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title: "Minding the Planet: The Spherical Desktop"
date: 2005-10-13T08:17:43-04:00
url: https://blog.lmorchard.com/2005/10/13/minding-the-planet-the-spherical-desktop/
author: Les Orchard
tags: [asides]
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# Minding the Planet: The Spherical Desktop

<blockquote cite="http://novaspivack.typepad.com/nova_spivacks_weblog/2005/10/the_desktop_20.html">I've been thinking a bit about how the GUI for computer desktops could be improved so that it is possible to have more information available without cluttering the screen with windows and folders etc.</blockquote><small style="text-align:right; display:block">Source: <a href="http://novaspivack.typepad.com/nova_spivacks_weblog/2005/10/the_desktop_20.html">Minding the Planet: The Spherical Desktop</a></small>

I'm guessing Nova's never seen [Sphere XP][sxp], which is a nifty but not quite useful spherical desktop manager for Windows.  Although, where Nova's talking about being *outside* the sphere and dealing with the surface, Sphere XP is about living *inside* the sphere and spinning around near the center.

[sxp]: http://www.hamar.sk/sphere/

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            <div class="content"><p>I'm highly partial to my "cubic" desktop manager - the unimaginatively named "Desktop Manager" for OS X.  Set the switch transition to cube, and now you have all the desktop space you could possibly want on a "cube."</p>

<p>But I'm guessing most of us are already aware of its existence, since it tends to be among the very first programs placed upon the disk of any new Powerbook.</p></div>
            
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