One of the defining features of Mac OS X is Exposé. It allows you to view all of
the currently open windows as an overview spread out across the screen. Exposé can be activated
by pressing the F3 key on a Mac keyboard, or by doing a four finger swipe
downwards on a Mac trackpad. When you
activate Exposé, you will be presented with the aforementioned view of all your
open windows. It will look much like this:
If you click on one of the windows, it will be brought to the foreground.
This seems pretty simple, right? It is, but there are many things that you can
do to make Exposé easier to use. For instance, Apple added a feature in Snow
Leopard called Dock Exposé. With Dock Exposé, you can view all the windows of
just one application. It can actually be activated in multiple ways. The most
common way is to click and hold on an icon in the dock for about a second.
This will display very similarly to the regular Exposé view except for the fact
that it is only showing the windows for the application whose icon you clicked
on in the dock. …