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By Abhishek Ghosh April 23, 2011 5:59 pm Updated on April 23, 2011

Most popular features of Mac OS X

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Apple’s Mac OS X basically based on the oldest Operating System UNIX core. UNIX itself is celebrating 40 years this year, 2011. Kernel wise, Mac OS X is rock stable. In this article, we will highlight the most popular features of Mac OS X.

There are various features of Mac those are very popular and very user friendly. This are only few among them.

 

Mac’s Finder

 

Finder is very quick and easily accessible to find files, programs, meaning of any word etc

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Grab

 

Spotlight

 

Spotlight highlights anything you searching for by keeping others in translucent dark and the searched item in light. It can be turned on or off for integration with other programs and features.

 

spotlight

 

Translucent menus

 

The trnaslucent menus looks great with Mac’s minimalistic design:

 

translucent-menus

 

Labeling of files with any color

 

This is very nifty feature. You can label any file with any color you want on right click:

 

Label

 

Dictionary

 

Who does not need a dictionary?

 

dictionary

 

Stack

 

Stack comes in three flavors (can be configured from right click menu) : Fan, Grid and List ; on left click on dock the stack appears as you have configured it. Right click shows a menu similar to list.

 

stack-fan

 

stack-gridstack-list

 

Navigation view options

 

Just like iPhone’s albums; you can activate the look in Mac; just flick to browse the files:

 

navigation

 

Sticky notes

 

Customize the sticky notes as you like; on the right click and selecting text find it in Google directly:

 

Sticky-notes

 

More info of any file on right click

 

more

Clean buttons and check boxes

 

Button and check boxes are real eye candy of of Mac OS X. In inactive state they turns gray scale; when active turns blue. The default button blinks very nicely.

 

Mac checkbox

 

The above screenshot shows an active window and below an inactive window:

 

checkbox-inactive window

And lastly, a screen shot of active dialog box:

 

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About Abhishek Ghosh

Abhishek Ghosh is a Businessman, Surgeon, Author and Blogger. You can keep touch with him on Twitter - @AbhishekCTRL.

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