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Originally Posted by Mccree
Ok so I am still new to the Mac. What are spaces and expose?
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Macs can get a little cluttered as the windows don't occupy an entire screen, but rather small portions of it. If I have a word document, my email, my browser, my photos and my itunes all open at the same time navigating to one of those could be annoying. Expose takes everything that is open and displays it in a thumbnail/grid sort of thing for easy access.
Instead of having to click through things to access one document or application among many opens ones, expose presents it like this:
In keeping with the cluttered problem, spaces allows you to set up several different desktops. It always used to bug me that I'd be working in photoshop, but my email would be open behind it, my browser to the left of that and miscellaneous crap to the right. By activating spaces you can set up a certain number of spaces (i have 9) and assign an application to it's own space. Now when i click on my email the whole screen swipes to a clean desktop with nothing else interfering. I enjoy the lack of distraction.
This is what it looks like:
Give it a whirl for 10 minutes and see what you think. Go into your
system preferences -->
expose and spaces and activate spaces ... give yourself 4 to start out with. Assign your browser to one, email to another, itunes to the third and calendar to the fourth (or use whatever applications you use most). I can't go back to the traditional layout anymore.
Once you start getting into it more and more you can assign expose or spaces to open with a button click on your mouse so you can rip around with reckless abandon.