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."

Re:Slashdotted already??...

[jinushaun]

It was dugg 2 days ago... This server is getting twice owned!

Re:My two wishes for OSX.5

[tezbobobo]

Yeah dude, anyone who needs to manage their fonts beyond the ability of Apple's ability should not be using inbuilt font support on ANY platform. I might suggest Font Agent Pro. I use it all the time I'm working (newspaper designer) and it is th best out there. If suitcase have gotten their shit together, they used to be pretty good. And apparently linotypes new thing is good, but from reports not as good as FAP (free though).

Merging would be nice.

Re:I've seen it. It's rubbish!

[Aqua OS X]

The more features you add to an OS the better it is.

That's what I've learned from this contest.

Ignore the fact that the finder, like explorer, it's a fucked up hodgepodge of mixed conventions and metaphors... just cram some more features into to it. Tired of having a desktop or dock cluttered with several windows all viewing the same god damn directory? Well now you can have those windows hidden in finder tabs! Weee!! Now you can forget about currently opened windows even faster!! RAM be damned!

Or what about viewing windows with windows in side of them!! Sure it's not a MacOS convention at all, but wouldn't it be awesome? Ohh, and make sure to put all close boxes on the right-hand side of nested windows... Mac users are accustom to seeing it on the left hand side, and you're going to want to confuse or slow them down.

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Ughh, but seriously, those entries where full of human factors disasters.

As if OS X doesn't have a enough of them already.

Re:I've seen it. It's rubbish!

[whoop]

find all the pictures containing a girl with red hair?' not so bloody hard now, is it?

Several years ago I came upon an app on Freshmeat that had a small paint canvas where you would draw something and it would search a collection of pictures for similar images to what you drew. It was pretty good at it too. Draw a head and torso with breasts, it found upper-body shots. Scribble some red hair, it narrowed it down to redheads. So that much technology is out there, somewhere.

Re:The first change would be...

[nateziarek]

I don't think I hate the finder, but I don't love it. I actually ran across an old IBM laptop today with Windows 3.1 on it. I was floored at how fast the File manager was on that sucker. Guess I've been using the Finder too long :-) I find myself navigating the Finder through the use of Apple-SHIFT-G and tab typing if I need to go somewhere drastically different than where I am -- obviously not optimal (in fact, it sucks :-)

I also dislike OSX keyboard navigation. It seems to be more application based than it should be, meaning it works sometimes and not others. Check System Preferences under Keyboard and Mouse and then Keyboard Shortcuts...enables Full keyboard access by choosing "all Controls" (near the bottom). It doesn't help everything, but it makes it a little more bearable.

Still, of the three OSs, I'd rather use OS X. That says something, doesn't it?