Using Spaces in Mac OS X Leopard

Video Transcript

"My name is Brandon Sarkis on behalf of Expert Village. Today I'll be showing you some of the new features in Mac OS 10.5 Leopard. Ok the next thing we're going to be talking about is Apple's new Spaces feature, which is for all practical purposes a virtual desktop. We're going to go over here and click on system preferences. The first thing you have to do is actually turn the Spaces feature on. It does not come turned on by default. So we'll click on this. The top row, under personal, it's bundled in with expose. This folder used to just be expose, but now its expose and spaces. So you click on that. You'll see that it still opens up by default in expose. The next line is spaces, so just click on that. The first thing you have to do is actually enable it. Click there, now you'll see everything come on. And what I do, this is a matter of personal preference, show your spaces in the menu bar. And what that does, is it puts a little icon up here that actually allows you to thumb between, however you see fit, and it is also a nice little icon at the top that shows you which page you're on of the four you've got. Or four you have by default. You can obviously, you can add a row here, you can add columns. The most you can have is sixteen, which is four by four. What I'm going to do here is, obviously I have no need for sixteen, so I'm just going to make mine four again. Alright, since I've already done this once, and I've already been playing with it for a little while, you'll see there are application assignments here. I've got Aperture, Garage Band, a couple things like that assigned to certain work spaces. The idea behind this is that I can have one workspace that's just for photos, one workspace just for videos, one workspace just for audio like LogicPro or Garage Band. That way you can have them open and not have your applications all on top of each other and have them all in full screen mode and switch between them nice and neatly without any major problems. The way you want to add an application is here I'll add something. You go to applications here, and I'm going to add Lightroom. Adobe Lightroom. I'm going to hit add. So you'll see that it pops up right here, and I'm not going to put this in space one. I'm going to have it in space two with Aperture. So I click on there, space two, and there you go. Simple enough. Down here there are a couple of features you can change. To activate spaces hit F8 as you'll see if I hit it right now it brings up your four windows. You can pick which space you want to work in. To switch between spaces by default is control with the arrow keys. You can see the little arrows in the screen which shows you which one you're switching to and which one you're switching with. And to switch directly to a space you can hit control and the number key to switch to it, which is kind of a neat feature."