching to the mac: the missing manual
Shift-F1, Shift-F2, Shift-F3, and so on. That’s how you can make Shift-F11 trigger
the hide-all-windows function, for example.
• Multiple-button mouse clicks. If you’ve equipped your Mac with a replacement
mouse—one with more than one button—you see a third pane in System Prefer-
ences, labeled Mouse. Use these pop-up menus to assign the three Exposé modes
to the various clickers on your mouse: right-side click to hide all windows, left-side
click to reveal the desktop, and so on.
Dashboard
The essence of using most operating systems is running programs, which often pro-
duce documents.
In Mac OS X, however, there’s a third category: a set of weird, hybrid entities that
Apple calls widgets. They appear, all at once, floating in front of your other windows,
when your press the F12 key. Welcome to the Dashboard (Figure 4-9).
What are widgets, anyway? They’re not really programs, because they don’t create
documents or have Dock icons. They’re certainly not documents, because you can’t
name or save them. What they most resemble, actually, is little Web pages. They’re
meant to display information, much of it from the Internet, and they’re written using
Web languages like HTML and JavaScript.
Mac OS X’s starter widgets include a calculator, current weather reporter, stock ticker,
clock, and so on. (You may have to wait a few seconds for them ...
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