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This is exactly how I feel about spaces AND punctuation marks.

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Last week I wrote about how much I missed Spaces in OSX when it was removed in Lion.

I have since gone back to Snow Leopard, and I am so glad I did. I miss absolutely nothing about Lion.

For Mac users who are using any of the non-Lion cats, here is how Spaces can help:

In System Preferences > Expose & Spaces, you can set a grid to contain spaces that behave like virtual desktops. These help you keep applications and windows from competing for screen real estate in one space. So no more moving your email window out of the way to see your iTunes.

For years, I have used a 3x3 grid. Mail is always space 1, Chrome is always space 2, iTunes is always space 3, and so on. This is easy to set up, because you can tell Spaces from the Preferences panel to always place designated apps in designated spaces.

I activate Spaces with my middle mouse button because I don’t use a Magic Trackpad in my office yet (I use one at home and love it, but haven’t gone back to Snow Leopard there yet). So I am constantly jumping between apps by pressing that button to call up my grid, then clicking the space I want.

No more cluttered windows. No more Hulk smash puny screen.

Lion has a similar feature, but the spaces are arranged in one horizontal line. This arrangement makes the spaces much more difficult to recognize quickly. iTunes is space 3 for me, but it is really “upper right”, which is much faster to mentally sort out than “fourth from the left”.

So you can use the time you save to think about how absurd it is that people think periods should go inside quotation marks when the period isn’t part of what is being quoted, and how those people think the punctuation looks like it’s been abandoned outside the quotes rather than realizing that they are abandoning closing quotation marks outside sentences that they decided to end before the closing quotation marks could even do their jobs.

Always put controversial topics at the end of tech tips that nobody reads.