Thursday, December 31, 2009

Auto Tabbing App

I found a great little app that can be used for auto tabbing your applications on a screen like a slide show. I can find a bunch of reason you want to do this. Trade-shows, demo in sales office, news screens in a waiting room. The reason I am using it, makeshift NOC.

I have a few different monitoring applications at the company I work for. Right now we are designing a NOC display system. I needed something to auto-tab the screens back and forth on the workstation that is controlling the displays.

The app I found off Softpedia is called AUTO TAB. The program was written by http://www.analogx.com. You can download the app here: http://www.analogx.com/contents/download/System/autotab/Freeware.htm or here: http://www.softpedia.com/progDownload/AutoTab-Download-52753.html.

This application is very small and does exactly what I needed. It auto-tabs between open applications on the desktop to a time set by the user. That's it, that's all it does. Let me tell you, it works perfectly.

-Boston Tech Guy

UPDATE NOTE: I found it does have one issue. It recognizes Windows 7 Desktop Gadgets as applications. If you are using this on a Windows 7 machine and have Gadgets, close them.