One of my Favorite Features of a Mac - Exposé

People ask me all the time what is my favorite Mac feature.  There are so many features that I have come to enjoy and cannot live without, as far as operating systems go.  I have decided to write about some of my favorite features and benefits of OS X, the Macintosh operating system.

The one feature that I use all day long is Exposé.  The feature was introduced in 2003 to OS X.  Microsoft added some similar features with the release of Vista in 2007.  "Exposé instantly view all open windows in stunning style with a single keystroke. Exposé unshuffles overlapping windows on your desktop into an organized thumbnail view, so you can quickly locate and switch to any window or get to any file on the desktop.  With Exposé, I can with one keystroke or mouse gesture,  instantly tile all open windows, scale them down, and neatly arrange them in a grid, so I can see what’s in every single one. And you definitely can see every one, because Exposé preserves the visual quality of the window in its reduced size. To see a full-screen preview, just press the Space bar."

You can "move from one tiled window to the next and you’ll see its title displayed at the bottom of the window. When you find the window you need, just click it. Magically, every window returns to full size, and the window you clicked — whether it’s a folder, a PDF, a QuickTime movie, or a Word document — becomes the active window. With one button click or mouse movement, Exposé can also quickly move all of the widows over and show only the desktop.

Finally, "Exposé not only tiles all your open windows, it also lets you view the open windows of a particular application. For example, say you’re a Keynote maestro and often have up to a dozen documents open at the same time. Exposé makes finding the one you need incredibly easy. Just click and hold the Keynote icon in the Dock, and Exposé tiles your Keynote windows while causing the windows of other applications to fade away. The clutter cleared, you can easily find the document you need. A click makes it the active window, and pressing the Space bar gives you a full-screen preview of the window. Prefer keyboard shortcuts? You can tile application windows with a keystroke, too."