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This makes using a computer twice....as hard.

Take your eyes off of the piles on your actual desk, and look at piles on the metaphor of a desk.]]>Jan 21st 2010 9:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/bumptop-hits-the-mac-covers-your-os-x-desktop-with-piles-just-l/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/bumptop-hits-the-mac-covers-your-os-x-desktop-with-piles-just-l/Jan 21st 2010 11:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/bumptop-hits-the-mac-covers-your-os-x-desktop-with-piles-just-l/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/bumptop-hits-the-mac-covers-your-os-x-desktop-with-piles-just-l/
agreed. this app is just pure shit/crap. wtf is the purpose?? and why is engadget promoting this? like a previous comment, bloatware.

someone must have gotten a little something under the table to showcase bumptop.]]>Jan 21st 2010 11:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/bumptop-hits-the-mac-covers-your-os-x-desktop-with-piles-just-l/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/bumptop-hits-the-mac-covers-your-os-x-desktop-with-piles-just-l/
So true, the computer has evolved so little. We're still playing around with the "desktop" metaphor, and somehow I just doubt that this being "the first thing we tried" is also the best. We still use a mouse and keyboard for navigation, when you look at it, how much has actually changed apart from smoothing out the user-experience and upgrading the graphics a bit.

Surely emphasizing even more on the desktop metaphor won't enhance the user experience in any way - why would we want our computers to be more like desktops and not take advantage of it's possibilities.

Show us some innovation.]]>Jan 21st 2010 5:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/bumptop-hits-the-mac-covers-your-os-x-desktop-with-piles-just-l/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/bumptop-hits-the-mac-covers-your-os-x-desktop-with-piles-just-l/you're disregarding one thing: you're a physical being living in a physical world, and your brain evolved in response to that reality. the desktop metaphor is persistent because it works. our methods for managing and filing physical paper, which you obviously take for granted, are in fact very sophisticated, and took centuries to work out. "innovation," meanwhile, is too often a meaningless buzzword. ]]>Jan 21st 2010 6:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/bumptop-hits-the-mac-covers-your-os-x-desktop-with-piles-just-l/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/bumptop-hits-the-mac-covers-your-os-x-desktop-with-piles-just-l/Agreed. Why would we wanna make it all complicated. Than again there will be people who would want it complicated. But for me the desktop should be plain and simple. which is the fact that i keep less shortcuts on the desktop]]>Jan 22nd 2010 1:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/bumptop-hits-the-mac-covers-your-os-x-desktop-with-piles-just-l/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/bumptop-hits-the-mac-covers-your-os-x-desktop-with-piles-just-l/Jan 21st 2010 9:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/bumptop-hits-the-mac-covers-your-os-x-desktop-with-piles-just-l/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/bumptop-hits-the-mac-covers-your-os-x-desktop-with-piles-just-l/
And soon you'll have Piles 2.0™.]]>Jan 21st 2010 11:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/bumptop-hits-the-mac-covers-your-os-x-desktop-with-piles-just-l/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/bumptop-hits-the-mac-covers-your-os-x-desktop-with-piles-just-l/Jan 21st 2010 2:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/bumptop-hits-the-mac-covers-your-os-x-desktop-with-piles-just-l/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/bumptop-hits-the-mac-covers-your-os-x-desktop-with-piles-just-l/Jan 21st 2010 9:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/bumptop-hits-the-mac-covers-your-os-x-desktop-with-piles-just-l/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/bumptop-hits-the-mac-covers-your-os-x-desktop-with-piles-just-l/You know, when you pay ~$1500 for the worlds smallest cubicle, you'd thing they would at least give you a window.]]>Jan 21st 2010 10:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/bumptop-hits-the-mac-covers-your-os-x-desktop-with-piles-just-l/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/bumptop-hits-the-mac-covers-your-os-x-desktop-with-piles-just-l/Jan 21st 2010 9:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/bumptop-hits-the-mac-covers-your-os-x-desktop-with-piles-just-l/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/bumptop-hits-the-mac-covers-your-os-x-desktop-with-piles-just-l/I'm one of those, too.]]>Jan 21st 2010 5:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/bumptop-hits-the-mac-covers-your-os-x-desktop-with-piles-just-l/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/bumptop-hits-the-mac-covers-your-os-x-desktop-with-piles-just-l/
Take the ebook... which sense will have flip pages mimic the movement of a page?

Eeach technology/interface requires his own approach and usability, the desktop it's fine as metaphor, this does not mean that my computer has to be a desk]]>Jan 21st 2010 9:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/bumptop-hits-the-mac-covers-your-os-x-desktop-with-piles-just-l/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/bumptop-hits-the-mac-covers-your-os-x-desktop-with-piles-just-l/Jan 21st 2010 9:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/bumptop-hits-the-mac-covers-your-os-x-desktop-with-piles-just-l/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/bumptop-hits-the-mac-covers-your-os-x-desktop-with-piles-just-l/
actually it is very similar to those.
This is kinda cool too look at for about 15 min and then it looses it's appeal. Plus it actually encourages disorganization and I tend to organize my files in folders based on some criteria ( as all sensible users do ). But in all fairness it would be nice to have a bit better file organization. ]]>Jan 22nd 2010 6:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/bumptop-hits-the-mac-covers-your-os-x-desktop-with-piles-just-l/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/bumptop-hits-the-mac-covers-your-os-x-desktop-with-piles-just-l/Jan 21st 2010 9:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/bumptop-hits-the-mac-covers-your-os-x-desktop-with-piles-just-l/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/bumptop-hits-the-mac-covers-your-os-x-desktop-with-piles-just-l/
Fuck, file systems are so archaic.]]>Jan 21st 2010 9:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/bumptop-hits-the-mac-covers-your-os-x-desktop-with-piles-just-l/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/bumptop-hits-the-mac-covers-your-os-x-desktop-with-piles-just-l/Jan 21st 2010 9:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/bumptop-hits-the-mac-covers-your-os-x-desktop-with-piles-just-l/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/bumptop-hits-the-mac-covers-your-os-x-desktop-with-piles-just-l/
tell that to your grandkids one day....

"when I was was young we had 2D interfaces, 2D!!!"]]>Jan 21st 2010 10:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/bumptop-hits-the-mac-covers-your-os-x-desktop-with-piles-just-l/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/bumptop-hits-the-mac-covers-your-os-x-desktop-with-piles-just-l/
The digital format is so wonderful because you don't have to store stuff in 3d space. You are not forced to look through piles to find your item, you simple scroll through the list, ordered however you want (date, file type, name)]]>Jan 21st 2010 9:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/bumptop-hits-the-mac-covers-your-os-x-desktop-with-piles-just-l/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/bumptop-hits-the-mac-covers-your-os-x-desktop-with-piles-just-l/
Spending $29 to arrange piles of docs and literally get piles? Erm,, no thanks.

http://seventoten.com]]>Jan 21st 2010 9:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/bumptop-hits-the-mac-covers-your-os-x-desktop-with-piles-just-l/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/bumptop-hits-the-mac-covers-your-os-x-desktop-with-piles-just-l/
...slow news day?]]>Jan 21st 2010 9:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/bumptop-hits-the-mac-covers-your-os-x-desktop-with-piles-just-l/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/bumptop-hits-the-mac-covers-your-os-x-desktop-with-piles-just-l/Jan 21st 2010 9:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/bumptop-hits-the-mac-covers-your-os-x-desktop-with-piles-just-l/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/bumptop-hits-the-mac-covers-your-os-x-desktop-with-piles-just-l/Jan 21st 2010 9:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/bumptop-hits-the-mac-covers-your-os-x-desktop-with-piles-just-l/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/bumptop-hits-the-mac-covers-your-os-x-desktop-with-piles-just-l/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4IjeO7g6kA]]>Jan 21st 2010 4:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/bumptop-hits-the-mac-covers-your-os-x-desktop-with-piles-just-l/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/bumptop-hits-the-mac-covers-your-os-x-desktop-with-piles-just-l/Jan 21st 2010 10:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/bumptop-hits-the-mac-covers-your-os-x-desktop-with-piles-just-l/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/bumptop-hits-the-mac-covers-your-os-x-desktop-with-piles-just-l/Jan 21st 2010 10:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/bumptop-hits-the-mac-covers-your-os-x-desktop-with-piles-just-l/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/bumptop-hits-the-mac-covers-your-os-x-desktop-with-piles-just-l/
Hmm.. broad generalizations can get one into trouble. I'm a Mac user, and my organizational skills are rather lacking. This is how we begin flame wars!

However, there is another logical problem with your post. Your data source is biased; those who are willing to post an image of their desktop on Flickr are also those who most likely to have desktops worth taking images of (i.e. clean pretty organized ones). Thus you rule out the completely probable possibility that, while a subset of Flickr-posting Mac users have clean desktops, the rest of us are a bunch of humans (i.e. fat, disgusting meatbag-slobs who cannot take care of themselves without the interwebs and a box of cookies). Of course, you could easily argue that it is equally as likely that your scenario is the case, and I would give that to you. Despite this, your post was more of a declaration than a speculation, and thus I must say that without the deductive reasoning to support your claim, I am in no position to conclude with you that most Mac users are clean and organized. I for one, am a meatbag-slob, and I think the coffee rings on my desktop give it "character" :)]]>Jan 21st 2010 10:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/bumptop-hits-the-mac-covers-your-os-x-desktop-with-piles-just-l/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/bumptop-hits-the-mac-covers-your-os-x-desktop-with-piles-just-l/
http://i49.tinypic.com/dbpoic.jpg

My desk at the moment. My desktop on my mac however is perfectly empty other than my internal hard drive and my time machine back up drive.]]>Jan 24th 2010 1:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/bumptop-hits-the-mac-covers-your-os-x-desktop-with-piles-just-l/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/bumptop-hits-the-mac-covers-your-os-x-desktop-with-piles-just-l/Jan 21st 2010 10:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/bumptop-hits-the-mac-covers-your-os-x-desktop-with-piles-just-l/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/bumptop-hits-the-mac-covers-your-os-x-desktop-with-piles-just-l/3D clutter is super-awesome!

ugh!]]>Jan 21st 2010 10:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/bumptop-hits-the-mac-covers-your-os-x-desktop-with-piles-just-l/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/bumptop-hits-the-mac-covers-your-os-x-desktop-with-piles-just-l/
People who leave all their files on their desktop are not the kind of people who have actually learned to use their computers efficiently. That's the bottom line here. Making piles is not going to help. Apple actually patented that idea, and never brought out anything in this form. They incorporated it somewhat in the Dock in OS X, but the idea of piles on a desktop? It's bunk. A decent folder structure that's been around since the Mac in 1984 still is the best they can come up with. And it doesn't appear to be changing to anything better anywhere I've seen. Any variation is lipstick on the pig.]]>Jan 21st 2010 10:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/bumptop-hits-the-mac-covers-your-os-x-desktop-with-piles-just-l/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/bumptop-hits-the-mac-covers-your-os-x-desktop-with-piles-just-l/Jan 21st 2010 10:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/bumptop-hits-the-mac-covers-your-os-x-desktop-with-piles-just-l/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/bumptop-hits-the-mac-covers-your-os-x-desktop-with-piles-just-l/it sucked then and it will suck on a Mac.]]>Jan 21st 2010 10:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/bumptop-hits-the-mac-covers-your-os-x-desktop-with-piles-just-l/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/bumptop-hits-the-mac-covers-your-os-x-desktop-with-piles-just-l/]]>Jan 21st 2010 11:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/bumptop-hits-the-mac-covers-your-os-x-desktop-with-piles-just-l/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/bumptop-hits-the-mac-covers-your-os-x-desktop-with-piles-just-l/Eye Candy + Professional and productive environment = No-Go!


..."Less, but better." (Dieter Rams)]]>Jan 21st 2010 11:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/bumptop-hits-the-mac-covers-your-os-x-desktop-with-piles-just-l/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/bumptop-hits-the-mac-covers-your-os-x-desktop-with-piles-just-l/
It's like going to the complexity of multitouch from a simple mouse. Or playing FPS with a joystick instead of a mouse or even keyboard for that matter.

Our mouse and keyboards just might not need much improvement. Look to the future, but don't dumb it down by forgetting to look at where we are now. ]]>Jan 21st 2010 11:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/bumptop-hits-the-mac-covers-your-os-x-desktop-with-piles-just-l/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/bumptop-hits-the-mac-covers-your-os-x-desktop-with-piles-just-l/Jan 21st 2010 11:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/bumptop-hits-the-mac-covers-your-os-x-desktop-with-piles-just-l/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/bumptop-hits-the-mac-covers-your-os-x-desktop-with-piles-just-l/Jan 21st 2010 1:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/bumptop-hits-the-mac-covers-your-os-x-desktop-with-piles-just-l/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/bumptop-hits-the-mac-covers-your-os-x-desktop-with-piles-just-l/
I just installed it and I guess we'll see how it goes.]]>Jan 21st 2010 1:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/bumptop-hits-the-mac-covers-your-os-x-desktop-with-piles-just-l/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/bumptop-hits-the-mac-covers-your-os-x-desktop-with-piles-just-l/Jan 21st 2010 1:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/bumptop-hits-the-mac-covers-your-os-x-desktop-with-piles-just-l/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/bumptop-hits-the-mac-covers-your-os-x-desktop-with-piles-just-l/
I've been playing with it and one of the first things I noticed was the blurryness as well. It does add multiple desktops, 1 floor, 3 walls. each can have different things. I take back what I said about Spaces, as that's more about window management.

I also had some problems with setting up wallpapers, they would just be a giant white flash. And sometimes when I got them to work they would disappear soon after.

I did however forget it was evening running in the background, which is good since it means it's not in-your face obtrusive. I love organizing by piles, I cleaned up my desktop in no time :)

I still like the idea and with a few more tweaks and fixes and it might be worth considering.]]>Jan 21st 2010 2:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/bumptop-hits-the-mac-covers-your-os-x-desktop-with-piles-just-l/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/bumptop-hits-the-mac-covers-your-os-x-desktop-with-piles-just-l/Jan 21st 2010 2:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/bumptop-hits-the-mac-covers-your-os-x-desktop-with-piles-just-l/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/bumptop-hits-the-mac-covers-your-os-x-desktop-with-piles-just-l/-It is way too laggy
-Certain JPGs don't work as backgrounds for no reason I can think of (instead of the picture you get solid white)
-It tries to be too "physical," to the point where icons move with [too much] inertia and can push each other around
-There's no snap to grid option]]>Jan 21st 2010 3:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/bumptop-hits-the-mac-covers-your-os-x-desktop-with-piles-just-l/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/bumptop-hits-the-mac-covers-your-os-x-desktop-with-piles-just-l/Jan 21st 2010 4:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/bumptop-hits-the-mac-covers-your-os-x-desktop-with-piles-just-l/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/bumptop-hits-the-mac-covers-your-os-x-desktop-with-piles-just-l/
Anyway, I like my icons the way they are on all OS's, I'm still waiting for a way to "toss" windows out of the way (just like tossing icons here, but with lower friction).]]>Jan 21st 2010 4:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/bumptop-hits-the-mac-covers-your-os-x-desktop-with-piles-just-l/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/bumptop-hits-the-mac-covers-your-os-x-desktop-with-piles-just-l/Jan 21st 2010 5:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/bumptop-hits-the-mac-covers-your-os-x-desktop-with-piles-just-l/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/bumptop-hits-the-mac-covers-your-os-x-desktop-with-piles-just-l/Jan 21st 2010 8:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/bumptop-hits-the-mac-covers-your-os-x-desktop-with-piles-just-l/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/bumptop-hits-the-mac-covers-your-os-x-desktop-with-piles-just-l/
or for anyone on the comments list....


but how it's implemented is pretty nice.
]]>Jan 21st 2010 11:30PM