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Just bought it. I previously did workarounds such as dragging an entire chrome tab out to move the picture. Got awkward sometimes. You might want to consider not…",{"value":66,"source":67,"evidence":68},"Mac users who drag and drop files often","inferred",[69,70],{"id":58,"by":59,"text":60},{"id":62,"by":63,"text":64},{"value":72,"source":55,"evidence":73},"$5 purchase, with a free trial version on the developer site",[74,75,78],{"id":62,"by":63,"text":64},{"id":76,"by":10,"text":77},"3946869","Thanks, Graeme. The free trial is actually an entire non-App Store version with its own in-app purchase -- I chronicled the experience at…",{"id":58,"by":59,"text":60},{"value":80,"source":81,"evidence":82},"Maker's own frustration with dragging files; idea held for a long time","maker",[83],{"id":84,"by":10,"text":85},"3946797","Not directly -- I never had the pleasure of using NeXTSTEP. To be honest, this idea has been in my head for a long time, just waiting for me to come up with a proper interaction…",[],"paid","launched","solo",{"praise":91,"objections":115,"requests":138,"questions":165,"alternatives":187},[92,104],{"value":93,"source":55,"evidence":94},"Useful utility that fills a real gap in macOS drag and drop",[95,99,100],{"id":96,"by":97,"text":98},"3946578","antifuchs","Congratulations - that is a seriously useful utility. At first I thought that holding down the mouse button wasn't that bad - but your browser tab demo absolutely convinced me…",{"id":58,"by":59,"text":60},{"id":101,"by":102,"text":103},"3946723","Dejital","Well done. This is the sort of app you look at and think \"Why isn't this built into the operating system already?\"",{"value":105,"source":55,"evidence":106},"Clever shake interaction and well-made demo video",[107,111],{"id":108,"by":109,"text":110},"3946618","citricsquid","This is a fantastic app, not just because of how much of a great utility it is (does anything like this exist for windows?) but the name is absolutely brilliant. Not only is it…",{"id":112,"by":113,"text":114},"3946598","rjb","Seriously brilliant. And the video is spot on in answering questions\u002Fconcerns that anyone would have.",[116,127,131],{"value":117,"source":55,"evidence":118},"Trackpad gesture activation is unreliable for some users",[119,123],{"id":120,"by":121,"text":122},"3946551","mikhailt","Hey Mark, Is this useful on the trackpad? It seem to be about 50% accurate on my magic trackpad when shaking back and forth. Also, what do you mean by \"under the mouse?\"",{"id":124,"by":125,"text":126},"3947696","gurkendoktor","I wanted to love this because I am heavy trackpad D&D user, and I think D&D has only gotten worse after Leopard, but... :( I can't get the gesture to work reliably on a (magic)…",{"value":128,"source":55,"evidence":129},"Cannot stash items and move them to the desktop; window hides on show desktop",[130],{"id":124,"by":125,"text":126},{"value":132,"source":55,"evidence":133},"Redirect to App Store hides the demo video from visitors",[134],{"id":135,"by":136,"text":137},"3946784","rkudeshi","I can understand why you're redirecting traffic directly to the App Store, but I think it might be doing more harm than good. I vaguely remember seeing something about this app…",[139,147,154],{"value":140,"source":55,"evidence":141},"Windows version",[142,146],{"id":143,"by":144,"text":145},"3946717","brianlash","This is just brilliant. Please create a Windows equivalent and make my whole year.",{"id":108,"by":109,"text":110},{"value":148,"source":55,"evidence":149},"Support for Snow Leopard or older macOS",[150],{"id":151,"by":152,"text":153},"3947080","runn1ng","Hello, a quick question... my Mac cannot be upgraded to Lion. Is there a slight possibility of making it work for Snow Leopard? And if not - I would like to know - just for…",{"value":155,"source":55,"evidence":156},"Quick look preview and keyboard shortcut activation",[157,161],{"id":158,"by":159,"text":160},"3947845","rebo","Dude nice app, but can you add a quickview button\u002Fquickview spacebar binding, so that I can check the whats in my dragondrop. Also, maybe bloat but can u add plug-in system so we…",{"id":162,"by":163,"text":164},"3946790","why-el","This is an excellent app, but I suppose it works best with a mouse. 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Any reason why I should migrate to Dragondrop\u002Fdoes DND do some things better?",{"id":184,"by":185,"text":186},"3946895","dazbradbury","I'm confused, is this just an alternative to copy & paste? Or even cut\u002Fpaste? The demo for example talks about putting a picture in an email. I would currently right click ->…",[188,192,199,206],{"value":189,"source":55,"evidence":190},"Yoink",[191],{"id":180,"by":181,"text":182},{"value":193,"source":55,"evidence":194},"Path Finder Drop Stack",[195],{"id":196,"by":197,"text":198},"3946691","mikebracco","This is a cool app. The functionality is not as extensive as this but Path Finder for Mac (Finder replacement) has a featured called \"Drop Stack\" which essentially allows you to…",{"value":200,"source":55,"evidence":201},"Pickdrop",[202],{"id":203,"by":204,"text":205},"3946934","dools","Wow this is awesome. I created this thing[1] a little while back that's just an Automator service (hence can't be sold in the mac app store according to their install guidelines)…",{"value":207,"source":55,"evidence":208},"Ditto clipboard manager",[209],{"id":184,"by":185,"text":186},{"comments":211,"answered":212,"key":213},29,11,[214,217,220],{"id":215,"text":216},"3946751","Thank you. Believe me, that video was the hardest part: a bad screencast is a terrible thing, but they're damn hard to do well. I think I spent about 4 hours on that sixty second…",{"id":218,"text":219},"3946824","Yeah, that's me — and a very high-end microphone that I managed to borrow from someone. ;) The mic made all the difference.",{"id":221,"text":222},"3946905","Hrm -- oddly enough, I can picture that working really well. 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