Bumptop Review: Complete Features of an Amazing 3-D Desktop Unveiled
By Angsuman Chakraborty, Gaea News NetworkTuesday, April 7, 2009
Bumptop, after being presented in TED 2007, dived into serious technological improvements until recently they came up with their 13th beta version which is stable and working perfectly with some of the coolest features available. Bumptop is a 3D desktop application which is meant to make your desktop operations (dragging, resizing, dropping, e-mailing, printing etc) fun and intuitive. It is unlike anything you have seen before. Gone are the days of style XP, talismans, Vista inspirat themes. it not just brings in entertainment but its quite useful too. Here are some cool and not-so-cool features of Bumptop as we found out.
We thought, a picture says a thousand words so we will let our keyboards rest and the images tell you the full story. I hope you will love watching the pictures we are sharing.
BumpTop Unveiled
Right Click on any file on bumptop and you get three options - Shrink, Grow and More (that has other Windows options)
Drag an arc over the files you want to select and drag the mouse pointer to the center, you will find the above options.
Draw an arc over set of icons you want to pile up, You will see a highlighted centre point, drag them there and it gets piled. Wow!
Just double- click on the stack pile of files and you will see a very convenient grid view as above
Right click on the pile and select 'Fan Out' and drag the files wherever you want, in whichever trajectory. They will still be in queue. Look at the photo.
You can just scroll through the pile and they will show you file after file as if you are flipping through the pages of a book
You can just drag data or image files on a printer icon and it will start printing. Amazing no?
Just drag the files you want to attach to your mail client and drop them on the icon (say MS Outlook) and it will get attached! whoa!
See as I had told. Here is the proof. look at the attachment tag
Right click on the desktop and see there is a search option. It searches for the keyword you put in. I put in PDF and got the result. You can also drag any one of them and others will come in group. Very useful.
This is where the irony lies. If you don't use Bumptop you won't know how well they manage the aero keys, slideshows and photo frame features in bumptop. I have tried to give you a picture
Select any number of files by drawing an arc over them, and then go to the centre to get the option as before. Click 'create pile by types' and here is the result. Fantastic.
Go to taskbar -> bumptop -> settings. And then change themes and options as you like. Yes its fully customizable. Enjoy. Below you have my experiment result.
After a theme change!
You can also create your own bumptop photo frames with photos of your choice. You can see the photos changing constantly at the 'wall'
Not only desktop. You can also bump a folder of your choice. you will see a button at the top-right as 'bump this folder'
Here is what you get after bumping the folder.
The Final Destination
I just went to settings at the end and chose 'always bump' option. And after some child's play, here was my 'organized' desktop. Lol.
Our Two Cents
There is nothing much that we can criticize. Its a wonderful application. Just that we would love it to
- be compatible with Mac and Linux. Only Windows is pain staking. and I had my Vista hanged twice.
- have an undo button so that we can just undo whatever we have done previously.
- change the icon of ‘bump a folder’ at the top right corner of a Windows explorer folder after its bumped. It still shows bump a folder even after you have.
That is about it. With a touchscren facility that allows all kind of finger gestures, Bumptop may very well be the future of the interactive electronic system interface. We will wait and see and obviously provide you with any update as soon as they reach us.
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