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Last summer, I took some flack for hating on Apple and the way they name their operating system.
But despite the fact that I’m a real PC-user, I’m not in the habit of turning my nose up at cool features just because they came from the brains at Apple. Part of what I like about using a PC is that I can do just about anything on it.
Two of the features from OS X that I’ve always really liked are expose and the object dock.
It turns out that there are two apps for the PC that let you do both of those things in XP. Stardock makes a free app called ObjectDock that is really simple and it works perfectly. It integrates seamlessly and it’s really cleaned up my desktop - I just put all the old icons onto the dock, and I’ve had no problems with it.
The other app is not free, although it gives you a very generous 30-day trial period. It’s called TopDesk, and it works really well. I did end up buying a license to use it, and the full version has turned out to be more stable than the trial version I was using (occasionally it would hiccup and have trouble resizing my open windows). There are other apps that give Windows XP the expose-like functionality that I’m after, but none of them have the same smoothness and polish that TopDesk offers. In my mind, it’s definitely worth the $10.
