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My Dream App For the Mac
Steve Streza writes "My Dream App, a Mac contest in search of the next killer app, features Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, Apple evangelist Guy Kawasaki, and Xbox and zune creator J. Allard as guest judges for its final round. Visitors can vote for their 3 favorite app ideas, and receive free licenses to both Overflow 2 and the Apple Design Award winning PhotoPresenter. Voting is open until Tuesday at 8:00 PM EDT, at which point the three winners will be announced. The winners, who will have emerged from an initial pool of more than 2,700 entrants, will see their app idea realized as a Mac shareware application and earn royalties on sales. "
Sheesh, you call those choices? Give the people what they really want!
The revolution will NOT be televised.
exchange a trillion dollar software idea for a legal copy of those other trillion dollar apps? Do I at least get a bumper sticker?
It's not even in beta yet, but the video looks *very* cool.
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Sounds like a great way to get some free ideas for applications. A lot of companies have been doing this lately. Nothing like giving away your intellectual property for free!
-Arthur
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Welcome to the life of people who own computers with just 2 percent marketshare - you have to beg or bribe people to support your platform.
Healthy platforms don't need these stunts. At least Apple has the iPod stuff still. For now.
Im willing to offer up licensed copies of Linux. IF you can provide me with the next killer app.
A shareware nag-screen remover?
haha a PIM is your dream app?! well It beats spamming for slurpies I guess.
It seems to me that more and more companies are running dry in the innovation department. I think its a combination of a few things. 1) Companies aren't listening to what consumers want. 2) Their creative talent is aging and young blood is harder to keep. 3) They're skimping on R&D money. Much lack of innovation might clear up by solving one of the three problems. I find it pretty pathetic that a company has to say to its customers, "We got nothin'. If you help us we'll give you royalties." However, at the same time. It would be fun to participate and at least there is a real payoff for the participants who win, so it isn't all bad.
One day the toilets of the world will rise up... And I'm going to nuke them.
Here's his review of the virtual plant idea from the article-
-Steve Wozniak (Apple) - Finals:
-This would only be remotely entertaining if the plant was marijuana or opium and when you did -certain things like actually work, you killed your crop. Maybe you could make virtual cash and -compete online for the best cash crop. In order to grow the weed and heroin you have to browse -certain web sites that would require you be smoking weed to start with; like the Microsoft.com -Vista developer site.
I know he's never been the CEO type, but for the inventor of the MAC and a former teacher, I thought this was a bit crass. I wouldn't want to publish an app with someone who thought this was an appropriate public pronouncement. He sounds like a Slashdot troll.
"Don't you know you're going to shock the monkey?"- Peter Gabriel
Maybe if they have a contest for a 'killer app', one of the choices should actually BE a 'killer app'.
The only ones that come close to useful is file sync and the music maker. And they're far from 'killer app' status. Nobody is going to convert from PC to Mac because it has some sync software or music, especially when other software already exists for that platform and others.
The others are all in the 'ooh eyecandy' category.
"If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; But if you really make them think, they'll hate you." - DM
"will see their app idea realized as a Mac shareware application and earn royalties on sales."
I didn't even have to RTFA to spot that.
They're getting more than a free T-Shirt, they're getting published. This is basically just making executive decisions through publicized contests instead of closed-door boardroom sessions.
...then this might be a pretty good idea. For every NicoMac Computing (creators of WinZip) there are a dozen Cott Langs (Renegade BBS), Front Doors, and other shareware creators that never saw real money despite the widespread use of their shareware. Yes, Apple is making money on these people, but these people are making money from an opportunity that they very well might not otherwise have.
Do not look into laser with remaining eye.
How about a terminal app that doesn't suck? Yes, I've tried iTerm.
We kill the data base. :)
It would automatically detect the iPod and delete any infected files... ...hmm, I don't think I've thought this one through.
its Indian spam. , shamelss self promotion and link drop. they loged twice and the sig of the other commenter is a MSN targeted blogspot spam network... http://hematology-immunology.blogspot/ .com/
"I hate to point out the obvious, but if you have a trillion dollar idea, why aren't you working on it right now? And if you're just sitting on such an idea because you're lazy, risk averse, or not a good enough programmer, you may as well give it to Steve Jobs. It's doing no good rattling around in your head." thats what bungee cord is for. That line of thought is beside the point :) don't you think they should have ... you know real incentives rather than some cheasy licenses. maybe .. you know I hear people like money?
No doubt Apple's new cell phone offering will include vibrate mode.
Where were you when the voynix came?
...automatically spits out a post to my vaingloriously entitled blog every time I do something Windows-related on my Apple computer. Oh snap! Oh no he dih-int! ;-)
"its Indian spam"
The curry-sauce makes it a lot easier to choke down.
Where were you when the voynix came?
The Finder needs some work; specifically, the inability to refresh and find a file that I *KNOW* makes me want to chuck it out a window.
There are other problems too, it seems to hang sometimes, and it's very difficult to figure out the key combo that lets me empty the trash of files that are orphan-locked.
Also, the finder can get into a state where the highlighted shortcut in the left panel doesn't correspond to the directory being displayed in the right panel. This should never happen.
But gimme a goddamned refresh button before you do anything else.
"The revolution will NOT be televised."
If it is on youtube, does that count as being televised?
Where were you when the voynix came?
"...and other shareware creators that never saw real money despite the widespread use of their shareware"
You know, some times if you do nothing but give stuff away, you never know, your cash flow might $0 incoming!
Where were you when the voynix came?
Ask a local university to develop a product for you as a team senior design project. You can reserve the rights to the final product and everything. I know: 4 other seniors and I are developing a product for a nearby company absolutely free, and it ticks us right off.
I wonder if a mac mini-run battlebot would count?
"...use all the killer apps Windows users have..."
Anti-virus and Disk Doctor?
1: This is basically a market research exercise.
2: Ideas aren't worth shit unless you actually do something with them.
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Not that making good software is really the intent here. It seems to me that at least half the push in Apple's case is a public relations scheme to form that feeling of community and sharing and hugs which their ad department has determined is the most effective approach to long term profits. This month, anyway. If it were believed that long term profits could be achieved by drinking the blood of dead babies, you can bet somebody would push to implement that idea as well.
On the other hand, if you are part of the Open Source community and genuinely want to help cool ideas take flight, then you are on the right track and should be supported. Luckily, that's how things seem to be evolving already. For those who seek, anyway.
-FL
I can see the voiceover now:
This is the search for the next killer app...
16 contestants. The best of them will get to show a collection of apps at MacWorld Expo, and the winner will receive $100,000 to start their own line of software and a new VW Rabbit with iPod connectivity.
Steve Jobs, Guy Kawasaki, and Steve Wozniak will judge the contestants' performance each week in a series of challenges. Each week, there will be one winner and one loser (who gets to go home), because in the world of software design, you're either in, or you're out.
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I think you're confusing shareware with freeware.
Shareware means there is a demo version that you're encouraged to share, but there is also a full version that you have to pay for.
Freeware is just that: free (as in beer).
I voted for Whistler.
Of all the finalists, this one seems to be the most innovative -- if it lives up to its promise, it would be phenomenal as a songwriting tool. Hum a melody and beatbox your drums and voila! an instant demo of your musical idea.
Not that a virtual plant or the weather on your desktop isn't cool, too. I mean who has time to put a real plant near their desk, or to get up from their chair to see what the weather is outside?
You mean like this?
Currently only a couple of entries' descriptions even come up; the others get MySQL "too many connections" errors. Guess which ones are going to get the most votes?
If you put up a voting site and want it to be fair, make sure your services can handle the load!
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man i love my ipod, now if they only made a mac version of itunes, i'd switch to mac. Its really the only thing keeping me. the hardware support on mac is almost as bad as linux.
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wow those are some really killer app ideas they have there. I guess they all ride the short bus to work
Why did the topic mention slave labour, but the body of the message never even touched on it?
Where were you when the voynix came?
I'm seriously considering a Mac as my next computer, partially because of GarageBand. There's nothing for Windows that comes close for the same price. It's hardly the only reason I'm interested, but it's certainly one of them. Every little thing pushes me closer to that tipping point where I would finally decide to go for a Mac.
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Nah, that's pretty weak. Read John Dvorak's columns to learn to troll Mac users successfully.
"Be nice, veer left, and never stop thinking" Iain Banks - Walking On Glass
Put the weather on your desktop.A virtual window to the outdoors for your desktop. View a virtual representation of your area's weather when too busy to go outside.
Too bust to go outside? WTF? Look out the window you lazy sow! NOT a killer app - more of a stupid idea, along the lines of Segway
Blossom
A virtual plant that responds to productivity, not sunlight and water. Had a good session in Excel? Your plant will thrive. Play too much Warcraft? Expect some withering.
Suck great steaming tourdes out of the boss's ass? Instant rainforest. Write 3000 lines of code? A garden of flowers? But what if all the code is crap? Does Blossom do QA? A REALLY bad idea, and impossible to properly implement. Blossom is fascism with a happy face - "here come the suede denim secret police! ... California! Uber Alles!"
Whistler
Music creation has never been this easy or fun. Ever had the urge to create a song until you realized it was harder than it was worth? With Whistler, just whistle, hum, or tap out your creation into music app importable form.
Now THIS is a cool thing - a REAL application that empowers people to do something they never could before. Albeit, if you're a tone deaf couch potato with no sense of rhythm, you will have a somewhat tougher time. But basically, this idea has actual use value compared to the previous ideas.
Cookbook
The ultimate cookbook application, with online grocery shopping, thousands of recipes, Leopard voiceover technology integration, shopping list sharing, and more.
This is a sort-of-cool idea. I don't think it has quite the scope and brilliant of Whistler, but this is something I could actually almost use... IF I were stupid enough to put a computer in the kitchen... DOH!
Portal
File syncing from the future. Sync folders and documents between Macs effortlessly and watch transfer progress through a cool, highly visual wormhole user interface.
If I needed to sync a bunch of macs together, I guess this would be useful. However, most Mac owners I know have ONE (perhaps 2) macs. Heck - I have two. But I also have three or four PCs floating around chez Spoilsport. If it could co-ordinate them too, then I'd be impressed... as it is, this comes under "A Really Good Idea" but not "Killer App".
so, I would rank them as follows:
1. Whistler - good stuff! A - A-
2. Portal - not bad - useful! B+
3. Cookbook - Pretty good, as soon as I get the olive oil cleaned out of my powerbook. B-
4. Atmosphere - stupid idea with marginal use for quadraplegics who wonder what they're missing. C
5. Blossom - an actively Bad Idea. F
RS
Shoes for Industry. Shoes for the Dead.
Surely his dream Mac app would be something that nukes the hard drive...
"Be nice, veer left, and never stop thinking" Iain Banks - Walking On Glass
I love how it's all guys, except for one girl on the main list.
and that one girls's idea?
Virtual Closet. Grats.
Which is to say, they'll get royalties on one copy sold, and several million pirated.
Most of the boring stuff we do these days is categorising or filing information. We're basically spending much of our time providing information about information, that's where the next killer application is going to be.
Automatically transforming information from one form to another and categorising it with some sort of tagging file system. It would be handy to have various types of fuzzy classifiers to automate it all.
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Thanks for setting the record straight. I had thought he invented the Internet too.
Where were you when the voynix came?
The winners, who will have emerged from an initial pool of more than 2,700 entrants, will see their app idea realized as a Mac shareware application and earn royalties on sales. "
Why do I suspect that Apple will calculate those royalties using the same generous provisions favored by the music industry giants that are their partners in iTunes?
Why, the lucky contest winner could wind up owing Apple only a few tens of thousands of dollars!
Three Squirrels
Funny you should say that. Between the plant and the weather application, I was pretty nonplussed. They had that whole "It's been done" vibe. In fact, a very clever associate of mine already has a webcam aimed at the heavens, and has his PC set to display the image as his desktop background. There goes most of that program's functionality right there.
I voted for whistler, too, but the topmost poster on that whistler thread was right: so far there's a lot of hype and promise in the mockups, but no actual software just yet. I guess we'll see.
I want to see..
Duke Nukem Forever!
hahaha.. write that jobs!
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Dear God, not like that. I have a 1024x768 display and I don't want to devote all of it to a file browser. The last time I used an environment like that it was called DOSSHELL.EXE.
I just want to hit CMD+R and see a Finder window refresh. Windows has supported a "refresh" shortcut in Windows Explorer (F5) for many years. I don't expect to install a gigantic piece of $35 shareware to get such a simple feature, but that seems to be the norm on Mac OS X these days.
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The total MythTV suite (back+front) or a FrontRow with PVR features. Windows MCE is just kicking Mac ass on this one. I wish Apple would hurry up... and please don't talk to me about EyeTV.
I seriously wish someone would do something like this for linux.. or offer some "idea bank."
/etc.
I know plenty of programmers who are looking for decent ideas who just , through the harshness of their day jobs, don't have much time or desire to go home and repeat the process of spec design
Oh yes, it's right here: http://malfy.org/
Mac shareware application and earn royalties on sales.
And firsthand knowledge of what it's like for someone to make a keygen for your app, and spread it around too so people can have it for free and not pay. Congrats!
Is this a joke? These are the finalists? The music software and the file sync belong there (maybe), but the rest?
Atmosphere: I can look out the window and see the weather. Or, better yet I can GO OUTSIDE and experience it first hand. Why would I want it simulated on my desktop? And in case the author of this app didn't already know, dashboard comes with a weather app. Not to mention that you can read the paper, turn on the tv or radio, or go online and get the weather forcast.
Cookbook: Link didn't work so I can't comment on the specifics of the app but I can say there are about 1000 other recipe/cookbook applications out there for multiple platforms.
Blossom: A virtual plant? Dude are you 3 years old?
Hijack: Oh boy! Another app for reading and posting to forums!
dude! this is not open source :) this is a one way information exchange, theres no community process and nothing is free as in beer or libera? and ... well ... theres no source code available ever? So yeah actualy its just like redhat...
I've come to the conclusion that the next killer app doesn't really exist. Or that it does but it isn't imaginable with the current level of technology. A killer app by definition has to be of high value to a large number of users and past examples include DTP programs, spreadsheets, and perhaps 3D F.P.S. games. All of those things opened doors to new ways of doing tasks (or playing games) that were seen as being revolutionary - and they were. The last application I knew that felt like a killer app was SoundJam for the Mac which quickly was bought by Apple and morphed into iTunes. Everybody I knew was using it and it spread like wildfire. According to Cassidy and Greene it was one of the most heavily pirated apps ever (perhaps only MS Office and Photoshop were more pirated) - and that's a useful way to gauge 'killerness'.
Now, I think, most major bases are covered so that future successful apps will naturally live in smaller niches and are therefore less 'killer' by definition. An example of that would be iMovie - damn useful if you want to do easy editing of video but not enough people actually can be bothered or want to do that. Hence not quite a killer app. The same logic applies to everything imaginable on current hardware and so I don't think we'll see a killer app anytime soon. In the future I can see that a talking/listening program/system would be a killer app - something like an automated digital assistant with true intelligence - but we may need machines 100-1000x faster to achieve this or an entirely new way of designing logic chips away from current Boolean techniques. I studied AI and remain sceptical we will see this anytime within the next 20 years.
spoonerize "magic trackpad"
The winners ... will see their app idea realized as a Mac shareware application and earn royalties on sales.
The losers will see their app idea realized as a Mac shareware application, minus the whole royalty thing.
There are 0x40000000 types of people: those who understand 32-bit IEEE 754 floating point, and those who don't.
And you're behind the times: I have the next pre-release Linux -1day from the garbage bin of the linux company. It's called Vista dog. They don't even know if someone's built a computer powerful enough to run that sh..
This is what I could really use: a button on the Mail application that marks a message as spam and also reports this back to Apple's mail servers along with a report to SpamCop and perhaps other appropriate parties. Apple would thenuse this information, combined with other reports, to provide further filtering.
Another Mail add-on would be to integrate PGP/GPG in a seamless, easy to use manner so that everyone and their grandma could use it, perhaps by default.
As it's been said, only a couple of the finalists are horribly innovative applications. Do they actually propose to try and publically shame the next guy who comes out with a cookbook app?
(Yes, for the record, I am playing around with an implementation for someline like one of the apps on the list. It's far from the same application they're proposing, but it's similar enough in overall theme that they might try to 'condemn my actions' and claim copycat. I think I've got a decent app in development, but it puts a damper on it knowing that if it gets popular enough I'm going to have these folks screaming 'he stole the idea'.)
My dream app is the DevStack Open Source Portal.
Portal Server - Overview
The Portal Server is at the very heart of DevStack. All actions are permissioned off, ensuring that only authorized personnel can interact with sensitive data.
Major objects have User-, Group- and Role-based permissions that allow for both generalized security as well as granular security.
All actions are recorded and can be exported as data or a chart, showing who did what, and in what order.
Important objects have audit trails, so you can quickly see which properties were changed, when and by whom.
The user interface follows a clear, consistent design which makes it easy to learn. No curious exceptions or odd navigation paths mean you can spend less time learning how to use the system, and more time getting your work done.
Extensible
Designed from the ground up with extensibility in mind, adding new features is very easy.
Need to authenticate against an LDAP server? No problem. Retrieve contracts from a corporate fileshare? Sure. Import product data from a vendor's webservice every Tuesday at 3:13 PM? Done.
Use the Public API, Webservice API or Native API. Use the web-based Data Pipe Server.
Your data defines the system - not the other way around.
Widgetized Accelleration
Lists. Selectors. Pick-lists. Validation. Paging. Sorting. Filters. (oh my!)
You'd rather break your fingers off than write another one. DevStack can help.
A rich library of widgets helps speed development. No more hours slaving away writing paged lists, select boxes or validating forms. Developers get to spend time on more important
Document Server - Overview
The DevStack Document Server is ready to handle millions of documents, images and other media.
Built on the Apache 2 webserver and mod_perl 2, the Document Server uses a tiered file structure and a simple naming algorithm to deliver blazing performance without slowing down - even under heavy load.
Designed from the ground up to be highly scalable, the Document Server can run alone or with others in a load balanced arrangement.
Fully Integrated
Once your files are added to the DevStack Document Server they are accessible to all DevStack components, and anthing that can communicate with the DevStack Public API or the DevStack Client.
No Risk, No Lock-In
Because your files can easily be transferred in and out of the Document Server there is no risk of them getting "stuck" on the server.
File Versioning & Audit Trail
Each time a document is updated, a snapshot of the document and all of its meta-data are stored away safely. Files may be rolled back and forward at will.
Forced SSL Downloads
You have the option to require specific files to be available only via an SSL connection. Even if someone tries to download the link without SSL, the server will force their browser to download via SSL anyway.
Trackable Views
Did you ever wonder if that client had downloaded your proposal? Now you can know right away when they viewed it. This reporting feature may be applied to individual files so you have absolute control over the granularity you need.
Overview The Portal Server is at the very heart of DevStack. All actions are permissioned off, ensuring that only authorized personnel can interact with sensitive data.
Major objects have User-, Group- and Role-based permissions that allow for both generalized security as well as granular security.
All actions are recorded and can be exported as data or a chart, showing who did what, and in what order.
Important objects have audit trails, so you can quickly see which properties were changed, when and by whom.
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I know the killer app for the Mac. It's called Windows.
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Another one? Please tell me where I can find one that allows me to find my most favorite forums and read them and post to them. I'm not talking newsgroups, but website forums of which there are thousands out there.
I'm serious. I'd love such an app.
I'd like to be able to beat match and crossfade a playlist in iTunes - it would be cool if iTunes could find songs that sound like songs I like too, not just artist who are similar, but actual songs - it seems like there'd be a way to compare wave forms...
Virtual porn-star. Now that would be something.
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Desk could get sticky though
Maybe physical activity should be one of the metrics though. You know, for, ah...excercise and health reasons. Fight prostrate cancer!
Quack, quack.
"Killer apps" ? Puh-leeze!
1. Blossom - tamagochi, anyone ?
2. Whistler - Wow. A Fruity Loops clone.
3. Portal - Ayncing ? That's the kind of application you'd expect to get for free with your new PDA or mobile phone. I can't see anyone paying for it.
4. Hijack - How is that supposed to work with different forum engines ?
5. Atmosphere - No, thanks. I already have Bonzo Buddy telling me the current weather.
6. Cookbook - There are thousands of apps that can keep recipes. There are thousands of apps that can help you schedule your meals/shopping. Unless it gets integrated with the iGroceries store calling it a "killer app" is as ridiculous as calling Mozilla one, because it combines the web browser with the email client.
Um, wouldn't the real killer app on a Mac be the ability to natively run Windows apps? Virtualization, emulation, pixie dust, whatever, but being able to run any friggin Windows app, game, anything, on your Mac. Anything. Not just some things. With no hardware or 3D graphics or whatever. Run ANYTHING on a Mac. I'm pretty sure that's the holy grail.
Come to think of it, I think that might be the killer app in linux, too. Can I get funding and royalties now?
I was a Mac developer for ten years. Unfortunately, I was promoting use of Mac in sci-tech. The problem then and now is the same. This whole concept of a killer app killed support by Apple and the community for any vertical app. I remember an evangelist telling me the CAD tools we were porting weren't killer apps and therefore not worthy of any attention. My point was that in science, engineering, and business... any vertical really... that ANY app is better than NO app. The biggest complaint from companies about support for Mac was lack of tools.
Of course we learned hard lessons. Our ports of DOS/Windows products to the Mac were distinctively un-Mac like and drew ire from the bretheren.
So we got nailed from both sides. Users didn't like the apps because they didn't use all the latest, greatest whiz bang (non portable) MacOS features. Apple (media and evangelism) didn't like the apps because they did boring stuff (chemical process simulation and plant design).
I remember the killer Apps for QuickDraw3d. Ooooo 3d animating charting! Ah.... wait; form vs. function. Tron comes to mind. Doesn't every app need a purpose?
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For OSS Mac stuff, a good guide is OpenSourceMac.
People want to write. So we have word-processors. Check.
People want to make pictures, both moving and static. So we have graphics manipulators.
People want to make sounds and music. We have software to serve in this capacity.
People want to do complex maths and book-keeping. Done.
People want to amuse themselves. Games. Done.
People want to communicate. Again, done. We call it the 'internet'
People want to spend money. Yup. Done that.
And people want the construction software to be able to program all of the above. Done, done, done!
So what's left?
People also want to eat, sleep, transport themselves and have sex.
Well, until you can make a food replicator, the eating thing is probably not going to see a revolution any time soon through computers. Sleep is pretty much automatic, (thank-goodness!), I guess there's aviation and transport technologies software already, so that's another done thing, (though GPS was sort of cool). --And I guess you could arguably say that sex has been amply covered by the net already.
So what's left? What need is this new killer app going to fill?
I suppose you could do one of the above things better, more integrated, with prettier colors. The iPod was a good example of re-packaging existing technology. Yay for Jobs.
And realistically, re-packaging existing ideas is all that's left, (until a genius comes along and shows us all wrong, of course.)
Google was one of those. --They gave us a way to effectively search through all the mountains of stuff generated by all the people scurrying to fill all the nooks and crannies created by the main list of things we wanted computers to do.
So what haven't we done yet?
What do we want to do?
AI is a big one. It's not here yet. (Thank goodness!)
Mind-reading hardware and software. There could be a future in that, but it's a bit far off, and again, thank-goodness for that!
Thinking more realistically, Video on Demand in whatever form it eventually takes will probably be big. YouTube offered us a glimpse of that, but it wasn't exactly an app. Maybe Apple or somebody will rig a system where all the currents of money and data flow according to the approval of the power-brokers of the media and hardware universe. That's clearly in the works right now.
But really. . . What's left? What do you really wish your computer could do that it can't do already?
Maybe it's like the typewriter. It's done. Anybody can now type. Maybe what it comes down to is people focusing less on the tools themselves and more on their getting down to the hard work of actually using them.
Just a thought.
-FL
To each their own, i guess. I love path finder on my 12inch powerbook (also 1024x768). The tabs are fantastic, and the shell drawer is nice for quick shell work w/o even having to open a terminal. Filter by name is great too, and much faster than spotlight. Real permissions info, custom colors + transparency,secure delete, etc etc. It fixes most of my gripes about the finder (including this one) and the UI is customizable, and is actually fairly similar to the finder UI. In most cases, the features it duplicates, it does in less space...
That said, I agree with your main sentiment that cmd-r should work in the finder (or the finder should jsut plain old work as someone else pointed out.)
As for not installing shareware, isn't that what this whole article is about? If you're happy with windows explorer, stick with that. Personally, I'll take path finder (or the regular finder, or a sharp stick in the eye) instead.
... there might be lists of certain safe substitutions, and in certain cases, restricted combinations (kind of like the drug interaction stuff at your pharmacy that the computers work out for you).
And most of the time it'd be up to the recipe author to create alternatives for certain portions of the dish (or the whole dish itself). You might have a "mainline" path through the recipe, and a few choice-driven internal detours that give you some control over the end result.
In any case, it might be instead required to have metadata that relates recipes to each other, so a vegetarian substitute for some dish could be linked through the "vegetarian option" attribute if the recipe can't easily be modified (or contains no internal rules to that effect).
THIS THING CAN TURN ON A DIME, MACROSSZERO STYLE ALSO FUCK BETA, ~NYORON
a multi buttoned mouse ! :p
I have a mac fanatic friend who has bought a new intel based mac book and has had to install
windows to play any decent games. Macs games blow.
A personal example. I play chess and I want to run the defacto standard program
'fritz'... mac version? nope. Chessbase? umm nope... Chessmaster 10k? yet another no...
any convekta training software? nope... Personal chess trainer? yet again another NO.
For openings how about bookup? ummm yet again another NO...
Mac has Nothing that would make me ever switch... atleast they finally realized
that intel based hardware was the way to go.... so then if I was ever given one I could
install windows on it.
Strangely enough, in all the time I've been here that WAS my first "first post"!
The revolution will NOT be televised.
Point of Sale (POS) app that integrates with Quickbooks and incorporates inventory management and contact management
Wikipedia for the iPod
Robust database tool that is as easy to use as MS Access (perhaps this is FileMaker Pro?)
.......ReiserFS Honestly though, bad jokes aside, ReiserFS on it would be nice.
Appreciate the suggestion, but I'm almost in the market for a real new computer anyway (I'm running a P4 2.4GHz with 512MB RAM...yuck). The idea of buying a shiny new Mac that can run MacOS X, Windows, and Linux is very appealing. As I said, GarageBand is hardly the only reason I'm interested ;-)
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You guys have to head over to [url=http://mydreamapp.com/forums/viewtopic.php?id =1357]HERE[/url] and watch his videos. You will believe.
VOTE the hell outta Hijack. Can't let this one lose.
Trying to recreate Usenet with a fancy GUI by screen-scraping web forums?
Rotsa Ruck.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not dissing on Woz or any of the judges (well, maybe J. Allard just a little... Mr. Before-And-After himself), I just don't think that the three named judges exactly have their fingers on the pulse of today's Mac user.
It's a virtual Virtual World, in which you become a virtual designer of Virtual Worlds.
... and then they built the supercollider.
Haven't read the specs for the proposed app, but for finding forums surely google can do that. If you want automation to it, then the forums would all have to have rss feeds, and I am pretty sure there are lots of rss feed readers as browser extensions. I suppose if someone simplified the finding and adding of rss forum feeds it might be useful. I myself really only use rss for BBC headlines.. not that I don't think rss isn't cool, it is.
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Upon further reflection, it probably would have been way cooler if you had posted something non-insulting and Woz had replied with, "Hmmm, that's extremely interesting. Would you mind if I sent my private jet to pick you up and bring you to the villa so that we can discuss your ideas in more depth?" instead of "you are teh suck" and Woz replying, "no I'm not". :-)
Hypercard was pretty cool. I'm sure they could do a whole lot more starting from scratch... btw I'm a linux guy, just going from memory of my fathers Mac.. he loved hypercard.. course he thought he was "programming", but I wasn't about to tell him otherwise.
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I have worked in an organization with a similar "idea bank" system, and it's not always that bad.
In a large organization, it can provide a forum for people 'in the trenches' to pitch their ideas to manager-types, who they might otherwise never run into.
A key part of the idea bank that I saw, was that people were given credit for the idea; if you suggested a good way to do something, and you made your pitch (the suggestion on the idea bank) well so that it piqued someone powerful's interest, then you stood a chance of getting pulled up to work on its implementation.
There was a definite "lottery" aspect to it -- 'watch desperate peons attempt to win recognition for their crazy idea!' -- but it wasn't as if just by submitting an idea, you were shooting yourself in the foot.
It also served as a big bitch-session for internal policies that folks hated; I'm not sure whether that was really an intended purpose or not.
"Ladies and gentlemen, my killbot features Lotus Notes and a machine gun. It is the finest available."
You missed a part:
One of the great things about being the Woz is that you don't have to give a shit what anyone thinks of you because you're so rich you know you could buy their house, burn it down, hire hit men to kill them, and sell their children into slavery in an iPod factory, anytime you damn well want to.
If he was working 4PM-to-close at Taco Bell, an attitude like that probably wouldn't go far.
"Ladies and gentlemen, my killbot features Lotus Notes and a machine gun. It is the finest available."
So let me get this straight, you write an app so damn good it gets the title "killer app", and then you are only able to sell it as shareware?
I'm thinkin' if you're smart enough to write a truly killer app, you don't give a damn about putting it out as shareware, that's for sure.
I predict there will be a slew of ultra-lame software pieces created from this publicity stunt that all suck ass.
+++OK ATH