Nothing Real Shake, which was bought (and killed) by Apple. It was the best video compositing app on the market at that time.
I loved Shake, and know the author. Apple paid him well, but screwed him professionally.
Ask HN: What's the best tool you used to use that doesn't exist anymore?
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#582Jasc 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 had a very similar love for Macromedia Fireworks.
i maintain that love, and continue installing mx2004 on things
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#583Free time. I used to use it to sleep, read books, listen to music, watch movies, play video games, do laundry, exercise, talk to my family, and cook my own food. I can do some of those things on the commute to and from work with apps, but it's not the same as when I had free time. I think google or facebook bought it and quietly obsoleted it in 2006. I'm still looking for a replacement. Someone suggested Activity Blo…
Someone else suggested Timely and Toggl, but you have to buy a subscription to really get the most out of them. One of the best things about free time was that it was free for the full version.
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#584Eudora! Never got used to any other desktop email client after it. Also: Google Reader and Google Buzz, the proto-Facebook for me
> Eudora!
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#585fuckedcompany.com
Loved reading about my bosses and friends bosses being all fucking stupid and degenerate during the dotcom boom.
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#586Please read it from a consumer perspective about consumer topics: (of course B2B is very different, where other things matter) * products/software without DRM, always-online, analytics, tracking and spy "features" - bad for consumer personal privacy, and prevents second hand market, products cannot be owned anymore, try buying Windows 10, John Deer tractor, Tesla S without that crap * Cash money: those Davos attendee…
I don't think I would classify the problems with "licensing" of digital property as an erosion of the idea of ownership necessarily, though I can see how you got there. Personally I think that the destruction of consumer protections when it comes to digital property is a temporary situation. EVERY industry has tried this. Out of sheer stupidity, producers think that if they can destroy aftermarket and secondhand mark…
Could a forward-thinking software publisher unilaterally offer license terms and technological protection measures that increase "ownership" and permit resale?
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#587"Rpad is an interactive, web-based analysis program. Rpad pages are interactive workbook-type sheets based on R" ~2009
https://web.archive.org/web/20090524155658/http://www.rpad.o...
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#588Web pages without javascript. Even now I try to use the web without it as much as I can. So smooth and nice everything is.
+1 i tried turning off scripts a while back i could refresh any page and it would near-instantly return me to the same scroll position without jumping around as scripts load i didn't have to feel so cautious about sites abusing my browser to show me popups, subscription forms or ads it felt really empowering for some reason
So why did you turn it back on? NoScript allows you to have it off by default and turn it back on on sites it's actually needed on.
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#589Earlier quoted context omitted.
Explain me more. You fall for the propaganda without background knowledge. The statistics says otherwise. Fake money is mostly smaller notes (like 20, 50, 100 notes). Higher value notes like 1000 francs note won't get eliminated anytime soon. Criminals already use electronic money, real estate, fake companies, etc.
500 € Notes are a gift to criminals because they allow large amounts of money to be smuggled easily - e.g. to a country where no questions are asked when you deposit large amounts of money with your fake company.
That's exactly how it should be. Money "laundering" never was a real crime. It's just a privacy invading control mechanism and a way for law enforcement to ignore actual crime.
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#590Kedit. The 'all' command is unbeatable for looking at large log files and quickly moving around a file. Many editors have a similar feature but none do it better or nearly as fast as Kedit.