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Desktopple is for you if you've ever needed to take a screenshot and had to clean all of those icons from your Desktop before you could. Or maybe you needed to make a presentation and had to tidy up before hooking into the projector for the whole audience to see. Perhaps you just want to hide those messy Desktop icons so you can concentrate better on whatever task is at hand. Or, if you're like us, maybe you just like a squeaky clean work environment.
With Desktopple, you can quickly and easily hide all of your Desktop clutter. A quick trip to your menu bar is all it takes, and
With Desktopple, you can quickly and easily hide all of your Desktop clutter. A quick trip to your menu bar is all it takes, and
What's New
Version 1.3.2 includes several fixes and performance enhancements.
Requirements
PPC / Intel, Mac OS X 10.5 or later.
PPC / Intel, Mac OS X 10.5 or later.
Desktopple Pro User Discussion (Write a Review)
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| Downloads:4,664 |
| Version Downloads:1,773 |
| Type:Business : Applications |
| License:Demo |
| Date:05 Feb 2008 |
| Platform:PPC / Intel |
| Price: $17.00 |
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Desktopple is for you if you've ever needed to take a screenshot and had to clean all of those icons from your Desktop before you could. Or maybe you needed to make a presentation and had to tidy up before hooking into the projector for the whole audience to see. Perhaps you just want to hide those messy Desktop icons so you can concentrate better on whatever task is at hand. Or, if you're like us, maybe you just like a squeaky clean work environment.
With Desktopple, you can quickly and easily hide all of your Desktop clutter. A quick trip to your menu bar is all it takes, and those icons simply vanish from view.
Desktopple is a Menu Bar item. Launch it, and it will hang out in your menu bar waiting to do its job. Click it to hide or show your Desktop, or to get a list of all of your options. If you want Desktopple to launch when you login, simply add it to your Login Items in the System Preferences.
Desktopple Pro Features:
With Desktopple, you can quickly and easily hide all of your Desktop clutter. A quick trip to your menu bar is all it takes, and those icons simply vanish from view.
Desktopple is a Menu Bar item. Launch it, and it will hang out in your menu bar waiting to do its job. Click it to hide or show your Desktop, or to get a list of all of your options. If you want Desktopple to launch when you login, simply add it to your Login Items in the System Preferences.
Desktopple Pro Features:
- Preference Pane Application - All of the Desktopple preferences are conveniently located in the System Preferences. And if your menu bar is crowded, you can easily remove the Desktopple icon and control it with a hot key or Automator Action.
- Cover Sets - With Cover Sets, you can easily define several "covers" for your Desktop environment. One for screenshots, say, and another for presentations. Then, you can easily switch from one set to another using the handy menu bar item.
- Window Cleaning - It's great that your Mac lets you run multiple applications, but sometimes all those extra windows can be quite distracting. Desktopple can watch you work, and if you haven't used an application in a specified amount of time, it will hide those apps for you automatically.
- Backgound Choices - Make your workspace your own. Choose to hide your Desktop with your regular Desktop image, a different image, a smooth gradient, or a solid color. The choice is yours!
- AutoHide - Add applications to the Desktopple AutoHide list, and when you launch those applications, Desktopple will automatically hide your Desktop. And when you're done with those applications, Desktopple can automatically show the Desktop again!
- Menu Dimming - Need to focus on the task at hand? Dim the Menu Bar when you hide the Desktop for a distraction-free workspace. Choose a solid color, or have the menu bar blend in with the background. Great for Getting Things Done!
- Desktop Files - When your Desktop is hidden, it's hard to get to files that you store there. A quick trip to your Desktopple menu will list all the items on your Desktop. Click to open, and keep working.
- Multiple Screens - Got more than one Desktop you need to hide? Not only does Desktopple support multiple screens, but you can configure each screen separately.
- Ignore Exposé - Set Desktopple to ignore Exposé and you'll still keep your Desktop covered, even when Exposé-ing.
- HotKey Support - Set up a HotKey, and giving yourself a shiny, squeaky-clean Desktop is only a keystroke away.
- Automator Support - With the handy, built-in Desktopple Automator action, you can integrate Desktop-hiding right into your workflow.
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Fotodivr reviewed on 02 May 2010
Would not "hide" both monitors... as promised.
No way in the "preferences" to alleviate that issue.
Would not but it if it was $.99 (ninety-nine cents).
Prefer Camouflage...
Had a small problem. Wrote the developer - answered within 30 minutes!
Problem solved.
If I were to give Desktopple a rating, it would be no stars.
Very unimpressed - most especially for that price.
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Emailed the developer and never heard back.
1.3.2 is now out, and I can not test it to see if it works as the developer gives you a one time 15 day trial period. I wont buy buggy software, and I wont buy software I can't test.
I would suggest the developer re-thinks his 15 day trial period, or makes it version dependent.
Contact me (http://foggynoggin.com/contact). I'm sure we can get things straightened out.
Thanks
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http://freeverse.com/apps/app/?id=7013
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iSub reviewed on 30 Jan 2008
Has Leopard support now (still needs a few things tweaked though)
Feel free to contact me (http://FoggyNoggin.com/contact) with suggestions and bug reports, and I'll get right on it.
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D-Mac reviewed on 08 Jan 2008
My system has 2 monitors and Desktopple Pro just doesn't work well, at all.
After trying to re-install (and having deleted the preference file), NS* (navigation services) errors go to the Console (exceptions raised but not handled) and the preference pane shows a blank.
Developer is defensive about any feedback. One of the other utilities of this sort is the way to go, for now...
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"DesktopSweeper is a freeware APE Module (the equivalent of Unsanity's Haxies) that provides ways to control whether or not Desktop icons are displayed. This can be done with a configurable hockey, or automatically, when the Finder comes to the front and/or leaves it."
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macsterdam reviewed on 05 Mar 2007
As for the software, it work great, nice features and (for me) well worth the price. Yes, there are alternatives, but none with the feature-set of desktopple pro.
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Even if it worked as intended I do think that $17 is rather excessive.
$8-$10 seems about right for this little puppy.
The free Desktopple version works fine so far.
Malte rated on 02 May 2011