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What's your favorite app of all time?

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Re: What's your favorite app of all time?

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Post by perucoder »

Drumbeat by Elemental Software

The first time I used this program, I was amazed. I had just started coding and here was a WYSIWG editor for data driven pages.

The program was buggy as hell and it was almost like learning another language the way I had to learn all the quirks of this program. But it gave me my start and I probably wouldn't have learned to code better if it had created halfway decent code.

Re: What's your favorite app of all time?

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Post by templaedhel »

momotomo wrote: post #7
templaedhel wrote: post #4

I just found zenbe lists after so much extensive searching that I considered coding my own. I make lists of things, but not todo lists, just lists of books to read, things to code, music to buy, things to do before releasing a version etc. So I didn't like all the list apps that forced the todo aspect. Zenbe lists didn't though, and it works nice on my iPhone, which is also a plus/

Just signed up, impressive. The fact you can generate an entire list just by text + return key is great design. I've been using notepad for this kind of thing previously because I just want a simple think of it / dump it / get back to it later type catchall. This suits the function perfectly.

The only problem is the UI isn't as sexy as it could be, and they have some weird sync ux with the iPhone app. All works fine however.

Re: What's your favorite app of all time?

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Post by nl »

1) MacPaint - the original, on a Black & White 128kb Mac.

2) Usenet, Unix, VMS & Slirp (http://slirp.sourceforge.net/). I got to university and didn't know where to start

2) Doom. OMFG

3) Eclipse. The first time I saw the "Extract Method" refactoring I was speechless.

4) Google desktop search. Back when I had to use Outlook this let me actually find my email messages.

5) Dropbox. Been mentioned before, but it really did impress me that much.

Re: What's your favorite app of all time?

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Post by bloomshed »

nl wrote: post #15

1) MacPaint - the original, on a Black & White 128kb Mac. 2) Usenet, Unix, VMS & Slirp ( http://slirp.sourceforge.net/ ). I got to university and didn't know where to start 2) Doom. OMFG 3) Eclipse. The first time I saw the "Extract Method" refactoring I was speechless. 4) Google desktop search. Back when I had to use Outlook this let me actually find my email messages. 5) Dropbox. Been mentioned before, but it reall…

I used to love a game called Stuntcopter on our family's old grayscale macintosh. You'd drop the guy out of the helicopter through the clouds into a horse-drawn hay wagon.

We also had Microleague Baseball, which I wish I could find now it would be amazing. That game was awesome, it had custom speech capability and everything. EA Sports could learn a thing or three from them.

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