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28 oct. 2006

@apple@

My Dream App results are up, and boy are they boring.

A recipe database (wow, groundbreaking); a Time Machine-inspired Mac-to-Mac sync utility (might be useful, but the mockups don’t strike me as a must-have); and the winner is… a weather-dependent desktop background. I think I’m going to yawn to death.

Hurray for design by committee.

 

@web@

Quark Interactive Designer [via]: a new Flash animation maker with no programming or timeline — intended to make “banners, interactive tours, plus on-line and off-line Web presentations.

Actually, if Quark had any kind of pull whatsoever, this could be a very interesting concept, and could actually do a lot for the Flash format: a simple, cheap ($99 introductory price) application that allows you to make pages and sites that will look exactly the same way on every browser — if it’s done correctly, easily accessible and thoroughly layout-oriented, it’s exactly what Macromedia should have done (and Adobe should be planning) to make Flash really ubiquitous on the web (it makes no sense that the most basic version of Flash is $399 now). There’s a real market for helping people make simple, basic web pages (and elements) with Flash.

 

@windows@

Windows Vista to allow 10 activations. If only the could as easily fix software quality to calm public outcries. (Well, they tried. And they ended up with Vista. But they did try.)

 

@music@

Enhance your podcast audio with The Levelator. There should be a law against publishing podcasts without normalizing sound levels (but, if you have iLife’06, you’re better off using GarageBand with iChat to normalize each track separately).

 

@apple@

Take instant Photo Booth snapshots: eliminate the annoying countdown by pressing Option.

 

@apple@

A new junk drawer app: Nifty Box 1.0 [via]. The interface, with a small preview and nice tag support, is fine, but I’m not sure how useful this really is.

 

@web@

Vox has launched. Got to test it some more, but the post edit page doesn’t like Safari and, more importantly, the whole site doesn’t feel very welcoming.

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