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Spaces: How Many Do You Use? How Frequent? Set-Up? Tips?

HappyDude20

HappyDude20

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Simply, I love Spaces. Allows me to have an individual pane for each subject I may be working on, usually college work, eBay business, music, one for just surfing the web and another for mail and calendars...

I'm deeply curious as to how others use Spaces and how you've got it configured for your personal ease of use.

I've tried having a bunch of spaces like 9 or so but sometimes I think that's just too much, though useful. Since I've had OS X Leopard I've stuck with 4 spaces. One for music solely, another for internet browsing for just killing time or researching school work, another Space for Pages/Word and another for Mail. Or interchange their use and select a Space for online business work. Or financing my accounts. I love Spaces, it works well to switch to a Space set up with Pages and research quickly if someone gets near when I'm actually just killing time on Digg.com

Post any tips, suggestions you may concerning Spaces and how to enjoy it further and implement some useful techniques. For example, I've set up a few apps to open to corresponding Spaces only so all my work under that category stays within that space.
 
I can honestly say I have no need for spaces. When I want to do more than one thing, I use the minimize button. Works like a charm.
 
I use spaces fairly frequently for design, music and web.

Sometimes they can screw up though - it can be frustrating.
 
6 spaces. 2 rows and 3 columns. I find that to best fit my needs.


I do use Spaces a lot. My biggest annoyance: when Photoshop and Word sometimes don't work right when switching between spaces. :(
 
Watabou said:
6 spaces. 2 rows and 3 columns. I find that to best fit my needs.


I do use Spaces a lot. My biggest annoyance: when Photoshop and Word sometimes don't work right when switching between spaces. :(
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This can get quite annoying - it's not just photoshop either - it's the whole CS4 suite that plays up.
 
I used to use it with Linux (it exists since ages on Linux) but now as I am on Mac I don't use it anymore. I prefer to have two screens or a 24'.
 
i use 2 spaces.. one for windows in vm fusion and the other is mac. multitouch expose helps ALOT with managing space in the small estate i have.
 
bertpalmer said:
This can get quite annoying - it's not just photoshop either - it's the whole CS4 suite that plays up.
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Really? I'm still on CS3 and that has problems but I really thought CS4 would be fully Leopard compatible.

I use 8 spaces. Top tip: leave a window open.
 
I don't use it, but i've never really tried it. Cmd+Tab and Cmd+` works fine for me.

I often run a combination of iTunes, Safari, Photoshop, FireFox, Mail and EyeTV across my MacBook and a 24" external display; what kind of Spaces setup do you reckon I should try?
 
Southernboy said:
Really? I'm still on CS3 and that has problems but I really thought CS4 would be fully Leopard compatible.

I use 8 spaces. Top tip: leave a window open.
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Another myth is that that CS4 is significantly faster - it's a bit quicker but not much in it...
 
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