Here’s another piece of software someone needs to write

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This is my desktop right now, showing all Safari Windows. I need someone to write a piece of software treats my browsers/tabs as if they were stacks of paper I could sort at a desk. I keep things on the screen because I need information from them. There is a tipping point where I you get past the point of knowing where your information is.

You’d think now with Core Animation, someone could come up with a way of shrinking windows/tabs to stacks, plus auto-logically grouping tabs according to thematics? Please?

2008
01/24
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musing
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    • Val
    • January 24th, 2008

    Have you seen BumpTop?

    The weakness (aside from its vaporware (sorry, “private alpha”) status ;-) is that it works on documents, not web pages, as far as I can tell. Same goes for OS X’s “Stack” function.

    The only Web-oriented thing I found in this class is SpaceTime. I played with it a few months ago; it’s not ready for prime time. Performance was poor on my 2-year-old Dell Inspiron laptop. 3D navigation was limited; I ended up with a few rows of pages receding into the distance, but didn’t have full freedom of motion. And none of the auto-grouping smarts you’re looking for (tho that is a whole new domain, and much harder than the 3D rendering these products concentrate on). Definitely needs a lot of work.

    But at least there’s some motion going on.

    BTW, what’s with all these LazyWeb requests from you recently? Don’t you code anymore? Scratch your own itch! (Sez Val, who has any number of “I gotta play with this cool tech” projects on the back burner (Django, Processing, etc. ;-)

    • vanderleun
    • January 24th, 2008

    Safari > Window > Merge All Windows

  3. I think you’re looking for Bumptop:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0ODskdEPnQ
    http://bumptop.com/

    Unfortunately… not available yet.

    • PB
    • January 28th, 2008

    Good god Ethan! Hahaha

    How long does it take you to read and do everything that’s open?

    Or, do you just shut it all down at some point and say “to hell with it” then re-open stuff at a later time?

  5. Oh my god! all this windows!

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