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Product Description:
Edgies is an alternative application for Stickies. Just like Classic Mac's Popup Window, tab-style memo windows stick to the edges of the screen, dragging text to a screen edge makes a new memo tab.
What's new in this version:
New since version 1.0.x
- [new feature] Added a shortcut key for inserting a checkbox.
- [new feature] Added service menu option in the preferences.
- [new feature] Each edgy note can be set enabled/disabled independently in Memo List.
- [new feature] ".edgy files" are automatically renamed linked to its memo title (this option can be disabled in the preference panel).
- [improved] When a tab is opened, its text area is ready for inputting. However, when inputting 2-byte code like asian languages, Edgies must be an active application to start inputting. The "Make Edgies Active" option in tab setting must be on to turn Edgies active automatically.
- [new feature] Added delay option for 'Hide closed tabs automatically'
- [new feature] Added aligning tab feature (tabs can be aligned automatically.)
- [new feature] Added sound feature (sound fiiles are not included. You can use Xounds to extract "platinum sounds" from Classic Mac OS system.)
- [new feature] Closed tabs can be hidden automatically like Dock icons.
- [new feature] Command+arrow keys open adjacent tabs.
- [improved] Improved checkbox drawing speed.
- [improved] Improved "Do not show dock icon" option ... the application should be in Application folder.
- [improved] Closing and opening windows occurs simultaneously when "Close automatically" option is on.
- [improved] Improved redrawing when display resolution changed.
- [improved] New features on memo list.
- [bug fix] Fixed bugs when using gray scale color as tab color.
- [improved] Improved main menu.
- [improved] Improved manipulation timing when creating a new memo with a Finder item holding command key.
- [improved] When text is dropped on a folder icon/link on a memo, the filename of the created file is set to the beginning of the text.
- [bug fix] Closed tabs are shown after Preferences panel is canceled after 'Hide closed tabs automatically' is enabled.
- [bug fix] Improved shortcut key behaviours.
- [bug fix] File links are preserved when exported or copied.
- [bug fix] Export dialogue is displayed in front.
- [bug fix] Print dialogue is displayed in front.
- [bug fix] Improved edge behaviour (hidden tabs are revealed by pointing at any screen edge regardless of active edge setting)
- [bug fix] Checkboxes are drawn properly when zoomed in/out.
- [bug fix] Checkboxes are copied as text. (Selectable when copied as rtf)
Operating System Requirements:
This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:
- Mac OS X 10.4 Intel
- Mac OS X 10.4 PPC
Additional Requirements:
- Mac OS X 10.4 or later
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Download Links:
Download Edgies Version 1.1 (File Size: 1.8M)
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Download Edgies Current Version (File Size: 5.2MB)
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Feedback Summary:
| Version 1.1: | |||||
| Overall Rating: |   (4.0) |
Features: | (4.5) |
Support: | (3.0) |
| Ease of Use: | (3.5) |
Quality / Stability: | (3.0) |
Price: | (3.0) |
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Featured Reviews
10.5 ok? - Version: 2.6, 12/4/2008 04:14PM PST
jarlaxle.merc
Don't see anything about whether or not this is ok with Leopard. Are we simply to assume?
Great app ... Good support !!!!! - Version: 2.5.2, 8/16/2008 11:43AM PST
sgginc
Asked to have hide dock icon and got it in one day .... Great support!!!!!
There has been no development for over a year now (since 8-30-2008) and the developer desperately needs to bring Edgies into line with the modern OS.
While I have yet to find the "perfect" note-taking utility, I've found Edgies to be as close as I can get "but..."
It's definitely nice to have ready access along the screen edge for notes. This was an inspired design in pre-Leopard, pre-Exposé days "but..."
Times have changed. There is a longstanding issue with Edgies I've tried several times to get addressed by the developer that have gone unanswered, and I'm starting to get that "abandon-ware" feeling.
I've asked for some time in repeated emails to the developer to make Edgies more "Exposé friendly." In this one area Edgies is living in the last century along with every other Stickies-type reincarnation.
What's the issue? One word: Exposé.
When you use Exposé to show all windows, a bunch of little tiny collapsed tabs uselessly labeled "Window" show up and not only clutter up the screen in general but take up so much room that they make the other "Exposé friendly" applications and utilities so small as to be unintelligible, rendering Exposé generally useless. I've had to stop using Edgies and return to... yes... Stickies... because I find Exposé just too useful a time saver.
Until this is addressed, I cannot recommend Edgies, not even as a long-time paid user. There are just too many alternatives like dotNotes, sideNote, the original Stickies and many others that offer the same thing with the same draw-backs.
SUGGESTIONS:
1. Reengineer Edgies to show the actual title instead of just the tiny collapsed tab with the meaningless label "Window" when Exposé is activated.
2. Reengineer Edgies to show the expanded/un-collapsed Edgy when Exposé is activated rather than just a tiny collapsed tab that hogs up valuable Exposé real estate for nothing.
3. BEST SOLUTION: If possible, simply make Exposé ignore Edgies altogether. Having the tabs along the border is good enough. Edgies doesn't need Exposé.
4. WORST SOLUTION: Abandon Edgies and make it free and upset all those who paid for it.