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Exposé basics in OS X
Mar 13, 2025
Getting to know the Exposé feature in OS X Snow Leopard
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now I'm going to show you expose expose
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is the system that's built into OS 10 to
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help you find your way around when
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you've got a mess of windows open a bit
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like what you can see now this is a
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situation you will often find yourself
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in you've been using the Mac for a few
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hours you've got a whole bunch of
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applications open you've got Windows
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piled on top of each other it's hard to
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see what's where and how to get to it so
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expose is the best way and the easiest
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way to do
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it the expose key is one the function
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keys along the top of your keyboard it's
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going to vary exactly which key it is
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depending which Mac you've got on my Mac
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it's F9 but on yours it might be a
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different function key when you hit that
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key this is what happens the windows
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will neatly line up and you can choose
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the one you want so let's say we want to
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go to Mac tracker we want to have a look
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at that that's great there are other
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flavors of expose as well there's one
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that lets you get to the desktop really
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easily
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it sweeps all of the windows out of the
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way so that you can get to whatever
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files or folders or external drives or
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network drives or anything else that
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might be here on your desktop that's
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really
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handy and finally there's one that's
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just for particular applications so
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let's use normal expose to go to Safari
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here we go but I've got three safari
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windows open and I want to quickly get
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to one of the other ones how can I do
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that one way to do it is to use the
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application mode in EX in expose so here
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I press a different button on my
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keyboard it's F10 but on different
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machines it's going to be a different
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button and now this shows me just the
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windows for the application that I that
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I was using a moment ago here we go
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we've got three apps three windows I
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should say and I can just select the one
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I want and bring it to the front and
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that is how expose works
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