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Apple released the first update for OS X Snow Leopard 10.6.1 after a few days before official release. And it is undoubtedly the launch has been a little hasty to distance up to the release of Windows 7.

Expose is one of the things that has improved over earlier versions, giving it a little more order and functionality. Exposé is an original feature of Mac OS X and was first shown on 23 June 2009 WWD as a new feature from OS X 10.3. Exposé allows you to quickly locate an open window, move easily between them, hide all, organize, … all with a click. We could compare to Compiz on Linux and Windows Flip 3D on Vista or Windows 7, but OS X has an edge in this. More information on Wikipedia.

Apple did the end and we needed some order in the windows, and can be ordered to seize the available space on the screen much better than before, but also includes some new tricks to match the dock and some applications. We leave an interesting summary below:

* By pressing command-1 Order visible windows in Exposé at the time by name (also shown below each window).
* By pressing Command-2 implementation and sort alphabetically.
* In permit applications, like Safari 4.03 (Firefox, Opera, Chrome, … not yet, but will) just have to start typing the name of a window to select it.
* If you press space being above a selected window will zoom it to see it better.
* If we show the selector applications / windows open (command-tab in OS X and alt-tab in Windows) can also activate Exposé, but this time only the windows or windows application type selected, now moves the cursor up or down to select a window. In this way the active application is highlighted in the Dock to avoid doubts that window is.
* When you display Exposé to see the windows of an application, which will be minimized at the bottom separated by a line of which are active.
* Another new feature of OS X Snow Leopard is to minimize the windows directly on its icon in the Dock so that we reduce the size of our bar when windows or minimize many active applications.
* Know any trick to Exposé, write to us.

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It seems that the Snow Leopard comes with many hidden functions that would take years to know them all.

The first one is perhaps not very useful but very cool. It’s the possibility of seeing through Quicklook folder and view its content. This is not here, the icon is “dynamic” as it somehow and if we throw the files through the translucent folder.

Steps:

1. Close the finder (you can achieve through Activity Monitor)
2. Open Terminal and type the following (you can copy and paste)

Code:

defaults write com.Apple.finder QLEnableXRayFolders 1

3. Make a “relaunch” of the finder and go!

If you want to reverse this function should repeat the steps but replace the 1 by a 0

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