PLEASE NOTE: BumpTop has been acquired by Google, and is no longer available for download. The developers have also stated that it will no longer be updated.

If you're tired of your Windows desktop and changing the wallpaper doesn't work anymore, try going for the third dimension!

BumpTop is an alternative three-dimensional desktop that lets you manage icons and files in a totally 3D environment that also follows basic physics rules. In this sense, files behave like real-life objects, which you can throw against windows, hang from walls and pile up in stacks according to different criteria.

BumpTop's appearance is simply spectacular. The 3D design is like nothing you've seen so far in desktop management. Managing files and folders like objects is fun. What's more, you can decorate the desktop with post-it notes, photos and also different themes.

That said, the truth is that BumpTop is more beautiful than practical. Despite having some nice usability tricks, like being able to print a document just by dragging and dropping it on the printer's icon, I don't think a 3D environment is the most useful way to manage your desktop – not to mention the app's high system requirements.

Note that BumpTop was bought by Google on May 2010, and is no longer available for download.

If you like original desktop environments and don’t care that much about usability, BumpTop is pretty much the best you can get.