I personally would really like the game LHX back again, with slightly upgraded graphics, but without the bloat most modern games come with. Also, Stunts 4D driving was really a time killer for me and my friends.
trackmania is not the same...
Ask HN: Which abandoned proprietary software would you resurrect?
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With respect to windows phone, I really miss the tiles, the consistency of the metro style gui and other little details, like automatic do not disturb mode while driving or face recognition well before it became mainstream.
Typing on Windows Phone was a delight, for a touchscreen-based keyboard. They had their typing game on point. Now with an Android device, I find myself switching keyboard software often.
I'm cursed with thumbs that are not compatible with touch screens. Not because of my thumbs themselves, and obviously touch screen keyboards work for most people so it can't be the keyboards. I don't have abnormally fat thumbs, or any physical deformities.. touch screen keyboards just hate me, to the point where it's a running joke among family and friends. Every post I've ever made is a relentless struggle against typos that even the best autocorrect can't seem to help with. I've tried every major keyboard on Android, and have owned iPhones and every other device imaginable.
Windows Phone though? Absolute pleasure to type on. I've never used any device that was easier to type on than my old Lumia 920.
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#703MS Access. It was still easier to build quite powerful apps covering the UX, controller and model than the commercial alternatives today. In many aspects cloud application development is only just catching up with 20 year old declarative frameworks of yesteryear.
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#704In terms of games - Mechwarrior and Spyhunter are still my favourites. I’d love them to be resurrected. (I can’t wait for MW to come out next year)
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#705Picasa (desktop app). It hit a sweet spot for me - linux compatible, very easy to do the majority of simple edits (crop, rotate, colour tweaks), and a few other nice features. The only significant failing was that it couldn't handle removable media at all well. Shotwell is the best I've found so far, but it's not quite the right feature balance for me. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picasa https://en.wikipedia.org/wik…
I used picass for one thing and one thing only: image organization. I could point it to a directory and it would read all the images. It wouldn’t copy them to it’s database, it wouldn’t try to change their format. It would simply read them as fast as I’ve ever seen and show me what’s in that directory. Then it would keep the directory hierarchy in place. I haven’t been able to find anything similar. I search for a si…
What about ACDSee?
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#706Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'd say exactly the same for Delphi 5 and 6.
Out of curiosity what happened to Delphi? It always seemed quite good to me.
This is what happened to it:
https://www.embarcadero.com/products/delphi
I'd say the Delphi of today is better than ever. It's a shame it isn't more widely used. I really like it.
Re: Ask HN: Which abandoned proprietary software would you resurrect?
#707Picasa (desktop app). It hit a sweet spot for me - linux compatible, very easy to do the majority of simple edits (crop, rotate, colour tweaks), and a few other nice features. The only significant failing was that it couldn't handle removable media at all well. Shotwell is the best I've found so far, but it's not quite the right feature balance for me. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picasa https://en.wikipedia.org/wik…
I miss Picasa so much. I switched to Lightroom but I hate the subscription model and how heavy it is. I just want a light fast way of managing 500k photos and doing basic edits. Rotate, crop, export at specific resolutions for sharing, tagging, etc. I appreciate the power in Lightroom but I just don't need it.
Also, I'd love to switch to Linux full-time but that's the main program I'm lacking. I've tried most the suggestions but none handle high numbers of photos without becoming intolerably slow.
Re: Ask HN: Which abandoned proprietary software would you resurrect?
#708Picasa (desktop app). It hit a sweet spot for me - linux compatible, very easy to do the majority of simple edits (crop, rotate, colour tweaks), and a few other nice features. The only significant failing was that it couldn't handle removable media at all well. Shotwell is the best I've found so far, but it's not quite the right feature balance for me. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picasa https://en.wikipedia.org/wik…
Google photos is much better. There's not really any reason to continue using Picasa anymore. Most of the features it had were extremely primitive, like the facial recognition.
I don’t think Google Photo is a desktop software. And it cannot be used offline.
Re: Ask HN: Which abandoned proprietary software would you resurrect?
#709Picasa (desktop app). It hit a sweet spot for me - linux compatible, very easy to do the majority of simple edits (crop, rotate, colour tweaks), and a few other nice features. The only significant failing was that it couldn't handle removable media at all well. Shotwell is the best I've found so far, but it's not quite the right feature balance for me. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picasa https://en.wikipedia.org/wik…
I missed it too! After the Nth photo sharing website that I'd early-adopted decided to close up shop, I determined I wanted to own the next solution I invested time into, and I founded PhotoStructure. I've got 20-odd hard drives from laptops and servers and backups. No software that I tried, either open or closed source, would do what I wanted: organize everything into a nice, timestamped, deduped folder structure. M…
As a semi-pro photog who is very keen to quit Adobe completely, I'm very keen to try it out.
Curious about privacy aspects though. When you say it's a private cloud, does it communicate back to your servers at all?
Any goals for Linux compatibility?
I'd love something that can store the photos on a NAS or network share drive, runs its processing in a Docker container on my LAN, and serves a web app locally with absolutely no external internet access. That's basically my dream photo manager. I can connect to my own LAN remotely to access it then, without any need for the privacy/security risk of hosting my (and my clients) photos on some 3rd party server.
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#710VMCS Manufacturing solution from NCR. It was an entirely que based solution that ran on VRX (mainframe environment). Blisteringly fast. Why? Intelligent use of queues, single programs that read a que, did something, put results on a que, is how bank software was done, retail software, and many more. Its a simple model that predates OOP but actually entirely consistent with OOP principles. I had privilege to see this in 80s with NCRs manufacturing and retail software, at NCR (my first job) and at there biggest user in NZ (Farmers Trading Co.).