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Virtual Desktops for Mac OS X

Posted by pudge on from the if-it-were-really-useful-apple-would-include-it-in-the-os dept.

TexTex writes "Riley Lynch has released Space.dock, which brings multiple desktops to Mac OS X. He's provided the code and binaries through SourceForce.net. It runs pretty well for being a 0.7 release and sure beats hiding all your applications and just opening the one you'd like." This is a cool little program. I usually question how much I really need virtual desktops, but I never fail to use them when I have them available.

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  1. Re:Never used by vegetablespork · · Score: 2, Interesting

    A second monitor has alleviated the need for virtual desktops for me. And Macs do this even better than Windows machines--or at least they used to.

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  2. 0.8 due shortly by TexTex · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Yes the site and the program have some shelf-life. Riley's stated that version 0.8 will released "any day now" and has been in testing for the past few weeks. It should include a global hotkey which may make swapping between these desktops amazingly easy.

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