Why is when you hear of something for the first time ever, you hear about three times that week. It’s like an obscure word that you never heard and then its on the radio and TV that week. Anyway, it’s something I’ve never figured out.

When RichardX13 wrote the other about FLS Launcher, which is an application manager, one of our readers emailed me about Bumptop.

To be honest, I am not a fan of desktop “revampers”. Any I have tried in the past have been more annoying than useful. So with reluctance, I had a look a Bumptop. And its actually pretty good.

What s Bumptop?

It puts your desktop into 3D box. So you have walls top and side and behind you. It gets its name from the way movement of objects bump each other and cause it to shake. It has social network integration with Flickr, Facebook and Twitter. These a very basic but still give you quick access to updates. It also supports multiple monitor setups, which is cool.

It uses very little CPU/Ram resources, which is good because otherwise I would uninstalled it immediately. You can also apply themes to change its look.

When you start off, it walks you through the basics in about 5 steps. I suggest you watch these to get the most out of it.

There is a free version and a pro version. I am going to keep plaing with it and probably check out the pro features. Here is a table from their site with differences.

The differences from the Free version on the left and the Pro features on the right

Themes

You can configure it with themes to suit your style:

There is a decent community following that are developing the own themes. However the software allows lots of customization at the user level.

Social Networking

As I said, it has social networks covered, albeit at a basic level but good enough to keep your status updated easily and to quickly send an email. I haven’t figured out yet if I can configure the email widget to start a Gmail Compose Mail window instead of Outlook but I would love to see that feature.

Some video to whet your  appetite:

You can check it out over on their site: Bumptop

What desktop enhancement are you using? Is it better than this? Let us know in the comments

[UPDATE: Bumptop available for Mac and Mashables has 100 invites to give for the Pro version. Click here for a chance.  Mashables]

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Sticky Notes	Limit 2	Unlimited
Multitouch gestures (Crop, Shove, Scrunch, Fan out and more!)
Unlimited updates for 1.x version
Toss files onto USB keys
Most used files automatically grow
Flipping through Piles
Thumbnail Previews (Transparent PSDs, HDRs and more!)	Watermarked
Customer Support	Limited	Premium Support
G o o d S t u f f	Physics Engine
	Full Windows 7 Support (32 and 64 bit)
	3D Visualization
	Piles
	Intuitive Gestures
	Themes
	Widgets (Facebook, Twitter, email and printer)
	Zooming Photo Slideshows

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