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Spaces in Leopard is a winner!

Spaces is a gem of Leopard!

I installed Mac OS X 10.5 yesterday and enabled the new "Spaces" feature. I expected Spaces to be similar to the multiple desktops that have been available on the many Unix and Linux windowing managers for more than a decade.

Spaces is so much more than that. I set OS X to activate the Spaces menu with a press of my "mouse button 5", along side the mouse button 4 trigger for Exposé. Now with a quick squeeze of the side button on my Logitech mouse, my four workspaces are instantly displayed. I can then squeeze the Exposé button to reveal any hidden windows within the workspaces. A click on any of these miniaturized windows switches you. This makes application switching insanely fast.

I recommend everyone get a mouse with buttons on the side and give this a shot.

Any other features of Leopard that new users have been pleasantly surprised by?

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apple-tab doesn't focus properly on all apps

I've been a big fan of Leopard so far, and Space is very cool- but I (and a lot of others it seems) have noticed a really annoying 'feature'. When you apple-tab to an application running in another Space you will not always end up focused on that application, and you have to click on it to get focus. Largely I notice this on Firefox & Thunderbird, but I use those two so much its a pretty big pain.

I've started messing with Time Machine and I like it. Crazy simple to setup- its yet another reason I should probably get my parents a Mac.

The only other feature I wish they'd added in Leopard is focus-follows-mouse, but who knows if/when that'll ever be a reality.

 
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