Go sit in the corner…The HOT corner……..

Again, not to bash the Windows OS but OS X has once again given me a little surprise, one that I haven’t seen yet on Windows. OS X ships with a feature which I am finding really cool and useful called “hot corners”. And as the name implies you can assign actions to certain corners of the screen. So for instance, I like to use Expose` a lot to get from application to application (in lieu of cmd+tab or alt+tab for Windows), but now, utilizing the hot corners feature within OS X I just move the mouse to the upper right corner of the screen and it automatically invokes Expose`. Let me give you a real world example of how I take advantage of this.

I was adding photos to my contacts in Address Book last night, to do this I was dragging and dropping photos from my pictures folder to the contacts image place holder. In order to make this process go faster I found it easier to have the pictures folder maximized to full screen. But in doing this, it made me have to cmd+tab to bring forward the contacts window, or I had to F9 to invoke Expose` then drag and drop the image. NOW, I just click and drag the image to the upper right corner, Expose` pops into action, then I just move to the contacts window. It may sound cumbersome (I know it was cumbersome typing this out) but it really isn’t. It is actually really elegant in action. I need to get around to posting videos of OS X in action so you can “see” all these things to which I refer. I suppose you could go over to the Apple website and watch the videos there, they do show you all of the things that I am talking about.

Oh, one more thing. Go look at this http://www.sl33stak.com/Evil Christmas/Comic.html

Yeah, it was made on the MAC.