14 DAY TRIAL // Fantasktik, a very useful piece of Mac software coming from the folks at Dockland Software, has made it into our Mac-driven hearts thanks to its offering a dock for application windows. Having been updated to version 1.1 just recently, we decided to let more readers in on this app, and the enhancements it has received lately.
Fantasktik lives quietly in your System Preferences as an auxiliary taskbar that enables you to keep a close eye on your running applications and their opened windows. It's non-intrusive, opaque, yet highly visible when you need it. Your windows are displayed racked next to one another either just below the menu bar or just above your Dock, depending on where you want them.
Fantasktik can display a cool preview of the app / window you are hovering over with the mouse pointer, offering all the information you need to see if that is the place you want to go. The most recent version of the app adds an “enable / disable” option to this feature. The preview is large enough to see what the respective window is displaying, and small enough not to clog up your view. Previews are also semi-transparent, not blocking your view of the window you are currently working in. Sleek animations and transparency effects contribute to the pleasant user experience. You can also use the application to your favor by doubling with the Expose feature of OS X, which users generally assign to the side buttons of Apple's Mighty Mouse. A full list of enhancements brought by Fantasktik 1.1 is available below.
- Auto-hide with settable side and delay. - Prevent well-behaved Cocoa apps' windows from showing under the bar. - Fantasktik shows in every Space. - Scroll through windows using the mouse scrollwheel. - The bar hides automatically when other apps go fullscreen. - More windows showing in the bar. - Enable/disable previews. - Fixed hiding bug on multi-monitor configurations.
Click here to get a fully-functional trial version (15 days) of the app now. It requires Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) and is a Universal Binary.