Visual Lizard
Julian Moffatt
Julian is one of the founders of Visual Lizard Inc and a web/tech-junkie if there ever was one. He has a small collection of iPods (3 and counting) and a Blackberry 7250 for those times he is actually away from his computer.
Having been first introduced to computers at the tender age of 6, Julian has had at one point or another: an IBM PC XT, an Apple 2e, a Fujikama 286 (with a 256 colour monitor!!) through to the first computer he personally purchased, a glorious 486 PC with 40MBs of hard drive space and a 16-bit graphics card for $4200 in 1990. Coincidentally, that was his first loan as well. However, it was the 486 that led to the discovery of newsgroups (remember alt.rocknroll before Usenet?) and Pine, the worlds worst application for email ever. In-fact, some would say that his addiction to X-com and Pine caused him to take a break from University to pursue "something to do with computers dad". The rest is history as they say.
He works with a MacBook Pro in the office and is equally at home in front of Linux, Windows or OS X operating systems. He is project manager, design shepherd (he speaks designer fluently and has been known to run in certain design circles under an alias) and CSS guru. He also brow beats the guys in the office about accessibility, Search Engine Optimization and the importance of music to the soul.
When Julian is not actually working, he can be found enjoying time at the hockey rink with the guys, beating small synthetic dimpled balls across acres of manicured land or just hanging out with family and friends at home or the cottage.
In spite of all of the above, Julian has an awesome wife, two crazy-cute daughters (3 and 1), 2 cats and a dog that has moved out citing breach of contract under the "no-child-and-dog-cohabiting" clause. She visits from time to time, but can be found relaxing on a pile of sheep-skins at the grandparents house most days.
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Leopard, Spaces and Multiple Safari Windows
Leopard introduced the average user to virtual work spaces, known simply as Spaces in OS X. These virtual work spaces can contain as many applications as you like in an effort to keep you organized. The general concept of Spaces as a simple implementation for the masses is a good one.
My main issue with spaces is that you can not have seperate windows from an application in more than one space. an obvious application that I would personally like to have in a few different spaces is Safari. It would be nice to have a single window open in my web development space as well as having a window open in my communication space.
Presently there is the option within the spaces preference pane that lets you assign an application to be available in all spaces, or locked into a single space no matter which space you launch it in. That doesn’t really address the need to have a window in space 1 and space 2, but not in 3 and 4 (or more).
To work around this present limitation I’ve found a little trick. Here is what you can do to get single instances of Safari into various spaces: use the dashboard to launch the individual windows.
Yup. That’s it. Just go to the space you want a Safari window to appear in. Hit F12 to launch dashboard. Use the google widget, or any Safari launching widget like Junior Mint, to pop a new Safari window into the current space you entered Dashboard in. Rinse and repeat in each space you want a single window of Safari.
This doesn’t really fix spaces, but it solves the browser window issue for me anyhow.
Comments
Comment by
Michael Long
on
Nov 20, 2007
That's kind of the long way around the block. Just right-click the Safari icon in the dock and select New Window.
http://www.iSights.org/spaces/index.html
Comment by
Julian Moffatt
on
Nov 20, 2007
Sheesh. After a reboot and some sleep ... I have no idea what the heck I was thinking. I'm not sure why Safari in spaces was pulling all windows with it when I dragged them around before.
Both Zlem and Michael are correct.
I'm going to try and figure out just what mix of cold-meds and lack of sleep drove me to post this ... because I'm apparently much smarter in that state than I am normally ;P
Comment by
Tim Wood
on
Dec 27, 2007
Okay... fine... in Safari, I can open a new window in the current space by right clicking (I'm sorry ... I love my Mac but single button mice suck) and choosing new window. A lot of Apps do not have this option. I'm not very free with the idiot label, but the people who developed Safari and have (1) plainly not looked at the competition (2) are not using it to do work with applications outside the Apple fishbowl _and_ (3) are complete blithering idiots. Just my opinion. I wish Desktop Manager worked with 10.5. I'm turning spaces off until it can actually do more than give me headaches.
Comment by
Yaggo
on
Feb 15, 2008
I still wish there was a *keyboard shortcut* for opening new safari window in the current space.
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Could you not just open a couple Safari windows and move them to the spaces you want?
I do that when I log in each day. Command-N a bunch of Safari windows, drag them to the edge of the Space to pop them into the next. I can then have a few tabs in each window in each space depending on what I'm working on.