Leopard was released with a bunch of new, exciting features for user’s to use. One of these, while used by many Mac users, is Spaces. However, there are a lot of little tips and tricks for Spaces that you may not already know and just how useful they really are.
First, let’s turn on spaces. In System Preferences, hit "Expose and Spaces". As you can see, I have four spaces set up. Now, I already know how I want to arrange my spaces. Space one is to be for my internet, space two for MSN, space three for Mail, and space four for iTunes. Therefore, I set up application assignments for this. This is very important for MSN, as you may find that while you are surfing Have Another Apple, a MSN window appears in the wrong space. Assigning it to one space will prevent this from occurring.
Now for the tricks (after the jump)…
It is possible to move windows from one space to another. Whilst looking at spaces, simply drag and drop the window into the new space.
However, you can also rearrange entire spaces. Simply drag the space rather than the window.
Spaces work great with a Mighty Mouse. I have my middle (center) click button set to show me spaces. You can also use control plus the number key of the space to navigate between them. Below you can see my space set up judging on the application assignments mentioned above.
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