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"Two years ago, a bright engineer, Anand Agarawala, gave a presentation at the TED conference (see the video at the bottom) about a new technology he and a team were working on that showed how they believed the desktop should work.  Just like how people use a real desk, they believed that the user should be able to interact with desktop items in 3D, pin up photographs, pile related items into stacks, and more.\nToday, that dream has become a reality with the launch of BumpTop for Windows (Mac version coming soon), a gorgeous desktop application that transforms the desktop from a cold, vertical interface into a dynamic 3-dimensional room that makes not only organizing files easy, but browsing images, writing notes, and even updating your Twitter, Facebook, and email.\n\n\n\nIt's quick to understand the concept: people interact with the real world in three dimensions, with certain items being bigger, others being more important, and yet others being in a pile of mess.  BumpTop turns that concept into reality by creating a 3 dimensional room for organizing all of your files.  It takes a little time to get the hang of it, but the starting tutorial and screencasts help.\nBumpTop's Features\nSo what can BumpTop actually do for the user?  This list only scratches the surface of its many features:\nDocument Organization: BumpTop allows the user to \"stack\" related files in 3D, fan them out, put them on grids (like someone would see on a normal computer desktop), and quickly search for files with specific keywords.\nGrowing and Shrinking Files: The system obeys the laws of physics.  The user can make important files or folders bigger and easier to see, and make smaller ones to save space.  Users can even throw files against each other, and the bigger files will plow through the smaller files like a car through a rain puddle.\nPictures: Just like a room, pictures can be pinned up, rotated, and more.  It starts with the \"My Pictures\" folder (for Windows users) and cycles through all of a user's pictures for a dynamic photo frame.  It also will link to Flickr accounts.\n\n\n\n\nMultiple Dimensions: BumpTop creates more space for files by having three walls where you can pin pictures, videos, and notes.  Double-clicking on any wall changes the focus to that wall.\nSticky Notes: Just like a sticky note application, it places notes on walls or anywhere else the user decides to pin them.\nFacebook and Twitter Integration:  If all of this wasn't enough, BumpTop can update Twitter and Facebook accounts.  Simply drag a photo onto the icon to share that photo, or double click to Tweet or access Facebook.\nIt includes even more features that will work with the upcoming Windows 7, including multi-touch support.  It's also important to note that all of the features of the desktop, including the right-click menu, are still available with BumpTop, and the program can be exited at anytime.  \nA Reinvention of the Computer Desktop\n\n\n\n\nLet's face it: the desktop has not seen any major innovation in a long, long time.  It's still the same lines of icons on a 2D area.  Neither the Mac OS nor Windows goes as far as BumpTop does to completely reinvent and reimagine the user experience when it comes to the desktop.\nThis is not to say it is perfect - it can be confusing and still has a bug or two.  For example, on my dual-screen setup, certain actions will minimize all of the items on the other screen, making it a little tougher to write this blog post among other tasks.  But these are minor compared to the stark improvements and features that BumpTop provides.  \nThere is a standard and a pro version, the latter of which costs $29.  We have 200 invites for you to check out the pro version, which you can grab here.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEditor's Note: The site was supposed to be live at midnight ET, but appears to be running a bit behind.  It should be up shortly."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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