The Dock versus the Task Bar

Posted on January 24th, 2008 in Basic OS Functionality Tagged with:
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The Dock which by default is along the bottom of the screen has much the same functionality as the Task Bar in Windows (which also starts along the bottom). Let’s work our way across the task bar in Windows and compare functionality. 1. the START button: Only Microsoft can come up with a button called start that [...]

Hiding the Dock

Posted on January 23rd, 2008 in Basic OS Functionality Tagged with:
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If you are like me you had the Windows task bar disappear when you didn’t need it so that you got more screen space. When you need it you put your mouse at the bottom of the screen and it will pop up. You can do pretty much the same thing on the Mac. Go to [...]