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- colincornaby, on 10/12/2007, -89/+239"It's been around on windows, and even linux for years, to declutter windows. It's called a taskbar."
Yeah, and Mac has the Dock. But this app is different than the taskbar/dock. - DaffyDuck, on 10/12/2007, -8/+136I just don't see a need for this. Exposé, the dock, and multiple desktops deal with clutter very well. I guess this could be useful for people who got used to this way of keeping organized and find it to hard to adjust to the newer ways.
- wilhoitm, on 10/12/2007, -11/+117You're using Internet Explorer aren't you? ;-)
- prototypeangel, on 10/12/2007, -189/+279Amazing new mac app?
It's been around on windows, and even linux for years, to declutter windows. It's called a taskbar. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -8/+71wow. here's an idea. hit the "-" button and stash your window in the dock.
- oxygen911, on 10/12/2007, -11/+71straight out of os9.... ahh memories...
- maclaxguy, on 10/12/2007, -5/+64So hows about you remove the apple news from your topics? That way you don't see what you don't care about, and we don't have to see you.
Click up top: Profile, then the "Profile" tab, then "Manage Topics". Pretty simple.
Thank you. - oceandigdug, on 10/12/2007, -7/+58One of the best features of OS9
- andritchie, on 10/12/2007, -0/+49You can use it for free, but after about 7 or 8 clicks you get a little prompt that asks you to buy it.
(You can click 'later' and continue using it, but after about 7 or 8 more clicks you'll get the message again) - jasonmacari, on 10/12/2007, -1/+43Neat little app, but I'm not sure it has a place anymore with Expose and Cmd-Option H.
- Brutal, on 10/12/2007, -10/+51How come the windows equivalents always look like *****?
- benjic, on 10/12/2007, -11/+51This is the windows equivalent.
http://shellscape.org/nubs/ - Snyder, on 10/12/2007, -11/+46The tabs work great! This has helped so much with my window clutter problem! Now does anyone know of a program to deal with my tab clutter problem?
- sitryd, on 10/12/2007, -3/+36or hit +M to minimize
- Scottish, on 10/12/2007, -2/+34I'm cool with the title being ambiguous, but you think you could at least describe what this "amazing" new app is in the description, even?
- alwaysmc2, on 10/12/2007, -4/+35I thought it was going to be a screenshot of the taskbar. :P
- gimmeslack12, on 10/12/2007, -4/+32It's a neat feature re-visited, but I find that simply Minimizing windows (built-in to OS X) is pretty useful as well and probably just as easy. Overall I wouldn't call it an Amazing Mac App. Quicksilver is an example of an Amazing Mac App.
- petewhite, on 10/12/2007, -7/+32why is that better than minimizing windows?
- brandoj, on 10/12/2007, -14/+35You actually have to drag the window to the edge of the screen? What a waste of effort.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+21I wonder if because of the fact OS X gives you a lot of personal choice as to how to manipulate your desktop environment (Expose, Minimize, Hide, etc.) people just forget about those built in features. I don't know how it worked in OS9 cause frankly I switched a few months ago, but it seems pretty intuitive, just not absolutely necessary for streamlining productivity.
- benjic, on 10/12/2007, -1/+17Yea because we all want to load a 1650 by 1080 res video file in our browser, it wasn't at all for convenience, now was it?
- fhornplayer, on 10/12/2007, -4/+20It's a mac story. Thus, few windows users care, and mac fanboys bury anything that may be considered a bash against apple. Bury someone if they are blatantly incorrect or if their opinion is offensive, not just if you disagree with their opinion. I personally think that this is more gimmicky than innovative, and that it isn't cool enough to merit top ten status. That said, the title and the description contradict each other. I wholeheartedly agree with the description.
- MjP2, on 10/12/2007, -0/+15@pitlord
"I only wish Apple hadn't given up the corner pixels."
Actually, they didn't. Go ahead and try to click the top-left or top-right corner and notice that even though you miss the target of Apple menu or Spotlight, it still acts as if you had hit the target. This only works when you haven't configured Exposé to use the corners, of course.
The thing you are talking about is called Fitts' Law and it states that the time it takes to hit a target is proportional to both the distance and the size of the target. When it comes to corners, the size is essentially infinite and so they're fast to reach. - LowRentDiggs, on 10/12/2007, -10/+24I've been using this app for like 3 years. It's not new.
- dharcha1, on 10/12/2007, -6/+20id rather stick with command-tab.
- coldfusion1970, on 10/12/2007, -2/+16I was checking this out the other day.
I was very close to buying it, but i guess its best to wait for 10.5 see what that includes. - mercurysquad, on 10/12/2007, -8/+21Coming from a Linux world, the weird thing on Mac OS X seems to be that everything costs money. Program to minimize windows? 15 bucks. Program to hide the dock? 5 bucks (yes it exists and that's what it costs). Even for Windows there are lots of freeware available, for a Mac you have to search harder.
- nevenmrgan, on 10/12/2007, -2/+15That looks really good... and it doesn't solve any problem better than the Dock, Expose, and Hiding...
- burke, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13FYI: 1 ***** = 3.2 metric *****.
- tsunamisteve, on 10/12/2007, -3/+14We need tagging filters on Digg, so I don't ever have to read the words "amazing" or "AMAZING" again. The list goes on and on.
Not to mention this is basically just spam but it'll make front page. - OneAndOnlySnob, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12Because now you can't see the little miniaturized window on your dock! BIG STEP FORWARD.
- zxspectrum, on 10/12/2007, -3/+14amazingly buggy...and pink.
- R0cc0, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10@tsunamisteve,
I agree, you can add the phrase 'Totally Addicting Game" to that list. - undeadcannibals, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11I prefer expose, hot corners, and the dock. But I can see how that can be useful.
- jake8689, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11or i could just hit the little yellow minus sign
- Rice, on 10/12/2007, -2/+12This looks useful...
If your screen resolution is 800x600. - bedouin, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10I'm a fan of + H myself.
- thecoleorton, on 10/12/2007, -4/+13Is Expose just not enough for people?
- iashraf, on 10/12/2007, -2/+11@Ray_Justice - Wow.. you're an idiot!
- dBass, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10Not to mention VirtueDesktop, Desktop Manager and Leopard.
- tuqqer, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10You're right, Scottish. T'was my first Digg, and I didn't take enough time to put better descriptors in the title. Apologies and I'll do that next time.
- crazybrit, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10This isn't new, it's v2.0. I'm sure there's a free alternative too.
- Erch, on 10/12/2007, -3/+11"Yeah, Mac OS had this feature before OS X. It's way better than Taskbar (I hate the Start menu). Taskbar has dead pixels on the edge of the screen in order to make a "decorative" border around the buttons. Edge pixels are the key to the super efficiency of the Mac OS Menu bar because every edge pixel on your screen is "infinitely" deep. This allows you to hit your target pixel with about 10,000% better accuracy because the edge of the screen will stop the pointer for you. With Taskbar you have to "zero" in on your target button and if you hit the edge of the screen you've missed the button you were aiming for."
What kind of BS is that, it may have been that way back in win95 but in the later versions you can click "under" the buttons on the taskbar and actually hit them anyway.
Anyway, this must be the most effective window-magagmentsystem I've seen, expose, flip3d and even old fashion alt-tab takes too much time IMO. The taskbar in windows is good and extending it too all edges is excellent.
Thumbs up. - soopafly, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9Ding ding ding!!! Idiot comment of the day!
- wackymacs, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6I wouldn't call it "amazing", but it's been nicely implemented and has a use - although I personally don't find window clutter a problem as I've got an adequately sized display, and I hide apps I'm not actively using. I'm not sure it's "new" either - this dates back to the Mac OS 9 days, and the idea stems back even further than that - and this version is 2.0, so what about 1.0?
- brandoj, on 10/12/2007, -4/+10@Mlkezila
That "*****" of work you cite is how you measure the efficiency of a user interface. It's certainly not "taking out the garbage" but it could still be pruned. - Sheetz, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6why the heck would you want this, you can already downsize the windows into the dock, and its not like the dock is disappearing so why have them on the side of the screen....
- cmiz, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6It's nifty... but I wouldn't pay for it when there is similar functionality (expose, command-H) built into the OS itself. If it were free I might give it a whirl...
- zxspectrum, on 10/12/2007, -1/+51. continuous shareware pop-ups!!!
2. Pink!
3. conflicting with 'you control' (http://www.yousoftware.com/control/) hot keys menus...
4. no hotkeys
4. buggy
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$20
*needs an update ASAP! - andrewguy, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6yeah man, i just have expose set in hot corner to show all windows when I move my mouse there. Seems to work for me.
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