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Trying to teach kids simple html site design with core principles (you own the html, you put it where you want) is harder because you have to plunge them into code and file transfer and what not.
Earlier kid had a much easier way with iWeb basically making word docs and pushing them out to any web server.
The web based kits are great if you want a web site, but terrible for learning how to build web sites.
Ecco Pro for Windows and its predecessor, Lotus Agenda for DOS, which inspired a multimillion dollar open-source software debacle that inspired the book, "Dreaming in Code". Ecco is still being used 20 years later and has been binary patched to support Lua extensions. Written by a four person team in Seattle. doogiePIM has been resuscitated by its founder, hopefully it will carry a torch for some of the ideas in Ecco…
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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.
There is an Android launcher (launcher 10, i think) that offers tiles, and some of them even live tiles. It's okay, not quite the same slick experience though.
Front page and iWeb (or even bbedit/homepage). Trying to teach kids simple html site design with core principles (you own the html, you put it where you want) is harder because you have to plunge them into code and file transfer and what not. Earlier kid had a much easier way with iWeb basically making word docs and pushing them out to any web server. The web based kits are great if you want a web site, but terrible…
* Windows Phone. Fantastic UI, and coupled with the Lumia, it was an awesome user experience. * The old Winamp, with all the intricate shortcuts that I had memorized. * Windows XP itself. I have been on Linux for years, and XP was the last Windows I used alongside it (for MSOffice). XP had reached the peak in terms of being able to control the desktop using the keyboard. And then the downslide started.
I know a lot of people who loved Windows XP, but I always hated it. Especially compared to Ubuntu, it felt like the past. Having to hunt down drivers and install them before any hardware started working was a pain, and after I tried Ubuntu and it auto-detected my wifi card and sound card, that was the end of any respect I had for Windows XP. And that's not even mentioning the number of times I had to call the phone n…
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I completely agree and I used to work at Microsoft. Microsoft lost because they didn't have the users or the apps. It's an instructive story of how an inferior product can win. I'm not saying that happens all the time or that it's inevitable, but I think it's safe to say that's sort of what happened here.
A platform without users or apps and years late is not one I'd call superior. Good ideas are not nearly enough, as they often say around HN.
If I could buy a good Windows phone today (e.g., current technology level, not used), I would immediately. I refuse to own an Apple product, and I don't like Google knowing so much about me (I've had multiple bad experiences with romhacking, so that's a no-go).
also, why not Apple?
WinAmp 2. I still use Audacity in "classic" mode to make it feel like WinAmp.. Old habits die hard :) Going further back, I think Symantec JustWrite was an extremely fine piece of software; I remember it being blazingly fast on the 486 monster I had at work. But my glasses may be rose-tinted :)