360Desktop

Well now, I found this program which seems to have been around for a couple of years now, and it seems pretty cool. What it does, is creates a 360 degree desktop on your system. I’m assuming it does this using the API’s to create a side scrolling virtual desktop. Uses up some resources while it’s scrolling, but not enough to really notice. However, it does use a shit load when applying a new wallpaper (they allow users to create, upload and then download 360 degree wallpapers on their website).

I took a screenshot of my desktop with it active. You can see it if you click the link below.

View It Here

It says it’s only built for XP and Vista (sorry you Win98 users =p). It’s not that big I suppose, a little under 7MB forthe install file. It runs two(2) processes: 360desktop.exe (Currently using 168,312K Memory) and 360desktopd.exe (Currently using 2,000k Memory).

I don’t like how when you minimize a window, and restore it, it jumps to an empty portion of the scren, and you have to click it again for it to actually bring it up. I think there’s probably still some bugs, and I’m not sure if this is even in development anymore. I wouldn’t see why it would be, I believe Windows 7 is going to have built in virtual desktops. And as all might know, the API’s have been around to do this for awhile, although weren’t implemented by MicroSoft until Vista, and even then was only to use the Open Application program.

I think that’s about it. I’m most likely going to uninstall it now, because I have no need for it – I wrote my own virtual desktop program years back that I use whenever I run out of desktop space.

-Nito