A new face of computer interface
A new face of computer interface
Can you ever guess such a program that will be useful for all computer users without any exception? Well, there is one – our operating system. Our computer can’t work without it. But what else? In fact, it is difficult to imagine such program. Some people need text editors, others – games, and somebody needs powerful application for real-time 3D modeling. Is there anything that can unite many people with different needs and habits?
I was very surprised when found such program a few days ago. Its name is rather curious – VistaGlance. What can program with such name do? We can find it from the program’s motto:
“Access files with the power of your mind!” This is rather adventurous statement. However, when you download and try this program, you find out that this is a truth. Maybe a bit poeticized, but truth. Of course, computers can’t read man’s thoughts and won’t be able to do it for a long time. The motto says about a bit different thing.
What?
Hundred times a day you run programs, open files or search for some information in your PC. You loose up to 50% of working and spare time in “folder plays”! What do you do when you want to open a file or run a program you need? In most cases, you walk through numerous folders and subfolders or wander about countless items in Start menu. Do you remember such situations when you have even forgotten what you need while searching for the necessary file in the thorny tree of your file system? This is a bad side of Explorer. Explorer can solve only one problem: it helps you to examine the contents of some folder you do not know about. But users rarely need this. Almost each time we open Explorer, or Start menu, or some Norton commander-like program we want to open some document or run some program we know about. We know its name, or its category, or some part of the name… Well, how often do you run programs which names you do not even know?
Explorer – is a big illusion indeed. We spend our time seeking for files that we already imagine, perceive, remember, know… Why should we tell computer a such illusory thing like “file path”? With VistaGlance you will not “play with folders” anymore. You will do what you want and get what you want as soon as you think about it. It is simply a new kind of interface, more powerful, easier and faster than all you have seen before…
How?
Suppose you want to open some document. Of course, you know its name or some part of name, or something about its category or keywords. You simply type this little piece of information (often this is not more than several letters – and it takes less than a second to enter it) you know about this file or program into a small field in your taskbar, or in Explorer toolbar, or in Floating Bar and press Enter. May be you do not even guess where this file could be. It is up to computer to figure it out. Less than in a second you get exactly the
