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Karsten Kusche
Camouflage is a quick and effective way to hide Desktop clutter. Do you have way too many items on your desktop? Do you hate cleaning up that mess? Camouflage is the right utility for you. It hides all the icons and leaves nothing but the pure wallpaper Key Features:
- perfect system-integration: change your wallpaper and Camouflage will show the change instantly.
- works with multiple monitors: attach new monitors and the icons will instantly be hidden.
- drag & drop: drag files on the desktop and they will be copied onto your real desktop.
- finder
What's New
Version 2.1.1:
- Fix for the "Damaged Application" message that appeared when Camouflage was updated to 2.1
Requirements
Intel, Mac OS X 10.6.6 or later
Intel, Mac OS X 10.6.6 or later
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Camouflage is a quick and effective way to hide Desktop clutter. Do you have way too many items on your desktop? Do you hate cleaning up that mess? Camouflage is the right utility for you. It hides all the icons and leaves nothing but the pure wallpaper Key Features:
- perfect system-integration: change your wallpaper and Camouflage will show the change instantly.
- works with multiple monitors: attach new monitors and the icons will instantly be hidden.
- drag & drop: drag files on the desktop and they will be copied onto your real desktop.
- finder integration: click the desktop and Finder will be activated and opens or selects a separate desktop window. (You can disable this with the Popup Desktop option of the menu. To still open a window, press the option-key while clicking the desktop)
- ability to show and hide the icons (available in status item menu)
- works with desktop managers
- ability to 'click through' Camouflage to get the normal Desktop-Context menu (Use with caution, you may select a file and don't notice it. You may only want to use that feature if you are using FinderPop)
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Mr. Leo reviewed on 25 Aug 2011
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In the preferences window there's a button that you can press to change the hotkey, then you enter the key-combination that you like. They key-combination that you entered will be shown in the text field next to the button. When the text has a blue background, you're changing the hotkey and when it doesn't have a blue background anymore, the hotkey is set and you can instantly use it to show and hide your icons.
Here's also a youtube video that was done for Camouflage 1 some years ago. It will explain how to go to the preferences: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELd4kBV_2ds&feature=player_embedded
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My OS is Mac OSX 10.6.8
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also, maybe we should continue this troubleshooting via email, as it just fills up this review section with stuff probably totally uninteresting to other users.
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Removing v2.1 and everything added by it, then going back to v 1.25 solved that problem. Mac OS X 10.7.1 here.
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“Camouflage.app” is damaged and can’t be opened. Delete “Camouflage.app” and download it again from the App Store.
I've tried deleting and re-downloading the update, but I still get the same error.
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Mr. Leo reviewed on 10 Jul 2011
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Zephyris reviewed on 08 Jun 2011
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One word to the pricing: When i wrote Camouflage, i was a student and had plenty of time. Version 1 was in fact written in one weekend. Over time i've spend literally loads of time to improve Camouflage, adding features, fixing bugs.
I'm now working full-time as a software developer, have a family and don't have nearly as much time as back then. The App Store of cause allows for freeware applications, but on the other hand also makes it extremely easy to provide applications at a very low price and still get some money back. I guess these two reasons are why Camouflage is not free anymore. But $2 is also not expansive at all.
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0legus reviewed on 12 Apr 2011
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le-macinfo reviewed on 21 Feb 2011
To round it off I would suggest the following additions:
- make the menu bar item optional (the show/hide state info appears not that important to me, altough some might be other opinion)
- make a "alt-click" on the desktop hiding the frontmost app's windows like in normal finder operation
BTW: DesktopSweeper (APE module) has those 2 features, but doesn't work in Snow Leopard anymore.
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Zincker reviewed on 14 May 2010
One thing: while Camouflage hides the Desktop, alt-click on it to hide apps doesn't work.
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Lvdoc reviewed on 11 Apr 2010
1. Works well with Snow Leopard
2. Provides a fast way to open a new Finder window (just double-click the desktop or set it for single click)
3. Nice developer support
4. FREE! (although donating is a nice thing to do)
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alt-click for hiding single apps does not work as i can only hide all other applications or hide the active application (which is Camouflage). So only cmd-alt-click will work for hiding applications, sorry for that.
Karsten
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FYI, the version number in the Finder Get info is still 1.22.
I always get this errors in the console... why?
18/10/09 09:04:44 Camouflage[251] Error loading /Applications/Camouflage.app/Contents/Resources/AttachedWindow.bundle/Contents/MacOS/AttachedWindow: dlopen(/Applications/Camouflage.app/Contents/Resources/AttachedWindow.bundle/Contents/MacOS/AttachedWindow, 265): no suitable image found. Did find:
/Applications/Camouflage.app/Contents/Resources/AttachedWindow.bundle/Contents/MacOS/AttachedWindow: mach-o, but wrong architecture
18/10/09 09:04:44 Camouflage[251] couldn't load attached window
18/10/09 09:04:45 Camouflage[251] Error loading /Applications/Camouflage.app/Contents/Resources/PathFinderRemote.framework/PathFinderRemote: dlopen(/Applications/Camouflage.app/Contents/Resources/PathFinderRemote.framework/PathFinderRemote, 265): no suitable image found. Did find:
/Applications/Camouflage.app/Contents/Resources/PathFinderRemote.framework/PathFinderRemote: mach-o, but wrong architecture
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Did not work for me, OSX 10.5.5, Intel. Nothing happens if i DC on the desktop!
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why didn't you simply send a mail to me about the bug?
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Every time that I hide the icons on my desktop, the ram usage increases - it doesn't take long to get its ram usage up to 240 MB - if I had more ram, (or less other programs open) I could get it harder.
If not for the rather insane ram usage, this program would be on my list of must-haves.
Needless to say, this is an issue that should probably get taken care of.
Jjs rated on 04 Aug 2011
Sebastian-K rated on 28 Jun 2011