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My Dream App Winners Announced!
The votes are in folks, and the winners are Atmosphere, Portal, and Cookbook, with Portal beating out Hijack by only 5 votes. It looked like Hijack had Portal beaten, that is before the filtering of fraudulent votes. Fraudulent votes were defined as more than 50 votes for the same application originating from the same IP address. With a result this close, there are bound to be some sore feelings between winners and losers, but let's just try and remember it's not the end of the world, and life will go on. So did your preferred app make the cut? Let us know in the comments.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
Dustin said 11:43PM on 10-25-2006
Atmosphere was my favourite right from the get-go.
Hijack looked amazing too, and hopefully someone will develop it. 5 votes!
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Peter Koritschan said 11:54PM on 10-25-2006
am so happy my super favorites made the cut... am excited about atmosphere.... always wanted an app like this... and the mockups look soo fabulous...
cookbook is also greatly well thought out and i can't wait to see it.... just hoping the shopping list integration won't be U.S. only, but expandable to other countries as well :)
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Gecko said 12:05AM on 10-26-2006
Dammit I wanted Hijack to be made - I wont use any of the ones that made the cut except for Atmosphere - its pretty cool.
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Jason said 12:10AM on 10-26-2006
Cookbook was always a favorite of mine. Nice to see it made the cut.
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moksha said 12:41AM on 10-26-2006
You mean Cookbook beat out Hijack by 5 votes, not Portal. Portal won by 18.
I mourn the death of Hijack.
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FritzsCorner said 12:45AM on 10-26-2006
I personally wanted Destinations from the beginning but it got cut early. I suppose out of the final 6 apps I liked Whistler and Portal the most. Portal sounds like a good idea and being a multiple mac user I might even give it a shot, but it is going to have to offer something that no other app can do and do it extremely well in order for me to move away from my current mish-mash of free apps.
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Schlaeps said 12:55AM on 10-26-2006
Well...
I really wanted some other application design to win... but not because it wasn't a good idea... but because I had already started developing an app similar to atmosphere... but oh well, I bet they'll implement it better than I could...
...or maybe I could make a freeware version? :)
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Benjamin said 1:08AM on 10-26-2006
I will never understand the fascination with atmosphere... That's what I have windows for! I begin to think that perhaps the mac community is indeed more about eye candy than productivity. Portal, and Hijack were the only ones I could actualy see as being useful, with perhaps Destinations and the GTD app close seconds. But the idea behind Hijack was so completely wonderful. Any forum user should kill for such an application! Oh well.
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totoro said 1:10AM on 10-26-2006
wow, they allowed 50 votes for one app from one IP? But the 51st was the warning sign? Whatever happened to 1 IP, 1 vote, like most sites have enabled?
anyways, glad to see Atmosphere made it!
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Scott said 1:14AM on 10-26-2006
what about companies that are behind a NAT? What about large companies that are behind a NAT? I think that sure there is some fraud, but i'm getting tired of this whole vote abuse thing because I keep getting blocked being behind a NAT and working with several hundred other techies.
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MikeRapin said 1:48AM on 10-26-2006
Boo! I seriously don't get the point of Atmosphere.
Besides, I was rooting for Desktop Wars way back solely because it was a great idea. Too bad it never made the finals. :-(
-Mike
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Brandon said 2:27AM on 10-26-2006
The only app I was interested in was Hijack...it was the most original and useful IMO.
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Aaron Gyes said 2:36AM on 10-26-2006
Schlaeps: open source
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Mark D. said 4:16AM on 10-26-2006
Atmosphere made it yay! I was hoping for Whistler, I really really wanted to thumb-drum a song out, and Blossom seemed like it'd have been a nice way to motivate, and compete (my plant is fuller and is in bloom, hah!)
For those that point out the fact that windows, doors, and random holes in the wall achieve Atmosphere's goal, well yes, but I'm on of those folks that love the weather widget and have weather plugins in firefox for my PCs. The idea of expanding that to a GOOD looking full desktop is probably the capstone for me. Also I like the idea of making the screen a window to the world, helps break out of that flat, static, dry feel.
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Sam said 4:50AM on 10-26-2006
I REALLY need to get out more. I read this:
"I will never understand the fascination with atmosphere... That's what I have windows for!"
And I spent a good minute or so trying to figure out why someone would have Windows running on a different computer, just to look at live-updating weather conditions on a computer screen.
REAL windows. Gotcha.
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moog said 5:17AM on 10-26-2006
What a shame. Some of the entries had real potential too.
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Azumanga said 8:03AM on 10-26-2006
Now, I think that Atmosphere might amuse me for half an hour or so. But is anyone seriously going to pay for it?
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Tobias said 8:06AM on 10-26-2006
I don't believe it.
My Hijack t-shirt arrived today, I thought it was a sign Portal wasn't going to make it. Now I've got it and the Ground Control shirt...
I'm going to bed. It's been a rough ride. Thanks to everyone who voted! I've got general relativity tomorrow. I need sleep...
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Dave Caoo said 9:40AM on 10-26-2006
I don't get it...how do I download Atmosphere?
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LD said 10:11AM on 10-26-2006
Hey, wow, now I can check the weather! I have NEVER seen another app, widget, browser plugin, website that can do that! That is a DREAM COME TRUE!
I don't care if it looks pretty. It's a cool concept and I might even shell out a few bucks for it. But it's certainly not a "dream app" by any means.
A dream app should be something that adds to your daily productivity, not simply that adds to staring at pretty pictures of the weather conditions.
Lame.
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