If you're
like most people...
- you
have a desktop cluttered with icons
- most
of them you never use even when know what they do
- when
you're working they're covered up and usless
- you
spend too much time moving windows around to reach the desktop
- your
system tray is so full of icons that it's wider than your taskbar
- you
leave applications running just so you won't have to look for the icon
- and don't
even get me started on the Start menu
Well, no
more! BBar will clean up your desktop, your taskbar, your system tray
and even your Start menu! I'll show you how.
BBar is
organized as a group of buttons on button bars. Think of the button bars
as sub-menus to the main menu. Move up and down through the button bars
with one click of the mouse.
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As
a developer I use over 100 different programs in my work and play,
yet this is how my desktop looks. I can reach any program with no
more than 2 or 3 simple mouse clicks using BBar.
Notice
the little row of icons in the upper left hand corner of the desktop.
That's BBar! It holds "icons" to represent programs or
menus. You create a menu structure to hold your program icons, organizing
them according to tasks, for example, all your game programs in
one menu.
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Here's
a close up of BBar. Each program is represented by an icon. Click
on the icon and launch the program. You can arrange the icons to
suit your tastes by dragging and dropping with the mouse. If your
mouse pointer is over a button menu (rather than a program) the
pointer will become an arrow to indicate you can click the icon
to move up or down a menu level.
If
you let the pointer hover over an icon for a few seconds, its title
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If
you right click on the Lobo icon, a drop down menu will appear where
you can set preferences or get help. Click New Button or Menu to add
programs to your BBar. Explorer, Note Pad and Write are so often used
that I've added a handy quick jump right to them. Use Run Program
to start a program that you don't use often enough to add to BBar
or DOS Command to open a DOS window for your legacy programs. |
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Select
Preferences on the Lobo and you can configure where and how BBar
appears on your desktop. It will be happy sitting in any corner
of your desktop. Set the offsets to move it away from the corners
and set it to run up and down the screen or from side to side.
If
you want, you can set BBar to "roll up" when you've moved
to a different program. It will gracefully roll itself up into a
line about 3 pixels thick so it's completely out of the way. To
reactivate it, just move your mouse pointer over it and it will
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If
you're a power user, you want this little utility.
Try
it free
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