What's Tabbery?
Imagine you can have as many desktops as you want on your copmputer, and you can pack each one into a small portable file to be shared with friends and colleagues, posted online or used later.
- Now stop imagining and say hello to Tabbery!
Tabbery is a new way to organize all of your related work into virtual tabs on your desktop. Save each tab for later use for yourself or share and collaborate with others. You can also use Tabbery.com to post your tabs online and search tabs of any subject from others!
When you, or anyone opens a tab file you saved - a new desktop tab will launch on their desktop, containing all of your work - just as it appeared on your desktop when you saved it: Websites, documents, video, music, photos, Etc.
Tabbery is always free. It works as a light extension to your Microsoft® Windows XP™ or Vista™ operating system (only about 850kb) and will NEVER contain any ads/adware, spyware or malware. Tabery is patent-pending and is running in stable Beta.
Why do I need this?
Work in a clean, uncluttered workspace on your desktop
Share your entire work with others instantly as one collection of media, documents, web content and information
Get unlimited desktop space
Better alternative to Bookmarks and Favorites
Files and web sites together
Share entire collections of information as one
Great way to backup entire groups of files
Post your work online
Launch other people's workspace on your desktop
Getting started with Tabbery
The Basics:
Tabbery is very simple; it shows you all of your windows as thumbnails, side-by-side. (Thumbnails for windows that are currently minimized will appear faded). The orange square works as a view finder – it tells you what is currently viewed on your desktop.
Navigation:
To navigate between windows, click on the thumbnail of the desired window, or use the left/right arrows. Long click on these arrows will move the thumbnail strip without choosing a window. You can also do that with your mouse wheel if you have one.
Docking, hiding, and resizing Tabbery:
Tabbery is docked to the top of your screen by default.
To expose the program, simply move your mouse to the top of the screen. Once you move the mouse away from the program, it will auto-hide again.
To un-dock the program, pull the program towards the center of the screen. Re-dock it again by pulling it to the top of your screen again.
To hide the program altogether, Click the minimize button – it will minimize to the system tray. Double click the tray icon to restore it.
To resize the program, grab the edges of the interface and move them with your mouse
Tabs explained:
Tabbery's real power is of course working with tabs. Each tab works like a desktop on your computer, containing any collection of windows and their contents by any subject you desire. Unlike virtual desktop programs, Tabbery's patent-pending technology enables you to save each tab as a file which can be used to later restore the entire desktop with all of its windows and their content. you can have as many tabs as you want on your desktop and toggle between them - it's like instantly switching between computers. One has your favorite web searches, another has your office work for a specific client and another has academic research. How many tabs do you want to have?
Working with Tabs:
When Tabbery starts, al your work will already be contained in the default 'not yet saved' tab.
To start a new tab, simply click the 'New' button – a brand new clean desktop will open up. You can now begin work on this new tab. All of your previous work will still live on the other tab. You can have as many tabs as you want.
To show all windows currently open on all tabs, click the 'show all' button. Click it again to exit Show all mode and return to the most recent tab you were on, or click on a tab to exit this mode and get to that tab
To move a window from tab to tab, select the thumbnail of the desired window, and drag it into the desired tab; Alternatively, you can drag a thumbnail to the 'New' button and it will create a brand new tab with just that window in it. You can also right-click on a thumbnail and choose the 'Save Window' option to save it to a new tab, or append it to an existing saved tab file.
To save a tab, click the 'save' button next to the title on the tab. If the tab has never been saved before, a dialog box will prompt you to name it.
Why do I want to save a tab?
The file you just created can now be used to launch all windows and their contents, at any time - on any computer with Tabbery installed - Yours, your friends', your colleagues', or other computers on your network at home or work. You can also post the file to the internet on Tabbery.com for the world to see and work with.
Sharing tabs:
To share a tab, choose the 'share' menu and choose 'Email to someone' to open your email program and automatically attach the file to a new mail message. If you are using web-based mail or a site such as Yahoo Mail, Hotmail or Gmail, simply start an email and attach the tab file to it. Tabs are stored by default in /My Tabs/ folder inside /My Documents/
Posting tabs on the internet:
From the 'Share' menu, choose 'Upload to web'. (This will open in a mini-browser inside Tabbery that will not be included in the tab you are currently on). Alternatively, visit http://www.tabbery.com/Upload.
NOTE: You must be loged in to Tabbery.com to post Tab files.
To get tabs from the internet:
Go to Tabbery.com and search or browse for tabs. Each tab's page, has a quick flash preview of it on the top right corner. Click the 'Download' button and open the tabs. When you are done working with the tab, remember to go back and rate the tab you downloaded. This is a community effort; Highest-rated tabs will always appear first in search results.
