Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Make Good Use of Your Spaces

Space: a continuous area or expanse that is free, available, or unoccupied

I'd say Spaces is probably THE most underrated and underused feature of OS X ! Some of you don't even know about it :( Some of the mainstream Macs come with screens, that have comparatively low resolutions, viz. 1280x800 px of screen estate is all you get on a 13" MacBook !

With "so much" screen space, you can probably have a Firefox window occupying all of the screen. If for some random reason, you wanna have one or two more windows/apps open, and be able to switch between them seamlessly, Spaces is the way to go !

You can have a maximum of 16 virtual desktops, all running at the same time, but each one different from the other. Now, that's Spaces for you !

If you're using Spaces for the first time now, you'd have to enable it from System Preferences.
  • Open System Preferences
  • Click on the Expose & Spaces icon
  • Click on the Spaces tab
  • Click "Enable Spaces"




You can choose to customize the shortcut key for activating Spaces. Press that key and see the magic happen!



Psst, try hitting the Expose shortcut when you're using Spaces


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