Sticky Windows introduces tabbed desktop for Mac OSX

April 10, 2007 |

Sticky Windows introduces tabbed desktop for Mac OSX

By Jonathan Schlaffer

Tabs has got to be one of those “buzz” words ever since Firefox came out. Everything has to have tabs, from your media player to your Office applications and now your desktop can have tabs. Tabs tabs tabs, it’s all better with tabs.

Sticky Windows is a slick application for OSX Tiger 10.4 and above. Don’t worry; it is a universal binary so it will run on both Intel and PowerPC based Macs. If you’re like most people you have several applications open when using your Mac, PhotoShop, iTunes, a web browser, perhaps an Office suite the desktop gets cluttered very quickly.

Sure you could minimize everything to the dock but what would be the fun in that. Sticky Windows allows you to drag applications to any side of the screen where it will form a clickable tab that you can move, resize and click to bring the application back into view.

Wired News says this mimics a feature that has been available in Mac OS since at least OS8, perhaps even earlier. Now I’m jealous, who wants to volunteer to port or design a version of this application or Windows, preferably, Vista.

Personally, I do not own a Mac but I know friends who do and I love the Mac OSX experience, if it weren’t for that silly green button that seems to do almost nothing. Here’s a note to Windows users that might have switched to OSX, it’s not a maximize button, where IS the maximize button in OSX? Where Apple?

Sticky Windows sadly is not free but you can try it out for free being a shareware program it will cost you $14.95 for a single license or get a four pack license for $40.