Chapter 6
Using Mission Control, Spaces, Exposé, and Dashboard
It's not a NASA initiative, despite the name's interstellar overtones. Mission Control represents the evolution of three technologies introduced in earlier versions of Mac OS X: Spaces, Exposé, and the Dashboard. These technologies have been combined into a single interface that tidies our busy desktops and offers an at-a-glance overview of all open projects. That's Mission Control.
In this chapter, I'll explain how Spaces and Exposé have been combined, and I'll point out how the Dashboard and Dashboard widgets have been integrated into Mission Control. In the context of the evolution of these technologies, I'll offer a full overview of how Mission Control looks, how it works, what ...
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