Open Source Software, Free. Toobla. PearlTrees building collaborative web. Visual Thesaurus. BumpTop. In BumpTop, documents are represented as three-dimensional boxes lying on a virtual desk. The user can position the boxes on the desk using the stylus or mouse. Extensive use of physics effects like bumping and tossing is applied to documents when they interact, for a more realistic experience. Boxes can be stacked with well-defined gestures. Multiple selection is performed by means of a LassoMenu, which fluidly combines in one stroke the act of lasso selection and action invocation via pie menus. BumpTop currently supports Windows XP, Vista, and 7, and a version for Mac OS X was released into private beta on January 18, 2010. The Mac edition omits the pie menu in favor of a more normal selection menu.[7] The software installer and the application phone home.
BumpTop automatically updates to the latest version. Multi-Touch[edit] With the release of BumpTop 1.2 on October 9, 2009,[9] multi-touch support was added for Windows 7. BumpTop Inside[edit] Reception[edit] Acquisition by Google[edit] Fidg't: Your Social Networking Address Book. Explore your network with the Fidg't Visualizer* The Fidg't Visualizer allows you to play around with your network.
You interface with the Visualizer through Flickr and LastFM tags, using any tag to create a Magnet. Once a Tag Magnet is created, members of the network will gravitate towards it if they have photos or music with that same Tag. This simple mechanic lets you visualize your Network in a unique way, demonstrating its Predisposition towards certain things. What is more popular amongst people in your Network - rock or electronic music? For good measure, you can also search through the network for certain users, and check out their recent photos and music.
The Fidg't Visualizer is in an alpha release. Windows users might need to download Java, which can be done here . *You can download and play with the Fidg't Visualizer even if you haven't created a Fidg't account. 8.1.07 Thanks to Casey Reas for putting our Visualizer up on the Processing Home Page. Software.