BalloonBuster - 1.0

With the growing tendency of software companies not to include a printed manual with their programs, Balloon Help can be a very attractive alternative to first having to find, then having to open, and -- finally -- having to search through an online manual when users want to quickly find out some info about an application that they are using. Also, by its very nature, Balloon Help is context sensitive.

The downside to using Balloon Help has always been that once users have gotten the information they need, they have obtrusive "balloons" popping up all over the place. Of course, users can always go to the Help menu to turn Balloon Help either on or off, but this quickly becomes both tedious and relatively time consuming.

BalloonBuster allows users to set their own keyboard shortcuts for quickly and easily turning Balloon Help either on or off (if their keyboards have function keys, they may also set one of these as the shortcut).

BalloonBuster works without taking up valuable Desktop real estate because BalloonBuster works even when it's not visible -- there is no need for users either to launch it or to leave the program which they are in when using it!