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GoPoint Popup-At-Pointer Makes Laptop Usable Again

Posted on April 30, 2008

Did you ever think you’d like pop-ups? Me either, but now I love ‘em!
Facebookpopsuite Of course, I’m not talking about popup ads that invade your web browser while surfing the web. No, I mean the popSuite from GoPoint that has finally made my laptop usable. I was pretty late adopting laptop technology because as they were becoming ‘affordable’ to most of society I was living on the streets or just recovering, so they were anything but affordable to me. Once I got stable enough to purchase a laptop I couldn’t find one with a pointing device that I felt comfortable using. I sure wish I’d known about GoPoint then.

The biggest problem with using a laptop is using the pointing device for simple repetitive tasks. It really shouldn’t take that long to close a browser window, navigating back to the previous web page, add something to your favorites, or search across multiple search engines. But it does on my laptop. Or rather, it did on my laptop until a couple of weeks ago when I downloaded the free popSuite demo from GoPoint. Now all these functions are a simple click away.

While popNavigator (see demo) allows you to surf the web in any major browser without having to worry about the navigation buttons that always seem to be too far away, I personally think the real power of the popSuite is the popSearcher. You simply bring popNavigator up at your pointer by right-clicking and hover over the magnifying glass. Then you can do a single search on as many as 18 different sites (including Google, Yahoo!, wikipedia, even eBay) simultaneously with the results each appearing in their own browser tab. Now that’s power and convenience.