Afloat Review
April 28, 2008★★☆☆☆
Afloat is a simple little freeware app put out by Infinite-Labs, that lets you customize the appearance of Cocoa apps in Mac OS X. It’s currently in its 2nd version, and now requires Leopard. To appeal to the code-gurus out there, its open source. Afloat gives you a few different options on how to customize your windows, which I go over in the video. Afloat is user friendly, and has a nice interface.
I did have a few problems with it, first off, there needs to be a universal setting, so that you don’t have to change each individual window. Secondly, when I had a window transparent, and then changed something in it (like in a Pages document) it would keep the old one there underneath the new text. A very unfortunate flaw, because then you’ve got two pictures or fonts or whatever you’ve modified, overlapping each other.
So, in conclusion I give it a ⅖ on a scale, just because even though its in version 2.0, it feels very beta-ish.
