There's a very helpful feature in Mac OS X that lets you activate the four corners of your screen to do various functions. It's called "Active Screen Corners" and it is very easy to configure. Here's how.
First, open "System Preferences" and select "Expose & Spaces". Click on the "Expose" button at the top of this window. The top portion of this window shows you a small thumbnail of the OS X desktop (showing off the very cool Aurora background you see when you first turned on your Mac). At each corner of this thumbnail you will see a drop down menu.
These menus offer you several options ranging from activating your Screen Saver, bringing up the Dashboard, or even sliding all of the windows off to the side so you can view your Desktop (handy when working with files hidden by pesky windows). If you activated Spaces, you can even use Active Screen Corners to display them all.
Now that you have assigned some Active Screen Corners, how do you use them? Even easier. Just move your mouse into the corner and the assigned action will execute. Play around with them and find the right combination for you. Not only does this make OS X a little more efficient, it also makes things a little more fun!
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