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Custom Exposé Glows for Download
In our previous article: Daily Trick 47. Tweak Exposé Glow, we have brought forward the option to change your Exposé glowing effect. After few minutes playing around with the image sprite, I have come up with these various sprites.
In this article, I'd like to share the sprite with you. You can refer to the previous daily trick for the step by step guide on how to change the effect.
Inspired by Artless Processes - Customize Snow Leopard Exposé Glow.
Screenshots and download link provided after the jump.
Daily Trick 47. Tweak Exposé Glow
For Snow Leopard Users
If you have noticed, whenever you press F9 key to activate Exposé, you will see a rather different Exposé from Mac OS X Leopard. And upon mouse over on one of the item, you can see blue glowing effect.
Today, we are going to bring you to tweak on the glow color to your liking.
Daily Trick 46. Fast Exposé Shortcut
Whenever you want to open the Exposé view of an application, usually mac users will advice you on using Hot Corner. However, we have a new trick here for you.
- Open 'Application Switcher' with Cmd-Tab
- Press Tabs until the app you want to perform Exposé to is selected
- Hit the arrow key [↓] or [↑] and the Exposé for that app will appear
It's fast, quick, and totally free of mouse actions.
But unfortunately, this trick only works in Snow Leopard.
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Daily Trick 39. New Exposé Feature (10.6)
It surprises me that Apple has finally solved the hard-to-navigate minimized window issue with the release of Snow Leopard. If you've upgraded to Snow Leopard, you won't need to use Open Minimized Window Trick to reveal those minimized windows.
With Snow Leopard, you only need to click-and-hold on the Dock icon of that application and an Exposé display will appear, showing all opened as well as minimized windows.
And if you prefer using Hot Corners to using click-and-hold, you can set it up as one of your hot corner actions; you can do it by following these steps:
- Open System Preferences and click on Exposé & Spaces icon
- On top of the pane, you will be able to see four select boxes, which each of them is mapped into one hot corner action
- Choose Application Windows for one of the boxes
- Next time if you want to show all opened windows, you only need to move your cursor to the assigned corner
With simple steps, you can get a wonderful effect. Great!
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Re-Emphasize Exposé Feature
Exposé, one of the built-in Mac gimmicks that Windows doesn't have, has been doing great job on promoting Mac to Windows users. Personally, I will invoke my Exposé whenever I saw my Windowish friends approaching me while operating my Mac. It's just "Wow!" for them, though it's as simple as bread and butter for Mac users.
Besides being used for attracting attention, we, Mac users, usually use Exposé for the sake of productivity boosting.
Leopard - Deep into Spaces
After taking to look at Leopard Spaces, now I should take you around, deeper into spaces with F8.
What is F8?
F8 is the keyboard key that will bring you to Leopard Spaces when it's pressed. However, you got to activate it first inside the System Preference.
Deep Inside Spaces - Direct with Arrow
Arrow keys can move around the highlight ( the Spaces remain still ). When you've reach your destined Space, pressing Return, Space or another F8 will bring you into that Space. In the picture below, the slightly darker Space is the highlighted one.
Deep Inside Spaces - Drag and Drop
With drag and drop, you can swap one Space with the other. For example, if you want to swap Space 9 with Space 8, drag the Space 9 to the top of Space 8 and Space 8 will move by itself to the initial position of Space 9. There will be a lot of tricks that can be done with this dragging and dropping.
Let's say that I've already assigned my Firefox to Space 2. Therefore, when I opened my Firefox, I will be warped into Space 2. The very same thing will also happen when I switch my active window to Firefox. But the question here is, I've opened Firefox and I moved the Space 2 to Space 9, what will happen if :
- I open new Firefox window?
- After I opened new Firefox window, I use Command-[`] to rotate between Application windows?
- Then I use the Application switcher to switch to Firefox itself, using Command-Tab followed by Command-Shift-Tab, what will happen?
The Exposé Trick: Dragging
Having Desktop cluttered with mountain of items won't give Mac any problem for dragging files.
