Lebendig: animate your windows
Lebendig is a Windows enhancement that will animate your windows, making them twist around as they open, recede into the horizon when closed, or perform any of 15 different actions when opening or closing. Works on programs, windows, and dialogs.
The world is split into two kinds of people: those who like to customize their desktop and like a lot of eye candy, and those who like to strip their OSs from any software that is not 100% necessary. Those in the former category will like this program. Here are more notes on this one:
The animation: what’s interesting about the animation is that it is mostly illusionary; your window doesn’t actually, say, spin around, but rather an animated frame precedes the window right at the point of display, creating a very effective illusion.- Launching and ending actions: Expand/Shrink Rectangles, Spin 180 or 360 right/left, Windows Zoom, Expand/Collapse inward or outward, Slide:top/down, bottom/up, right/left, left/right, Roll:top/down, bottom/up, right/left, left/right, Fade in and Fade out.
- Starting and ending points: can be defined, either from the location of the mouse or another set point on the screen.
- Windows affected: you can select from a number of Window types (e.g. Apps, explorer windows, dialogs, etc.) Make sure you check the types you are interested in.
- Other controls: include the resolution (number of steps used), delay, etc.
- Memory use: just over 5 megs. Not bad at all for a program like this one.
- Stability/performance: quite good. I usually expect problems with this sort of program, but encountered none whatever.
- User interface: options accessible through an icon in the start menu, including the ability to quickly enable/disable and/or shut down. It would have been good if it allowed you to not display the Lebendig icon in the start menu.
Ok so perhaps there is a third kind of user that is in the middle of the two described above, an “average” user that wouldn’t mind adding customizations to Windows if they are nice enough, problem free, and do not cost too much by way of system resources. I am guessing that a good chunk of these users will like Lebendig as well.
The verdict: a nice distraction that doesn’t tax the system but otherwise not too practically useful. It is fairly well implemented though, as eye candy goes. Try it out for yourself.
Version Tested: 1.0 (build 4th May 2008)
Compatibility: Windows XP /Vista..
Go to the developer’s page to download the latest version (approx 658K).
neat! love little programs like these
Cool.
What I’d really like on Windows is that nifty wobbly windows effect I get on Linux. It serves no purpose, sure, but I like it.
I like it.
But… Where’s the link to download it?
@Leo - Click on Lebendig, right under the Download icon.
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[...] Windows only: Freeware application Lebendig adds snazzy, lightweight animations to your windows—like spinning a window as you launch it or fading out when you close it. Apps like Lebendig aren’t uncommon, but Lebendig does set itself apart by using very little memory while still adding a little snap to your daily computing. It’s not the eye candy of Aero, but it’s a good way to avoid some of that UI jealousy that you’re bound to have using XP every day. Then again, if you’re really getting jealous of some of Vista’s better features, check out how to get Vista’s best features in XP. Lebendig [via FreewareGenius] [...]
i’ve always had a problem with download links on this site - in that I can never find the damn things. I generally download about one app a month which I see recommended here, and I always have to hunt around to find a link to it, and end up following that tiny little link to the developers page each time.
[...] Windows only: Freeware application Lebendig adds snazzy, lightweight animations to your windows—like spinning a window as you launch it or fading out when you close it. Apps like Lebendig aren’t uncommon, but Lebendig does set itself apart by using very little memory while still adding a little snap to your daily computing. It’s not the eye candy of Aero, but it’s a good way to avoid some of that UI jealousy that you’re bound to have using XP every day. Then again, if you’re really getting jealous of some of Vista’s better features, check out how to get Vista’s best features in XP. Lebendig [via FreewareGenius] [...]
Where’s the link to download Lebendig?
It’s on the very same page and says “download the latest version (approx 658K).”
Sits just below:
Version Tested: 1.0 (build 4th May 2008)
Compatibility: Windows XP /Vista..
Well, it’s a pity this isn’t a swedish forum cause then i could make myself funny over this program, Lebendig rhymes with eländig (miserable) in swedish and thats what i think of it. Sure the effects where nice enough until i decided to check the explorer checkbox. This made my explorer windows invisible, didn’t help to uninstall it either, had to revert to my trusty Trueimage backup.