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Customize your Spaces on OS X with Hyperspaces

Hyperspaces is an app that lets you customize the behavior of Apple's built-in screen-switching app, Spaces. If you're not familiar with Spaces, it basically gives you multiple desktops and lets you assign different apps to them. This keeps your screen uncluttered, so you can work in Photoshop on one Space and keep all those chat windows in another. Spaces is one of those features that users either love and rely on find completely useless. If you're in the latter camp because of interface and usability issues, Hyperspaces may just convert you.

Hyperspaces was developed by Tony Arnold, creator of VirtueDesktops, which introduced screen-switching to the Mac before Apple came out with Spaces in OS 10.5. With Hyperspaces, you can tell your spaces apart more easily, by naming them, adding labels to them, and assigning individual desktop pictures to each one. It also introduces a neat little visual navigation menu, which makes getting to right space less of a hassle. One thing Apple got right about Spaces was the hotkeys, so naturally Hyperspaces gives you more of them, for easier control.

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