That's right, a new version of Wheelie Lite is out and it lets you:

• Control which screen edges cause Wheelie to pop up
  
• Take a full-screen snapshot and open it in a viewer window with Ctrl-S
  
• Paste images from the clipboard into viewer windows with a Ctrl-V
• Load most images directly into viewer windows without needing browser windows

Also,
 

• Better usability with Vista Sidebar

Keeping Wheelie from popping up over a screen edge is done like this:

1. Move the mouse to the edge of the screen you want to disable and bring up Wheelie
2. Drag the translucent ball away from the screen edge and toward the center of the screen
3. Move the mouse to the edge of the translucent ball and drag it back to the same edge of the screen and then release the mouse button
   

That's it.  Now Wheelie will avoid that screen edge unless you keep the mouse touching that edge for more than a few seconds.  To restore the default behavior, hold the mouse against the disabled edge until Wheelie pops up and drag the translucent ball slightly away from that edge.  Wheelie will now pop up whenever you touch that side of the screen. 

Right now there is no way to save this setting for the next time your system starts, we are still working on that.

The time has come to formally announce Wheelie Lite.  For free.

There is a new version of the Wheelie Beta that fixes the following problems:

• Now works with high-resolution gaming mice
• Much better stability with a few problematic screen savers
• Runs on Windows XP, Vista and 7
• Better detection of Windows Sidebar, Google Desktop and RocketDock

This is probably the final beta release so if you would like a new feature added to Wheelie then please leave a comment or join the forums or email us at features@lectromagnetic.com.

Wheelie will open an image viewer when you drag a picture from a web browser:

Find an image in a browser window.

Click and drag the image to the edge of the screen until Wheelie pops up and then release the mouse button.

Wheelie will download the image and open it in a window on the desktop.

Zoom the thumbnail by clicking the mouse wheel to explore fine detail.

Move the mouse over the desktop to release Wheelie.

Drag the image viewer to move it on the desktop or press Alt-F4 to close it.

For those of you who would like to record your own full screen videos like the ones found in Stunts we've written a tutorial on that shows you how to record anything you see on the desktop.

Windows Media Recorder seems to make the best desktop videos on mainstream machines and we provide links and the full, step by step configuration process for making movies that can then be shared on YouTube or other video sharing sites.

How to record screen movies with Windows Media Encoder

If you do upload a video where Wheelie plays a part, please send us a link at stunts@lectromagnetic.com or post the embedded video in the Stunts Forum so we can all see.

Don't get us wrong, no one hates Microsoft more than us, but we love Vista.

We don't know what everyone is talking about when they criticize it. Vista is by far the most secure operating system Microsoft has ever shipped and the only downsides are it requires more RAM and it costs more. Big deal.

If you want more for less use a free os. Good luck with that. Have fun "learning" the drivers.

I'm personally horrified when websites publicize how to shut off UAC prompts. That's like auto mechanics showing how easy it is to disconnect your brakes if they start to squeak.

There are criminal botnets with millions of XP machines right now and shutting off UAC gives Vista the same prime vulnerability of XP which is never knowing when a malicious program is changing the configuration of your machine without your knowledge or consent.

Plus Vista enables innovative programs like Wheelie.

We had our first foreign language review at Windows Forest. Thanks Nozomi Kubo!

(Please correct me if I got the names wrong, the Google English translation seems to leave out the page title.)

They have a great screen shot, too.

It sounds like they suggest using the Task Manager to terminate Wheelie. You may also press Alt-F4 any time you see Wheelie on the screen for an immediate shutdown.

(By the way Alt-F4 is useful for shutting down other programs too, not just Wheelie.)

Thanks for stopping by Windows Forest friends!

And now for a bad translation:

私たちはWindowsの森では初の外国語のレビューをしていた

おかげでのぞみ久保！

もし私の名前を取り違えてください、私が正しいと、 Google英語の翻訳は、ページのタイトルを残すように思える。

彼らは、あまりにも大きなスクリーンショットをしている。

キャスター付きのように彼らを終了するには、タスクマネージャを使用してくださいね。また、 5月のAlt - F4を押す場合は、画面上にいつでもすぐにシャットダウンさせるためウィーリーを参照してください。

のAlt - F4を別の方法も、キャスター付きだけでなく、他のプログラムをシャットダウンする場合に便利です。

Windowsの森林友だちが停止していただき、ありがとうございます！

Wheelie will let you zoom the thumbnail of a browser window until it fills the screen, allowing you to watch any web video content full screen, even in the absence of a full screen button.



The video shows me moving the other thumbnails out of the way but that isn't really necessary. If you haven't touched a thumbnail it will fade away, leaving the zoomed thumbnail alone on the screen.

Many of you have commented on the interblogs about Wheelie needing a hot key, so we looked deep inside ourselves and asked whether we really wanted to promote greater keyboard usage and we came up with an answer.

No.

But we did add a hot-key. With the new version of Wheelie if you hold down the Windows key and press an arrow key, Wheelie may pop up, if you are lucky, which you might be. Press an arrow key again and windows should spin. Please try it out. We hope it works for you.

One side effect of this is that holding down the WinKey will keep Wheelie up even if you move the mouse away from the edge of the screen which comes in handy for clicking over search results and dragging thumbnails around. Actually I'm officially addicted to the WinKey and wish I had thought of it myself.

Also, Wheelie is beginning to be compatible with RocketDock and the Google Desktop Search Sidebar Experience, so if you have one of them installed, Wheelie should keep itself from rolling over the top of them. This is still experimental so if you see unwanted behavior, please leave a comment or email us.

The new Wheelie beta can be found here.

All right then, back to work.

Lifehacker posted a link to Wheelie here. They're the first blog to mention us and the comments showed a number of ways Wheelie could improve so we're hard at work on a new beta version.

We're glad that people are getting the chance to play with Wheelie and hope that the search features will get more exposure as we get closer to a final release.

Thanks Lifehacker!