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Trampoline (formerly Bullseye) is the shortest route to the things you use most. You have a set of core tools, the things you use many many many times a day. With Trampoline, those things are never more than a few pixels away.
Press a hot key, and a circular launcher appears all around your cursor. Every tool you put in the Trampoline is within easy reach. Just move your mouse in the direction of the thing you want, and then click.
Very shortly, you become used to the placement of your favorite things. Your hand begins to associate moving in a certain direction with
Press a hot key, and a circular launcher appears all around your cursor. Every tool you put in the Trampoline is within easy reach. Just move your mouse in the direction of the thing you want, and then click.
Very shortly, you become used to the placement of your favorite things. Your hand begins to associate moving in a certain direction with
What's New
Version 2.4.1:
- Scroll wheel to advance between pages - a scroll wheel event causes a page advance.
- Fixed a bug where quitting an app from the Trampoline could cause Trampoline to crash on non-English systems
- Fixed another crash in the Add Special menu
- The Add Special menu will no longer follow aliases to other folders inside the Applications folder.
- Moved the quit menu item to the top of the contextual menu for running applications
Version 2.4.1:
- Scroll wheel to advance between pages - a scroll wheel event causes a page advance.
- Fixed a bug where quitting an app from the Trampoline could cause Trampoline to crash on non-English systems
- Fixed another crash in the Add Special menu
- The Add Special menu will no longer follow aliases to other folders inside the Applications folder.
- Moved more...
Requirements
PPC / Intel, Mac OS X 10.4 or later (including Mac OS X 10.5),
PPC / Intel, Mac OS X 10.4 or later (including Mac OS X 10.5),
Trampoline User Discussion (Write a Review)
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| Downloads:14,063 |
| Version Downloads:1,683 |
| Type:Utilities : File Management |
| License:Shareware |
| Date:05 Jul 2009 |
| Platform:PPC / Intel |
| Price: $19.95 |
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Trampoline (formerly Bullseye) is the shortest route to the things you use most. You have a set of core tools, the things you use many many many times a day. With Trampoline, those things are never more than a few pixels away.
Press a hot key, and a circular launcher appears all around your cursor. Every tool you put in the Trampoline is within easy reach. Just move your mouse in the direction of the thing you want, and then click.
Very shortly, you become used to the placement of your favorite things. Your hand begins to associate moving in a certain direction with opening a certain thing. This is when Trampoline really becomes useful. Before long, it's not something you even think about. Trampoline gets out of your way so you can get your work done.
That's the philosophy of Trampoline: stay out of your way until you need it, then be quick about getting you to the tools you need. No complex learning curve, no training, no time wasted on manuals, although there is a manual if you'd like to read it. In fact, there are even Video Tutorials that show Trampoline in action.
Give Trampoline a week and see if it doesn't make getting to the things you use most quicker and easier.
Note: Trampoline was once known as Bullseye, but has since gained a new look, many many new features, and a new attitude.
Press a hot key, and a circular launcher appears all around your cursor. Every tool you put in the Trampoline is within easy reach. Just move your mouse in the direction of the thing you want, and then click.
Very shortly, you become used to the placement of your favorite things. Your hand begins to associate moving in a certain direction with opening a certain thing. This is when Trampoline really becomes useful. Before long, it's not something you even think about. Trampoline gets out of your way so you can get your work done.
That's the philosophy of Trampoline: stay out of your way until you need it, then be quick about getting you to the tools you need. No complex learning curve, no training, no time wasted on manuals, although there is a manual if you'd like to read it. In fact, there are even Video Tutorials that show Trampoline in action.
Give Trampoline a week and see if it doesn't make getting to the things you use most quicker and easier.
Note: Trampoline was once known as Bullseye, but has since gained a new look, many many new features, and a new attitude.
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Plasterpyrus reviewed on 25 Aug 2008
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DrAdrienYouell reviewed on 19 Feb 2008
Initially you can load Trampoline from your Dock apps. Thereafter I pulled off Dock items I rarely used and ADDed them to Trampoline. I also pulled from Dock apps I rarely open first such as TextEdit, I will be double clicking on a txt document.
Trampoline is the BEST launcher with a fascinating opening using Option-Space. My `dock has shrunk leaving only most used apps for opening of for dragging files onto Dock icon.
Though valid 'Jefflass' misses the point about limitations to Apple's Dock... [and I dislike multiple Dock apps]. I have up to 64 icons in Trampoline's circle, some are apps to test or learn. That's a Dock of 64 items, so far only apps, not documents, including a slimmed down Dock.
'Easer' makes a great point of using Mouse centre button to launch Trampoline.
In my assessment I give high marks also for innovation and usefulness.
Yours
Adrien UK
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easer reviewed on 18 Feb 2008
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A similar comment was made recently about the SAPIENS software (also a circular popup menu), though which is somewhat different in that it continually adapts and changes according to app usage, and is activated with a circular motion of the mouse.
BOTH the Mac OS 10 and the Windows XP have DOCKs that enable one-click access to often-used apps. I currently have 40 favorite apps in my DOCKs on my Macs. The Mac DOCK's magnification feature is superb.
LEOPARD will be providing a DOCK feature that springs up in an arc from the DOCK to offer access to apps, utilities, and files. I have had essentially the same thing for years on my Tiger DOCKs, and it's so easy to do: (1) create a folder in the home directory and give it an appropriate name; (2) drag new folder to DOCK on the right side of the vertical separator; (3) drag aliases for desired apps and utilities into the new folder; (4) click and hold mouse on DOCK folder to reveal a popup list to quickly select from.
The following DOCK folder popups have proven very useful for me: Utilities, A/V apps, iApps, Scripts, Documents. Since the latter is already a 'provided' folder in the home directory, the DOCK version also cleverly displays a cover icon.
If the DOCK didn't already exist, then both Trampoline and Sapiens would prove to be indispensable. Still needed though are unique and deft utilities and apps that are NOT already essentially provided by Mac OS 10 ...
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A similar comment was made recently about the SAPIENS software (also a circular popup menu), though which is somewhat different in that it continually adapts and changes according to app usage, and is activated with a circular motion of the mouse.
BOTH the Mac OS 10 and the Windows XP have DOCKs that enable one-click access to often-used apps. I currently have 40 favorite apps in my DOCKs on my Macs. The Mac DOCK's magnification feature is superb.
LEOPARD will be providing a DOCK feature that springs up in an arc from the DOCK to offer access to apps, utilities, and files. I have had essentially the same thing for years on my Tiger DOCKs, and it's so easy to do: (1) create a folder in the home directory and give it an appropriate name; (2) drag new folder to DOCK on the right side of the vertical separator; (3) drag aliases for desired apps and utilities into the new folder; (4) click and hold mouse on DOCK folder to reveal a popup list to quickly select from.
The following DOCK folder popups have proven very useful for me: Utilities, A/V apps, iApps, Scripts, Documents. Since the latter is already a 'provided' folder in the home directory, the DOCK version also cleverly displays a cover icon.
If the DOCK didn't already exist, then both Trampoline and Sapiens would prove to be indispensable. Still needed though are unique and deft utilities and apps that are NOT already essentially provided by Mac OS 10 ...
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You have every right to be annoyed at version 2.2.2. The only defense I have is that I don't have a G5 or MacPro to test against, so I depended on users to contact me and collaborate to figure out what was going on.
I'm glad to hear that version 2.2.3 worked better for you. In the future, feel free to contact me if you have a problem with Trampoline.
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Both of you has reported on the site, neither of you has contacted me.
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easer reviewed on 23 Jun 2007
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Trampoline is a great app launcher, but I find Apple-Tab works a lot better for switching through already open apps.
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Please email me so I can try to fix this. macupdate@old-jewel.com.