
The macosxhints Rating:
[Score: 8 out of 10]
- Developer: Blacktree, Inc./ Product page
- Price: Free
In Visor's preferences, you control the transition (how quickly it slides and fades, or whether it does so at all), as well as whether or not the menu bar icon is visible or not. One of the more visually interesting, though not necessarily useful, features is also hiding here: the ability to set any Quartz Composer animation as a live Visor background:
That's Visor, greatly shrunken down, running with the Particle System Quartz Composer animation (from the Developer Tools) as the background. Definitely not something I'd probably use every day, but it'd sure look neat in demos!
Visor isn't perfect -- you'll find a list of some known issues (along with some workarounds) on the website. But having a drop-use-hide Terminal available at the touch of a hotkey is quite useful, and you can't beat the price.

