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SideSlide 3.5.10

4.7 (83 votes)

(January 3, 2011)

Windows 2000/Vista/XP / Freeware / 11,081 downloads

SideSlide is an advanced, portable, unobtrusive, dockable, skinnable, instantly accessible, highly configurable Desktop Extension on Steroids! Clean desktop clutter and make your computer friendlier and faster than ever before. With unique use of containers and various innovative features, SideSlide lets you get instant access to everything you have and much more. The program respects your system and keeps all of its configuration files in a single folder.

Dock and hide SideSlide to any screen edge; browse through your favorite RSS news feeds, keep shortcuts to files, folders and URLs you frequently visit; execute various commands quicker than ever; add multiple notes; multiple, sizable, pictures; schedule reminders; save web snippets and more. Customize it to emphasize the things you use the most and make more information accessible without occupying precious screen space. By using containers you can shrink and fold, downloading ready-made containers from an online library, linking containers to actual folders on disk, detaching containers from the workspace to claim additional space, various ways of launching multiple shortcuts at once, shortcut tags, zooming in and out of shortcuts, news feed reader, keyboard navigation, different skins, different size pictures, picture containers and colored notes; SideSlide is designed to make a great deal of content instantly accessible. SideSlide is portable and you can use it from your USB drive.

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Publisher
Northglide
Homepage
SideSlide
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Yes
Latest Changes
- + New and Changes:

- - Program restart is no longer required when changing the global hotkey

- - Added new key options to choose from for the Global Hotkey: Left arrow key, Right, Up and Down:

- Left: [<] Right: [>] Up: [/] Down: [\]

- For example, you can position the workspace in the upper corner of the screen and use [Alt+Down Arrow key] to invoke it

- - An error message is shown if the selected global hotkey could not be registered because it is already in use

- - Request for update sends the OS version besides the program version

- + Fixes:

- - Mouse wheel and some other functions did not work in the workspace when the global hotkey was disabled

- - Using the global hotkey when another program dialog is showing could have crashed the program

- - Resolving Windows shortcuts on 64-bit systems wasn't always working properly and the shortcut was added with the wrong path

- - Removed object/detached containers shadows on Windows XP

- I don't use Win XP anymore on a daily basis and solving the shadow glitches requires lots of extra motivation

- Bugs in the previous beta version:

- - Launching certain shortcuts (such as Remote Desktop .RDP files) didn't work

- - Selecting and unselecting a container didn't restore the correct Tag Button color when a container was in Tag view mode

- - Bug in the bug report (pun intended) dialog: Sending empty bug reports is no longer possible. Clicking Send without entering text will simply close the dialog

- - Changing the workspace background color didn't properly render icons in shrunken containers

- - Drawing icons when switching shortcuts (dragging an icon on top of another icon) when one of the shortcuts is inside a shrunken container didn't render the icon properly

- - [Ctrl+Mouse Wheel] didn't work when trying to resize shortcuts

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DavidGreen
Reviewing 3.0.00 Beta 2 (Aug 5, 2008)

To the reviewer below: I'm keeping it at the bottom of my screen and I can see none of the problems you mention...The previous version couldn't stay there at all, but with the latest I have no problem.
It is a very interesting app. I really like the concept of keeping everything inside containers. Also, that I can double-click a container and start all of the shortcuts inside together. It has many features and not that great of a help file (at least for now) so it takes a bit of learning to figure it out.
argybee
Reviewing 3.0.00 Beta 2 (Aug 4, 2008)

Seems to work ok but I fail to see much functional advantage.
Also it does some weird (and annoying) things such as assumes windows taskbar at bottom and jumps out of the tray every time the screen gets a refresh, etc. etc. These things alone were enough to make me remove it after 10 mins.
Like the others said... if you use sTabLauncher, Winbar, ObjectDesk, Aston, Talisman this seems totally pointless (and looks ordinary compared to some of those).
robmanic44
Reviewing 2.4.00b (Apr 19, 2008)

If you use Stardock Object Desktop leave this alone. It has a great deal of options and is very flexable. With Stardock it's redundent.
TGB72
Reviewing 2.3.00b (Mar 11, 2008)

Nice prog, does what it claims very well, just would wish that the RSS feature came as an optional component in the setup, I don't like to much RSS, instead I would prefer some hardware monitors.
anomoly
Reviewing 2.2.00b (Oct 29, 2007)

Tried this before and seems bloatware and pretty much a waste of time unless u really need it.
I use pstart portable for the most part.
Nice looking anyways

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