Actual Window Manager For Tablet Pc

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Jeff Van West, author of Tablet PC Quick Reference by Microsoft Press, examines and recommends Actual Window Manager for Tablet PC owners

August 10, 2005: Actual Tools announced that the latest version of Actual Window Manager was examined by Jeff Van West who recommended it as a fine productivity tool for Tablet PCs. Mr. West is the author of Tablet PC Quick Reference by Microsoft Press and a regular columnist on the Microsoft Expert Zone website.

According to Jeff Van West, one of the Tablet's benefits is its small size. However this may often turn into its weakness when users need to work with more than two windows at one time. Open windows stack on top of one another and moving data between them involves a lot of window switching. Actual Window Manager has three window options to address this weakness and make life on a Tablet PC far more productive. These options are Pin on Top, Roll Up, and Transparency. Each option has its own title bar icon; Actual Window Manager adds these icons to all application and Explorer windows.

One tap on the Pin on Top icon puts the source window on top, while ...
... the target window is open below it. With the source window stuck securely on top, the user can drag any piece of information from one window to another without continuous window switching. If the source window gets in the way, the user can tap on the Roll Up icon to roll the window up like a window shade so that only its title bar remains visible. Also, Tablet owners can make the Input Panel semi-transparent so that it doesn't obscure the desktop below.

The full text of the article Actual Window Manager is Must-Have Software on a Tablet PC by Jeff Van West is available at the company's website: http://www.ActualTools.com/reviews/detail.php?ID=934 .

Product page: http://www.ActualTools.com/windowsmanager/
Download link: http://www.ActualTools.com/files/aimsetup.exe (2Mb)
E-mail: press@actualtools.com
Web: http://www.ActualTools.com/
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