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Mystery student identified: developer of EZiD

The identity of the student featured in this picture with Steve Jobs has been discovered. His coworker Jesse is a fan of TUAW and let Martin (that's the dude in the picture) know that he had been featured on TUAW.

So, what was he showing to Steve? Why his application which is called EZiD. It creates 'decks' of like windows to clear up cluttered screens. Sounds a lot like the rumored 'Piles' feature that Apple was playing around with for awhile, though for windows (as was pointed out in the comments).

The app is clearly not ready for prime time (it didn't work on my MacBook Pro), but I am sure Martin got lots of great pointers at WWDC.

Now if you'll excuse me I am going to ponder exactly how Steve can fire someone who doesn't work for him. The man is powerful.

The identity of the student featured in this picture with Steve Jobs has been discovered. His coworker Jesse is a fan of TUAW and let...
 

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GQmacguy

had to type hdiutil eject -force "device_entry" in terminal to get it to stop . Still couldnt figure out what was running in the background.

August 23 2006 at 10:05 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
GQmacguy

Yeah... I tested the app out real quick from inside the disk image (I always test apps out like that, just for this reason). I closed the app then when to eject the disk image, and lo and behold, can't eject cuz the program left things runnning in the back ground.

August 23 2006 at 8:58 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Wys

What i expected: finder windows organized in small piles, activating exposé's "show application windows" when i click one of them.

What i got: the damn, ugly and inefficient "cascade windows" from the shoddy MS operational system.

Thanks for making my iBook experience how it is to have windows. Hated it.

August 23 2006 at 7:07 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Woody Sabran

His web site is beaucoup poo poo...

August 23 2006 at 3:54 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
starwxrwx

like cascade in Windows? I hate cascade - give me a tile feature though, that would rock

August 23 2006 at 12:39 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
nivenh

you should see the windows version if you think the mac one is bad. :S

August 22 2006 at 7:38 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Jeff Bennett

Running EZID sent my "Little Snitch" into a panic. Little snitch, which monitors any application trying to Phone user data home, told me EZID was attempting to install itself in places the snitch couldn't monitor it. I force quit the app. Anyone care to tell us what EZiD is up to?

August 22 2006 at 7:32 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
tripdragon

that is soooo not piles.. it's neat ,, but Piles was the tool to beat

August 22 2006 at 6:39 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Will

Is it me or does that look lk vista's crappy aero feature?

August 22 2006 at 6:23 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
spil

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"Now if you'll excuse me I am going to ponder exactly how Steve can fire someone who doesn't work for him. The man is powerful."

ROFL, you "pwn'd" him

August 22 2006 at 5:32 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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