Is it possible to expand the area of the desktop?

Is it possible to expand the area of the desktop?
What I mean is, in a way similar to how you can expand the viewing area of the finder. For example, If you set finder to arrange icons - by: none, then you can slide the icons out of the field of view and scroll around to different areas of the finder window. I have a folder of movies that I have no arrangement settings, the finder window spans pretty far in all direction and I simply scroll around within in finder. So I was wonder is that feature is possible with the desktop, so that I could essentially slide an open program off the screen and scroll over to it later and basically pane around the desktop. It would sort of be like zoom but I would retain the same resolution or clarity of the screen with it getting pixilated.

HI,
Try Spaces for a virtual desktop.
http://www.ehow.com/how2189851use-spaces-mac-os-x.html
Carolyn

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