Afloat Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Afloat 2.0 returns window floating to Leopard

by Mat Lu (Apr 30th, 2008)

Afloat from Infinite Labs was one of my favorite SIMBL plugins, until it was broken by Leopard. It adds some clever features to windows in Cocoa applications, including a mode where the window remains always visible, "floating" above all other windows, an overlay mode where the window floats but ...

Afloat - window floating and transparency at the stroke of a key

by David Chartier (Aug 5th, 2006)

Afloat is a killer System Preferences utility that adds a 'float on top' option and customizable transparency settings to virtually any Cocoa app in Mac OS X. Once installed (and you restart any Cocoa apps that were running), new keyboard shortcuts and a couple of options under the Window menu will ...