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Old April 27th, 2006, 10:19 AM
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Whoa. How Did He Do This???

Look at the image titled "Two-Part Screenshot"--third one from top, by Rick Miller. How in the world did he get his windows to maximize/minimize like that?

http://www.resexcellence.com/snapsho...es/index.shtml
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Old April 27th, 2006, 04:24 PM
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(un)?fortunately, they don't. it's just an animation showing the 1st screen, and then the second screen. the os doens't actually look like that.
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Old April 27th, 2006, 08:31 PM
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(un)?fortunately, they don't. it's just an animation showing the 1st screen, and then the second screen. the os doens't actually look like that.
Ohhh ... I see. Well, darn, I was all excited. I thought I could download a theme that did that. I thought it was way cool.
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it's kinda tacky don't you think? I still have the original OS X wallpaper on my desktop! I also like vanilla ice cream, so i guess it's my boring personality
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Old April 28th, 2006, 06:04 AM
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Amie, you appear to love the pointless eye candy in life

http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/12682

have fun with that, dear!
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.....Whoah. How is it I never knew about this? It's like tabbed browsing, only for your entire screen. Awesome. I was under the impression that all the "virtual desktop" solutions for OS X sucked, but this seems to work really well. Thanks for the link!

And that is some pretty neat eye candy, although if I keep using it, I'll probably use one of the more modest effects. I'd like to see a real cross-fade, but the "cross-fade" effect they have is....not a cross-fade. I wonder if that's a bug, or if it's supposed to get insanely bright like that. Hmm. Oh well. "Reveal" and "None" suit me just fine.
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it uses the standard openGL effects made available to developers in macos x. see handbrake's picture quality screen to see the checkbox for 'useless openGL effects'.

virtual desktops are a bit more hassle then they're worth when you have exposé.
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There's an even more i-candy version (base don desktop manager) called virtue: http://virtuedesktops.info/

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