Well, I’m assuming that by now just about everyone who reads my blog also checks out GeekBrief.TV at least occasionally. Neal and Cali produce that show, and they just covered a very cool looking application for Windows called BumpTop.
BumpTop is a desktop replacement application which allows you to have a 3D environment instead of your boring flat desktop. This will let you pin things on virtual walls, have news delivered while you work, automate the sharing of photos with Flickr, and just a bunch of other things.
Here, I’m not going to re-invent the wheel. Cali gave a great overview of how the app worked in this issue of GeekBrief. Enjoy!
Also, here is the complete YouTube demo video for the product:
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Cool! And what system requirmets needed for this tehnology?
THAT is ingenious. I’ve imagined a circular mouse menu for years.
That being said…I think it’s time for Microsoft to open it’s doors to outside ideas. This idea is OBVIOUSLY way ahead of Microsoft from a UI standpoint.
John, how come you don’t blog more? I like the “raw” you harvest from the webz.
I don’t know. It’s all 3D, so I imagine some kind of accelerator is necessary. It supports both 32 and 64 bit versions of XP/Vista/Windows 7. I’m a bad person to ask because I have a gaming machine (Nvidia GTX 280). So, this thing is really fast on my PC.
I’ve been using it for about 5 hours now and I’m loving it. The video doesn’t even cover all of the stuff it can do. For instance, I create sticky notes (29$ for the full version FYI) and label them “games”, “DVD stuff”, etc. Then I stack my apps and put that stack on the sticky note. So, I’ve got labeled piles. It’s REALLY cool.
Wow!!! That looks totally awesome! I think I better clean off my machine before I download it, though. I’m in the ‘red’ right now…eek…
I like this. It does look cool and a noob wont be able to recongnise what OS you are using :p
Nice program.