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Leopard Fake Screenshot Contest Winners Announced
Austin Sarner writes "Phill Ryu's Fake Leopard Screenshot contest which has been attracting a quite a bit of buzz has just ended and the winners have been announced! While there is a bunch of expected stuff in these screenshots, the entrants did not hold back when it came to trying out crazy stuff — and surprisingly, a good amount of them work great. Ranging from new window styles to a complete rethink of a window based work environment, these are sure to make any UI geek excited. The winners received over $1,000 each in prizes, and were obviously motivated to put out some great stuff. The judges included Wil Shipley, the creator of Delicious Library, David Watanabe, who makes NewsFire and Acquisition, as well as numerous other smaller devs."
I don't know about you, but I'm saving my pennies and nickels for the real deal...
Nothing to see here, move along?
That's sure the way Apple wants it until WWDC!
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I guess that's hosted on the winner of the fake server contest ...
Good, I stayed away from the contest. Otherwise, he would have easily guessed, that I like Canadian women.
hilarious
Coral Cache Link
In related news, /. has announced fake mirror contest. Goatse links are disqualified however.
The site is currently hosed, but it isn't the only fake leopard site out there.
I would have loved to upload a vanilla, out of the box, XP desktop.
Where's the 0xBEEF
I've seen a lot of these ideas before. I remember them from all the Gnome3 and KDE4 mockups floating around. These fake shots do look nice though.
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So who came first? KDE4/Gnome3 or these guys?
I see some pretty good ideas there. After Leopard is released, Vista will announce new features for Aero Glass that are either from Leopard or from these ideas. (Did you really think they would ship before WWDC?)
:O
I don't care for fancy visual upgrades, I want two serious propblems fixed in OSX.5. First, I want Apple to have folders merge their contents when files or folders of the same name are encountered. Currently there is no easy way to syncoronize the contents of folders with the same name.
Second, Apple needs to fix their craptastic font handling lack of capabilities. In this day in age it is completely unreasonable to allow fonts to run wild and take entire systems down. Fontbook is a joke and I now see why Extensis wasn't afraid of Apple getting into the font management software business.
These two fixes would go a long way to making OSX a lot more usable for me.
OK. Thanks for such a great summary, Neal! Super!
who thinks that finder looks completely unusable? IANAIDBT (I am not an interface designer by trade), but this really puts the the stupid in Keep It Simple, Stupid. You have to remember that Apple especially would probably like to keep their file browser grandma friendly. I'm sure I could find ways to put something like this to good use eventually, but my first impression was "holy fuck, thats cluttered".
"You know why you do not see me styling wit my homies? Because I have no homies!!" -Mojo Jojo
Otherwise, he would have easily guessed, that I like Canadian women.
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Would it be from the massive amounts of Avril Lavigne visible in your itunes library
... with the animated smoke pouring from the phillryu server mounted on the desktop.
Oh, that's *real*?
Oops.
"Win treats sysadmins better than users. Mac treats users better than sysadmins. Linux treats everyone like sysadmins."
Too bad Aquisition is a GPL-violating abomination.
Take off every sig. For great justice.
(That's our display department.)
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If you think big enough, you'll never have to do it.
Now how will MS programmers figure out what to put into Vista?
That only has the first place winner... if you want to see the story as well as the other winners and runners up....
Main Page: Coral cache | Google cache
First Place: Coral cache | Google cache
Second Place: Coral cache | Google cache
Third Place: Coral cache | Google cache
Runner Up: Coral cache | Google cache
Runner Up: Coral cache | Google cache
Runner Up: Coral cache | Google cache
His name was Phillryu
His name was Phillryu
His name was Phillryu...
(Was able to sneak a peek, thanks, phillryu. you must admit that this is a better quote than the one where i whip out a pair of scissors to cut your you-knows-what in case you had any questions...=)You *are* familiar with the movie, aren't you?
I've seen it but I have no idea what you're talking about. :P
For mine (the first place winner), I was trying to show off a lot of different feature ideas, so yeah, my Finder ended up being a bit cluttered. We were limited to five screenshots, so once I factored in the Mail and Safari shots, plus Peek getting its own, I just decided to go all out with one main Finder shot. Obviously, in real-world usage, it wouldn't be so cluttered, and everything would have options for turning said features on or off.
I'm sure it would have been good...
There should be a policy amendment to slashdot story submition guidelines.
Rule#1 Make sure the site is running on something better than a 56k dial up modem.
God Be Gone
I think you mean "well-known GPL abuser David Watanabe, who makes NewsFire and Acquisition"
Oh no, you didn't. I bet you had images on screen or in mind, and something else entirely in hand....!
"Good news, everyone!"
The problem with young people today is they utterly lack imagination.
Having x11 support 2 mouse pointers at once, one per each hand, would seem such a basic thing. I like having multiple windows, multiple desktops, multiple tasks going on, why do I bloody have to click on one at a time. And how about adding tactile feedback to Finder? I want larger files to feel heavier, I want music files to feel sticky...
Or how about a multidimentional, 3-D or 4-D dock, with focus following your eye direction. After all, MacBooks do have builtin webcams, right? I want to look at the app icon on the dock, blink on it, and get it up!
And why are we locked into using letters to represent ideas, names, and concepts? Why does a picture file have to be named "blue-duck.jpg", I want to make a 3-D blue bird image to be it's 'name', not a string of ASCII crap. And why can't we search pictures and music files like we should be able to? 'Victoria, high quality, find all the music files with voice of Jerry Springer saying 'hello', find all the pictures containing a girl with red hair?' not so bloody hard now, is it?
As a great visionary once said, the Internet is not a truck, it's a collection of pipes. So darnit, for my surfing I want to see some pipes, how they connect, and where they lead to, and what they contain. I don't want to read about Lebanon, I want my Mac to be smart enough to convert text not even into a sound, but into a 3-D VR scene re-enactment of the news!
Why do windows have to look like flat pieces of paper? Why does your computer have to show documents like a typewriter? Why does a PowerPoint have to resemble decades-old slide projector presentations? Why not make it resemble a road, you walk along the road and look at the points along the way, you see what will come next (although less clear), you walk at your own pace, or fly up and see the entire thing? Why do I have to be blindfolded and shown one piece at a time, like dumb cattle lead to a slaughterhouse?
Why not store the session on a plugged-in iPod like Sun's thin clients used to be able to do 10 years ago? Unplug it, plug into another Mac 1,000 miles away at an airport, and keep same open apps and docs restored instantly? What, macs are too pussy to do that?
Sorry for the rant, I do not have many years left to my life, I would so much like to experience an OS I can enjoy!
Obama likes poor people so much, he wants to make more of them.
Do you have to change its spots?
... to get rid of the non-intuitive red/yellow/green buttons and replace them with some meaningful icons !
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Finder in Panther and Tiger is already too cluttered. The Metal Finder with he huge space-wasting tabs on the left side is an abomination, and I actually bought PathFinder to try and get away from it... but Pathfinders's even more cluttered.
Give me the Jaguar finder, and stick small, inconspicuous, uncluttered Mozilla/Safari style tabs under the toolbar, and I'll be happy. The "shortcut" capability of the Finder tabs is already taken care of by the ability to drag files into the toolbar, so that's really all that's missing.
I have the same reaction to the "preview tabs" in Safari in another entry. Blah. Put the preview in a tooltip-style popup when you hover over the tab, if you like, or even do a "dock magnify" effect on them... but don't waste my screen space on stuff I'm not actually working with.
... couldn't fit on a web page, except maybe using VRML.
http://scarydevil.com/~peter/io/3dworld.html
I'm guessing that this functionality is provided in either Windows or Linux. I honestly wonder how it works (little experience with Windows and less w/ Linux).
One possible solution is selecting all the files in a directory (CMD-A is the keyboard shortcut) and moving them into a second directory. In the Finder, you will be told/asked
An item named "SOMETHING" already exists in this location. Do you want to replace it with the one you are moving?
You can choose "Don't Replace", "Stop", or "Replace", with the option to "Apply to all". Choosing "Replace" with "Apply to all" will overwrite the old files, add unique files, and leave files not present in the source folder (but present in the destination folder) untouched. "Don't Replace" with "Apply to all" will only add unique files from the source folder. If you hold down the CMD key during this operation the contents will be merged, leaving behind an empty source folder. If you just drag, you will have a copy of the old source folder.
This is may not be as simple as the implementation you're thinking of, but maybe it will work for you.
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I fired Shapeshifter (theme util) http://www.unsanity.com/ , got more than perfect windows XP theme by Max Rudenberg http://www.maxthemes.com/themes/?theme=Mac%20OS%20 XP (free) and fake leopard about box http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/ 30318 (free)
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That was a perfect plan including opening a archive.org page with Apple advertising G4 as some supercomputer. (They now say Mactel is 4x faster)
Here is the result which I am not very proud of:
http://img231.imageshack.us/my.php?image=faketest
I am not a graphics artist of course and my toolset is limited. That is not an excuse. You know why I gave up and didn't work on menu extras and add the trollish (4x faster) to about box? I could NOT STAND TO XP! Yes, I was surprised that as a guy who used PC until 2003, I get psychologically effected by a theme!
If Apple has more consumers like me, they can switch to anything, any CPU and still win. Note I am one of rare people out there which never had virus infection,worm infection, spyware infection in my life.
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They need to change the font caching architecture seriously. I got iDefrag, a advanced disk defrag here (video guy here,I deal with huge files) with online defrag capabilities and it can show which file has fragments while disk online (in use)
Annex.aux right now have 10 fragments (3.52 mb file) Of course it is a cache and bound to be fragmented but if I see only horrible fragmentation exist on that file only, I suspect something is done wrong by OS X. I think file is also so highly active that core system can't even try to hot defrag it.
It is one of font caches. This is a very "stock" system and never used in DTP. I can't imagine DTP people's font caches right now.
I don't like the idea of clearing caches weekly etc while having licensed utilities here which are capable of doing it. I notice on www sites and usenet that people suggest cleaning their caches to eachother having problems. While I am about to hit "reply" and explain why clearing cache wouldn't mean anything, I notice the OP posts reply saying "it fixed my problem, thanks"
If you think about half of the market of OS X consists of DTP professionals it is almost tragi-comic that OS X having problem with Font Caches which can even crash entire system.
The professional font company Linotype has coded some iTMS like font utility (freeware), one of the main options of program is to clear font caches. http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx
You can imagine the reports they get from their customers if they added such option.
Personally, I prefer a slightly richer user experience.
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it
I'm sold.
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it
Disclaimer: I'm not an Apple user - haven't really used OSX much except for at the Apple store.
I'm a 2000 man.
His latest creation, Inquisitor, simply steals Google's Suggest Javascript and wraps in a pretty package (and nowhere does he credit Google for powering his app). Calling him a Developer is a bit of a stretch, he's really just a glorified UI designer with a talent for copy and paste.
What you are describing, what the Finder does already, and what cp -r does, is copying not merging. Merging is when the most recent version of each file is kept regardless of whether the more recent version is in the source directory or the destination directory.
Now when I DO have trouble is when this gets switched into a vertical visual like the zoomed version of the iTunes equilizer - I can never remember which does which and from memory it doesn't even show you the icon when you put your mouse over...
Consider this: Mac OS X stores many things (including applications) as packages. For example, Skype.app looks like an application in the Finder, but it's actually a directory containing several files in a number of subdirectories.
/Applications folder. The Finder asks if I want to replace the old Skype.app. Replacing it completely is the correct behavior. I do not want any remnants of the old one to be left around inside the .app package.
When I download a new Skype.app from the Net to replace my existing Skype.app, I drag the new one into the
Heh. Where would geek masturbation be without "the speed and power of Intel processors"?
Why hasn't something like this been done for an interface which users can actually change (Gnome, KDE)? Not just a screenshot, but an actual new feature?
Don't thank God, thank a doctor!
You (and I) get the idea.