SGI. I wish they'd return, and build laptops and pocket computers. You know, give Apple a run for the money ..
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#442Wildfire, the phone system. Way, way ahead of its time. Microsoft bought it and dropped it.
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#443Rdio.
Grooveshark.
Sparrow email client.
de.licio.us
ffffound
TextMate (I know it’s still around)
bu.mp
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#444Earlier quoted context omitted.
Ahhh, the memories of spending after-school hours buying and selling silos for extra money (there was some thinko in the game logic - full silo was sold for more money than it cost to build, or something like that) in their first C&C game to build a massive army and crush the AI opponent. :)
full silo was sold for more money than it cost to build Seems like it makes sense though, since it would be full of money (ore)
C&C didn't have ore, it had Tiberium. Red Alert had ore and diamonds.
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#445Pebble - they created a series of smart watches that had:
- long battery life (2-7 days depending on model)
- e-ink colour screens, that were always on
- an extensive app/watchface ecosystem
- actual attractive watches
I had a series of them and was all-in on the new models announced via kickstarter, when they suddenly disappeared and were bought by Fitbit. All forthcoming products were killed off.
They've been pretty reasonable with sunsetting the servers and helping the community move towards an open model, but it's only a matter of time before my Pebble Time Round bites the dust and I can't fix it (my partner's has already gone)
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#446Altavista. I miss it every single day. Searching for technical (unix, programming, etc.) content is so much easier when you can use nested parens and proper boolean language. This is in contrast to google where searches return things that don't even contain your keywords. This is in contrast to google where the modifiers like allinsite: and '+' and "quotes" are not respected or change their behavior over time. Man I…
I hope someone somewhere makes a new version of Altavista search, if only for the developers. Searching via google is easy for basic errors but is a huge pain if you are slightly advanced. With the capabilities being extended (and more and more people writing code everyday), having a separate search engine dedicated to the developers could cut short the search times tremendously.
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#447KDE 3. I used it for years, it was a good and mostly stable desktop environment. Then with KDE 4 they added all kinds of fancy features that added instability, strange error messages and then made them non-optional.
KDE 3 has been forked in to Trinity.
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#448KDE 3. I used it for years, it was a good and mostly stable desktop environment. Then with KDE 4 they added all kinds of fancy features that added instability, strange error messages and then made them non-optional.
and GNOME 2 at that!
Gnome 2 has been forked into Mate.
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#449Hmmm, I'll have to think about that one some more.
Ironically, what directly comes to mind for me are two mice:
- The Genius DX-Eco
- The original Roccat Pyra
As far as I can tell, both aren't actively produced anymore. The DX-Eco was an attempt to power a wireless mouse with a capacitator that is loaded to full charge (~4h of usage) in 4 minutes. The Pyra was just a great mouse (and its successors have lost a lot of its great features): Optionally wireless, running on easily exchangable AAA batteries, not too big, good sensor, not too pricy (~30$, if I remember correctly), didn't need the crappy Roccat driver to work properly. I really wished I had bought a second one when mine broke.
On second thought, combining the two would sound even more exciting than bringing a single one of them back.
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#450Be and BeOS!
HaikuOS (modern rewrite of BeOS) just had its first beta release!