How Have You Been Using Stardock Tiles?
Tuesday, March 22, 2011 by Island Dog | Discussion: Personal Computing
Tiles from Stardock has been out (in beta) to Object Desktop subscribers for a couple of weeks, and I wanted to follow up and ask our users how they like it so far, and how you have been using it. For me, it’s quite common that I have many windows open, and I have used Tiles to fast switch to each window without having to look at the task bar.
I also use a custom page to drag certain document windows to keep them in a place I can quickly access them.
https://www.stardock.com/products/tiles/
How have you been using it?
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Reply #24 Thursday, March 24, 2011 6:52 PM
Windows XP? what is Windows XP? Oh Yeah that's an operating system from MS that was released in 2001. I think my grandmother has that on her computer. I guess I should tell her about Tiles.
Reply #25 Thursday, March 24, 2011 8:27 PM
That's exactly the point... this is 2011, and very few people use XP anymore... which makes Tiles, like I said earlier, novel, but useless.
Reply #26 Thursday, March 24, 2011 9:06 PM
I find it extremely useful, and with the autohide feature it's out of my way until I need it. I don't like having icons on my desktop or a dock anymore, so it's perfect for me. No more digging through the Start Menu. It would be better though if my mouse had side buttons!
Reply #27 Thursday, March 24, 2011 9:52 PM
Karen I am curious what OS you use? I have tiles too. Its called my Windows 7 taskbar and those tiles are always hid until I mouseover. I am not trying to be a smart ass but I just don't get it. I guess if someone does not like the tile feature with the taskbar or just the taskbar and for those running windows xp then I can see how this would be useful. For windows 7 users though it is redundant.
Reply #28 Thursday, March 24, 2011 10:09 PM
JC, I have W7. But I'm using tiles sort of like a multi-faceted dock. I'm still setting it up, but for example, I have separate pages for media programs, office programs, photo programs, graphic programs, games, documents that I use on a regular basis, etc. It's just a nice way to organize the stuff I use regularly without having to look through all the crap that I don't want to get rid of yet.
Plus, I just like to have new toys to play with 
Reply #29 Thursday, March 24, 2011 10:45 PM
Well I will say one thing Karen, your screenshots are the best in the customization world (my opinion) so if you can make use of tiles both practically and cosmetically then good on you.
Reply #30 Friday, March 25, 2011 9:39 AM
Ditto for me. If it included an exclude filter to keep items off a page and if it included the "toolbar" function of the taskbar (for folders and media player), it'd be perfect.
Reply #31 Friday, April 8, 2011 5:38 PM
renewed my subscription just to get it
wish they add the ability to change how long it takes for it to hide and unhide when autohide enabled... right now it takes too long to unhide
also why not make it more like a taskbar and alow lock / unlock and if unlocked then allow it to grow and shrink
also allow how it hides and unhides animations or effects...
also why not allow it to be on top and bottom and then go across that would really be better than now for me
finally add more skins and allow widgets to be added to it...
also allow it to have effects like object dock like when you mouse over and activate... for example grow/shrink, glow, bounce
also why not allow allow us to add tile to object dock basically we would see windows on object dock and not icon, think tiles but on object dock with full object dock functionality, integrate the two...
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Reply #21 Thursday, March 24, 2011 4:00 PM
i feel the features windows seven already have arent much different from some of what tiles provide,whereas i find tiles more useful on windows xp