Okay, so a friend of mine and former mac user who converted to Windows a few years ago has just acquired a 1ghz 15" powerbook. He's got Tiger installed on it. I'm a bit surprised that he's using it, as he and I have gone back and forth about windows -vs- os x for months now, and he likes the Windows way (I know, I know). Anyway, he has two gripes about OS X. I personally only agree with the first one:

1. The green (+) expand window button is still broken in OS X. I say still, because it never worked for me in OS 9, either. When I click it, it doesn't expand to fit the whole screen, and the placement is pretty random. I don't know why they can't fix this.

2. The Dock doesn't show each instance of an application's windows (the way MS Windows does). I showed my friend the hold-click method (or ctrl-click) on the dock, but he still doesn't like it. I would hate it, but is there a shareware program that allows this functionality (i.e., if you have two Safari windows open [not tabs], both will show up in the Dock)?

Thanks!

-Tofer

Try F10.

Witch lets you option-tab through all the windows that are open.

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Tofer
1. The green (+) expand window button is still broken in OS X. I say still, because it never worked for me in OS 9, either. When I click it, it doesn't expand to fit the whole screen, and the placement is pretty random. I don't know why they can't fix this.
-Tofer

The green button is defined as 'make this window the optimal size', not 'make this window full screen'. So, it's not broken per se, but I would agree that a maximize button would be more useful.

As to point 2, I detest the windows task bar and its constantly shifting list of windows. As noted, F10 and F9 in Expose are far better ways to select from among open windows.

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Thanks for the suggestions, esp. the Exposé one--I will mention that to him tonight.

-Tofer