Konfabulator Coming to Windows

islandroots writes "Arlo Rose, developer of the popular Konfabulator widget, is moving his application from Mac OS X to Windows. Back when Apple unveiled their next OS, Mac OS X Tiger with Dashboard, Arlo Rose accused Apple of copying his application. 'We're all diehard Macintosh developers here, but we recognize that Windows is the dominant platform,' Rose said in a statement. 'When you have a great idea, you want more than 2 percent of the global market to have access to it.'"

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Old news

[Anonymous Coward]

This is old-ass news. The creator posted this in his journal a few months ago.

BTW, First Post BITCHES!

gah!

[Anonymous Coward]

so close to a first post :'(

I don't think so

[tod_miller]

I hate people claiming ideas were thiers. Unless it is muffin tops, that kind of idea isn't just out there.

As far as I am concerned, these may be similar, but they cam about through different thought processes.

Konfab. was built out of small development processes, make a product, niche market, way-hay $$.

Apples little tools are designed from a desktop usability perspective, trying to re-enforce or evolve the desktop analogy.

Now isn't konfabulator just a COPY *SHOCK-FUKING-HORROR* of those little applets you have in *step?

Or even, the first dockable apps, or minimisable little small tools.

So thier idea is small applications, is that it?

Why not patent them and SUE Apple, that would be as successful as getting our sympathy.

Two^H^H^HThree ideas that were mine

Optical router - uses prisms or other light refraction and lazer light which maps frequency to an ip, and instantly routes fequency light to a physical output (a cable)

I googled and shit, and found something (ONLY ONE!) paper that made sense and seemed to do the same thing, oh, and a patent similar.

Second idea that is mine, but I never really bothered with

[disc: this was before those photo printing kiosks, way way before]

Use *an electircal device* to scan the mylar of a negative film, in total darkness (the user drop it into a slot) this scan can read the elecrto-chemical properties of the negative, and scan it without processing it (like discharging a CCD - albeit a complex chemical emulsion)

Then I worked out exactly what they have today, uincluding all formats etc, and ftp, email outputs, and all kinda of funky one click publishing

This was 4-5 years ago, when digital camera were a bit queer to us all.

Of course, I thought about simply using cdrom and CF media and mcamera media, and bluetooth (when it came out I thought of it) and IR and shittzle like that.

3rd idea of mine

Sell electronic data - not via web, but using IR and bluetooth, and have small kiosks that young-uns can easily access, and using BT or IR, grabs games, naughty pics, music, shizzle like that.

Now, I can't even see *THESE* as patentable, even if noone thought of them.

So, erm, die.

dominant != good

[lanc]

dominant platform, bah. You surely mean cheap workstations, with an OS-for-dummies. Have a look at these ones, these are truly workstations:

Alpha based workstation with OpenVMS or Tru64

Sparc based one with Solaris9

Dual G5 Mac with OSX. say no more.

SGI ws with IRIX

HP (parisc)with HPUX

and last but not least an x86 compatible possibility:

Orion DS-96 Deskside Cluster Workstation. Yes, thats the number of CPUs in it.

FYKI

ps: no, I cannot afford them either. Yes, you could run Linux/BSD on all of them.

Re:Dude--Apple stole our idea!

[metlin]

Heh, I've 1,500 comments posted and hit the cap before 100.

Duh!

Just how retarded can you get?