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BumpTop is a fun and useful Windows download that we covered when it was only a concept. It’s now available in two versions, free and Pro ($29). It gets you closer to using your desktop like you use a real desk. You can group and pile documents and folders, hang photos and stickies on the wall, and tweet easily without opening a web browser or application. It even supports multi-touch if you have the hardware and Windows 7 to support it. Brief 546 is a demo of BumpTop, which you can download here.
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April 8th, 2009 at 1:53 pm
A fun desktop like BumpTop could go a long way towards making my Bill Gates box library office workstation a lot more bearable to use. I know this sounds crazy, but one of my favorite things about the Macintosh (more appropriately their graphics-user interface, “Aqua” and default applications) are Stickies. When you’re working with code, putting bits and pieces of code on Stickies is a *LOT* handier than doing so with named and numbered buffers using the vi/vim text editor (still my favorite, sorry TextWrangler). ^..^~
April 8th, 2009 at 5:26 pm
BumpTop seems cool for the Windows crowd. But Apple already has multiple surfaces like BumpTop. Instead of making them 3-D, Apple shows the surfaces as desktops. We know this feature as Spaces where we can organize applications together on one space, have another space for photos, another space for browsers, etc. The default “F8″ key allows one to see all their spaces at once and easily jump to another space.
Spotlight already serves as a locator for – well – everything on our Macs. Okay – almost everything – and items and applications can easily be launched from Spotlight.
I’m not sure what the big deal is about inserting a thumb drive and dragging and dropping an item to copy that item to the thumb drive. Isn’t that feature already implemented on both Macs and Windows computers?
So I don’t think BumpTop is as “unique” on a Mac as it is on a Windows computer. Which is not to say there aren’t any good ideas that BumpTop brings to the table. I like their idea of making important items stand out by increasing the size of the icon. I like the idea of adding “weight” to the icons. Easily creating stacks by file type is interesting too. But Apple already has several of BumpTop’s features implemented in a way that works well and it’s just not that exciting for me personally on a Mac – when and if they decide to bring the software to the Mac platform.
My two cents worth.
Peace.
April 8th, 2009 at 7:20 pm
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April 8th, 2009 at 7:21 pm
Brief 546 is up! http://www.geekbrief.tv/gbtv-546-bumptop
April 8th, 2009 at 7:35 pm
Brief 546 is up! http://www.geekbrief.tv/gbtv-546-bumptop (via @CaliLewis)
April 8th, 2009 at 7:38 pm
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April 8th, 2009 at 7:42 pm
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April 8th, 2009 at 7:50 pm
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April 8th, 2009 at 7:55 pm
GBTV #546 | BumpTop: Shownotes:
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April 9th, 2009 at 1:13 am
ok..this is awesome..try out bumptop.com…amazing 3D desktop program for Windows – http://www.geekbrief.tv/gbtv-546-bumptop
April 9th, 2009 at 8:38 am
@Paul, BumpTop is a download for Micro$oft Windows in order that users may have a more accessible, intuitive and user-friendly desktop on their PC. That BumpTop so resembles the Mac0SX graphics-user interface (“Aqua”) is a testament to Apple’s legacy of outstanding operating systems, applications and interfaces.
April 9th, 2009 at 3:43 pm
Check out the new BumpTop desktop client here: http://tinyurl.com/c6n5tu
April 9th, 2009 at 3:47 pm
Cali, I was excited, too, and it was a lot of fun for the first five minutes. But as the cool factor starts to wear off, you realize you’ve just cluttered your actual desktop with copies of everything and that there’s really nothing useful at all about Bumptop. It has a neat GUI but nothing under the hood. It would’ve been nice if it had the ability reorganize your files and folders or use tags or something/anything besides dumping stuff right on your desktop. Sorry, I had to vent. Something like Windows7’s Explorer meets Bumptop, now that would’ve been something to podcast about.
April 10th, 2009 at 6:45 pm
@Sapien, to make BumpTop something like MacOSX “Aqua” under the hood would be quite a tall order. Apple’s keeping that the likes of a national top security secret. It does make using Micro$oft Windows a little more bearable and offers a favorite little app, “Stickies.” ^..^~
April 11th, 2009 at 12:29 am
Check out this very cool and functional desktop application! I want it! http://tinyurl.com/c6n5tu
April 11th, 2009 at 9:06 am
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April 26th, 2009 at 3:05 am
I would of used bump top permanently, but on the free version , even though i had set it to ‘run on startup’ it didnt run like it was an individual operationg system, and just loaded up very slow, my main email adress is ryanbradbury@yahoo.com, email me, if you have any alternates!
July 21st, 2009 at 8:27 am
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