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		<title>BumpTop : Rethink your desktop</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Oct 2008 09:10:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[With changing times, we have seen PC&#8217;s and Laptops becoming sleeker and more &#38; more sexier.But though the outer looks or configuration changes, the Desktop still remains the same/boring; this is the thought that gave rise to BumpTop.As the founder Anand Agarawala claims that &#8220;He wanted his desktop to be an exact reflection of his [...]]]></description>
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_45R1xOye4y4/SPsRJvJFmMI/AAAAAAAAAwg/yNuUr-CnkGo/s1600-h/BumpTop.gif" rel="lightbox[1911]"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 138px; height: 138px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_45R1xOye4y4/SPsRJvJFmMI/AAAAAAAAAwg/yNuUr-CnkGo/s200/BumpTop.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5258815848856262850" border="2" /></a>With changing times, we have seen PC&#8217;s and Laptops becoming sleeker and more &amp; more sexier.But though the outer looks or configuration changes, the Desktop still remains the same/boring; this is the thought that gave rise to BumpTop.As the founder <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/anandx">Anand Agarawala</a> claims that &#8220;He wanted his desktop to be an exact reflection of his office desk and hence, he started BumpTop&#8221;.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">As <a href="http://www.bumptop.com/">BumpTop</a> website states:<br />
<blockquote><span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);">BumpTop is a fresh and engaging new way to interact with your computer desktop.  You can pile and toss documents like on a real desk</span>.  Break free from the rigid and mechanical style of standard point-and-click desktops.  Interact by pushing, pulling and piling documents with elegant, self revealing gestures.</p></blockquote>
<p>You can check out the interesting demonstration of BumpTop below:<br /><!--TED Talk Embed--><br /><object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=8,0,0,0" name="VE_Player" id="VE_Player" height="344" width="425" align="middle"><param name="movie" value="http://static.videoegg.com/ted/flash/loader.swf"><param name="FlashVars" value="bgColor=FFFFFF&amp;file=http://static.videoegg.com/ted/movies/ANANDAGARAWALA-2007_high.flv&amp;autoPlay=false&amp;fullscreenURL=http://static.videoegg.com/ted/flash/fullscreen.html&amp;forcePlay=false&amp;logo=&amp;allowFullscreen=false"><param name="quality" value="high"><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"><param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF"><param name="scale" value="noscale"><param name="wmode" value="window"><embed src="http://static.videoegg.com/ted/flash/loader.swf" flashvars="bgColor=FFFFFF&amp;file=http://static.videoegg.com/ted/movies/ANANDAGARAWALA-2007_high.flv&amp;autoPlay=false&amp;fullscreenURL=http://static.videoegg.com/ted/flash/fullscreen.html&amp;forcePlay=false&amp;logo=&amp;allowFullscreen=true" quality="high" allowscriptaccess="always" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" scale="noscale" wmode="window" name="VE_Player" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" height="344" width="425" align="middle"></embed></object></p>
<p>As seen from the video,the usage of BumpTop makes the desktop more lively just like your working desk, but it would be very interesting to see the statistics wrt CPU consumption,memory uage etc. for the same.</p>
<p>You can sign up for a Beta invite <a href="http://bumptop.com/">here</a> and if you are very curious to see BumpTop in action, check it out <a href="http://blog.shoplet.com/office-supplies/the-ultimate-desktop-bumptop/">here</a>.You can also follow BumpTop on <a href="http://twitter.com/bumptop">Twitter</a>.</p>
<p><span style="font-weight: bold;"><u>The unanswered question</u></span>:<br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">Apart from making the desktop look real &amp; cool, which real life problem is BumpTop trying to solve[since, no one wants the desktop to be as cluttered like his/her work desk] ?</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">..Any thoughts&#8230;</span></p>
<p>PS: Thanks <a href="http://twitter.com/arunram">@ArunRam</a> for the tip on BumpTop <img class="emoticon" src="http://wolverinex02.googlepages.com/icon_smile.gif" alt="smile" title="smile" height="15" width="15" /></div>
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