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SmallWindows: Open source Exposé clone for Windows
by Jordan Running Feb 1st 2006 at 2:05PM
For the
uninitiated, Mac OS X has a cool feature called Exposé whereby a particularly keyboard shortcut makes all of
your windows arrange themselves into small versions of themselves displayed all at once for easy task-switching. In the
past we've covered a couple
of Exposé clones for Windows, but neither was free. SmallWindows is another Exposé clone, but this one is free and,
even better, open source. It works pretty well, too. You activate SmallWindows by pressing Win-F12 or holding the mouse
at the top-center of the screen. It pops up quickly and smoothly, and rolling the mouse over any of the "mini"
windows shown will zoom in on it a bit. It's not seamless, nor does it have much in the way of frills, but it works as
advertised and is fast and fun to use. It could use a snappier name, though.
I don't know if this is a labor of love or merely the brainchild of four very gifted games designers, but Level Up is a really weird mash-up of gaming elements that you have probably never seen in a Flash game before.
Let's start with the premise itself: Groundhog Day meets Memento. The game experience revolves around 'days': you explore the world and the clock slowly ticks towards the evening. You bounce around picking up gems and talking to the denizens of 'Level Upland'. Eventually you feel tired and head back to ...
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Jens Egeblad said 4:16PM on 11-09-2006
I have stopped working on Smallwindows but check out http://www.mexircus.com
Here you will find the Admiral which contains many of the features of SmallWindows + a lot more!!!
- Jens Egeblad (Author of SmallWindows)
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Tom said 3:13PM on 2-01-2006
Wow, I'm suprised how well it works, sure I've only been using it for a couple minutes, and I've already come across a few bugs, but I'm impressed.
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Dan said 5:53PM on 2-01-2006
I have just tried to use it and all it did was turn my screen grey with a few black blotches....?
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Christian said 4:00AM on 2-02-2006
Cool.
Unfortunately, it does not not work in my two-screen mode
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