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. "

Re:My Dream app here

[ketamine-bp]

your link gives 404 =(

try
http://iscrybe.com/

nice app indeed

Re:Woz is out there, man!

[geoffeg]

It's a joke, he was joking. Woz has always been a sarcastic joker.

BTW, he didn't "invent" the Mac.

Shareware vs Freeware

[sYn pHrEAk]

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).

Re:A (Path) Finder with a "Refresh" button.

[voidstin]

You mean like this? [cocoatech.com]

Re:A Finder with a "Refresh" button.

[NMerriam]

OT: question about Finder. I don't use it, but am curious if you can "pause" searches. In Windows, anyway, the searches can take hours and dog down the system to terrible slowness. If you want to do something else at decent speed, you have to kill the search (often with task manager) and start it over. No pause.

There are command-line controls for Spotlight indexing, if that's what you're talking about. But once the initial index is done (and that usually doesn't slow down a system noticeably), you'll never need to pause a search, they're basically instant (really several seconds) for all results. The index is updated on file operations, so there's no noticeable performance decrease other than the extra milliseconds it takes to write the spotlight index when it updates a file. It's a completely different (and better) beast than Windows indexing service or search, which can take many minutes for results to be complete.

Re:Hmm

[OakDragon]

...about ten years ago... the term freeware was never really used and everything was almost exclusively called shareware.

The terms 'freeware' and 'shareware' of course are (and were) distinct. Our memories do agree, though. Very little was called 'freeware.' Mostly it was shareware along the lines of 'If you use and enjoy this software, please send $10.00 to...' A lot of free trials that locked you out after 30 or 60 days could be 'hacked' by re-setting your system clock to an earlier date, or by changing a config file, sometimes.

Most freeware and software were worth about as much as you paid for them, unfortunately. I am amazed at the quality of some free software today.

Re:No teledildonics?

[DittoBox]

Free, or gratis? There's some really nice OS X software out there, it's all Shareware though. I'd love to see some really high-quality, OS X native (F?)OSS. There a few out there though. Some goodies include, Adium [adiumx.com], Colloquy [colloquy.info], Smultron [sourceforge.net] and Cyberduck [cyberduck.ch]. I just wish skEdit were Free though.

Re:A Finder with a "Refresh" button.

[booch]

To put it in UNIX terms, Mac's Spotlight is like the 'locate' command, whereas Windows Search is like the 'find' command.

Re:My take on the choices...

[superflippy]

You left off the one app of the bunch that I thought was really useful: Hijack.
Hijack is a full-featured Message Board app. Most people visit myriad message boards spread all over the internet. This will be the a forum user's answer to RSS.

I am one of those people who regularly participate in several different message boards. It would be awesome to have a better way to keep up with them all, especially for forums that move very fast (I make a post at 5 PM and by 9 AM the next day it's on the 4th page) or slow (it takes a week for someone to respond to my post). I also like the idea of being able to archive threads.

Free Mac SW

[Lactoso]

There's some cool non OSS software that's free though - Onyx [titanium.free.fr] and QuickSilver [blacktree.com] immediately come to mind (although there are many, many more [macupdate.com]).

For OSS Mac stuff, a good guide is OpenSourceMac [opensourcemac.org].