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Ask HN: Which abandoned proprietary software would you resurrect?
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#432* Windows Phone. We need a third viable option in the mobile space. This week we are concerned about the loss of a browser engine, recognizing this is unhealthy for the market. Windows Phone was terrific in many ways and recent concepts by fans such as @boxnwhisker (Harry Dohyun Kim) [1] show how beautiful the Metro design could be today. * Microsoft Image Composer. A little known sprite-oriented graphic arts program…
I was just talking about how it was a shame windows phone didn't catch on last night, I really think they should have doubled down on it at least as hard as they did on the original X-Box, it really felt like they gave up on it too soon.
I'm feeling the same way about Edge.
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#433Earlier quoted context omitted.
Windyws Phone's tile setup is still the best home screen setup for mobile. As I peep at my Android home with pretty wallpaper with acres of bhank space and uninformative icons, I pine for the informative, intelligent WP tiles. Ms Image Composer was unbeatable for digital and web stuff back then. Photoshop was rather clumsy in comparison. As for email clients, I do keep wondering how Thunderbird can be so slow , how i…
Have Android’s “widgets” been removed? That’s a thing I still miss sometimes on iOS, most of my Nexus One’s homescreen was taken up by my calendar.
They haven't been removed per se, but fewer apps tend to have them. Most Google apps have high quality widgets.
Re: Ask HN: Which abandoned proprietary software would you resurrect?
#434* Windows Phone. We need a third viable option in the mobile space. This week we are concerned about the loss of a browser engine, recognizing this is unhealthy for the market. Windows Phone was terrific in many ways and recent concepts by fans such as @boxnwhisker (Harry Dohyun Kim) [1] show how beautiful the Metro design could be today. * Microsoft Image Composer. A little known sprite-oriented graphic arts program…
Note that there is KaiOS -- popular in India and Brazil but under the radar on HN because it's currently mostly aimed at feature phones. It's based on FireFox OS (hence probably closer to PalmOS than Windows Phone): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KaiOS
That was what I posted in the Firefox ( or was it Edge ? ) discussion, Mozilla could have had Firefox OS being the 2nd most popular OS. Instead they handed it to KaiOS.
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#435The Opera 12 browser, for umpteen reasons: - UX-wise, it solved many issues browsers today are still struggling with. Vivaldi is working in a similar direction, but they've basically started from scratch again so aren't close to the point of development Opera had achieved by version 12. - These HN posts from today's frontpage [0] [1] give some idea of why we really need Presto today. Not only would it just be good to…
My favourite part of Opera was Opera Unite. People made fun of it because it was advertised as reinventing the web and stuff like that, but it was really nice. Basically what it did was providing an interface for hosting a webserver in the browser and having a central repository to install extensions for it. There were extensions with simple games, pastebin functionality, webhosting. It was very easy to setup and share stuff with your friend. Sure, you can host a webserver with nginx and install something on it, but it will take you hours or days to setup, while this was instant.
Re: Ask HN: Which abandoned proprietary software would you resurrect?
#436Earlier quoted context omitted.
Windyws Phone's tile setup is still the best home screen setup for mobile. As I peep at my Android home with pretty wallpaper with acres of bhank space and uninformative icons, I pine for the informative, intelligent WP tiles. Ms Image Composer was unbeatable for digital and web stuff back then. Photoshop was rather clumsy in comparison. As for email clients, I do keep wondering how Thunderbird can be so slow , how i…
> As for email clients, I do keep wondering how Thunderbird can be so slow, how its rendering system can be so shite. I don't have either of those problems, using TB for a decade. Not sure what your issue could be but first thoughts would be to compact your folders and if that doesn't help, vacuum the sqlite files.
It turns out my scrolling lag and rendering issues disappear when I disable smooth-scrolling. Simple fix. :)
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#437Old-school visual basic, but maybe powered by python or another modern scripting language.
The thing with VB is that the language was designed for the IDE, not the other way around, so i'm not sure if any ready made language would work as good as VB6-the-language worked with VB6-the-ide.
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#438Microsoft Money. I didn't have to give access to all my accounts to some website, or pay an annual subscription for upgrades. I got keyboard shortcuts and reports and I could search for things to find out how old my computer is or when I went to Vegas. It seems like in the physical economy, if you create something of value and you aren't making money off it, you will sell it and someone else can make money off it. Wi…
I use AceMoney for this, and it's still great after more than a decade of use in our businesses. Great support. Highly recommended.
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#439Visual Basic 6. Fantastically easy to learn and let you make extremely useful GUI apps quickly. And the edit and continue debugger is still a dream compared to some of today’s debugging setups.
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#440Is no one going to mention Pebble? It's the only smartwatch I've ever wanted, and I was so sad that it got bought and died right when I had enough money to spend some on a smart watch. It just had the perfect combo of good design, long battery life, and usability.
I have one sitting in my drawer; happy to send to you for free if you're interested in owning one. Just drop me a line.
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