Filed under: Utilities, Macintosh, Productivity
Customize your Spaces on OS X with Hyperspaces
by Jay Hathaway Nov 7th 2008
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.
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
