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Re: Ask HN: What's the best tool you used to use that doesn't exist anymore?

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YUI library.

It was a very nice CSS and Javascript framework that was much easier to use for complex UIs than the competition. It had lots of good UI components with an integrated event and data source system.

One example is the data table. I haven't found anything better since, and most are not even comparable

Re: Ask HN: What's the best tool you used to use that doesn't exist anymore?

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norton commander & pctools

FAR manager is norton commander-style tool for modern windows, it's quite useful in some use cases.

Okay I kind of miss DRDOS 6.0 and doing my autoexec.bat by hand trying to break the 640kb limits that Bill decided would be more than enough for any use. That's when I installed Eight Megabytes And Constantly Swap (EMACS) to prove the superiority of Linux

Re: Ask HN: What's the best tool you used to use that doesn't exist anymore?

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Tab Groups Still works, I use it on a daily basis. It's just an addon now. It will probably continue to work for a few years, they've been wanting to get rid of it since 2013 ( https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=836758 ) and it's still there. But I'd be glad to hear of any alternatives!

I've seen this plugin but I don't understand the use case. Group of tabs = a browser window. Am I missing out on a productivity boost?

Personally I agree, especially with Mac's CMD+` to cycle through them.

But I guess it adds another level for grouping things that are in the same window but slightly different, or maybe some people are just prejudiced against multiple browser windows..

The only thing I can think of that isn't just down to "how you use it" would be grouping tabs in the same cookie session, but not persistent - i.e. an incognito window with a bunch of tabs you want to organise, but share cookies. That being important seems like a stretch though.

Re: Ask HN: What's the best tool you used to use that doesn't exist anymore?

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Action Replay You could freeze the whole system (e.g. game) with the push of a button, increase your lives and resume ... http://ar.c64.org/wiki/Action_Replay

was even better than SoftIce

thank you! both was removed from my memory. good old days

Re: Ask HN: What's the best tool you used to use that doesn't exist anymore?

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Google Reader. There are no replacements that a) update fast enough, and b) allow search for free. I know, I tried all of them. Firefox had an amazing plugin called "Ubiquity", which was basically like command line for your browser and you could write custom scripts for it. It was seriously better than anything that exists today. They stopped developing it for some reason. Tab Groups is another feature that's now aba…

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Re: Ask HN: What's the best tool you used to use that doesn't exist anymore?

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post #331

YUI library. It was a very nice CSS and Javascript framework that was much easier to use for complex UIs than the competition. It had lots of good UI components with an integrated event and data source system. One example is the data table. I haven't found anything better since, and most are not even comparable

I also had a good experience with YUI v2/v3.

Re: Ask HN: What's the best tool you used to use that doesn't exist anymore?

#339

Deluxe Paint: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deluxe_Paint ArtGem was a nice spiritual successor but sadly it's gone too: http://www.rlvision.com/artgem_about.asp

I've found http://www.aseprite.org/ to be a reasonable alternative to DPaint. The UI is quite different, but on the other hand it has lots of more "modern" features, like layers. Source code available under GPLv2, but you can also buy binaries.

Re: Ask HN: What's the best tool you used to use that doesn't exist anymore?

#340

Google Reader Fireworks ( a image editor for web designers ) Livemesh ( which was way better than one drive, it could sync your entire computer in the cloud ).

Fireworks was awesome. Such a strange decision to get rid of it, I've never managed to replace it really... Any ideas of an alternative.

https://gravit.io/

http://www.sketchapp.com/

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