Leopard Fake Screenshot Contest Winners Announced 163
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 (Score:1, Redundant)
Re:I don't know about you (Score:1, Funny)
Re:I don't know about you (Score:1)
KFG
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KFG
Hmmm (Score:4, Funny)
That's sure the way Apple wants it until WWDC!
Look For It (Score:2)
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!
Re:I've seen it. It's rubbish! (Score:2, Funny)
Wouldn't that be porn files? [ducks]
Re:I've seen it. It's rubbish! (Score:3, Funny)
"want to look at the app icon on the dock, blink on it, and get it up!"
Desktop Viagra anyone?
Re:I've seen it. It's rubbish! (Score:3, Interesting)
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 abo
Re:I've seen it. It's rubbish! (Score:2, Interesting)
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:I've seen it. It's rubbish! (Score:2)
Re:I've seen it. It's rubbish! (Score:2)
As for music feeling "sticky", I'm baffled on that one. I've owned various media over 30++ years, (sheet, vinyl album, tape, CD, banjo), and sticky was never a desirable state of affairs. However, as long as there is tactile feedback available, then classical should feel like polished wood, modern orchestral (Bartok), like sheet-metal sculpture,
Re:I've seen it. It's rubbish! (Score:2)
I think I speak for everyoe here when I say, "Eww."
Still, I suppose its better than it feeling like Barry Manilow.
Re:I've seen it. It's rubbish! (Score:3, Funny)
How could you misquote the great Internet Sage, Ted Stevens, Chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee, ForShame.
No, I'm not finished. I want people to understand my position, I'm not going to take a lot of time.
They want to deliver vast amounts of information over the internet. And again, the inte
Re:I've seen it. It's rubbish! (Score:3, Funny)
Hey, if music files feel sticky, what about the pr0n files?
"Gaah! What is this thing? It's all sticky and heavy as hell!" "Oh, that's just Roseanne Arnold in a thong singing the Star Spangled Banner..."
Re:I've seen it. It's rubbish! (Score:2)
You should never, ever be allowed to post on the internet again. Damn me for researching the posts I am metamoderating.
Re:I've seen it. It's rubbish! (Score:2)
And I want my porn pics to feel soft, warm, and smooth. . .
Re:I've seen it. It's rubbish! (Score:2)
I know an even better application for this technology. Type
Me having sex with Jenna J. and Asia C. at the same timeConvert to 3D-enactment.
Re:Hmmm (Score:2)
The mockups were made by fans of Apple, and Apple fans love flashy new features Features FEATURES! That is what you can find in these mockups.
If you are looking for good UI design, look elsewhere.
Anyone looking to improve MacOS X should look here first: http://www.asktog.com/ [asktog.com] .
Slashdotted already??... (Score:5, Funny)
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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)
This thread is useless without pics, you hoser.
Re:Umm.. (Score:2)
all pictures from rate.ee [dontexist.com]
Would it be from (Score:1)
Would it be from the massive amounts of Avril Lavigne visible in your itunes library
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Couldn't resist... (Score:2, Insightful)
Oh no, you didn't. I bet you had images on screen or in mind, and something else entirely in hand....!
Re:Umm.. (Score:2)
Well, I mean theoretically.. if I knew people were going to see it.
FINE, I'll take down the puppies. Jesus!
Coral Cache Link (Score:2, Informative)
Alternative (Score:5, Funny)
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That, my friends, is what happens when you play red alert 2 for 9+ hours, take some (more) vicodin and codeine and notice that Photoshop CS has been sitting in the taskbar the whole time.
Mockups = mockups (Score:2, Informative)
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Evan
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)
Merging would be nice.
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Re:My two wishes for OSX.5 (Score:2)
After I wash my hands, I'll drink to that!
Re:My two wishes for OSX.5 (Score:2)
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Re:My two wishes for OSX.5 (Score:3, Informative)
There's always cp -r.
saga:~/test rasmus$ find .
.
./test1
./test1/a
./test1/a/contents-in-test1-a
./test1/a/contents-in-test1-b
./test1/a/contents-in-test1-c
./test2
./test2/a
./test2/a/contents-in-test2-a
./test2/a/contents-in-test2-b
./test2/a/contents-in-test2-c
saga:~/test rasmus$ cp -r test1/a/* test2/a/
saga:~/test rasmus$ find test2
test2
test2/a
test2/a/contents-in-test1-a
test2/a/contents-in-test1-b
test2
or ditto, or cpio, or tar, or zip, or... (Score:2)
Re:My two wishes for OSX.5 (Score:3, Informative)
it's free and a good contender to the Extensis software, although they still have some polishing to do.
Re:My two wishes for OSX.5 (Score:2)
How "encountered"? And how do you want to merge files with folders?
Eivind.
Re:My two wishes for OSX.5 (Score:3, Insightful)
You don't understand. FontBook is not supposed to be some sort of professional font management application. Never was. Suitcase (Extensis) and FontBook are two different applications used for different things. Suitcase is meant to manage a designer/production person's 10,000 fonts, usually through auto-activation... something FontBook does not do nor pretend to. FontBook is for that ps
Re:My two wishes for OSX.5 (Score:2)
Re:My two wishes for OSX.5 (Score:2)
I want this feature to work like it does in Windows and Linux.
I don't. I hate it when the OS decides it know what I want to do for me and does something I did not tell it. If I deleted a file two folders down and then copy the parent folder over another folder somewhere, I expect that file to still be gone. If I want to merge trees I'll use a versioning system.
Re:My two wishes for OSX.5 (Score:2)
The issue here is a difference in what we think we're telling the OS to do.
True enough, but I think move and replace are both fairly intuitive procedures. The difference is that in replacing the behavior from the mouse action is consistent whereas if you merge folders with that mouse action, shouldn't you also merge the contents of files? Doing two different operations using the same method is what I am objecting to.
I suspect you're in the minority here.
So are you. Most people expect that if they rep
Re:My two wishes for OSX.5 (Score:2)
I used to use Navicat a great deal - a tool for talking to MySQL databases. Unfortunately it has a bug or two, and when executing some queries it will get into a state where it starts to eat memory and never stops. If you don't notice this is happening then you end up with an unusable machine - the Force Quit dialogue box will come up, eventually, but the machine will essentially be unresponsive. If you're fortunate enough to have a terminal s
Re:My two wishes for OSX.5 (Score:2)
There are tools for preventing runaway processes from making the machine non-responsive, you should probably learn to use them. (Look up 'ulimit'.)
Possible workaround (Score:2)
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, yo
Re:My two wishes for OSX.5 (Score:2)
Annex.aux right now have 10 fragments (3.52 mb file,what happened to auto defrag of http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx
You can imagine the reports they get from their customers if they added such option.
Half of comment missing (Score:2)
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 some
Re:Half of comment missing (Score:2)
Most DTP people would know that if fonts are crashing their system, it's probably because the the font itself is broken. That's why even FontBook comes with a validation capability. If you're having problems, you should validate any fonts you've installed. [apple.com] Clearing the cache might make the problem go away, but only until you re-load the bad font. It is not a fix.
Re:My two wishes for OSX.5 (Score:2)
as for merging, that's possible using a great commandline utility called rsync that comes with OSX, albeit, I think you need to install the developer tools to get access to that. Apple's rsync is broken for some things, since it doesn't preserve dates, but ther
Re:My two wishes for OSX.5 (Score:2)
I hope you don't want this done on the fly. You might have folders with the same name that are in different places for a reason. I certainly do. I don't want them merged or syncd. There are plenty of third party tools that will sync specified folders.
Re:Merge directories (Score:2)
Apple CANNOT change directory merging behavior (Score:2)
When I download a new Skype.app from the Net to replace my existing Skype.app, I drag the new one into the
Re:Merge directories defined (Score:2)
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.
Re:My two wishes for OSX.5 (Score:2)
Re:My two wishes for OSX.5 (Score:2)
"I'm a graphic designer and in Windows I create folders on my desktop for all the current projects I'm working on. Folders at the top level are given the client's name and the first level of subfolders is named after the job code. Within these folders I organize assets, source files, etc. On a second drive I keep all the projects I've ever worked on and maintain the same organization. When I want to back
Re:My two wishes for OSX.5 (Score:2)
Am I the only one... (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Am I the only one... (Score:1)
Which one? (Score:5, Informative)
Finder is already too cluttered. (Score:2)
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 al
Re:Finder is already too cluttered. (Score:2)
Were you aware that you could simply collapse the sidebar and never have to look at it again? You just grag the divider and drag it over to the left.
Re:Finder is already too cluttered. (Score:2)
Did you read the rest of my message, where I wrote "Give me the Jaguar finder, and stick small, inconspicuous, uncluttered Mozilla/Safari style tabs under the toolbar, and I'll be happy."
But in any case, that still doesn't get rid of the abomination of Metal that even iTunes has abandoned.
Re:Am I the only one... (Score:2)
I do, but then again anything with "Brushed Metal" should be banned.
C'mon, Steve, you touted "Aqua" as the interface for OSX, but WTF is up with brushed metal?
"It makes it look professional" or some such was what I recalled hearing.
No, quite frankly, brushed metal makes me think of fast food kitches, pee troughs at a stadium
or the brushed metal toilets in your average jail cell.
Real good choice there, dude.
Clutter + Fugly in the midst of Aqua and BSD.
(shakes
Re:Am I the only one... (Score:3, Insightful)
Sort of like "I know this is going to get modded down, but..."
It's just that.... guh. Forget it.
Re:Am I the only one... (Score:2)
I especially like the one... (Score:5, Funny)
Oh, that's *real*?
Oops.
dave watanabe (Score:2, Flamebait)
BEWARE OF LEOPARD (Score:5, Funny)
The first change would be... (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:The first change would be... (Score:2)
And what are all these weird icons in my browser? Two triangles pointing in different directions, a magnifying glass, and a recycling arrow thing? Surely the triangles move the window left and right, the m
Re:The first change would be... (Score:2)
Re:The first change would be... (Score:2, Interesting)
I also dislike OSX keyboard navigation. It seems to be more application based than i
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.)
I'm a colour blind mac user (Score:2)
I'm colour blind and have no problem in general with these buttons on the mac because they ARE coded for more than just colour - in this case they also use position: Left, right, and middle.
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 you
Re:I'm a colour blind mac user (Score:2)
Yes, it does...at least 6.0.5 does.
Re:I'm a colour blind mac user (Score:2)
Re:The first change would be... (Score:2)
I think you mean, "objects should not be distinguished only by color."
Yeah.. that's probably why he said it. It all makes sense now!
My dream user interface... (Score:2)
http://scarydevil.com/~peter/io/3dworld.html [scarydevil.com]
A quick and dirty one with a reason (Score:2)
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=faketestt [imageshack.us]
Bit minimalist (Score:4, Funny)
Personally, I prefer a slightly richer user experience.
My favourite feature (Score:3, Insightful)
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)
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Re:Mirror Ob Fight Club quote (Score:1)
And the other pages, too... (Score:5, Informative)
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Re:Upload an XP screen (Score:3, Funny)
Far more efficient CPU wise than those stupid high-res desktops and far easier to use remotely.
Re:Slashdotted already? (Score:1, Troll)