Goodbye BumpTop!

Yesterday my iMac’s desktop went from 119 items to zilch, save for hard drives, which really don’t count as items anyway. I had been using BumpTop, which is a cool idea that turned my desktop into a 3D room with four walls and a floor where I organized my stuff. One of the best features was piles, which lets you pile stuff into little stacks. But…… The whole thing is very much like a real life desktop, as in it gets un-orginized quickly, that one thing you really need gets lost right when you need it, and it needs constant re-organizing to keep it from being one big messy pile of 3D junk.

So my new solution? Bury everything in folders, and use a search utility to get to everything. So far I have Quicksilver, Alfred & Google quick search box. So far I think Alfred looks nicest, but it does nothing with what it finds, making it no more useful than spotlight. Quicksilver can do the most but it’s not very intuitive and it looks outdated (which it is). Google’s Quick Search Box looks decent, is easy enough to use and can do some actions with what it finds, but not many.
Basically, I have two points here: 1. Please, please give me some more options for a search box if you have any. ;) 2. Until I find a better alternative, Quicksilver is what I’ll be using, clunky or not it is the most useful.