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Monday January 26, 2004

Exposé for Windows

I love Panther's Exposé application. It's by far my favorite OS X application - I even find myself longing for it when using Windows. Could the wait be over? I stumbled upon WinPLOSION today, which looks (to me) to be Exposé for Windows. Anyone tried this thing. At $10, it's probably worth finding out if it works - but I'd thought I'd ask y'all first.

Posted in Mac OS X at Jan 26 2004, 02:37:18 PM MST 16 Comments
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I don't know about WinPLOSION, but I sure would have liked to have been at that Christmas party! I have never had elves that looked like that at a company Christmas party!

Posted by Jeff Duska on January 26, 2004 at 10:50 PM MST #

Matt,

Based upon your post, I went and paid my $9.95 and downloaded WinPLOSION. It took all of a couple of minutes to download and install. It also worked right out of the “virtual” box and so far it seems to function much like Expose.

My only complaint is it animation mode. As you know, these types of tools are supposed to look cool with their smooth shrinking and growing—WinPLOSION on my P4 1.7 with a 64 Meg graphics is extremely choppy.

After getting over my initial disappointment, I checked the settings dialog and turned off Animation and tried again. While it was not as cool as I would like, it did work perfectly this time. I now love the tool. I will keep you posted as I get more time with it.

-James

Posted by James Goodwill on January 27, 2004 at 07:25 AM MST #

It doesn't appear to work too well with dual mionitors. At least not on my system.... It doesn't respond on the second monitor, and after working in an application on the second monitor the key mappings seems to get lost...

Posted by Göran Damberg on January 27, 2004 at 10:11 AM MST #

Well, I bought it to see if it was anywhere as nice as Expose on the Mac and the answer to that is NO... But, it does simulate the true value of Expose, if not a little slowly and jerkily. If you turn off the animation and make the "All Windows" operation tied to your favorite corner of the screen, it does as well as the mac, without any eye-candy. While the animation on the Mac is nice and smooth and there's a good deal of mouse feedback when hovering over miniturized windows, WinPlosion does approximately the same thing for the bargain price of $10. Without the capabilities of QuartzExtreme or the Display PostScript available on the Mac, it'll never be as nice, but hey, maybe some of those things will be available in Longhorn. BTW, I'm on a Dell Inspiron 600m laptop, and it's pretty fast in "no-animation" mode.

Posted by Nick Brosnahan on January 29, 2004 at 07:43 AM MST #

You know you're in trouble when an application has a checkbox entitled "Don't Freeze". Even with animation off and this inane checkbox checked, this app brings my 1GHz P3 system to its knees. I'm not willing to sacrifice general performance of my entire system to have this silly app running. I asked for my money back.

Posted by Roger McIntosh on January 29, 2004 at 05:27 PM MST #

I just bought the tool and it works nice for me, although you should have fast hardware and Windows XP. Anyway, I like it and I am waiting for the new release which should (that is what the guys from winplosion.com told me) should be ready within the next 3-4 weeks. Cheers, Dave

Posted by Dave on January 30, 2004 at 08:58 PM MST #

Well I hope Apple takes them to the cleaners because this company's product use to be called WinExpose but I don't think Apple should allow companies like this to mimic their designs on a Windows platform. Eventually MS will buy the product and call it Innovation.

Posted by Robert Nicholson on February 05, 2004 at 10:41 AM MST #

its pretty crap, slow on the highest end machines... there's a free one you can try called iEx by siwu(google it).. he's still working on it. oh, and apple got the idea from ms(of course they did it better), so any 'they should not be allowed' is irrelevant.

Posted by realitybath on February 06, 2004 at 09:14 AM MST #

iEx, mentioned by realitybath, can be found on the Aqua-Soft forum, free registration required. More info here.

Posted by Michael on February 07, 2004 at 02:58 AM MST #

I can't live without Alt-Tab. Well, I've heard about WinExpose but I haven't bought it 'caz they won't provide an evaluation version. It's hard to pay even only $9.99 for a thing you can't try. (yes, that's me). Anyway, I've just found some tools like that called WinGlance from VersionTracker.com (http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/win/31640). It's prettty nice one. So far, I like it, though. What do you guys think about it?

Posted by MocoMoco on March 12, 2004 at 09:02 PM MST #

Well I hope too that Apple takes them to the cleaners because this company's product use to be called WinExpose.

Posted by outlook spam filter on May 21, 2004 at 01:02 PM MDT #

I think that this small idea that was copied by windows user it's not so important. Best Regards.

Posted by belalco on May 30, 2004 at 11:10 AM MDT #

I just tested the trial of the new WinPLOSION version 2.17, and it works amazingly fast. I was very surprised, because the first version (was called WinExposé, one can only guess why they had to change the name.. :-)) was a bit buggy and slow, also animations weren't very pretty. But the new release now works pretty well and I was quite happy getting a free upgrade to it... you should give it a try, I tested also all the other tools which try to mimic the Exposé-function of Apples OSX but so far WinPLOSION is by far the best emulation of this function for Win32-users.

Posted by Jugger on August 13, 2004 at 08:51 AM MDT #

Trust me, I've tried them all. Winplosion 2.17 is BY FAR the best/fastest Expose clone for windows. My only complaints about it are that it can't bind to Alt-Tab, and that it constantly uses a tiny bit of CPU utilization. The speed and smoothness of it, however, make up for this.

Posted by kory on September 01, 2004 at 08:30 PM MDT #

it is not importnant for windows ot for mac is this application, but so simple applictaion have so many troubles is not so good, this mean that is bad application

Posted by Andrew on February 18, 2005 at 05:26 PM MST #

I just tested the trial of the new WinPLOSION version 2.17, and it works amazingly fast. I was very surprised, because the first version (was called WinExposé, one can only guess why they had to change the name.. :-)) was a bit buggy and slow, also animations weren't very pretty. But the new release now works pretty well and I was quite happy getting a free upgrade to it... you should give it a try, I tested also all the other tools which try to mimic the Exposé-function of Apples OSX but so far WinPLOSION is by far the best emulation of this function for Win32-users.

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