Comments on: An Introduction to Spaces on OS X

By: Context Switching « factornine blog

Context Switching « factornine blog — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 16:02:27 +0000

[...] With OSX its very easy to set up using Virtual Desk Tops using Spaces. [...]

By: Juan

Juan — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 00:37:01 +0000

In response to Lauren, who is rightly sick of having a bazillion finder windows open, I recommend pathfinder. A brilliant tabbed finder replacement. And in response to the mention of Hyperspaces by David Appleyard, I would recommend Spacesuit as a serious option, not as many features though. But it allows you to have a different wallpaper for EVERY space, isn’t glitchy at all and best of all is free!

I used Spaces for almost a year and found that some Adobe programs were a bit glitchy with Spaces, and some 3rd party apps didn’t work at all, such as CapSee.

By: Kelly

Kelly — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 15:59:11 +0000

I’ve really attempted to love Spaces. The concept is solid in theory but each implementation seems to box me into a corner, no matter how well thought out the spacial concept.

Having to remember exactly where and how seems a wasted effort. I’ve really tried, but I believe this is one feature that complicates “doing”.

By: MindTheGaspar

MindTheGaspar — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 22:44:01 +0000

I know this is kind of late, but I just got my new Mac and have been going through some of the older posts here…

The one thing that would truly make Spaces special (as in mind-blowing) would be the option of opening multiple instances of the same program in different spaces.

By: Nick Toye

Nick Toye — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 13:44:59 +0000

This is the killer issue, and I find it amazing that nobody else see’s this as an issue.

I have now finally abondoned Spaces as I just can’t cope with the buggy behaviour between Adobe products and Spaces.

By: Lauren

Lauren — Tue, 26 May 2009 23:38:31 +0000

I don’t get it. I tried spaces cos I’m sick of having a bazillion finder windows open, or firefox windows open for different projects I’m switching between at work. I don’t want all my windows from the same app in one space. I can easily jump between apps with cmd+tab, I expected more from Spaces. Or am i missing something?

By: Tom

Tom — Fri, 15 May 2009 07:21:56 +0000

I have to admit that i didn’t use spaces at all until i assign the swap spaces command to middle mouse.

Now its so easy to leap between spaces, and with apple key + middle mouse assigned to open up all the applications its easy to drag application windows to another space.

By: Davis John

Davis John — Thu, 14 May 2009 18:59:52 +0000

What makes spaces different from other virtual desktops is that you can use it together with Expose… and it makes window switching such a painless experience. (Just in case you haven’t tried it yet, try pressing F9 with F8 down.)

By: Martijn

Martijn — Thu, 14 May 2009 15:08:07 +0000

I like the idea but there is something wrong. When I have like photoshop, illustrator, indesign in one space and my e-mail program in another and I switch from my e-mail program to photoshop my tool bars are gray and unusable. I have to hide my toolbars and then show them again to make them work again. That’s very, very annoying and the reason I don’t use spaces.

By: Dario Gutierez

Dario Gutierez — Thu, 14 May 2009 14:22:20 +0000

Is a good feature, I use 6 spaces.

By: Thursday Morning News | MacTalk

Thursday Morning News | MacTalk — Thu, 14 May 2009 10:30:31 +0000

[...] AppStorm explain Spaces – a feature of Mac OS X 10.5 that increase your productivity and hence, your overall happiness. Thanks Apple! [...]

By: Don

Don — Thu, 14 May 2009 08:51:02 +0000

I use 9 Spaces now, having realised the value with 4 initially. Not sure different backgrounds is of much value to me as I run everything full screen. I’m surprised how many people I have shown though who do not get into it?

By: Carlos Vargas

Carlos Vargas — Thu, 14 May 2009 01:26:32 +0000

I like the feature to drag applications to other spaces by dragging the window to the corresponding side of the screen…

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Thursday Morning News | MacTalk — Thu, 14 May 2009 01:13:51 +0000

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By: xQlusive

xQlusive — Thu, 14 May 2009 00:02:55 +0000

Disregarding everyone else says,.. spaces is just a powerfull function

By: LockWesMonster

LockWesMonster — Wed, 13 May 2009 21:37:51 +0000

http://www.yousoftware.com/desktops/desktops.php

This nifty program allows you to define custom backgrounds and folder sets per space! Try it out it is pretty awesome!

I used to use this at work to have a “Work” and “Play” environment. If I heard someone sneaking up on me, I could switch from my “Play” space to my “Work” space with a simple key combo.

I think this is one of the most underrated apps and I have no idea why it does not get more good reviews.

By: JohnONolan

JohnONolan — Wed, 13 May 2009 20:44:43 +0000

Reader feedback: This is not what I subscribe to AppStorm for. The majority of people reading this blog aren’t beginners – they know their way around a mac. I want to know about the apps please, not OSX features!

By: Jared

Jared — Wed, 13 May 2009 18:59:12 +0000

I find spaces come in handy when testing web sites. I have a text editor in one space and any many browsers as I want in all the others. Then use the command arrows to change spaces. It works really well.

By: Vince

Vince — Wed, 13 May 2009 17:41:26 +0000

Perhaps you should dedicate a Space to a dictionary :D

By: Stuart

Stuart — Wed, 13 May 2009 14:45:31 +0000

Funny enough I was just getting into Spaces in the last couple of days. I have a15 inc macbook pro with a 24 inch samsung monitor attached to it. It is certainly helping with clutter on the desktop. I just need to get more familiar with the keyboard shortcuts. Nice article learned some new things.