 | Oct 18 2009 |
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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 | Sep 17 2009 |
KEVREV Love this app for when I need to record a screencast at work. Unfortunately under Snow Leopard it just turns the background to black instead of using your selected background image. It could be worse, I guess ... 10.6 could have killed the app all together.
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| Sep 17 2009 |
KEVREV D'oh ... this must have been fixed with the 10.6.1 update ... it's working just fine now. Sorry for the stupid post and the false alarm. Donate for this app. It's so worth it!
(Version 1.25) | |
 | Aug 4 2009 |
KARSTEN@BRIKSOFTWARE.COM this feature has been in Camouflage since a long time. You can show and hide the files from the menubar or from the context-menu when the desktop is hidden. You can even assign a hotkey to switch icons on and off.
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| Jun 3 2009 |
GCOGHILL Cool app, but needs a toggle on/off setting instead of just launch/quit.
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| Feb 8 2009 |
DENNY DOUBLEPLUS MARKETING New upgrade to 1.24 includes a pitch for other products. This little app works well to reduce the clutter on the desktop (when desired). Very easy to switch on/off.
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 | Nov 9 2008 |
EASER I used to use DeskShade, but it was starting to offer more bells and whistles than I wanted. So I tried Camouflage several months ago and have been totally pleased. And the developer was very open to new ideas and very communicative. (I had requested the PathFinder option that was implemented in this version.) I plan to make a donation next payday; I would otherwise pay for something like this. (I had to pay for DeskShade, and it's not as good.)
(Version 1.22) | |
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| Nov 9 2008 |
MTCOBRA Observation and Review: You launch the program, and everything from your desktop disappears except the Dock and the menu bar on top of your screen. Double-click anywhere on the desktop, and a window appears that has all the files that was on the desktop before. Close the screen, and a clean desktop. Double-click and the window's back. The one icon that's not "listed" on the desktop window is the HD icon itself. Not needed - you're looking at what it opens if you click on it already. When I first tried it, my desktop changed to an Apple desktop, but I was quickly able to change it back to what I wanted. In addition, the menu icon that's added at the top of your screen's menu bar allows direct access to the desktop/screen savor preferences as well as display preferences. I like this! I like this a lot!
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| Nov 9 2008 |
MITCH_DE "Camouflage opens a Finder window whenever you double-click on the Desktop" Did not work for me, OSX 10.5.5, Intel. Nothing happens if i DC on the desktop!
(Version 1.22) | |
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| Nov 9 2008 |
KARSTEN@BRIKSOFTWARE.COM this only works when you hide the icons, so make sure you have the icons hidden.
(Version 1.22) | |
| Apr 15 2008 |
MACTOE EXCELLENT... I was looking for something like this.. to simply hide the desktop without hiding my other windows. Being a developer I use virtual windows (certainly NOT the utterly lame Apple Spaces) to manage my work so in any given window I WANT to see all the open window. However, try as I may I can never seem to keep my desktop clean and the clutter is MOST annoying when I'm working. I love the fact with a double click on the desktop using Camouflage I get a window of it's contents. The only suggestion I'd make... allow a single click to the desktop to reveal it... the interface assumption that deliberately clicking it implies I want access to it directly. My donation is in the making. It's small things like this that make a developer's life better... or a writer's... or, well... anyone using the computer in any creative way.
(Version 1.21) | |
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| Feb 14 2008 |
MAC MAIL Same here. Can't mount!
(Version 1.21) | |
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| Feb 13 2008 |
JFIELDS Can't even mount the image here. Get a codec overrun error with disk image helper. (v1.21)
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| Feb 13 2008 |
DANA SUTTON At least for me, there's a problem. The DMG downloads and mounts, but the app. icon isn't visible and if I click on the window the Finder crashes.
(Version 1.21) | |
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| Feb 9 2008 |
HELIOS9 Camouflage is really sweet! However, I'm experiencing one conflict. When I've got the app Path Finder open, Camouflage doesn't work. If I've enabled Camouflage to hide desktop icons and then open Path Finder, my hidden desktop icons then appear. And when I close Path Finder, the icons then become hidden once again. It seems that Path Finder completely overrides Camouflage. Very strange, indeed! Can anyone else duplicate this anomaly?
(Version 1.20) | |
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| Feb 11 2008 |
KARSTEN@BRIKSOFTWARE.COM Camouflage works by showing a window on top of the desktop icons, i don't know what PathFinder does, i never really used it, but maybe it also shows the icons itself...on top of Camouflage.
(Version 1.20) | |
| Feb 13 2008 |
EASER There is a setting in PathFinder for hiding the desktop. Perhaps that's been activated in your PF and is causing the conflict.
(Version 1.21) | |
| Feb 14 2008 |
HELIOS9 Regardless of whether the Path Finder setting is set to hide desktop or not, Camouflage is overridden when Path Finder is open.
(Version 1.21) | |
| Feb 14 2008 |
HELIOS9 Been playing around with this a bit more and now found that Camouflage will work with Path Finder open depending on how Path Finder's own desktop hiding is set. Actually, it's not an issue worth bothering about. It's not really a big deal.
(Version 1.21) | |
| Jan 8 2008 |
KOODOUGH Great App. I use it all the time. I love the improvment from the last version with its new icon and smooth icon hiding effect. Thx for the App.
(Version 1.19) | |
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| Dec 26 2007 |
DMARCOOT Love this program. Thank you for bring clicking on desktop to activate finder, which most people have forgotten was the largest, most intuitive gui element of the finder in OS 9.
(Version 1.18) | |
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| Dec 26 2007 |
KARSTEN@BRIKSOFTWARE.COM i used os 9 for a couple of years but i can't remember that feature...thanks a lot for letting me know!!
(Version 1.18) | |
| Dec 25 2007 |
FVDG >this would be great if it left the hard drive icons alone.. Second that! (Deskshade also has the option to only hide a second display.)
(Version 1.18) | |
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| Dec 25 2007 |
KARSTEN@BRIKSOFTWARE.COM it's not possible to leave the hard drives visible. but if you (double-)click on the desktop to open a finder window you'll have the icons on the source-panel anyway... hiding only one desktop doesn't make much sense... Camouflage is made to hide the icons when they're too messy...i really don't see the point in hiding the icons on one monitor and not on the second. | |
| Dec 12 2007 |
YELLEKO For two days not I have been trying to download this program. However, the file refuses to mount. Any suggestions on what I can do to overcome this obstacle? Thank you. (OS X 10.3.9)
(Version 1.16) | |
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| Dec 12 2007 |
MACUPDATE ADMIN Have you tried running all your usual utilities? Maybe there is something wrong with your Mac. I just downloaded the file and it mounted, no problem.
(Version 1.16) | |
| Dec 10 2007 |
NETERHET this would be great if it left the hard drive icons alone..
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| Dec 25 2007 |
KARSTEN@BRIKSOFTWARE.COM sorry, but that's not possible. Camouflage hides the icons by showing a window just above them and it'd be a bit difficult to leave a little space in the window to see the hard-drives. However, i'd suggest you try DragThing. It got a hard-drive dock and that'll show you all your harddrives.
(Version 1.17) | |
| Dec 9 2007 |
DMARCOOT Great app. appreciate the one click on desktop to bring up finder OS 9 style!
(Version 1.15) | |
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| Nov 6 2007 |
DANA SUTTON Works great for me. As far as I'm concerned, this is a winner.
(Version 1.14) | |
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| Dec 26 2006 |
JEDIK Hmmm, click through does not work, I will keep using 1.6...
(Version 1.8) | |
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| Jan 7 2007 |
KARSTEN@BRIKSOFTWARE.COM fixed in 1.10, sorry for the delay, but i don't look here often enough :-) why didn't you simply send a mail to me about the bug?
(Version 1.9) | |
| Dec 15 2006 |
RPITCAIRN Well today I found the files missing from my desktop. They were in a (named) folder within the Documents folder. I have no idea how they could have gotten there. I did not move them (unless some wierd mouse motion did it without my awareness). Is it possible that files could be moved like that? It gets more strange. I am going to try Camouflage again since I found them and will let you know if anything like this happens again. If it was my error, I apologize ahead of time.
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| Dec 16 2006 |
well camouflage does by far not move or copy any files. the only thing it does it read the desktop settings and read the wallpapers to display them. | |
| Dec 16 2006 |
RPITCAIRN Then must be my error. So, apologies for any upset or emotional reactions unncecessarily caused.
(Version 1.6) | |
| Feb 8 2007 |
ATTENTIONWANDERED if you use "folderglance" this can happen. if your home folder is in the menu, if you right click, go to your home folder and click "move selection here" your desktop will end up there. just move it back(with folderglance, finder wont let you)
(Version 1.11) | |
| Dec 14 2006 |
MACINSHROOM I tried several applications for the same propose of Camouflage before, but there is no other one that can do that same with such a high efficiency, it takes very little ram and opens really fast at startup (if you select it to open of course), without giving any time to the finder to display my messy icons. Its very well integrated with system preferences desktop picture changing, and its very useful that you can drag files over camouflage and they are copied to the real desktop, i'm really satisfied with this great app, thanks a lot to the developer.
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| Dec 13 2006 |
RPITCAIRN I have used this from prior versions until now. The earlier version caused problems in that the computer would freeze up and I could not quit programs. Had to restart. It looked that was fixed with the present version so I tried it again. Now I have permanently lost all the files that were on my desktop. They just disappeared (which of course is what Camouflage does) but even when I quit C. and restart, files not visible. I ran Disk Warrior but that did not cure it. So...looks dangerous to me.
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| Dec 14 2006 |
i don't know what you did to your files, but Camouflage does not tough the files at all. all it does is putting a window on top of the files which shows the current desktop picture. that's all the application does, nothing more. i can only guess that some other application you were using, and which was doing stuff deeper in the system, could cause that. | |
| Dec 14 2006 |
RPITCAIRN I don't know what happened either but I can add this. I use ApPresto which automatically hides each application as I switch. I also use Witch for switching as well as Command-Tab. It may be the combo that is the problem. In any case, prior to this version the computer would just stop and I would get the spinning ball of death for ALL my programs. Could not even force quit. Had to use power button to shut down and then restart. With this recent version I used it just a couple of days and while switching came back to the desktop and all my files (there) were gone. So something happened during the switching. Maybe this will help to figure it out.
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| Dec 14 2006 |
RPITCAIRN That is correct. No problem since not using C. I identify it as the trigger because twice now I have had these problems (as described) and when removing C. and not using it, no problems after that. There was a period between using this last version and the one before, of a week or so, of not using C. and having no problems at all. Then I installed the recent version and had this come up again. That is why I think it is this software. A great idea and I really liked it, so hope you can figure out what happened and put a plug in it.
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| Dec 14 2006 |
KARSTEN@BRIKSOFTWARE.COM ok, thanks for letting me know. i guess it's because Camouflage is activating the finder whenever you click the desktop. maybe you should activate the 'click through' feature in Camouflage (see the camouflage menu for it). this will make the window i put on top of the icons 'invisible' to mouse clicks. i hope that helps. maybe you can identify which of the two applications causes the crash and also let that developer know. or tell me which app it is and i will contact the developer :-) | |
| Dec 14 2006 |
http://www.foxchange.com/support/ http://www.petermaurer.de/nasi.php?section=witch 3. Mighty Mouse (from Unsanity, changes cursor appearance). Right now I have swithed over to Virtue Desktops instead. Will work with that for a while but would like to know if you find anything out. May switch back.
(Version 1.6) | |
| Dec 11 2006 |
HENRIKTEKNIK I wish there was an option to let it permanently show the Macintosh HD and other volume icons on the desktop. Also, clicking on the desktop makes the screen "blink" for a millisecond or so. It's not a big deal, but it feels odd. Otherwise, it's a good idea and it has great potential! But again, if I can't still see my HD icons + preferably other icons that I have set to "Always Show", it's not useful for me.
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| Dec 11 2006 |
KARSTEN@BRIKSOFTWARE.COM Camouflage is just displaying a window on top of all the icons on the desktop. it's not hiding them in finder directly. because of this it's not easily possible to show the icons. you can unhide all icons, or you hide them all.... that's your only possibilities with Camouflage and i'm not about to change that...sorry
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| Dec 4 2006 |
IANWEIR While a lovely application, it appears to have some rather significant RAM leaks. 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.
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| Dec 4 2006 |
KARSTEN@BRIKSOFTWARE.COM this is a bug in cocoa, the memory for an image somehow is not freed....i'll try to find a solution for that.
(Version 1.4) | |
| Oct 22 2006 |
MOUSEE Nice idea and it seems to work fine, but there is a big problem: although it seems you are in the Finder, you are not really there anymore, and Control-Click does not work within Camouflage. I use that key combination (or its alternate right-click) all the time, especially because of FinderPop. So that means I cannot use Camouflage.
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| Oct 22 2006 |
KARSTEN@BRIKSOFTWARE.COM why do you need the desktop context menu and what does finderpop do here?
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| Oct 22 2006 |
MOUSEE The only advantage of your app is to have a clean desktop while working. If you do not see the need for the contextual menu and, in my case FinderPop, then I don't know what to add to my comment. :/)
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| Oct 22 2006 |
KARSTEN@BRIKSOFTWARE.COM well you are right, first my app justs removes the icons and makes a clean desktop, and second i don't see the need for a context menu. but on the other hand i also don't know what finderPop is doing and also i don't know what you want to do with the context menu. so if you explain to me what you want to do with the context menu or why you use finder pop i may try to find a solution for the problem. btw: if you want to open a window with the desktop you just need to option-click the desktop and one will open up. i guess you can use the context menu then.
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| Oct 22 2006 |
MOUSEE FinderPop is a contextual menu a user can fill with any kind of documents or application shortcuts he wants. By right-clicking once, anywhere on the desktop, I can launch anything I want at anytime. It's used dozens of time a day and it is more efficient than going to the Dock. You can create submenus, etc. You can find a better and more complete description here: http://macupdate.com/info.php/id/655. Also, the Mac OS is using contextutal menus a lot. Having to open a window first is not really practical and make your application loose its appeal. If you could add that function, then your app would become a killer with a user's messy desktop (yeah, that would be me...)
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| Oct 22 2006 |
i just asked the finderpop developer if he can help me integrate that feature.
(Version 1.1) | |
| Oct 22 2006 |
MOUSEE Thanks, that would be great.
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| Oct 24 2006 |
KARSTEN@BRIKSOFTWARE.COM you should try out the 'click through' option, this will give you the normal context menu back. but take care, you can also select a file, but you do not see that due to camouflage hiding that file's icon.
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 | Oct 24 2006 |
SULEIMAN You both should just use Quicksilver instead of FinderPop. It's far more powerful, is as fast as you can type, and can be activated from any application (not only on the desktop).
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| Oct 24 2006 |
KARSTEN@BRIKSOFTWARE.COM actually i'm using it since half a year now and couldn't live without it anymore ;-) i always miss it when i don't use my mac cause it speeds up everything so much. As for people who want to learn more about it: have a look at the unofficial apple weblog, they've quite a lot of posts about quicksilver like links to tutorials and other stuff.
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