otakusoftware.com — This brings my favorite feature with macs to windows. Expose'. TopDesk is a quick and easy way to switch between applications. With a single key press, you can instantly view thumbnails of all open windows, display thumbnails of windows belonging to the current application, or hide all windows to quickly access the desktop.
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cmiller1Jan 30, 2006
Shiptoshore: having a menubar on ever single window is horrible waste of screen real estate and does not follow Fitt's law, I'm sorry but you trying to compare that cludgy POS Windows to the Mac OS or any other reasonably modern operating system is like pulling up the the race track on a tricycle.
edgeofepsilonJan 31, 2006
coOLcAT:>Ok, but what doesn't work under Fitt's law is the fact that OS X icons at the bottom of the screen keep switching places - can't use my positional memory if they keep getting moved around every time you open or close a program.Yes, that would be the 'Dock'. It sucks. Mac users realize this, and use Quicksilver or LaunchBar to do most of our application launching. Type in a few letters, and it drops down the most probably apps/bookmarks/contacts/songs/whatever. Completely customizableThey're quite nifty, and although I haven't checked it out, I'm sure there's something comparable for Windows.
embracewareJan 31, 2006
I use a Mac at home and it's nice to have an Exposé on Windows at the office. TopDesk is pretty good. Although it doesn't work in the main application I use Exposé at home for on the Mac - "Photoshop". If you press F10 with TopDesk in Photoshop it doesn't show the individual images open - just the main UI. Not really a fault of TopDesk - it's just the way the Windows version of Photoshop is wired up.
tommisJan 31, 2006
"I mirrored the trial"??Sure way to get spyware/trojans on your machine: download+install from places you dont know are safe.
pete10203Jan 31, 2006
Hah! I've had that for awile now on my OSX, son
r3zonanceFeb 1, 2006
@MioTheGreat"Vista's version looks nicer than Expose. Since all of your running windows are actually 3d surfaces, Microsoft was able to do some nifty things...."Guess what, Expose is also 3D surfaces. In fact I'm pretty sure the whole UI is 3d surfaces.
jstewartFeb 1, 2006
Hi, I'm from Otaku Software, the developers of TopDesk. Thanks for all the diggs :)Regarding memory use, you can significantly reduce TopDesks memory use by going into the Options dialog and selecting "Use less memory (slower)". This'll cut memory use by more than half, at the expense of being a little slower on older systems.For all the users complaining that it should be free, you're forgetting that Windows XP doesn't have the whizz-bang graphics subsystem that OS X does. Trying to pull off an Expose-like effect using what's basically a 15yr old graphics API slapped on top of video cards it was never designed to take advantage of is *non-trivial*. To give you some perspective, TopDesk is 70k lines of code and took over a year to develop. If you don't want to pay $10 (less than the price of a movie ticket) for this kind of functionality, I'd suggest that you try writing your own version instead of complaining.Specifically, "geminitojanus", if it's such a small and trivial piece of software, why not slap together your own version over the weekend (or in one night, if you're a 1334 c0d3r) and release it as open source? :)
luminoirJul 19, 2006
Expose is argueably the only part of the Mac OS X GUI that is worth ripping off. The rest of the GUI is really nothing much to shout about.Case in point will be keyboard shortcuts. Sure you can open the system settings and customise them, but doing that for every app is nonsense. Whereas in windows, just hit Alt and follow the sequence of underlined keys and you can have a shortcut that breezes through multiple drop-down menus (another OS X Bugbear) quickly and easily.Most Mac zealots are mouse centric users that love that the menu bar is flush to the top (infinite throw,etc) but hey i don't even need to move the mouse to get there so what's the problem?OS preferences are personal but Mac zealotry is simply out of this world.
chazkatoOct 24, 2006
hahhaha, "1334 c0d3r" you can tell this guy is with it...
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Closed AccountMar 20, 2009
No, it doesn't. It does something entirely different.