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VirtSpace (mini -review)

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From: Sherwood Botsford
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 01:12
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This is one neat App.  Do you have 12 Stuart windows open  
on 5 different hosts?  Does it take a minute to find the  
lastest Edit window you were working on?  Do you often have  
FrameMaker, Diagram, and Adobe Illustrator all running with  
a hoard of windows each.If you are the sort of person who  
has 6 different apps open all the time, and are constantly  
rummaging around trying to find the window that you were  
working on; if you are the sort of person who wishes he had  
a wall instead of a monitor; if your screen looks like your  
desk, with only 3 square inches of grey background visible  
most of the time, then shell out your thirty bucks and get  
VirtSpace

VirtSpace allows you to create a virual screen arbitrarily  
larger than the real screen, and spread out apps all over  
the place.  So you can have one corner where you are  
working on backup scripts and testing them, another corner  
where your default file viewer and mail box lives, another  
corner where you are compiling and testing xntpd, and the  
fourth corner where you have terminal sessions onto other  
hosts.

The interface is fairly easy to master, however I am having  
to change how I organize my screen.  Often clicking on an  
active icon makes one of that apps windows the key window,  
but that window isn't on the screen.  This was a bit  
mystifying at first, but I'm adapting quickly.

The authors are very responsive to suggestions, and  
questions about the program.

In the space of half a day VirtSpace has gone from a new  
toy to an absolute necessity.

Highly recommended.  
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