Tag: SWITCHING

For a limited time only, you can get your hands on Learn the Switch to Mac for just $0.99 -- from the Mac App Store, of course. The app is designed for simpleton Windows types that lack the requisite cranial capacity to understand the Macintosh's complex and mysterious user interface. Learn the Switch to Mac is basically a series of screencast video tutorials that walk you through each of Mac ...

Jumping back and forth between browser windows is easy -- alt+tab has taken care of that for ages. If you prefer restricting your browsing activities to a single browser window, however, bouncing back and forth between two tabs can be a little trickier. The Recent Tabs extension for Google Chrome handles this task nicely. Once installed, you can invoke the switcher via ctrl+q or ctrl+`. ...

I'm not sure I'd ever go for the kind of 3D desktop BumpTop implements, but I don't mind seeing a little imaginary depth rendered on my 2D Windows desktop. Enter T3Desk, a Window manager which does exactly that. It's a bit of an alt-tab replacement and reminiscent of the Window arranging wizardry provided by Compiz. One of my favorite features of T3Desk is that all applications you minimize ...

It's been an interesting year so far for operating systems. Microsoft released its first major upgrade in 5 years with Windows Vista, and Ubuntu Linux continued on its way toward world domination with the release of Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn. Even Michael Dell's running it on his home computer (and shipping it on yours). With that in mind, we bring you the first in a limited edition Download Squad ...