Can Object Desktop 2005 cure Tiger envy?
On the road to Longhorn...
Thursday, May 5, 2005 by Frogboy | Discussion: WinCustomize News
This week Object Desktop 2005 was released. Object Desktop 2005 is Stardock's annual milestone snapshot of its popular desktop extension suite.
Apple's new MacOS X (Tiger) comes with some much talked about features such as Dashboard. But for users of Object Desktop, widgets are nothing new and the power of Object Desktop enables a great deal of user-level customization of Windows itself.
And users of Object Desktop get access to everything that is updated or added to it for an entire year -- putting it right in the middle of the Longhorn beta (Longhorn is the code-name for the next major version of Windows) Stardock is working with Microsoft to ensure that it leverages that new Longhorn technologies as early as possible.
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It's a far better OS than anything the PC currently has. Probably will change when Longhorn gets here, but for now you can add as much as you want to windows and it still won't feel as complete as OSX does at the moment.
Really considering selling my PC (which is a top end spec) as I'm so bored with it.
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| read the title again and have envy as a seperate word, what do you get? |
You get the same exact title. What are you trying to prove, that you can read?
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Reply #1 Thursday, May 5, 2005 10:12 PM
By "Flip", I'm talking about how many dashboard widgets have a settings button of some type that literally flips the widget over like a card to change parameters on the other side. It's a seamlessly implemented effect that has me wondering if they coded it specifically for every widget, or if it's part of the Dashboard API's.
The "Ripple" effect is seen every time new widgets are dragged from the dashboard bar to the desktop: Widgets placed there cause ripples in the surrounding desktop image and bob towards and away from the user to signify their new residence. It's fantastic to watch.
Haven't seen anything like this in the PC equivalents yet, but it's a great looking set of features!