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The Ten Most Beautiful OS X Apps
Phillip Ryu writes "As someone in the Macintosh shareware business, as part of my job, I make the daily crawl through MacUpdate to look for the latest and greatest in Mac software. One thing I've been noticing recently is a renaissance of extremely polished and beautiful Mac apps, so I thought I'd share some of these finds with you guys. Without further ado, presenting the top ten most beautiful OS X apps. Hopefully you'll find some new gems in there, even I found a few surprises while compiling this list. Enjoy!"
Very recently, we ported over our PHP-GTK product to Mac OSX 10.3/10.4. It took about a man-month to get all the libraries, dependencies, installer, icons, updates, permissions, etc. figured out, which honestly was 2-3 times longer than we thought it would take.
But, the end result is much, much better than expected! Our application looks, acts, and feels like any other Mac OSX application! Our customers are RAVING about it! The window dressing, the slick maximize/minimize, integration with the OS environment, etc. The launcher is a shell script, and so dependencies (such as the requirement for the installation of X11 and the Xcode apps) can be resolved in the shell script, and the failures displayed in Safari, so it even fails gracefully when the deps aren't met.
Wow! It's just incredible!
I have no problem with your religion until you decide it's reason to deprive others of the truth.
Every time I try to mention the nice eye candy in OS X, I always get slapped with "The best application in OS X is something called bash." Morons. I know that. But bash doesn't look pretty... well, not in a "Oooooh, look at the pretty colors" sort of way. It's beautiful in that it's simple, usable, stable, and ... cryptic.
I don't want a command-line desktop. I want command-line servers. Desktop pretty. Server ugly. Pretty server UI useless. (Ugg!)
So, before you Linux zealots start coming out of the woodwork... let me remind you about us Mac zealots. There may be a helluva lot less of us, but we're a *WHOLE* lot more crazy!!!
(All in jest - Happy Independance Day, to all of you in the world's favorite consumer-culture.... I'm going home!)
"Adventure? Excitement? A Jedi craves not these things."
I just switched my Powerbook to Ubuntu. So, now I get the added advantage of no composite video out and other 'goodies'. I'm tempted to switch back, but I really don't like Aqua (apart from the look).
Max.