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Ask HN: Which abandoned proprietary software would you resurrect?
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#562Macromedia/Adobe Director (1985-2013) was a really cool authoring environment. You could drag and drop animations and interactive experience together really fast. It was an animation software first but had its own scripting language. Even kids could create complex experiences and games with it. Today I need to code everything first before I am able to see anything. I miss this easy direct wysiwyg way of doing things.…
I miss that for the times of easy money authoring cdrom titles with it. Lingo was an incredibly easy language to learn and satisfying to use. It just had no place in the web era. Adobe just didn’t know what to do with it besides shockwave.
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#563Jasc Paint Shop Pro - before Corel picked them up and gave the software a horrible identity crisis. It had all the right features for graphics editing targeted at the web. Mixing vector layers with raster layers, both fully featured, is still something many modern programs either don't have, or half-ass. And it was dirt cheap, compared to the competition.
Fireworks (Adobe/Macromedia) was in this category of mixed vector/raster editors. I'd love to see it return, but a 2019 version would have to be somewhat different to survive.
Krita is making serious moves in this direction.
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#564Sunrise Calendar was so much better than anything else on mobile. Unfortunately it got acquired by Microsoft and sunsetted (no pun intended).
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#565Firefox that ran Tree Style Tab properly Excel for Mac before it became a cartoon Google Reader so there would still be blogs to read Eudora so e-mail wouldn't suck a dozen or so iOS apps that stopped working after iOS 10 a dozen or so niche Windows apps that haven't been updated Reddit's redesign is probably the most destructive redesign of anything I've ever seen, and that is saying a lot. But kudos to them for (so…
Firefox is not proprietary
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#567* 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…
> Windows phone The gigants buy up competitors and bury it, shot down the project. We would have more freedom and viable options as consumers if not the big companies such as Facebook, Google buy up the competition. It should be illegal to do this. The world is a more poorer marketplace because of this.
They bought... Windows? Microsoft is one of the giants here. People didn't like the phone.
Re: Ask HN: Which abandoned proprietary software would you resurrect?
#568Jasc Paint Shop Pro - before Corel picked them up and gave the software a horrible identity crisis. It had all the right features for graphics editing targeted at the web. Mixing vector layers with raster layers, both fully featured, is still something many modern programs either don't have, or half-ass. And it was dirt cheap, compared to the competition.
I still have PSP v7 installed.
Using it as an image viewer and photo editor almost daily.
I'm also using it to draw in vector mode.
It's so fast, so lightweight, and so fully featured.
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#569Earlier 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. Compared to Gmail or Microsoft Outlook online it's very very fast. Gmail lags severely compared to when I use Thunderbird.
The new Gmail interface is slow. Man, it's just so freaking slow. The fans get whirring, the network calls are probably blocked by the UI and if you delete a message and quickly close the page it never goes through.
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#570Earlier quoted context omitted.
> This is a frequently heard complaint, but I can't imagine under what circumstances this would happen. I see it both fast and slow. Ironically it's absurdly slow on my 8-core desktop and just fine on my older dual core laptop (both with SSDs and same accounts, etc). Definitely weird, but this behaviour has peristed for years, so much that I had to disable TB features on my desktop just so I could type without stalli…
> first thoughts would be to compact your folders and if that doesn't help, vacuum the sqlite files. Might also recommend a disk check, perhaps FS needs fixing.
At one point I cleared out all TB folders and started from scratch, problem reappeared, so I don't think that's it. Very strange indeed.