HTML5 music streaming websites such as Grooveshark or rdio
Ask HN: What's the best tool you used to use that doesn't exist anymore?
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Re: Ask HN: What's the best tool you used to use that doesn't exist anymore?
#472Jasc 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.
Somehow Fireworks is still clinging to life and largely unchanged from the Macromedia days I think. I still find it ridiculously useful for web and mockups.
Re: Ask HN: What's the best tool you used to use that doesn't exist anymore?
#473Windows XP and its search feature- Win7 above does not have it. Yahoo Geocities- simply miss it. and also Yahoo in general. My current yahoo mail is chock a block with spam mails. plus their ads. Xerox Ventura desktop publishing software- that was cool when book publishing was required. Motorola T90/91 basic mobile phone. superb and handiest phone used. Current Moto is smart but not unbeatable. Most importantly old B…
Tap water varies greatly even over a small area. New York City, for example, is extremely proud of the quality of its water, which comes from reservoirs upstate. I noticed it was good before I ever found out that it's something they like to boast about. In DC, however, the chlorine is over the top, especially at times when they're flushing the lines. I find that most places are somewhere in between these two extremes…
True in states near the Himalayas like Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh the water is drinkable and pure. Down below at the plains it gets contaminated.
Organized shops charge here an extra for the plastic bag. Majority of grocery shops hand out ultra thin plastic bags which will choke the rivers and environment. But important thing is public attitude. The attitude now is to collect as many of these bags as one can. So there you go. If the municipal corporation enforces a separate charge or ban, things will shape up. I do use a reusable bag. I've stopped using plastic bags.
Re: Ask HN: What's the best tool you used to use that doesn't exist anymore?
#474Earlier quoted context omitted.
After removing tab groups I see literally zero reasons why anyone should use firefox. It's slower, more buggy copy of Opera and Chromium ;/
I use it for the history search in the address bar, it seems to remember far more history than Chrome which is really useful when I'm looking for that StackOverflow thread I read the other day.
My was one issue with Chrome: it didn't have the magic history search in the URL bar that Firefox.
UNTIL I discovered that if you disable "Use a prediction service to help complete searches and URLs" option for the Omnibar it works PERFECTLY, just like Firefox. Type in any part of the URL or title of the page and bingo.
Re: Ask HN: What's the best tool you used to use that doesn't exist anymore?
#475Kodachrome.
Agfa Scala, a wonderful B&W positive film. I have boxes of 6x6 slides and from time to time we watch then at home and it's just amazing.
Re: Ask HN: What's the best tool you used to use that doesn't exist anymore?
#476Crossties. It was a relational desktop for Windows 3.1 which could replace progman and allow you to set up associations with projects, contacts, etc -- for example, opening up someone's contact info would pull up the documents you were working on for them, etc. 20 years later, we still really don't have anything that can provide that sort of context on the desktop, or even worse, we don't have those kinds of relation…
Extremely interesting application.
I googled it and found a PC Mag review from 1994 with a funny passage: "We did a direct import of a 1000 record database from both ACT! And Organizer, and the operation took only a minute on a 486 system" :-)
Re: Ask HN: What's the best tool you used to use that doesn't exist anymore?
#4771. Delphi and its community 2. OptiPerl http://www.xarka.com/optiperl/features.html Though both are still available, not in use.
Delphi was awesome for rapid GUI development! It was so easy to get reasonable nice programs in a short amount of time. I really really miss it.
Delphi still exists.
Shouldn't be on the list anymore than any new JS framework flavour du jour.
Re: Ask HN: What's the best tool you used to use that doesn't exist anymore?
#478Windows XP and its search feature- Win7 above does not have it. Yahoo Geocities- simply miss it. and also Yahoo in general. My current yahoo mail is chock a block with spam mails. plus their ads. Xerox Ventura desktop publishing software- that was cool when book publishing was required. Motorola T90/91 basic mobile phone. superb and handiest phone used. Current Moto is smart but not unbeatable. Most importantly old B…
I miss the search feature in Windows XP too. But Agent Ransack is a very good replacement and it even integrates with the file explorer. Try it!
Wow it has Regexp. Let's see how it goes. Looks good. Thanks.
Re: Ask HN: What's the best tool you used to use that doesn't exist anymore?
#479Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Console gaming when it Just Worked. Nowadays when I pop in a game it's update this and update that, long loading times etc. This might be about to change with Nintendo's upcoming NX system rumoured to use ROM cartridges rather than optical media. The cart-based 3DS has loading times comparable to the Mega Drive or SNES (negligible). And the cartridge distribution model is great for this with sub-par internet connec…
There were still be patches and online services involved. You can also bet that they won't eschew online purchases and digital downloads. I know I won't buy it if I have to go back to physical media.
Given the price pr gig of flash chips these days, they can put the base game on ROM and put in a solid space for saves, patches and DLCs alongside.
Re: Ask HN: What's the best tool you used to use that doesn't exist anymore?
#480Windows XP and its search feature- Win7 above does not have it. Yahoo Geocities- simply miss it. and also Yahoo in general. My current yahoo mail is chock a block with spam mails. plus their ads. Xerox Ventura desktop publishing software- that was cool when book publishing was required. Motorola T90/91 basic mobile phone. superb and handiest phone used. Current Moto is smart but not unbeatable. Most importantly old B…
> BSNL Tariffs They have the unlimited thing now right, where you can make calls at night and they're free? > Tap water Are you talking about India or the US?
true India.