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Make Spaces Hyper

Written on October 17, 2008 by Nick Santilli and 8 people have commented

I recently wrote about alternatives to Apple’s Spaces virtual desktop offering that comes included with Leopard. There, I confessed that I’ve come to appreciate the simplicity Spaces offers, though miss configuration options.
Well Hyperspaces is the forthcoming extension to Spaces and does well to fill the ‘configurability’ void that some of us pine for. Tony Arnold [...]

Alternatives to Apple Spaces

Written on September 25, 2008 by Nick Santilli and 8 people have commented

Almost a year ago Apple gave us Leopard (OS X 10.5), and along with it came virtual desktops for the masses, in the form of Spaces. For many this was an interesting new way to expand their workspace virtually. For the rest of us [power users?] it was a letdown in [...]

Apple Spaces Needs Competition

Written on November 21, 2007 by Nick Santilli and 19 people have commented

Leopard (OS X.5) was one of those big releases that while I was excited about it on principle, there weren’t many of the announced features that [on the surface] got me purring. The feature that garnered the most excitement for me was Spaces. I’m a longtime virtual desktop user and have gone through [...]

Spaces Review

Written on November 05, 2007 by Stephanie Guertin and 23 people have commented

I’ve been using multiple virtual desktops for years, in just about every operating system imaginable. Since sometime in 2004 I’ve used them in OS X, generally in the form of the now-mostly-defunct Desktop Manager. It’s a fairly good program, but lately I kept noticing an error reading: “: The function `CGSUniqueCString’ [...]