Wakan - an free Chinese and Japanese editor and dictionary. I strongly preferred it over the windows IME. And honestly I don't know why it was shut down either. It was freeware to begin with. They should have just open-sourced it. I would pay $20 maybe even $30 as a one time payment for software that does what it does.
Ask HN: Which abandoned proprietary software would you resurrect?
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Re: Ask HN: Which abandoned proprietary software would you resurrect?
#832I have a few software packages in mind: 1. The Genera operating system for Symbolics Lisp machines. Ever since I've gotten bitten by the Smalltalk and Lisp machine bugs, I've been wanting to use Genera, but I was born at the beginning of the last AI winter, and unfortunately the operating system is still proprietary, with no word about whether or not it will become open sourced. It's regrettable that the proverbial b…
I really like your dream. There are probably people on this forum with the right skills to make it happen if you want to pursue it in earnest.
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#834* 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…
> "High-performance lightweight desktop email clients"
I hope the SublimeHQ gods are listening to this
Re: Ask HN: Which abandoned proprietary software would you resurrect?
#835Adobe fireworks. There's still nothing that comes close to it's ergonomics and power for working with both vector and bitmap graphics while also allowing you to do layout reasonably effectively.
Same for me, it had many killer features:
* Shared symbols
* 9-Slice scaling tool
* GIF
* Bitmap tools
* Batch scripts
Re: Ask HN: Which abandoned proprietary software would you resurrect?
#836NewtonOS
Re: Ask HN: Which abandoned proprietary software would you resurrect?
#837NewtonOS
OneNote is ok. Windows is a terrible touch OS.
android and iOS are ok touch OSs but terrible with a stylus.
Newton was the only OS that was handwriting and touch from the ground up