After being frustrated for quite long time because of my work and running out of my patience, which usually doesn’t happen too often, I have finally stopped working :) I do go to office, but just to have fun, meet friends and checkout the girls :) - work, not any more.
While spending time over the Friday in office, I decided to search for a tool that can help me unclutter the windows on my desktop and have me work (not necessarily official, it can also mean chatting) efficiently.
At any given time I have at least 10 different windows on my desktop and sometimes they increase to 25. Few things that I have been doing, since my college time, to help me with this problem is to increase the width of my taskbar to a level that it can hold 3 rows of windows. The advantages are multi folds: it accommodates more windows, the clock now shows date, day, and time, and the quick launch can accommodate more shortcuts. And the 15.4” screen still maintains a good view :) Another thing that I do to increase efficiency is to place shortcut toolbars on all over my desktop. These toolbars are in auto-hide mode, they contain shortcuts to most of the items that I access frequently and they are all over the place on top, left and right.
But now, since the windows on my desktop have increased, I need something which can help me efficiently work with these windows. And if you are thinking that may be I am not aware of Alt-Tab or may be grouping feature available in windows, then you are wrong. Alt-Tab doesn’t work really well if you have 25 windows open, I get lost easily and more over it’s painful on my little hands to stretch all the way from Alt to Tab. J
So, I browsed through a list of over 100 applications on download.com and finally closed on 4 applications:
Entbloess – this is my pick, it’s customizable, nice interface, easy to use.
TopDesk – works on same principle as does entbloess, but eats too much of memory.
WinGlance – good, similar to entbloess, but very less customization.
WinTiles – this wasn’t what I was really looking, it just tiles all the windows, moreover, it was rubbish, I really didn’t get hang of how to use this one.
First three applications in above list work on same principle: take snapshot of all windows on the desktop, show all of them at same time, and allow you to choose.
Though they are helpful but it’s not really what I was looking for, my hunt will continue in next blog. Stay Tuned !!!!
Below is the enclosure used by British jailers to punish the Indian freedom fighters, they were treated badly and were tied here around this machine, which is used to get oil out of seeds.
While spending time over the Friday in office, I decided to search for a tool that can help me unclutter the windows on my desktop and have me work (not necessarily official, it can also mean chatting) efficiently.
At any given time I have at least 10 different windows on my desktop and sometimes they increase to 25. Few things that I have been doing, since my college time, to help me with this problem is to increase the width of my taskbar to a level that it can hold 3 rows of windows. The advantages are multi folds: it accommodates more windows, the clock now shows date, day, and time, and the quick launch can accommodate more shortcuts. And the 15.4” screen still maintains a good view :) Another thing that I do to increase efficiency is to place shortcut toolbars on all over my desktop. These toolbars are in auto-hide mode, they contain shortcuts to most of the items that I access frequently and they are all over the place on top, left and right.
But now, since the windows on my desktop have increased, I need something which can help me efficiently work with these windows. And if you are thinking that may be I am not aware of Alt-Tab or may be grouping feature available in windows, then you are wrong. Alt-Tab doesn’t work really well if you have 25 windows open, I get lost easily and more over it’s painful on my little hands to stretch all the way from Alt to Tab. J
So, I browsed through a list of over 100 applications on download.com and finally closed on 4 applications:
Entbloess – this is my pick, it’s customizable, nice interface, easy to use.
TopDesk – works on same principle as does entbloess, but eats too much of memory.
WinGlance – good, similar to entbloess, but very less customization.
WinTiles – this wasn’t what I was really looking, it just tiles all the windows, moreover, it was rubbish, I really didn’t get hang of how to use this one.
First three applications in above list work on same principle: take snapshot of all windows on the desktop, show all of them at same time, and allow you to choose.
Though they are helpful but it’s not really what I was looking for, my hunt will continue in next blog. Stay Tuned !!!!
Below is the enclosure used by British jailers to punish the Indian freedom fighters, they were treated badly and were tied here around this machine, which is used to get oil out of seeds.
Location: Kalapaani Jail, Andaman, India
Time: 2/16/2006
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