Get your launchpad-like interface on your dashboard now!
Possibly one of the coolest “launchpad” like implementation so far! My only problem with it is not even the software’s shortcomings, lol.
Okay so you may be curious as to what the hell I’m going on about, here’s the story. Mac OSX’s next evolution will revealed in it’s entirety with Lion, Apples next Major OS release. Chief among the touted features is an iOS like interface that allows you a screen overlay of your applications, this is called “Launchpad”.
So while many cool apps have been popping up touting a Launchpad-like application, none in my opinion even come close to JuneCloud’s “Plus 1.0”. It’s quite simply an ingenius implementation that integrates the dashboard as your launchpad interface mechanism, allowing you to add in any application as a dashboard icon and launch the application from there.
This is perfect for me and my crowding dock. I’ve got a shitload of icons sitting on my dock because I don’t wanna forget what I have installed on my system. I often find myself downloading and testing many applications for work and personal use and find it necessary to have the most recently used apps included in the dock to remind me to test them often. This presents a bit of a challenges because my commonly used apps does not equate to my essential apps therefore crowding my dock. Snow Leopard’s stack implementation on the dock used to be much better in Leopard because the icons were scalable. Something that “Plus 1.0” let’s you do to your hearts content. But that’s not the only thing it can do. It can launch files for you and even use a different icon to identify your file, say a shopped image of your angry boss to open that file you have to access everyday, lol. It does other stuff still but that’s for you to tinker around and enjoy.
So go ahead give it a try. It’s a pretty useful tool and definitely worth a shot since it’s free.
*by the way getting back to my one and only problem with this implementation, is that the dashboard does not follow any grid like guidelines making arrangement of the icons a pain, but in the end the gains are much more than this trifling ordeal for me.
