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surur · 06-27-2005, 01:50 PM

As you said, PPC's started of with the expectation that hardware will catch up, which is has. Now it has much less retooling to do than POS. There is actually a number of small programs that take advantage of multi-tasking by displaying stuff in a window. That task manager in my example picture is one of them. There is also sidex, which is a program launcher etc which swoops in from the side of the screen ( http://www.mtux.com/info_sx.aspx ), floating calculators (http://www.pocketgear.com/software_detail.asp?id=3424 http://www.pocketgear.com/software_detail.asp?id=5150 ) floating sticky notes and even an app that will split the screen. The ability is built-in, and people can and do use it.

Surur

06-27-2005, 01:50 PM	#34
surur Enthusiast Posts: 30 Karma: 2258 Join Date: Jun 2005 Device: Loox 720	As you said, PPC's started of with the expectation that hardware will catch up, which is has. Now it has much less retooling to do than POS. There is actually a number of small programs that take advantage of multi-tasking by displaying stuff in a window. That task manager in my example picture is one of them. There is also sidex, which is a program launcher etc which swoops in from the side of the screen ( http://www.mtux.com/info_sx.aspx ), floating calculators (http://www.pocketgear.com/software_detail.asp?id=3424 http://www.pocketgear.com/software_detail.asp?id=5150 ) floating sticky notes and even an app that will split the screen. The ability is built-in, and people can and do use it. Surur