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Article #606Re: VirtSpace (mini -review)
From: KIENENBERGER MIKE L
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 11:47
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 11:47
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In article <1992Sep12.011232.15694@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca>, sherwood@fenris.space.ualberta.ca (Sherwood Botsford) writes... > >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. At the risk of sounding cheap, what's the difference between this and the free version (no version number just C 1992) given out a few months ago? [Don't get me wrong. This program was worth paying shareware fees...I'm just feeling cheap this month after paying tuition.] ============================================================================= -Mike Kienenberger FXMLK@ALASKA (BITNet) Academic Computing FXMLK@acad3.alaska.edu (Internet) University of Alaska-Fairbanks
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!spool.mu.edu!agate!bionet!raven.alaska.edu!acad3.alaska.edu!fxmlk From: fxmlk@acad3.alaska.edu (KIENENBERGER MIKE L) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software Subject: Re: VirtSpace (mini -review) Message-ID: <12SEP199203473147@acad3.alaska.edu> Date: 12 Sep 92 11:47:00 GMT References: <1992Sep12.011232.15694@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca> Sender: news@raven.alaska.edu (USENET News System) Organization: University of Alaska - Fairbanks Lines: 47 News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41.UAC Nntp-Posting-Host: acad3.alaska.edu