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Leopard Fake Screenshot Contest Winners Announced
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CowboyNeal
on Thu Jul 27, 2006 09:54 PM
from the as-good-as-the-real-thing dept.
from the as-good-as-the-real-thing dept.
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."
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I don't know about you (Score:1, Redundant)
(http://www.xhtmlpro.com/)
Hmmm (Score:4, Funny)
(http://www.hlds101.com/)
That's sure the way Apple wants it until WWDC!
I've seen it. It's rubbish! (Score:5, Funny)
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!
Slashdotted already??... (Score:5, Funny)
Umm.. (Score:5, Funny)
Good, I stayed away from the contest. Otherwise, he would have easily guessed, that I like Canadian women.
Re:Umm.. (Score:5, Funny)
(http://www.celsius1414.com/)
This thread is useless without pics, you hoser.
Re:Umm.. (Score:4, Informative)
Coral Cache Link (Score:2, Informative)
Alternative (Score:5, Funny)
Mockups = mockups (Score:2, Informative)
(http://blingin-linux.blogspot.com/)
My two wishes for OSX.5 (Score:5, Insightful)
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.
Re:My two wishes for OSX.5 (Score:5, Interesting)
(http://www.members.iinet.net.au/~tezbo | Last Journal: Thursday June 09 2005, @10:20AM)
Merging would be nice.
Re:My two wishes for OSX.5 (Score:5, Funny)
Am I the only one... (Score:4, Informative)
Which one? (Score:5, Informative)
I especially like the one... (Score:5, Funny)
Oh, that's *real*?
Oops.
dave watanabe (Score:2, Flamebait)
(http://eoban.com/)
BEWARE OF LEOPARD (Score:5, Funny)
Well.... (Score:1)
(http://googtube.blogspot.com/)
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.
Acquisition (Score:1, Informative)
I think you mean "well-known GPL abuser [slashdot.org] David Watanabe, who makes NewsFire and Acquisition"
The first change would be... (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:The first change would be... (Score:4, Informative)
I should not have to hover over an object to find out what it does.
True, the icons should always be visible and probably a bit bigger.
Objects should not be distinguished only by colour (hel-LO, heard of colour blindness?)...
I think you mean, "objects should not be distinguished only by color." They should certainly be distinguished by color. Anyone who has ever instructed remedial users using both windows and OS X knows how much more quickly people understand "click the red one" as compared to "click the X." Also, to be fair, Apple does have a screen mode for the visually impaired that lets you use icons better suited to the color blind.
That even Apple is consistently failing to meet basic usability standards is a damning indictment of how far their standards have fallen since the days, long ago, when Apple's operating systems were prized for their ease of use, not merely their fluff and eye-candy.
Apple still does a better job than pretty much every other player, but they have had more UI issues than they used to. They have also made some UI advances as well. This is probably some culture clash from the old Apple folks and the newer UNIX guys they've brought on board. It has made OS X a hybrid, neither as well designed of a UI as it used to have, nor a secure as some of the other UNIX's, but somewhere in between. (Note, this is not, in my opinion, a dichotomy. It can be both more secure and more usable.)
My dream user interface... (Score:2)
(http://www.scarydevil.com/~peter/ | Last Journal: Monday September 26 2005, @06:53PM)
http://scarydevil.com/~peter/io/3dworld.html [scarydevil.com]
A quick and dirty one with a reason (Score:2)
(http://www.noooxml.org/petition)
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.
Bit minimalist (Score:4, Funny)
(Last Journal: Wednesday February 25 2004, @11:29AM)
Personally, I prefer a slightly richer user experience.
My favourite feature (Score:3, Insightful)
(Last Journal: Wednesday February 25 2004, @11:29AM)
I'm sold.
I missed the point (Score:2)
Disclaimer: I'm not an Apple user - haven't really used OSX much except for at the Apple store.
Question (Score:2)
(Last Journal: Tuesday October 30, @10:59AM)
Re:Mirror (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Upload an XP screen (Score:3, Funny)
(http://bcgreen.com/~samuel | Last Journal: Friday April 30 2004, @02:42PM)
Far more efficient CPU wise than those stupid high-res desktops and far easier to use remotely.
And the other pages, too... (Score:5, Informative)
(http://www.public.asu.edu/~corba3/)
Main Page: Coral cache [nyud.net] | Google cache [google.com]
First Place: Coral cache [nyud.net] | Google cache [google.com]
Second Place: Coral cache [nyud.net] | Google cache [google.com]
Third Place: Coral cache [nyud.net] | Google cache [google.com]
Runner Up: Coral cache [nyud.net] | Google cache [google.com]
Runner Up: Coral cache [nyud.net] | Google cache [google.com]
Runner Up: Coral cache [nyud.net] | Google cache [google.com]
Re:Slashdotted already? (Score:1, Troll)
Re:Mirror (Score:1, Informative)