Filed under: Design, Macintosh, Productivity, Beta
Grape: a new take on the OS X desktop
by Jay Hathaway Apr 15th 2009 at 2:00PM
Grape's big strength is the zoom function. What looks like a hopeless of icons stacked on top of one another might look a lot better when you zoom in tighter or zoom out more. There's also a stack function that will put things in order for you automatically. Grape previews your media, so the icons are mini versions of your movies, photos, text files, etc. If you enlarge them or zoom in enough, you basically get the Quick Look view. You can also drop things from the Finder onto the Grape icon, and they'll show up in Grape's "drop zone."
This was an app I didn't know I needed until I tried it out. Now I hope that Apple's next OS has a desktop design that functions the way Grape does.
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JB said 3:51PM on 4-15-2009
I realize it isn't exactly the same, but aren't some of the basic concepts behind this, such as grouping, stacking, etc. the same as Bumptop?
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Jael said 8:16PM on 4-15-2009
Is this an open beta?
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Jay Hathaway said 8:25PM on 4-15-2009
It was at the time of posting, but seems to have closed since. Keep an eye on it if you're interested.
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denise said 6:56PM on 4-17-2009
just clear the icons off the desk top,get yahoo widgets,and enjoy the personal ,practical display.
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