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Jun 10, 2009

After owning a Mac for over a year I still don't get why application windows behave a real pain. There must be an explanation.

For example in Microsoft Word, i have 10 documents open. Here are the types of problems I have:

1) I'm in a document, then use CMD+TAB to go to another application then I use CMD+TAB to come back to Word, and bingo, it's sat at a different document to what was on top before I did any CMD+TABing.

2) I want to bring a particular open document to the foreground, so just like on the PC, I go to Window and select the document title, but NOPE it does not come to foreground.

3) I search around moving document windows around to find open document I want in the foreground and click it expecting that to bring it into foreground, but NOPE that does not happen.

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Mar 10, 2012

I have a MacBook Air 3.2 version. It does not have a thunderbolt display port, just the normal one. I connected the MBA to the computer via the HDMI slot.  

I want the TV to act as a monitor for my computer. In particular, I want it to play video files. That is the reason why I am trying to set up the TV as a display. To play movies so that the movie doesn't take up all the real estate on my computer screen and I can do other things and have other things on my computer screen.  

I am in Korea and am having trouble doing this. I connected the TV and the MBA with the cable. What is the next step. I went to System Prefs and clicked "Detect Display" and nothing happens. I have the display icon in the menu bar at the top of the screen.  

What should I do with the TV? I went into menu and chose connection icon and then HDMI. The screen is blank and says "No signal".   

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So, for ease of use I figured that it must be started whenever I login. I added it to my Login Items under Account Preferences, and selected the "Hidden" checkbox because I don't want my inbox showing up whenever I login to my computer.

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