Great app. However, shake to display drop stack is not convenient at all on trackpad.I'll stick with Yoink for now!
Show HN: my Mac app just got fireballed
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#92This is delightful. Apple, please buy this guy out like you did with CoverFlow.
Then ditch CoverFlow.
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#93I don't understand the part about browser tabs - when I want to drag something from one tab to another, I just hover the mouse over the destination tab and the browser switches to that tab. Takes about a second.
How do you do that when the other tab is buried under three other browser windows in another space? Possible, but this makes things a lot easier. Then again, maybe the way I leave tons of stuff open across lots of spaces is just the sort of workflow that something like this is meant for...
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#94Having been a beta-tester of DragonDrop from the start, one thing I'd like to add is how important the concept of user-interaction truly is and how Mark really innovated in this regard. Lots of Mark's friends, including myself, suggested using one of the screen corners as a hot-zone. But since most people usually have other actions associated with the corners and the extra distance required to drag the icon far from…
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows7/products/feature...
Not exactly the most novel thing...
I'm hardly a fan of Aero Shake though, wish they used the gesture for this on Windows. :-)
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#95Congrats Mark! Looks like you'll surpass your 2013 goals before it even starts. I'm a very happy user of the app and have known Mark for years. He is awesome! He has another really neat and surprisingly useful app on the AppStore: Lidpop - http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/lidpop/id441887602?mt=12 - "Lidpop makes your Macintosh play a sound when it sleeps or wakes up. Close the lid with a resounding clank or a happy sli…
Curious - can we get any insight into said 2013 goals? I'm in the process of setting our product goals and am curious how others have done.
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#96Looks like a cool utility. I will probably be well received by those who rely on dragging and dropping.
I personally never drag-and-drop unless it is the only way to get something done. Copy and Paste via the keyboard is faster and far easier to use. It also gives you all the time you need to navigate wherever you need to go.
Further to that, because I switch between platforms multiple times per day I just can't deal with the weird keyboard mappings on the Mac. Weird, of course, from the perspective of any other platform. If you are only on Mac it is very likely that everything else feels weird to you. I get it.
For example, I wanted copy and paste to be Ctrl-C and Ctrl-V. I wanted the editor in Xcode to behave like most other editors behave in other platforms and IDE's. I'm old school, for me the keyboard can be far faster than going for the mouse/touchpad/trackball all the time.
My solution was to install KeyRemap4Macbook (no affiliation) and make the Mac keyboard mimic Windows/Linux keyboard and mappings as much as possible.
I won't be buying your app, but great job. Like it a lot. Apple should buy it off you and integrate it into the OS. It's that good.
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#97Hello,
a quick question... my Mac cannot be upgraded to Lion. Is there a slight possibility of making it work for Snow Leopard?
And if not - I would like to know - just for general interest :) - what is the blocker.
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#98This looks great but it's too hard to 'shake' the cursor using a trackpad.
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#99Wow this is awesome. I created this thing[1] a little while back that's just an Automator service (hence can't be sold in the mac app store according to their install guidelines) that solves a similar issue I was having - basically I wanted to browse through my file system picking a bunch of files and then drop them in one place (like cumulative copy/paste for files). I love how this solution fits perfectly into an e…
It's a shame that Apple doesn't open up the App Store to things like preference panes and Automator workflows. Good luck with your project!