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Still works on Intel and Leopard - Version: 1.6.6, 2/8/2008 12:00AM PST
drtimothyjames
I don't know if you can still buy a license for this, but I hope so. I had read all kinds of reviews that suggested it would not work well with Leopard or Intel Macs, but I just bought both and it works as fine as ever. I realize that DragThing has now taken over this program. And DT is a very decent program; I use it for several things. But DD was always faster for me and provided some configuration and text-pasting options that aren't quite available in DT. (I do honestly love DT and think you should buy it!) Anyway, DD is working just fine on a MacBook Pro with 10.5.1.
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- Still works on Intel and Leopard
correction - Version: 1.6.6, 7/24/2006 07:19AM PST
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humhum
A correction of my last post: it *is* possible to remove the drawers entirely from sight: select tab style "None" in the drawer options (and for convenience, use a key as set up in the main Preferences to show or hide any drawer).
The drawers will still appear, out of the blue, expanding from the screen side.
The drawers will still appear, out of the blue, expanding from the screen side.
One request - Version: 1.6.6, 7/23/2006 05:08PM PST
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humhum
I have used Drop Drawer for many years now, and utterly depend on it. Apps in various tabs, document types each in a separate tab, text snippets, and: one tab for troubleshooting (the solutions to problems that I always seem to forget when I need them).
One of DD's advantages is that you can actually see the name of the file/folder/app in the drawers; with many rival apps, that is not the case. So if I want to launch one of my Tinderbox-files, or Ulysses-files, I have to go through an additional step in those applications; not so in DD. With long text snippets, you can give them a shorthand name. URL's can directly be loaded, but the snippet can also be pasted in a field elsewhere.
In short, DD works faster and with less clicks than other apps.
The one thing that does bother me, is that it takes screen space, no matter how little. Whenever I enlarge a window to extend to full window size, somthing of that screen is obscured by DD. The scrollbar, mostly. So I have to resize the window manually—and that happens a lot. Even more with my iBook 12". (I have 10-11 drawers).
So my big wish would be, that the drawers could altogether disappear like the dock, or that it gives a signal to the finder not to let windows extend under DD's drawers.
DD has been rock solid over these years, never crashed; highly recommended.
One of DD's advantages is that you can actually see the name of the file/folder/app in the drawers; with many rival apps, that is not the case. So if I want to launch one of my Tinderbox-files, or Ulysses-files, I have to go through an additional step in those applications; not so in DD. With long text snippets, you can give them a shorthand name. URL's can directly be loaded, but the snippet can also be pasted in a field elsewhere.
In short, DD works faster and with less clicks than other apps.
The one thing that does bother me, is that it takes screen space, no matter how little. Whenever I enlarge a window to extend to full window size, somthing of that screen is obscured by DD. The scrollbar, mostly. So I have to resize the window manually—and that happens a lot. Even more with my iBook 12". (I have 10-11 drawers).
So my big wish would be, that the drawers could altogether disappear like the dock, or that it gives a signal to the finder not to let windows extend under DD's drawers.
DD has been rock solid over these years, never crashed; highly recommended.
