May 10 2008

These are the voyages of the USS Hyperspaces…

Click the image above to play.

Hyperspaces is feature-​complete, I’m just working on the user interface controls to configure the desktop elements you can see in the video. I have a few more bugs to fix, a web site to construct and a tiny bit of documentation to write, and then (finally) I’ll be releasing a public beta. Yes, I know what I said — I’m taking it back. I want Hyperspaces to be as polished as CoverStream, and right now it’s not. But it will be — and it will be soon, but whereas 24 hours ago soon meant “Monday”, now it means “before WWDC08”. Flame on.

Oh, and if I haven’t said it enough alread — Core Animation is seriously the poo. If you’re not using it in your apps, you should be. Watch the video and tell me you don’t want implicit animation.

Comments

Gravatar for Neil.

It’s look­ing really sweet. Do what you need to to clean it up and release it in the next two days and you can still enter it for an apple design award!!! (I believe in you)

Posted by Neil on

Gravatar for Jeff Byrnes.

Oooh, fancy! And ran­dom, but where can I find that hard drive icon? Def­i­nitely very cool looking.

Posted by Jeff Byrnes on

Gravatar for Tony.

Jeff: it’s from “Smooth Leop­ard” by Susumu Yoshida — you can down­load it from <http://​susumu​.seph​.ws/>.

Posted by Tony on

Gravatar for Gee Three­force.

Looks sweet Tony. By the way: look­ing at your Flickr photo-​stream i can only imag­ine what held you from giv­ing more time to devel­op­ment of Hyper­spaces. Last year we decided to build an extra floor on our house. Four months later and zero free time left we fin­ished the project. Being a home­owner is a virtue, but it takes a lot of time and effort to truly make it your own ;-)

Posted by Gee Three­force on

Gravatar for AlexN.

Love the TARDIS :)

Posted by AlexN on

Gravatar for peel­man.

Geez, and i thought i was a sci-​fi nerd :)

Can’t wait man, it’ll be nice to have a Multi-​Deskop pro­gram that isn’t as lame and lobot­o­mized as Spaces!

Posted by peel­man on

Gravatar for Zoe Sum­mers.

Please for­give me, but could you please tell me where you got that awe­some TARDIS icon? I’ve googled and the clos­est I’ve found looks nowhere near as good.

That’s the new Eccle­ston Tardis right? So cool!!!

Z

Posted by Zoe Sum­mers on

Gravatar for Zoe Sum­mers.

Never mind … For any­one who wants them — Here they are!!

<http://​icon​fac​tory​.com/​f​r​e​e​w​a​r​e​/​p​r​e​v​i​e​w​/dwho>

Posted by Zoe Sum­mers on

Gravatar for Steve Voida.

Look­ing fab­u­lous, Tony!

Can’t wait to see all the bells and whis­tles as you pour on the pol­ish between now and WWDC…

Cheers, Steve

Posted by Steve Voida on

Gravatar for Tony.

@Zoe: You beat me to it! I reckon the TARDIS icon is per­fect for my Time Machine drive — and yes, I would like to believe it’s the Eccle­ston TARDIS, but I’m devel­op­ing a soft spot for a Ten­nant TARDIS…

@Steve: If you’re keen, send me an e-​mail and I’ll pop you on the pri­vate testers list.

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