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Ask HN: Which abandoned proprietary software would you resurrect?
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Re: Ask HN: Which abandoned proprietary software would you resurrect?
#712Firefox 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…
I'd be curious to know what about the new webextensions based Tree Style Tab doesn't work for you? I use it all the time. For Google Reader, I am using BazQux and really like it. No ads, no smart "suggestions", just a very simple UI and reading experience.
Agreed. BazQux is worth every penny of the $20 annual subscription, and a lot more.
The current TreeStyleTabs extension mostly works, although it occasionally exhibits weird behavior (dropped tabs ending up under other tabs instead, etc). Still, I can't live without it.
Re: Ask HN: Which abandoned proprietary software would you resurrect?
#713Norton Commander - I use Mac and PC daily, and managing files has never been as fast and powerful as it was with NC. Windows Explorer and Finder are pretty weak file managers.
Re: Ask HN: Which abandoned proprietary software would you resurrect?
#714* 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…
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.
It's effectively single-threaded, with all the I/O running on the same thread as the GUI (oh import is so fun). And you need to load the entire metadata database for a folder into memory at once.
I have looked into fixing it before, but it does require redoing pretty much the entire API, which means its several man-years of developer work. And Mozilla has never invested enough in Thunderbird to let that sort of work get done.
Re: Ask HN: Which abandoned proprietary software would you resurrect?
#715Norton Commander - I use Mac and PC daily, and managing files has never been as fast and powerful as it was with NC. Windows Explorer and Finder are pretty weak file managers.
You may be interested in fman[0]. Dual pane file manager, actively developed. I don't believe it has feature parity with Norton Commander, but it's a good modern alternative. The developer is also active on HN.
[0] https://fman.io
Re: Ask HN: Which abandoned proprietary software would you resurrect?
#716Earlier quoted context omitted.
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 absol…
I have installers for Mac, 64 bit Windows 10, and 64 bit Ubuntu. My CI suite runs all ~2,600 tests on all three platforms after every commit.
Your images, videos, and metadata stay yours, and are not uploaded anywhere.
Currently I've got error reporting that phones home if there are critical problems detected, but the log events only include the stack trace and possibly the path to the problem file.
PhotoStructure spins up a webserver bound to localhost by default. In other words, other machines in your LAN can't open the PhotoStructure web UI (unless you set an environment variable or use ssh port forwarding).
Sign up via the website or send me an email, I'd love to hear your thoughts and feedback.
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#717Earlier 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.
> Gmail lags severely compared to when I use Thunderbird.
The number of times where I am typing an email and somehow trigger hot keys is absolutely ridiculous. Mid-word and suddenly I've deleted the draft, changed labels, and muted & archived a critical conversation is absolutely infuriating. It's Outlook level bad.
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#7183D Movie Maker by Microsoft: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3D_Movie_Maker
I had a blast making cartoons as a kid with this program.
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#719Earlier quoted context omitted.
> 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.
That and Microsoft didn't support developers.
Re: Ask HN: Which abandoned proprietary software would you resurrect?
#720The Miranda programming language: http://miranda.org.uk/