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Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 181

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 181. Here are my solutions to them.

1: Dry for ships, enclosed for prisoners, here for apps and trash.

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Dock

Dry for ships (dry dock), enclosed for prisoners (a dock in court), here for apps and trash (what goes into the Dock).

2: Gaps between words for multiple desktops.

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Spaces

Gaps between words (spaces) for multiple desktops (what it is).

3: Supervisor of props and lighting who puts apps on the left.

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Stage Manager

Supervisor of props and lighting (the stage manager in a theatre) who puts apps on the left (what it does in Ventura).

The common factor

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They are extensions to the Finder’s interface and features. The Dock was introduced in Mac OS X, from origins in NeXTSTEP. Spaces arrived in Leopard, and Stage Manager in Ventura.

I look forward to your putting alternative cases.