I'm finally upgrading by TiBook to OS X 10.4 Tiger and am in the process of reinstalling all my applications. One feature that I wish OS X had is virtual desktops. A virual desktop tool allows you to distribute your running applicaitons to several different virtual views which you can switch between using hotkeys or a mouse. If you used any Unix flavor you are probably familiar with this concept. Anyway I recently tried Desktop Manager for OS X again and it looks cool.

I have been using an application called Space that was available on Jaguar and Panther. However, it looks like no one is developing this app anymore, so it is time to find something new. I had previously tried Desktop Manager and Virtue for this task, but found both lacking the ease of use of Space.

From what I have seen so far, Desktop Manager has improved quite a bit from the last time I used it. You can move between desktops using hotkeys or a visual paging manager in the lower left corner of the screen. You can also move applications between desktops which I don't thing worked in the last version I tried. Anyway, if virtual desktops is a feature you need, give desktop manager a look.