Comments on: [Mac]: Keeping Your Application Window ‘Always On Top’

By: Afloat.on.Snow.Leopard

Afloat.on.Snow.Leopard — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 06:47:50 +0000

you can get Afloat to work in Snow Leopard.
you have to do a little manual installation.

http://forums.macosxhints.com/showthread.php?t=105167

install SIMBL
then manually copy Afloat.bundle to
~user/Library/Application Support/SIMBL/Plugins
restart your mac

Go see this URL for more detail:
http://forums.macosxhints.com/showthread.php?t=105167

By: Computers by WEB » Blog Archive » Mac: Manage Your App Windows More Efficiently With Windowshade X

Mon, 21 Sep 2009 10:00:14 +0000

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By: Mac: Manage Your App Windows More Efficiently With Windowshade X – Make Tech Easier

Sun, 20 Sep 2009 12:31:16 +0000

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By: Damien

Damien — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 06:33:48 +0000

That seems like an useful app. I will check it out.

By: Joss

Joss — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 16:30:32 +0000

You can use window shade instead I am using it on Snow Leopard so far no problems.

http://unsanity.com/haxies/wsx

It works off customisable keyboard shortcuts, which for me is more convenient, and it does the same things as afloat as far as I can see

By: Damien

Damien — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 14:50:50 +0000

I totally agree with you. Not only Mac OSX, even Windows does not has any native “keep on top” function.

By: cody

cody — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 14:25:36 +0000

Unfortunately Afloat does not work with Snow Leopard (yet?), hopefully that will be fixed soon. I don’t understand Apple not realizing the importance of the “always on top” feature, especially when one window (like a video tutorial) absolutely needs to be on top of all the others in a work situation. This is a feature I use a lot in linux, it’s difficult to adjust in OS-X by not having it.

By: Sara

Sara — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 20:23:30 +0000

try fiwi

By: Sara

Sara — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 20:22:25 +0000

I found this great app. to keep two applications open at the same time. You can keep iweb, safari,yahoo messenger and finder open. It’s called FIWI just google it. It’s only .99c

By: Huge

Huge — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 03:21:51 +0000

Anyone knows how to get an older version? Like one that would work on Tiger?

Thanks.

By: Christopher M

Christopher M — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 16:41:26 +0000

Very nice, thank you!!

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Out the Window Computer » Floaty - Afloat for OSX — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 21:45:00 +0000

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By: Damien

Damien — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 06:26:08 +0000

@hibert00: It seems that none of the Mac users have discovered the beauty of keeping the application “Always on top” yet. Wait till they try out Linux, they will then understand how inefficient it is to switch from one app to another.

By: hilbert00

hilbert00 — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 08:28:00 +0000

I’m really quite surprised about this. I’m also a former linux user and for me was quite normal to keep my IM window on top of the browser for example.

For the Mac, it looks like everybody is switching from on app to the other continuously or they all have huge display to show all windows at a time.

thanks!

By: Damien

Damien — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 00:59:30 +0000

@hilbert00: Yes it’s true that it does not work with all applications, but it seeems that this is the only application around that can make an application ‘Always on top’…

By: hilbert00

hilbert00 — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 23:30:44 +0000

I just would like to say that unfortunately Aflot is not working with all applications, for example, Firefox, Finder, Aquamacs…