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Flash Desktops is the first REALTIME
virtual desktop manager.
Flash Desktops is just DIFFERENT
from all the other Virtual Desktop Manager you have tried up to now because it
focuses on:
- Absolute efficiency:
These kinds of "organizing" softwares are either super comfortable and
absolutely responsive or just useless. Flash Desktops is simply the fastest
virtual desktop manager ever created. It's optimized up to the assembler level
obtaining REALTIME performances. The windows are switched as fast as
theoretically possible, with virtually NO overhead. Optimizations range from
superfast hooks to avoid polling to pipeline multithread internal structure and
Windows API scheduling to optimize Microsoft Windows painting routines. All
this and much more allows a speed and responsiveness from 2 to 3 times faster
than competing products.
- The most comfortable:
The standard way to move a window to another desktop is: "Just focus it and
then rightclick to the desktop-icon where you want to send it to" (of course
you also have many hotkeys). This has proven to be the most efficient way and
it's almost laziness-proof. Actually with most VDMs moving a window elsewhere
is so complicated that in facts you find yourself always using the first
desktop. On the contrary reorganizing the windows in the desktops with FD is
ligtning fast, and this greatly improves your productivity.
- No real drawbacks: If
you use it your system will be just like before. FD is extremely light and uses
a minimal amount of resources and no CPU time when idle. And it's totally
unobtrusive.
- You always know what is
happening: FD gives feedback to let you know if there are problems of any
kind (e.g. nonresponsive applications) and you always have detailed info. The
manual widely documents how FD works and all the possible
conflicts/solutions.
- The most compatible:
Bored by the nasty Internet Explorer 5 bug which makes you constantly lose all
the windows with all the virtual desktop managers which work with the show/hide
technique? You don't want to use a moveaway virtual desktop manager because it
leaves you the buttons in the taskbar for all the windows of all the desktops?
Stop searching: FD is the ONLY virtual desktop manager which simultaneously
workarounds both these two nasty bugs. How? Read the next
point.
- FD is both show/hide and
moveaway: In the past every VDM chose its strategy: Show/hide virtual
desktop managers send messages to windows telling them to appear or disappear
to simulate the multiple desktops. This is a fast technique but Internet
Explorer 5 has a "security feature" which constantly destroys hidden windows
everytime a popup appears. Moveaway virtual desktop managers never hide
windows: they only change the coordinates to move them outscreen. This avoids
the IE5 bug but it's very slow, prone to crashes/hangups, and above all it
leaves the button in the taskbar even for windows which belong to other
desktops. When you have 3 windows per desktop the taskbar begins to become
quite useless... FD is the ONLY virtual desktop manager which lets you choose
for which programs to use show/hide (default) and for which moveaway (only IE5
usually :). And it's the ONLY VDM which allows you to hide the taskbar buttons
even when using moveaway. The moveaway performances are so much optimized that
they are quite close to the FD show/hide ones.
- The most flexible: When
you will become a veteran (actually this doesn't require much time) you will
appreciate the hundreds of features FD puts at your disposal to customize
and/or automate its behaviour. Windows Rules (automatic action triggered by
specified events) are the most powerful ever created (nearly 200 options) and
allow you to extend compatibilty towards the nastier applications. If they this
is not enough FD can be remotely controlled by external programs through
Windows messages (C Header file included). You also receive notifications by FD
about every action/event happening (even window rules triggering) and extend
its functionality by cooperating with your "plugin"
application.
- The only one with Privacy
features: There is way to hide all the FD icons from the system tray and
drive all the functionalities with hotkeys. In this way the system is
apparently "clean" and nobody can imagine that you have other windows hidden
somewhere.
- Best learning curve:
Reading the QuickStart chapter requires around 2 minutes and you will already
be able to do many things which you can't even dream with other
VDMs
- Long evaluation period:
you can freely evaluate the program for 21 days of effective use. This
is much longer than the average evaluation period for shareware
programs.
All these things make Flash
Desktops the most impressive productivity enhancer ever created. It's cost
(after the long evaluation period has expired) is a very fair
$25.
Download latest version here.
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