Take Control: The Mac OS X Lexicon (1.5) SAMPLE

Q quad
core • quarter • Quartz, Quartz Extreme • Quick Look • QuickTime
• QuickTime Player, QuickTime Pro • quincunx • quits unexpectedly •
QWERTY • .qxd
quad core ⇢ multi-core processor
quarter
Joking jargon for two bits of information. In the 18th century, Spanish
gold coins were sometimes cut into 8 pieces, referred to as bits (which
is where the phrase “pieces of eight” comes from); since the Spanish
coin was about equal in value to the American dollar, two bits equaled a
quarter. Also see Shave and a Haircut, next page.
Quartz, Quartz Extreme
When you click a window’s Minimize button (that’s the yellow one) and
watch the window shrink into the Dock like a genie returning to his
bottle, you’re seeing Apple’s Quartz graphics software in action. Quartz
puts everything, from scrolling text to eye-catching tricks like the genie
effect, on the screen. In fact, “Quartz” is an umbrella term used to
describe all the parts of the Mac OS X display software, including Core
Image, Core Graphics, and Core Video. Quartz Extreme is the latest
version, faster and better than ever. Whether you use the Genie or
Scale minimize effect (set it in the Dock preference pane), try this: hold
Shift when you click the Minimize button for a slooow motion effect.
Quick Look
This is Sharon’s favorite new Leopard feature. With Quick Look, you
look at nearly any file without opening its application—which means you
don’t need its application. Quick Look can display many types of files:
TextEdit, Word, Excel, PDF, and many graphics file types. You can even
flip through multi-page Word, TextEdit, and PDF documents.
Trigger Quick Look for a selected document with File > Quick Look
(Command-Y) or with the Quick Look button on a Finder window’s
toolbar; in the Quick Look window, you can use the up and down arrow
keys to move to the previous and next files in the Finder window.
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