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Mac OSX 10.5.3 Available Today

rockmsockm — Thu, 29 May 2008 00:05:59 +0000

Just a reminder: Mac OSX 10.5.3 is now available for download via the Apple site, or Software Update.

Apparently, this update primarily addresses issues regarding Airport, Time Machine, Time Capsule, Aperture and Spaces. It also has numerous general fixes throughout.

A full list of this update’s details can be found here:

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1141

All Shall Move in Spaces

iNate — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 09:52:17 +0000

Say you have AIM open and then you open safari and then itunes. Say you want to move all your conversations along with the buddy list at once with out moving everything else while using spaces. Press ‘command’ and move one of the items and everything involved with that application and it goes with it.

This works with any app. EG, you have 6 pages open in safari. Go to spaces. hold command down and then drag just one of the pages of safari and it moves all of them.

Use Spaces More Efficiently

mr_giggles — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 22:15:18 +0000

With Spaces, Mac users can finally enjoy what Linux users have had for years: virtual desktops. However, Leopards implementation has a neat trick that I’ve yet to see in any Linux distro. You can now perform “window dragging” between the desktops without having to use the multi-pane view (ie. 4 screen view).

Simply click on a window as though you were going to drag it. While continuing to hold down the mouse button, press control+ to move that window to another space. Then let go when you are done. Isn’t that a much easier way to manage window clutter?

Move Spaces!

James — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 21:50:37 +0000

Here’s one that Hugo has E-Mailed in, I don’t think we’ve mentioned this one on the site yet!

You probably know that you can move windows between spaces, but do you know that you can move spaces themselves and change their order?

Just open Spaces, click on the background of a space and move it.

Thanks Hugo

Expose in spaces

baldingnerd — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 06:08:42 +0000

Revisit with Video:

If you have multiple apps open in multiple spaces you can display all spaces and hit F9 (or whatever key you have mapped for expose) and you will get a display of every window open in every space. Since it’s easier to see than to read here is a video of it in action: link to video

Spaces Collection Trick

baldingnerd — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 06:45:39 +0000

If you have multiple spaces populated with various windows you can highlight one space (in the full screen spaces view) and press the “c” button (I guess for collapse or combine)this will send all open app windows to the highlighted space. I found this to be very handy!

Slow motion

Tobiaslarsen — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 13:44:56 +0000

Here’s a trick that has been passed on from previous versions of OS X although extended for other Leopard features. If you press shift when you activate a stack or spaces (unfortunatly not working with mouse in hot corners), your stack/grid, space or exposé will motion neatly slow.Maybe not that useful, but can be used to show them wind blowers how some stuff work!!

Switching Windows in Spaces

boris.apple — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 22:17:41 +0000

It’s very useful when switching fast between windows in spaces…

Well, I found it’s very easy to do this with mouse scroll wheel. Open spaces, then try operating the scroll wheel on your mouse for the switching

More on Spaces

James — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 04:27:43 +0000

Nick over at macrumors offered me this spaces trick:

“While in the Spaces screen, holding down Shift while dragging a window to a different space will cause it to keep its position on the screen.”

I tried it, and it’s cool!

New Finder Window

esqwuared — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 22:59:27 +0000

Spaces rocks. It’s going to change the way many people multitask. The one “oddity” those who have played with it have likely found is that selecting the Finder by clicking in the Dock or pressing Alt-Tab will whisk you away to another space with a Finder window already open, assuming there isn’t already one in the current space.Since many find it useful to keep Finder windows pertinent to their enclosing spaces around, we need a good way to create a new Finder window in the current space. There are a few ways to do this:

A simple solution to this, of course, is to click on the Desktop to focus the Finder, and press Command-N. If you’re like me, however, the Desktop is hidden at least once over, even with Spaces.
Another option is to Control-Click on the Finder in the Dock and select “New Finder Window.” This is nice as it opens at your preferred default, but it takes two clicks, which is annoying.
A final alternative, and my personal preference, is to take advantage of the “Reveal in Finder” functionality of the Dock. By Command-Clicking on any application or stack, you will invoke a finder window focused on (but not open at) it.