SideSlide is an advanced, portable, unobtrusive, dockable, skinnable, instantly accessible, highly configurable Desktop Extension on Steroids! Clean desktop clutter and make your computer friendlier and faster than ever before. With unique use of containers and various innovative features, SideSlide lets you get instant access to everything you have and much more. The program respects your system and keeps all of its configuration files in a single folder.
Main Features:
- Instantly accessible and adjustable workspace that stays out of your way until you need it.
- Add multiple shortcuts, commands, URLs, RSS news feeds, pictures, reminders and notes.
- Resizable, detachable, foldable and shrinkable containers extend the workspace beyond the limits of the screen.
- Mouse & keyboard support with a full-blown keyboard launcher and directory navigator.
- RSS news feed functionality allows you to track what you are interested in the most.
- Keep your eyes on multiple picture slideshows that are easily added.
- Floating, colorful notes are quickly created and adjusted in bulk or separately.
- Shortcuts can be tagged for additional functionality and organization.
- Various ways of launching multiple shortcuts with a single click.
- Link containers to actual folders on disk (launch, move, copy and delete files).
- Shortcuts, URLs, text and pictures from Windows or your browser can be dragged & dropped in the workspace.
- A growing online library with ready-made RSS news feed and shortcut containers.
- Every style and setting in the entire program and for each individual object can be customized.
- Fancy special effects that don't slow you down.
- Comes with multiple themes and wallpapers and you can also define your own style.
- Supports portable setup and the ability to load objects from a relative path.
- Much more...
Dock and hide SideSlide to any screen edge; browse through your favorite RSS news feeds, keep shortcuts to files, folders and URLs you frequently visit; execute various commands quicker than ever; add multiple notes; multiple, sizable, picture slideshows; schedule reminders; save web snippets and more. Customize it to emphasize the things you use the most and make more information accessible without occupying precious screen space. By using containers you can shrink and fold, downloading ready-made containers from an online library, linking containers to actual folders on disk, detaching containers from the workspace to claim additional space, various ways of launching multiple shortcuts at once, shortcut tags, zooming in and out of shortcuts, news feed reader, keyboard navigation and launcher, different skins, different size pictures, picture containers and colored notes; SideSlide is designed to make a great deal of content instantly accessible.
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Comments and Reviews
Sideslide is a great tool to have if you work with a lot of apps. This is a stretchable box window that allows you to create shortcuts to applications by clicking the location of what you want & it's path is added creating the icon & name of the app. You can save your customizations including edge position top, bottom, left, & right.
Customize the window any color, change the icons, font, & color of text truly customizing. Stretch the window any size & arrange the shortcuts any order you want. Import & export customizations for quick swapping if you work on different pcs or just like to change themes.
This is great for me I don't have to click start or any desktop icons I just move my mouse to the left & sideslide pops out with my list of applications I use on a daily basis. This is even nice for IT techs who use portable applications & work on multiple pcs you can just have sideslide in your usb to use your daily portable tools without having to go through everything to get to them.
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Works for me / now - the software's even been recently updated.
Reply written Dec 7, 2023
A unique launcher with mamy options, including the ability to tag and launch multiple apps at once, along with many other fun features. Check out the tour page.
Fantastistic! More than a simple Dock system.. like having an extra Desktop as an overlay! Takes a bit of courage to learn.. You can try a similar program called ITop as a warm up. SideSlide has a backup system which puts backups in the Roaming folder. Once I pressed the UpperLeft + sign, pressed New, pressed Container, dragged a shortcut into it, I gained courage. I was able to transfer setting w/the backup to another computer, too. So many possibilities! I keep growing to love SideSlide more! I hear it's easier with portable, but you can make multiple docks to load. Files are not saved on the panel... shortcuts are. Photos can be viewed as wallpaper with the transparency level you choose. If you uninstall, your program and photo files are safe because they are only in shortcut form. If you uninstall, containers, notes in them, labels, and sideslide backups are deleted, so you may want to make an extra backup and store it elsewhere for the future. Transparencies can let you do image overlays, labels.. maybe one panel setup for RSS feeds, one for detachable/reattachable sticky notes, picture board, etc. ..lots of possibilities!