DISQUS

Austin Hill · 8 months ago

Congrats to Anand & the Bumptop team. This is such a great accomplishment. I met Anand at TED and was an immediate fan of his vision.

I quickly became part of those "as-yet-unnamed sources of funding" so I'm excited to see it launch.

This is only the beginning, lot's of exciting things coming from the Bumptop team.

Aaron deMello · 8 months ago

Really great stuff... I believe these guys are in Canada as well, which is wonderful. Can't wait for the Mac version, although to tell the truth - Windows needs more help. ;-)

Aaron deMello · 8 months ago

"BumpTop can get by with a 1.4-gigahertz processor, a gigahertz of main memory, and an integrated graphics card. "


Dean, I think you mean a gigabyte of main memory.

yo mama · 8 months ago

much-needed? Vista is light years ahead of anything else when it comes to looks.

Patrice Breton · 8 months ago

BumpTop is fresh and exciting. Congratulations!

PS: Would be fun to play with the desktop view angle.

PluckyGlen Ford · 8 months ago

With respect to the people behind this who are clearly smarter than I am -- and I say that without sarcasm -- this is destined for the museum of fail. The desktop metaphor starts to fall apart almost immediately as the amount of information grows. A 3-D version of a poor interface is just that much less effective.

The most widely used method for organizing and accessing information is clearly search. Remember the Yahoo directory? Me either. A 2-D or 3-D graphical version of manually organized information isn't much different.

Disorganized but searchable information is by the most common and useful kind -- by several orders of magnitude. Google Desktop and its Microsoft and Apple equivalents, backed by necessarily limited GUIs, are the future.

John Samuel · 8 months ago

This looks really cool. Pretty good with options to Twitter, Facebook, Sticky notes and Email.
3D desktop already available in Linux. But it's good to see in windows

Brandon · 8 months ago

"But the Mac OS already incorporates plenty of 3-D features and so isn’t in as desperate need of a makeover as Windows."


Wait, what? The Mac OS doesn't have a single 3D feature on the desktop.

Beyond being blatantly wrong, that comment adds nothing to the article. BumpTop would be just as welcome on the Mac as it is on Windows. If you want to know why there isn't a Mac version yet, you should ask the developers - I doubt they're going to say "because the Mac doesn't need it."

Anom Pasi · 8 months ago

Welcome to 2000 Anand,

Virtual 3D desktop interfaces have been around since 1999 as a Windows 95 THEMEs!!!.

yeah, it may not have been popular, but it was there.

There is nothing special that you have done.

warcraft gold · 8 months ago

I don't think software like this is necessary because most computer users nowadays know how to organize their files and there's a lot of software alike out there which is much better than this.

bob · 8 months ago

CALLING MICROSOFT BOB. ARE YOU THERE? BOB! HELLO?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Bob

We all know how *that* turned out... Don't people ever learn from history?

1.21 GigaWATTS · 8 months ago

This is awesome! Now I just need to find out where to buy a gigahertz of main system memory.

Hmmm · 8 months ago

Does anyone edit these articles? "...a gigahertz of main memory" - my laptop only has 4 GB of memory, not nearly a gigahertz. And why didn't you link to or embed the video from the BumpTop site, which does a much better job of describing the features and benefits than this article does?

fail · 8 months ago

destined for fail....agreed.

Funky · 8 months ago

link to bumptop download page in article please, yes I know google toolbar, but I'm lazy.

Jason · 8 months ago

I agree with PluckyGlen Ford.

I installed this program and it lasted about 10 minutes. Look, companies like Apple and MS spend 1000 of man years and millions upon millions of dollars to create usable user interfaces. BumpTop does not seems to take advantage of any of the features in the modern UI. To me it looks like a step backwards. Its just another one of the funny 3d things that we happen on every now and again.
Dont get me wrong its a nice technical achievement and the guy must be pleased with his work. It just that this program (as the jobs link on the site states) is not going to "change the world"

Jason

ps. note to developer of this program. I suggest you remove the statement about changing the world on your jobs page. Its ridiculous. You have written a nice little program, you are not changing anything especially "the world"

Patrice Breton · 8 months ago

Boy ... talk about a tough crowd. There is definitely something different here. And it's nothing like Msft BOB (!).

This being said, the update won't install, it crashes too often and the 3D gives it a toy feel ... which is not for me. But I love it .... dynamic experience and natural feel. It's staying on for now.

Jonas · 8 months ago

I also second PluckyGlen Ford. Why do people stick to the "desktop" analogy, pushing it to adapt to the obvious disadvantages of the physical desktop?
Firefox innovated the information management with the awesomebar, with all the others following in their next versions. Clearly, this was the way to go with bookmarks and browser history, why not with the rest of your data? People will adapt to a command line interface if it's smart, and if you don't tell them it's a cli :-)
Disclaimer: I haven't tried Google Desktop.