JS Pager | Best Utility Ever!
A few years back I was at a co-workers desk when I noticed a little box in the bottom corner of the screen. He proceeded to tell me all about this free little virtual desktop app called JS Pager. This little utility allows you to turn your desktop into up to 100 separate desktops.
When he finished explaining things to me I pretty much laughed it off, told him he was crazy and went back to work. He assured me it was the best thing since Windows 3.1 and that if I tried it, I would understand.
Well, needless to say, I ended up trying the thing out at some point and now its just about the first thing I install on any new computer I use. So here’s what I like about it and how I use it.
I tend to have a lot of windows open. As you can see, icons are displayed within each virtual desktop giving an easy indication of what app is there. I keep only one application open on each desktop so I can easily find what I’m looking for without having to mess around with minimizing any windows.
Specific windows or toolbars can be made “sticky” so if you use a launcher or custom toolbar as I do, it remains visible on all desktops. Ordinary windows can be moved from one desktop to another by right clicking on the window icon in the JS Pager frame and dragging it onto another desktop.
But the best part of JS Pager that I’ve found compared to other virtual desktop apps that I’ve tried is its memory footprint. A mere 6K is about what you can expect to lose to this utility.
So I’ll issue the same challenge to anyone else out there. Try out JS Pager and see if you ever minimize a window again.
Comments
26. March 2007
I, too, have used JSPager for years. I’ve tried other virtual window managers (commercial , shareware and freeware) but none of them are as easy to use and as stable as JSPager. It’s the first app I put on every new computer. I can’t use any Windows Box without it. I’m spoiled.
8. February 2008
I use this utility all the time on my web development laptop.. It’s impossible to do web development without it.. Like you can put your Apache directory in one desktop, your GVIM editing of the index.php in another desktop, and in another put scripts like sessions scripts and database scripts, then in another put your email, in another I will have a web page open and playing my website “http://www.chann3lz.com/” so I can listen to youtube’d music videos while I work, and when I’m
interested in a song I can switch to that desktop..
Sometimes if I need to say drag and drop a php script into Filezilla, I will drag the window with the folder opend showing the script, and expose a corner of it to the filezilla window, and drag and drop icons, then move the folder back to its own desktop..
Serriously you will hardly ever minimize a window, and when you do, you will only be doing it to move a handful of windows to another desktop.
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