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- From: fxmlk@acad3.alaska.edu (KIENENBERGER MIKE L)
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- Subject: Re: VirtSpace (mini -review)
- Message-ID: <12SEP199203473147@acad3.alaska.edu>
- Date: 12 Sep 92 11:47:00 GMT
- References: <1992Sep12.011232.15694@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca>
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- In article <1992Sep12.011232.15694@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca>, sherwood@fenris.space.ualberta.ca (Sherwood Botsford) writes...
- >
- >This is one neat App. Do you have 12 Stuart windows open
- >on 5 different hosts? Does it take a minute to find the
- >lastest Edit window you were working on? Do you often have
- >FrameMaker, Diagram, and Adobe Illustrator all running with
- >a hoard of windows each.If you are the sort of person who
- >has 6 different apps open all the time, and are constantly
- >rummaging around trying to find the window that you were
- >working on; if you are the sort of person who wishes he had
- >a wall instead of a monitor; if your screen looks like your
- >desk, with only 3 square inches of grey background visible
- >most of the time, then shell out your thirty bucks and get
- >VirtSpace
- >
- >VirtSpace allows you to create a virual screen arbitrarily
- >larger than the real screen, and spread out apps all over
- >the place. So you can have one corner where you are
- >working on backup scripts and testing them, another corner
- >where your default file viewer and mail box lives, another
- >corner where you are compiling and testing xntpd, and the
- >fourth corner where you have terminal sessions onto other
- >hosts.
- >
- >The interface is fairly easy to master, however I am having
- >to change how I organize my screen. Often clicking on an
- >active icon makes one of that apps windows the key window,
- >but that window isn't on the screen. This was a bit
- >mystifying at first, but I'm adapting quickly.
- >
- >The authors are very responsive to suggestions, and
- >questions about the program.
- >
- >In the space of half a day VirtSpace has gone from a new
- >toy to an absolute necessity.
- >
- >Highly recommended.
-
- At the risk of sounding cheap, what's the difference between this
- and the free version (no version number just C 1992) given out
- a few months ago? [Don't get me wrong. This program was worth paying
- shareware fees...I'm just feeling cheap this month after paying tuition.]
-
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- -Mike Kienenberger FXMLK@ALASKA (BITNet)
- Academic Computing FXMLK@acad3.alaska.edu (Internet)
- University of Alaska-Fairbanks
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