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What program would you like Apple to develop next?
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I really want to see Apple release iWork '07 with a spreadsheet and a database application. The database application could just be a front-end to Tiger's built in SQLite.
For all those wanting MS Paint, there are zillions of Mac apps that fill the same bill. My favorite is the swiss army knife of image apps, GraphicConverter. It give you all the pencil, line, and bucket fill tools as MS Paint does, but with so, so much more. It's shareware, it may already be on your computer and if it isn't you go to versiontracker.com and download it.
Orlando Furioso said:Come on guys... a "REAL" web-designer only needs TextEdit.
Hah, dude I'm so with you. When I started making web pages I still had to explain to people what the web was! Kids these days just just open a wysiwyg editor, drag and drop pictures of their dog drinking from the toilet, then pull down a menu and apply the "Star Wars theme" and it outputs a multimillion dollar movie staring their toilet drinking dog in space, then they push a button and it publishes to the web. In my day, to make a web page we had to build a computer from a pile of sand, ride a bicycle to power a generator, and then build our web page by manually putting numbers into memory locations, and we liked it!
He-he... I only use TextWrangler and Cyberduck myself (and try as often as I can to use Seashore and not Photoshop)... but it would still be nice with a complete professionally/prosumer web-suite from Apple. Especially if it contained some database application, so you could make php/mysql pages very easily... (then use TextWrangler to tweak it, of courseOrlando Furioso said:Come on guys... a "REAL" web-designer only needs TextEdit.
).When I started using the web everything was WYSIWYG and the only browser was also the only HTML editor*... then people on other platforms started joining the web and had to hand code their pages. And then people on Windows systems started using the web and we had to change all our file names and extensions to fit the 8.3 DOS/Windows naming limitations.motulist said:
Yeah, it's been interesting watching the web start out, take a number of steps backwards, and then finally move forwards past were it started.
Of course when I started using the web it was basically only used by institutions of higher learning... and I used it like that until I found out that other things had made it to the web (around 1996), which was quite a surprise to me.
*Actually, while I worked on NeXT systems a lot back then, I also worked on SGIs and Suns and used to browse using xmosaic too, but my first web page (a small abstract of a paper I was working on) was made on a NeXTstation.
Why not try out appleworks
Well as you can see I m a MacRumors newbie. I m new to macs as well. So please correct me if I`m wrong.
Doesnt Paint in AppleWorks do the same job(almost) as ms paint. I mean it`s free. Comes with the OSX. And aint much resource hungry. So why is every one asking for a ms paint clone. I didnt find any thing I cud do in the MsPaint and cant in appleworks.
Ok. I havent really used the software much and just checked it out right now only to confirm. But it looks OK to me. It has all the tools found in MsPaint.
calebjohnston said:
Well as you can see I m a MacRumors newbie. I m new to macs as well. So please correct me if I`m wrong.
Doesnt Paint in AppleWorks do the same job(almost) as ms paint. I mean it`s free. Comes with the OSX. And aint much resource hungry. So why is every one asking for a ms paint clone. I didnt find any thing I cud do in the MsPaint and cant in appleworks.
Ok. I havent really used the software much and just checked it out right now only to confirm. But it looks OK to me. It has all the tools found in MsPaint.
I vote for time-travel and a matter-transporter.
That'd be grand.
It could be part of front row.. have a 5th selection that is integrated with google maps.
Enter coordinates and a year, and BAM!
I think if anyone could do it, Apple could.
I'd be all over that.
That'd be grand.
It could be part of front row.. have a 5th selection that is integrated with google maps.
Enter coordinates and a year, and BAM!
I think if anyone could do it, Apple could.
I'd be all over that.
I'd like to see Numbers in iWork '07. One application I miss from my PC is Excel. It may be bloated, but it really is very useful. Omni Outliner is a nice piece of software and is pretty good, but is somewhat restricted, IMHO.
I would love an open ended organiser program, like how iTunes is for organising your music, only you can make your own file definitions and columns, and organise it and make smart playlists for whatever data you want, not just music and quicktime.
Yes I know that is a database, but people like me do not have the inclination to use or learn much of filemaker or MS Access, and those programs can get pretty complicated pretty quickly.
If you started your new database and it looked exactly like iTunes (as a default template) then you just start dropping any files you want in, or writing your own entries based on what you want, not just the Name/Artist/Album etc. fields that iTunes gives you. Then you do your smart playlists and stuff and there you have an increibly functional and fast database, all set up in a short amount of time, using the same catalog engine/features that iTunes lets you have!
Man that would beat Access and Filemaker hands down (for my uses)! It would embody that apple spirit of "a database for the rest of us"
Yes I know that is a database, but people like me do not have the inclination to use or learn much of filemaker or MS Access, and those programs can get pretty complicated pretty quickly.
If you started your new database and it looked exactly like iTunes (as a default template) then you just start dropping any files you want in, or writing your own entries based on what you want, not just the Name/Artist/Album etc. fields that iTunes gives you. Then you do your smart playlists and stuff and there you have an increibly functional and fast database, all set up in a short amount of time, using the same catalog engine/features that iTunes lets you have!
Man that would beat Access and Filemaker hands down (for my uses)! It would embody that apple spirit of "a database for the rest of us"
The #1 program i want in particular is something more core image based for Image editing and design. More of a photoshop touch than what aperture offers.
And honestly i don't care if apple creates it. I just think there is so much potential with core image in this field
And honestly i don't care if apple creates it. I just think there is so much potential with core image in this field
Nuc said:
Yes, Wine works well if (1) the windows app is on the "gold list" of supported aps and (2) you have lots of RAM.
I've found that you have better compatabilty running Windows in a virual environmet. but you need even more RAM for that. Google "QEMU" for more infor on this