In news I don’t quite understand, BumpTop has been bought by Google. Not a copy of the desktop-metaphor interface software, the whole company. And if you want a copy of that software for Windows or Mac, you’d better get it now.
Hmmm… BumpTop, a touch and gesture based interface for working with your computer files, formerly for Windows only, has been released for Mac. Seems to work great via the multi-touch trackpad, as seen in the video demo (after the jump), but I must assume they’re also hoping to get some touchscreen love on an Apple [...]
BumpTop the 3D desktop UI that always looks exciting has added multi-touch. There are a range of touch controls that allow you to use multiple fingers to pinch, squeeze, rotate, toss, pan, zoom, and even crop photos. From the video this looks awesome. To take advantage of this you’ll need Windows 7. And of course [...]
We’ve talked about BumpTop, the 3d desktop application, quite a bit here at GBM, most recently giving away a bunch of beta invites. Well, I just got word through Twitter that BumpTop 1.0 has gone gold and is now available to everyone for download. They’ve added a ton of features like themes, and social integration [...]
Some exciting news yesterday from AppleInsider about an Apple patent filing pointing to a multi-dimensional desktop for the Mac. While all that is good and exciting, the great news is that a 3D Desktop is available right now on the PC via BumpTop, and we’ve got 200 exclusive beta invitations to hand out. For your [...]
JasonJ, a GBM forum member, has been beta testing the BumpTop desktop. He just posted up this review in our forums – go check it out. BumpTop Desktop looks very intriguing! Anything that increases my desktop real estate and lets me prioritize my shortcuts by size is a game changer. BumpTop’s gorgeous presentation actually seems [...]
Maybe all good things come to those who wait. I’ve been interested in the BumpTop Desktop ever since it came across my radar awhile ago. I see that you can now sign up for the closed Beta, which I’ve done, so here’s hoping. What intrigues me about this is the desktop metaphor which I think [...]
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