United StatesTabMeister is a great little desktop utility that helps you quickly get to applications, files, and folders without having to always search for them on your hard drive. The Dock in Mac OS X is a great place to put a few of your basic things that you use often, but the Dock is just too small to fit all the stuff you'd like to have easy access to, and there's not much organization to the Dock. So, what TabMeister does is allow you to add Tabs to your desktop that act like pop-up folders containing icons of all of the things you want to have access to. For example, you can create a Tab named "Graphics", and in that Tab you can store links to all of your graphics applications that you use. Normally, you'll just see a small Tab at the edge of the screen, but when you roll the mouse over it, it automatically pops up. More information is on our web site at: http://pangeasoft.net/tabmeister The instruction manual is here: http://pangeasoft.net/tabmeister/manual
DOES NOT WORK WITH CATALINA. DO NOT BUY.
WASTE OF MONEY
United StatesNo Alias Files Allowed
If you try to move an alias of a file to TabMeister, it vaporizes it. You have to move the original application, file or whatever if you want to see it appear in one of the tabs you setup. Otherwise…woof!
United StatesThis app is the reason Apple doesn't give refunds.
It's crap. Hard to use and set up. There is nothing useful about this app. I uninstalled it 5 minutes after I installed it. I would have gotten more of a thrill seeing a fake carnival attraction for a dollar than this crap.
United StatesCool
Really cool app, was also afraid because of the reviews, but cooler than i thought. It even lets you choose a color for the tab and it LETS you rearrange tabs just by drag-and-drop! 1. However, it's time for an update i would say. I want to see the names also when not hovering over the content 2. I want to have the ability to disable the dock icon in prefs 3. I want to have the ability to add more things in a tab Rather than that, it's cool :-)
United StatesAt the end is worth 99c
One simple sentence: it crashes a lot. Nice idea but TabMeister is just not ready. Crashes always on Snow Leopard 1.6.6, graphically is so and so, does not permit to arrange the tabs. Bottom line: 99c wasted! Good idea but will need to improve really a lot to be considered.
United StatesNeat idea, execution needs some work.
What would make this app work is a folder that you could open to put icons in for each tab. As it is, I have to drag an icon over to the tab, hope it will open this time before I accidentally release the mouse button. You can't copy and paste an icon into the tab. If you put the tabs on the bottom left or right of the screen, you can't activate the tabs because the dock is in the way (at least it is on my puny 13" screen macbook, which I like, by the way). My bet is that the developers of the app have a giant monitor, so never run into these problems? Anyways, I'll look forward to the updates, when I can actually set this up in less than 10 minutes. As is, I've spend 30 minutes of wasted time, and then turned the darned thing off.
United StatesGood idea that needs work (updated regarding the spaces malfunction)
I like the idea so I will go straight to the cons: 1. When you click on an application icon in the dock that would take you into a different Space, you immediately lose Tabmeister and all the tabs diappear and you have to keep moving between Spaces till the tabs decide to appear again. A Fix for this is to explicitly assign Tabmeister application to all spaces from the spaces preferences. 2. When you grab a file like a document or a pic from your desktop and hover with your mouse pointer over a tab and open it, many times the tab flickers as if it is closing and reopening for no reason. 3. You have no control over the tab size regarding the number of place holders you would like to see in it or its geometry. 4. Not good to include bookmarks to webpages because although that works (by dragging a bookmark that you dragged from Safari to the desktop into a tab) yet they will all look the same with the @http icon and the only way to know which is which is by hovering over them with your mouse. 5. Also Not good to include links to files on your desktop or elsewhere on your computer because although it works but you still can't tell which is which because all the pics or the PDF files would have the same icon. 6. If you use 2 displays with extended desktop you will be surprises to see that tabs are actually places just outside the display border to hide them so it is not a show/hide attribute it is just physical pushing of the very still existing tab that will now show up weirdly on your second display if the tab happened to be on the border between the two displays. They should hide the tabs in a more elegant way that this. As I said, could be improved dramatically to be a really useful tool starting with the Spaces bug that is really annoying. But for the price of $1 I am willing to keep using it without complaints till it is updated then I will upgrade my star rating to 5 stars as well.
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