3D Launcher™ is a utility that puts spinning, threedimensional icons in a control bar on your desktop. It can be used to launch your favorite and commonly used programs. It provides shortcuts to frequently used applications, such as word processors, image editing and compression software. But first of all it makes your desktop more fun!
Does it run on my system?
3D Launcher™ needs a 120 mhz Macintosh Power PC with Quicktime 2.1 or higher. System 7.5 or higher is the minimum to run this program.
How do I make it work with my programs?
Run 3D Launcher™. There are 6 main application groups: internet, office, graphics, multimedia, tools and extra. Go to the 'settings'-menu item and locate each of the programs you want to link to a spinning icon. For example you would use 'text editor 1' for Simpletext and 'text editor 2' for Ms Word. Or you would link 'extra 1' to a game you frequently play. After selecting the shortcuts press 'save' to store the settings on your harddisk. Clicking on the 3D-icon will launch the application. The settings also provide the possibility to turn sound off (and on).
What does it cost?
3D Launcher™ costs only $15 for private use. Corporate use is $100. When you register it is fully-functional. When you run it as a demo you can launch just a couple of items.
How do I pay?
When you launch 3D Launcher™ you'll find a button saying 'buy online'. Pressing this button will connect you to the site of the internet bank 'Kagi'. Here you can pay for 3D Launcher™ using your credit card. After your payment has been processed you will receive a personal serial number immediately (within seconds after payment). You can then use this number to register the program and it will then be a full-working version. If the button doesn't respond, use the Netscape and Explorer documents in this folder to connect to out website. Go to the 'Buy Now' section of our website.
I'm interested in the movies, but not in the application...
You can buy the movies seperately for $10.00. They can be downloaded as animated GIF or as Quicktime movies (millions of colors). Go to our webpage to check it out:
http://www.xs4all.nl/~invaders/3dlauncher.html
Known problems
1) Programs will not launch when there is not enough memory available. You will not get a warning, they just won't launch. Decreasing the preferred memory size for 3D Launcher is a possible solution or putting more fysical memory in your machine.
2) Programs will not launch when they have been moved or deleted. Solution: fix your aliases by re-assigning them in the settings-window.
2) Computer crashes when Photoshop 5.0 or higher is launched. This is a Photoshop bug. The same thing happens when you have five different movies running in Apple's Movieplayer and at the same time try to open Photoshop. So we can't fix it, Adobe can. However we have a workaround: when you assign Photoshop to the Photo-button in the 'Graphics' sub-window, it will work fine. All the animations will stop playing and Photoshop will launch.
Credits
3D Launcher™ was programmed by Vincent Verweij using RealBasic 2.0. The three-D models were designed and rendered by Gert Jan Leusink.
Legal
Leusink/Verweij are not responsible for any damage resulting from the use of 3D Launcher™. All rights reserved. 3D Launcher™ is subject to copyright.
More info
More information on our homepage: http://www.xs4all.nl/~invaders/3dlauncher.html
Technical support: invaders@xs4all.nl
Other questions: leusink@euronet.nl
Please report bugs and any other questions you may have.
