So, I’ve been using my Mac for about a month now, and its really starting to grow on me. I feel like I’m echoing millions of switchers, and maybe I am, but the fact is that Mac OSX works five times more elegantly than Windows. And I’m not even discussing the Air’s external aesthetics.

But one particular issue really has me getting irked. And I haven’t found a work-around, third party hack, or other utility to help me out with it. If you know of something, please get in touch with me, either via the comments or via the Contact page here. It mostly has to do with the way the Mac is designed to work, or better put, the way its designed to let you work. Mac guys like calling this the “Workspace”, and I;ve become somehwat of a fan of the way Mac is designed to let you work. For a better understanding of this, take a look at this TUAW post.

The issue is this:

Macs task-manage using a completely different paradigm than Windows. In Mac, by design the actual application remains open when clicking on the “X” button. All that ends is the particular window that you’ve closed. Applications can have multiple windows, each of which functions completely independently of the other. And in fact, the only way to disappear all windows of a specific program at once is by quitting the entire application. TIP: Use Command+Q to do this quickly. But often enough, I want a program to continue running, while though its windows are still running, or have already been minimized to the Dock. And therein lies the rub. I move quickly around my computer, and have accidentally quit an application because a different application’s windows are open and staring at me, and I intend to close that app, when in fact I’m closing the currently active (although no windows open) application.

If my explanatory skills have you rubbing your head trying to figure me out, take a look at this screenshot.

Note the “Firefox” title on the top left. That means that I’m currently active in Firefox. The open, viewable app, however, is the blog editing software I’m using to write this post. And so I often end up quitting, in this case, Firefox, when I only intend to quit the editing software.

Any ideas anyone?

(Image credit to shakataganai)