Bumptop for Windows 7 Touchscreen PCs is a 3D desktop organizer that helps you to pile your files along with advanced search and sort capabilities . You can flip through websites, toss your photos up to Twitter or Facebook right from your desktop to share it with your friends or personalize your desktop with custom themes, sticky notes and photo slideshows & pan/zoom images.
Frequently-used files actually appear larger and heavier than lesser-used ones, becoming visually more important. You can also pin up photo frames on the BumpTop walls, cycling through the latest photos from Flickr, Picasa or other photo RSS feeds.
Bumptop is free to download and works even with mouse. Pro version of Bumptop is available at US$29 and offers you additional features as unlimited sticky notes, more piling features and tossing files into USB keys.
Watch the video demonstration below to see Bumptop in action
Indeed.
dammit.
It not even provided uninstall and I couldn't bring the taskmanager. Hard reset only
http://bumptop.com/support/technicalquestions.php#WinSeven64
We are very excited about multi-touch and are committed to supporting Windows 7. Current Windows 7 beta users will need to install Vista (WDDM 1.0) drivers as most Windows 7 WDDM 1.1 beta drivers do not provide the necessary OpenGL support.
People work differently.
The idea is a gimmick and a dud. Go do something else, Anand Agarawala.
images: http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/08/12...ace_images.html
Last edited by neo7 on 09 Apr 2009 - 14:28
Microsoft Research already filed a patent on that exact 3d layout in 1999 they had it working on Windows 2000
Pictures
http://barebonescomputer.net/taskgallery.jpg
http://barebonescomputer.net/taskgallery2.jpg
Just gave it a quick go and the piles don't do anything for me, as I suspected they aren't labelled so you don't know what they are until you expand them. One nice thing is having the ability size individual icons (thinks Amiga) which could be useful.
But all in all seems like nice eye-candy and a good way to show off a touch screen system but can't imagine using.
Last edited by m.keeley on 09 Apr 2009 - 18:14
Having a database-like organization structure would be much more useful than having a 3D workspace where you dump files in unidentifiable stacks.
* A 32-bit or 64-bit version of Windows XP, Windows Vista or Windows 7, with latest service packs
* A Pentium 4/Celeron 1.8GHz or Athlon XP/Sempron 2200+ or desktop/mobile equivalent
* Minimum 1GB system memory
* 15 MB available hard disk space.
* Intel 915 integrated graphics or Nvidia GeForce 6200 or ATI X300 or better with updated drivers
* OpenGL 2.0 driver support required (may require additional drivers available at bumptop.com/drivers)
* Internet connection required for activation
edit: ok, it can take advantage of multitouch on win7... still more a general software piece though.
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Bumptop may not be the next generation of an OS GUI. But its trying something....well trying something relatively new. The concept has been around for awhile. Just not as flashy.
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