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Enter Dashboard, Expose, or Spaces Temporarily

Hold down F9, F10, F11, or F12 (or whatever you've set for the Expose and Spaces keyboard shortcuts) for a few seconds, and then release the key to enter and leave the appropriate mode without having to press the key again. This is particularly useful for Dashboard, in which you can check the contents of a widget and then return to your work with only a single key press.

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Apple Posts iPad Guided Tour Videos

We won't have iPads in our hands until this coming weekend, but if you're curious to know more about how the iPad works, Apple has posted a series of guided tour videos. For example, the video for iBooks demonstrates the capability to perform searches and look up words in the iPad's built-in dictionary.favicon follow link

 

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I am very curious to see how well the text to speech works in iBooks. I travel quite a bit and my Kindle reads to me several hours a day. It's my most favorite feature! I love the idea of the iPad...and I really, really hope it has a great text to speech feature...