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" Your PC&amp;#039;s desktop may seem more organized than your actual desktop, but, according to University of Toronto graduate student Anand Agarawala, the piles of paper that clutter your work space are a highly efficient system, allowing you to easily recognize and locate your files by sight. (The empty soda cans and candy wrappers, however, are trash, and you really should clean them up.) BumpTop, an operating system shell for Windows created by Agarawala, merges the searchability and interactivity of your computer&amp;#039;s OS with the instant access of your real desktop. By turning your file icons into three-dimensional &amp;quot;widgets,&amp;quot; BumpTop lets users sweep files into piles on their computer desktops and then manipulate them like physical objects--fanned out, flipped through, reordered, or crumpled up and thrown away. &amp;quot;We&amp;#039;re trying to make the organization of information on your PC as natural and meaningful as possible,&amp;quot; Agarawala says. &amp;quot;We wanted to stay away from the boring ways of doing things, like dialog boxes and buttons. The widgets give the rich manipulation that we expect in the real world.&amp;quot; BumpTop is designed to work with most modern personal computers, but it is still in the development phase. Agarawala hopes to turn his creation into a commercial product by the end of the year.      "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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