Personally, I'm surprised that this is getting such great reviews (not due to any fault of the developer). This is one of the features currently in Vista and it drives me absolutely crazy.
I definitely get the notion that this and other features like it are supposed to create greater efficiency by decreasing mouse time, but no matter how many times it happens or how hard I try to make myself consciously aware of the feature I still find myself staring around confused every time my box makes a b-line to another dialog.
1. People don't expect this kind of interaction (whether it's beneficial to them or not).
2. Not everyone wants to pay explicit attention to a dialog or alert immediately. Some may be doing other work elsewhere only to find their concentration yanked back to another area because some alert dialog wants to tell you something of mild importance/relevance to a task you may not be currently attempting to complete.
Again, no fault of the developer. The program does exactly what it should do, and does a fairly nice job at that. I'm just surprised, and a bit curious.
All good points, and I'm totally not doubting that there is an audience for this type of application. I'm just surprised that people would be willing to endure the learning curve when it means combating about X many years of unconsciously learned behavior.
Again, very nice work, and thanks for the clarification. It's always interesting to hear other's perspectives on interaction methods.
I've tried that. It's fairly unstable in Safari, and has rendering issues in Firefox; plus you have to futz around with your settings all the time; unless you have a VRML only browser set up on your machine.
Because there are times when I need to allocate all the CPU and GPU power I can to it. My daily workflow requires that I need Bootcamp more than I need Parallels, but I was hoping I would be able to have it around for those times when I need to bop quickly in and out of an app, or just move things between the two partitions.
Thanks for the suggestion, but doesn't that just pull in a copy of your partition and store it on you OSX partition? In that case wouldn't the two not be in sync? I really just don't think what I need is yet possible in Parallels. Maybe in a future release.
This is a great app. But it would be better if it would allow me to used an iTunes share as the music source. I have all my music stored on a main computer in my living room running iTunes, but I have the program running on my Macbook pro.
Still have to run it in Rosetta on my intel mac, or else it won't accept my activation key. Will there be a fix for this? Seems like this has been a problem for months.
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I definitely get the notion that this and other features like it are supposed to create greater efficiency by decreasing mouse time, but no matter how many times it happens or how hard I try to make myself consciously aware of the feature I still find myself staring around confused every time my box makes a b-line to another dialog.
1. People don't expect this kind of interaction (whether it's beneficial to them or not).
2. Not everyone wants to pay explicit attention to a dialog or alert immediately. Some may be doing other work elsewhere only to find their concentration yanked back to another area because some alert dialog wants to tell you something of mild importance/relevance to a task you may not be currently attempting to complete.
Again, no fault of the developer. The program does exactly what it should do, and does a fairly nice job at that. I'm just surprised, and a bit curious.
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Again, very nice work, and thanks for the clarification. It's always interesting to hear other's perspectives on interaction methods.
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Jeff Lerch reviewed on 20 Feb 2007
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Jeff Lerch reviewed on 15 Feb 2007
Just waiting for that radio button to not be greyed out!
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Will there be a Windows version? I'm stuck using a pc most of the day.
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