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DESCRIPTION
Warp is a preference pane that allows you to use the mouse to switch between Spaces rather than using the keyboard.

Warp offers the ability to display a live preview of a space when you move the mouse to the edge of the screen, allowing you to see what you have on another space before actually switching to it. Clicking the preview will then warp you to that space. (Enable this feature by checking the option "Click screen edge to Warp" in Warp's preference pane).

Warp is available free of charge, but donations are appreciated and assist in support and development.

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WHAT'S NEW
Version 1.2 Beta 1 includes a couple minor bug fixes as well as a new floating pager that gives you constant access to your spaces. The pager shows you a live preview of each space; clicking on another space will switch to it. Visibility of the pager can be toggled with a hot key.
  • Added a floating pager that allows rapid switching between spaces.
  • Click-to-warp floating window no longer appears when dragging items.
  • Fixed wrapping around a single row or column of spaces.
  • The Warp helper application now automatically relaunches when updating.
REQUIREMENTS
Mac OS X 10.5 or later.


SCREENSHOT

Developer:Kent Sutherland
Downloads:7,686
  - Version d/l:2,011
Utilities:System
License:Free
Date:21 Dec 2008
Platform:PPC/Intel
RATING
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Jan 13 2009
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PIZZACAKE  The floating pager HUD makes Spaces worth using again. It's a small visual overview of all the spaces, I keep it in a corner of my screen so I know where everything is. Click on one of the boxes takes you to that space. A brilliant idea! A few minor visual bugs to be squashed but still very usable. Thank you.  
(Version 1.2b1)

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Dec 21 2008
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ROBERT COOGAN  I agree! This struck me at first as kind of useless...adding a unwanted feature. But it has really gotten me hooked. I definitely recommend it.  
(Version 1.2b1)

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Apr 14 2008
*****

CARTERA  This app is perfect! It is a feature that should have been built in, and is implemented perfectly as well us beautifully! It makes me use spaces!  
(Version 1.1.1)

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Apr 13 2008
*****

CHAWKNZ  Does what it says it does. I can easily switch Spaces by moving my mouse to edges of the screen, just like I would expect Spaces to do.

Thanks for this.  
(Version 1.1.1)

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Mar 17 2008

ASMEURER  I wish you could set a separate shortcut for the menu and dock rather than just disabling them altogether.   
(Version 1.1)

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Mar 17 2008

ASMEURER  I also thought of another good feature idea. It would be nice if right-clicking on the previews would disable them so I don't have to go around them to do so. This way, I could have the delay time set to 0 seconds with no modifiers set without too much annoyance.

Also, I noticed that the version number is one behind, so it thinks there is an update all the time, but the feature set clearly matches up with the current version.   
(Version 1.1)

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Feb 27 2008

GHARTNESS  I don't get it. At least not from this description. Why aren't the hot corners that os x gives you just as good?  
(Version 1.1)

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Apr 13 2008

MATIEMAN  what this does is it switches to the space next to it when you click there.

eg. if you click on the left side of the screen, it will switch to the space to the left of the one currently active.  
(Version 1.1.1)

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Jan 20 2008

FELINITY  ok, just noticed this; I only have horizontal spaces, so i'm only going left and right, not up and down. yet, when I hold my mouse at the top or bottom edge, warp still warps my cursor to the other side - obviously without switching spaces. kind of annoying.  
(Version 1.0.1)

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Jan 20 2008

FELINITY  this is great, thank you!

I do have a feature idea though; instead of either disabling or enabling warp on dock/menubar edges, how about making it so that it'll only switch spaces when you're not moving your mouse around on the dock/menubar. Ie, it'll only warp if you're holding the mouse still, rather than browsing the dock or menu.

that'd be clever :)  
(Version 1.0.1)

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Dec 29 2007

ROB_GENDREAU  Great job...thank you! Now if I could only NAME the spaces....  
(Version 1.0)

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Dec 22 2007
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COLDFUSION1970  Great add-on for Spaces.

This is one piece of functionality that Apple should have included in Spaces right from the off.

My only criticism is that its very easy to jump two or three Spaces when you're trying to move only one.

It would be nice if it only automatically moved you one Space and then you had "push" against the side of the screen again to move to another Space.  
(Version 1.0)

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Dec 26 2007

ASMEURER  Just turn on "warp mouse" and you will only jump one space.   
(Version 1.0)

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Dec 26 2007

COLDFUSION1970  I see what your saying and it does work, but then my mouse is on the wrong side of the screen.

I'll try it for a while longer to see if i can get used to it.  
(Version 1.0)

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Dec 28 2007

SSNICKERER  Maybe you could try increasing the delay?  
(Version 1.0)

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