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.
With Halloween fast approaching, it's a great time to get in some practice defending your territory against zombies. In Graveyard Shift, you take aim at zombies and other creepy-crawlies, blasting them into splatters of cartoony green guts. It's a casual first-person shooter, and it's very easy to get the hang of - use the mouse to aim, click to fire. Graveyard Shift has at least 15 levels, and it might even have some secret stages I haven't unlocked yet.
They key to getting good at Graveyard Shift is learning to use ...
