Comments on: Trampoline: Think Application Launching, not Bouncing

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By: Kyle

Kyle — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 17:11:10 +0000

This sounds just like the free app, “Todos,” except instead of Trampoline’s circular arrangement, Todos has a square one. I’m not sure $19.95 is worth the price of a circle.

As for Quicksilver, some of us old-school Mac folks still prefer using the mouse, despite its inefficiencies. It’s simpler than memorizing dozens of keyboard shortcuts.

By: Albert

Albert — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 13:06:51 +0000

ok, Quicksilver is a cool app, but it’s not for everybody. I mean, I ended up buying Overflow because it’s more useful for me than Quicksilver. For Me Overflow is the best launcher for the Mac OS X … And I think it is too for Apple Inc. I was stunned when I see a demo of Leopard with the “Stacks” option in the dock and it’s look almost the same as Overflow!

By: Bill Compton

Bill Compton — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 19:33:09 +0000

Hi Jim. Photos i received. Thanks

By: Jonathan Simcoe

Jonathan Simcoe — Fri, 04 May 2007 20:12:00 +0000

Agreed. Quicksilver trumps anything I have ever seen, hands down.

By: John L

John L — Wed, 02 May 2007 05:45:19 +0000

If you’re the mouse-a-holic type, this may be useful… no launcher that I’ve yet seen can hold a candle to QuickSilver, unfortunately.

By: Greg H

Greg H — Sun, 29 Apr 2007 23:35:49 +0000

@mdmunoz you you do have a point when you say you can do the same thing for free, but there is a free altenative to most things. You could use textedit or NeoOffice for Word Processing, but people still buy Microsoft Office and Pages. There are many paid and free alternatives to many things, so its nice to know what your options are. Plus if you complete Heist 6 of MacHeist, you get this app FREE plus 2 others. Not a bad deal eh?

By: DeathtoToasters

DeathtoToasters — Sun, 29 Apr 2007 21:36:58 +0000

For the life of me I cannot figure out how to setup contellation….

By: mdmunoz

mdmunoz — Sun, 29 Apr 2007 21:00:43 +0000

Not only does Quicksilver already do this for free with the constellation menus plugin, it can use proxy items and use multiple launchers with different mouse triggers. There is no reason to buy this.

By: DeathtoToasters

DeathtoToasters — Sun, 29 Apr 2007 17:01:41 +0000

I like it so far…. it does show the active programs by putting an active shade around that icon

By: Mike

Mike — Sun, 29 Apr 2007 16:53:46 +0000

Ive often found myself looking for a way to eliminate the strenuous task of moving my mouse to the dock. Finally, Im free from such contraints.

By: Joseph A. Wardell

Joseph A. Wardell — Sun, 29 Apr 2007 16:29:57 +0000

Hi Majd,

Have you tried version 2.0.3? It improved the problem with the edge of the screen. You can now just move the mouse directly to the icon that’s off the edge and it will move under the mouse.

Also, for switching between running applications, you can control-click on the close button to get a contextual menu of running applications. It sounds counterintuitive, but it ends up being a simple 2-click process if you’ve set up trampoline to appear with a mouse-click like Greg did.

By: Majd Abdelahad

Majd Abdelahad — Sun, 29 Apr 2007 16:18:48 +0000

I tried this for a while…i hate how it handles being on the edges of the screen…also, I wish there was a way to make it populate it with open apps…it’d make a better switcher

By: Jim

Jim — Sun, 29 Apr 2007 15:28:02 +0000

Mehhh. I’ll stick with Quicksilver and the dock itself. This looks like a lot more work than just moving the mouse to the dock, or typing two letters into QS.

But it does look cool anyway.!