Many Snow Leopard users are unfamiliar with the feature called ‘Spaces’ in Snow Leopard, and that’s sad. In my opinion, Spaces was one of the best features in Leopard and it hasn’t of course been thrashed in Snow Leopard, but many Snow Leopard users doesn’t take advantage of the feature, and that can only be because they doesn’t know how to use it.

If you are one of the mentioned, that doesn’t know how to use Spaces in Snow Leopard, we have made this video to show you how you use it:

Configure Spaces

Spaces can be configured the way you want it, as you can see on the video above. To configure Spaces, just enter System Preferences, by clicking the Apple icon in your upper left corner, and then ‘Preferences’ as you can see below (click to enlarge).

Then head for the ‘Exposé and Spaces’ button

… and then the window below will appear

Here you can adjust Spaces as you want. You can choose up to 16 Spaces, and if you have two screens in your screen arrangement you will now have 32 different ‘desktops’ or ‘work spaces’  instead of two.

In the Spaces Preferences, you can choose if you like cmd, alt or ctrl to switch between spaces, while directing with the arrow keys or the number keys. You can also choose which F-button you like to activate Spaces (to see all spaces at once). Standard key for this function is F8.

How do I use it?

I use Spaces all the time. I like to play a game called Football Manager, but I want to surf the internet and chat with my friends at the same time. My solution is, that I have my game in Space 1, my Mail application in Space 2, Internet in Space 3, and in Space 4 I have Adium and iChat.

Since I have two screen in my arrangement (the one that’s on my MacBook Pro and a separate 19″ screen), I can control two applications at once in just one Space, and if I want to listen to music in iTunes, I just open iTunes in the Space that I use the most (probably the one with Football Manager ) and then drag it to the screen that doesn’t run the application I use.