Google Reader
Fireworks ( a image editor for web designers )
Livemesh ( which was way better than one drive, it could sync your entire computer in the cloud ).
Ask HN: What's the best tool you used to use that doesn't exist anymore?
281–290 of 891 posts
Re: Ask HN: What's the best tool you used to use that doesn't exist anymore?
#282Re: Ask HN: What's the best tool you used to use that doesn't exist anymore?
#283Deluxe Paint: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deluxe_Paint ArtGem was a nice spiritual successor but sadly it's gone too: http://www.rlvision.com/artgem_about.asp
GrafX2 is an open-source paint program inspired by Deluxe Paint:
https://code.google.com/archive/p/grafx2/
It's harder than it should be to find the latest code, I don't know what the main developer is playing at, would seemingly rather comment on clone repositories than fix the project homepage:
Re: Ask HN: What's the best tool you used to use that doesn't exist anymore?
#284Jasc Paint Shop Pro. This tool had the useful half of Illustrator's features and the useful half of Photoshop's, it was blazing fast, and it combined them in a single program so you could mix vector and raster layers. This made it absolutely perfect for web-targeted graphics work. It was the first software I legally bought because it was so good and still affordable (a fraction of the price of Adobe's stuff - somethi…
I think Paint.Net is probably the closest current tool to PSP.
Re: Ask HN: What's the best tool you used to use that doesn't exist anymore?
#285Earlier quoted context omitted.
Oh heck, you remind me of my psion 5. It was brilliant, and the tiny keyboard was good enough to touch type on. Battery life in weeks. Someone bung a modern screen on that form-factor please.
> "Someone bung a modern screen on that form-factor please." You may be interested in following this project: http://hackaday.com/2016/05/01/upgrading-a-20-year-old-pda/
Ooh, that's one to bookmark and watch, thanks. Fairly sure I still have my 5 kicking around in a junk drawer! :)
Re: Ask HN: What's the best tool you used to use that doesn't exist anymore?
#286DabbleDB was a truly unique take on a refactorable, easy-to-use webapp database. It was aqui-hired by Twitter and shut down a few years ago. I feel like AirTable is a worthy spiritual successor today.
Take a look at instadb.com
Re: Ask HN: What's the best tool you used to use that doesn't exist anymore?
#287The Psion Series 3 handhelds: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psion_Series_3 A (tiny, but) usable, physical keyboard on a device that lasted _ages_, fit into a suit pocket and was eminently practical. The age of the PDA is long gone (heck, I'm typing this on an iPad mini), but we still haven't caught up with some of its best bits.
Try the Pyra mini computer. https://pyra-handheld.com/boards/pages/pyra/
Not yet a shipping product?
Re: Ask HN: What's the best tool you used to use that doesn't exist anymore?
#288Reveal Codes from WordPerfect. I am just typing text now, thanks god, but if I needed to format it, just a few years ago I needed to, I am so, so lost.
Yes. This is one of the main reasons I like to do most of my writing (which, admittedly, is not a whole lot) with Markdown.
Re: Ask HN: What's the best tool you used to use that doesn't exist anymore?
#289Logitech Mouseman+ ( http://2a.zol-img.com.cn/product/117_500x2000/44/cepKXmRt1Cs... ) Best ergonomic mouse ever made. Fitted my hand perfectly. The extreme slant looks terrible but works far better than every handed mouse I've used in the 20 years since. There was a matching trackball if you preferred that. Unlike every modern Logitech mouse made it did not break after a short life. It was thrown away because it was…
Have you tried the Logitech M500?
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/6qYHapP52IA/maxresdefault.jpg
Re: Ask HN: What's the best tool you used to use that doesn't exist anymore?
#290RSS, Usenet newsgroups, netbooks, 4:3 CRT monitors, GNOME 2.x, non-BitTorrent file sharing networks.
I still use RSS much.