Trampoline
the quickest route to the tools you need
Quick... what do you do most with your computer?
If you're like most Mac users, you just thought of about 7 things. Maybe it's Photoshop. Maybe it's your favorite website. Maybe it's Quickbooks. Maybe it's iChatting with your grandson.
Chances are, though, that there are somewhere between 7 and 12 things you use your Mac for constantly.
...several times a day.
...over and over.
...often at the same time.
In fact, how many of them are running right now?
You've just identified your core set of Mac tools. Yes, your computer may have dozens, or even hundreds of installed apps, and you use each of them when they're necessary. Still, there's a core set, a few select apps, documents, or web apps that you use all the time. You almost never close them. You move back and forth between them all day long. You want to get to them fast.
This is what Trampoline is for.
Trampoline goes where you go
Click its hot key, and it appears directly under the mouse. The things you use most, those core tools, appear all around your cursor, each one just a few pixels away.
Move your mouse up, and there's Safari; left, and there's Microsoft Word; right, and there's your To Do List. You choose what you want in your trampoline, and then when it's time to open it, it's right there.
Trampoline stays out of
the way
When you're not using it, you won't see Trampoline. It
waits patiently while you get things done. It takes no
space at all. Then when it's time to do something else, you
bring it up and it's ready to give you exactly the tool you
need.
Give
Trampoline a week
and you'll find that your mouse always moves
to the right to open iTunes. When you want to open Safari,
you'll automatically move your wrist up. Your hand has
learned where those crucial tools are. You probably won't
even look at the Trampoline any more, even though it's so
pretty. You'll just want to get to the tools you need.
Open
anything NOW!
Trampoline's job is to get you to your core tools as fast
as possible, but it can get you anywhere on your computer
if you'd like. Drag any folder onto the trampoline, and you
can now get to that folder's contents in one click. The
things in that folder are just as accessible as the things
in your trampoline. In no time, getting to those favorite
documents or folders will become just as simple as getting
to your core tools.
Use Trampoline with a
mouse
You
have a mouse with a third mouse button. What do you do with
that button? Use it to open the trampoline, and you'll find
yourself using it all the time. Now instead of a hot key,
you can get to your core tools with one hand.
Give
Trampoline a month
and you'll find that you
can't live without it. Your wrist is now permanently
trained. You'll feel yourself reaching for that third mouse
button when using other people's computers. Go ahead, tell
them that they need to install Trampoline on their
computers too. They'll thank you later.
System Requirements:
Trampoline requires Mac OS X 10.4 or later to run. It should
work on any Macintosh running Mac OS X 10.4.
Trampoline 2.3.1 and later has been fully tested against
Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard.
What's
new with Trampoline
For a complete list of new features in
Trampoline, check the release notes.
Previous Users:
Before Trampoline, there was Bullseye. Many
users purchased Bullseye with the promise that they'd
receive continuous updates to the product. Even with a name
change, this policy continues. If you purchased Bullseye in
the past, you are one of the reasons that Trampoline came
to be. You can download Trampoline and use it right away,
with our sincere gratitude. You will have to set up your
preferences again as if you had just downloaded Trampoline,
but you will not have to purchase a new license.
Trampoline is
shareware
Development and support for
Trampoline is paid for by people like you who choose to
register.
A single user license costs $19.95.
You can register Trampoline on our registration page, or by clicking the Register icon in the Trampoline itself.
Documentation & Support
Trampoline's support page includes a Complete User manual, video tutorials and a support forum.
See Trampoline in Action
We've prepared a set of Video Tutorials to help you get started with Trampoline. If you're the kind of person who would rather learn by watching than by reading, then this is for you/
Contact
If you have a question, bug report, feature request, or anything else to say about Trampoline, please use our feedback form.
