Mac OS X tools for real life

This article made me chuckle-- Stuart Frisby of Thirty Six Degrees wrote a short piece about five Mac OS X tools not that he'd like to see on the iPhone, but that he'd like to see in Analog Life (or Analogue Life, in his case).

The Finder function is an old favorite-- it really would be great to find your keys via a Spotlight-like interface. But Disk Utility in real life would be a nice bonus as well; a quick Restore right after I'd said something inappropriate to a lady friend would be a lifesaver. But the best would be Uno-- every car could be a Porsche, everyone could be beautiful all the time, and even fast food could taste like steak.

Five tools doesn't seem like enough-- if you could put a Mac OS X app to work in your real life, what would you choose?

Thanks, James!

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Source: http://36-degrees.co.uk/2007/08/five-os-x-tools-for-your-ana…

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Michael Rose

Front Row: One button press and my life transforms into my favorite movie.

August 20 2007 at 4:44 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Quine

I'm totally shocked no one has mentioned this yet:

QUICKSILVER

I mean...I wave my hands, and a document is instantly faxed to my boss (no matter where I actually am). I wave them again, and I've got myself on my friends' #1 favorite person spot. Once more and everyone in the world knows that I'm on vacation when they try to contact me.

August 19 2007 at 8:03 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

omnicloud

The whole Mac OS X operating system.

August 18 2007 at 11:10 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Stickies!

Oh, waitâ€¦

August 18 2007 at 10:52 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Taylor

I can't even express how often I wish I had Spotlight in real life.

August 18 2007 at 7:37 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Stephen Macklin

I could use a little compression around the midsection. I wouldn't even mind if it were lossy!

August 18 2007 at 7:11 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Stephen Macklin

iGTD

It would just get done whatever task I entered.

August 18 2007 at 7:10 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Yakov Chodosh

spotlight

August 18 2007 at 6:52 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Rickumus

Office 2004! ;-)

I would say Time Machine

August 18 2007 at 6:25 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Sumsa

Yeah, undo would be great; or just being able to hit "command-S" as backup sometimes..

But I highly agree with Rafe H. choosing the Terminal - just think what you might see in your room if you could cast ls -la ? Or how easy relationships could be with a chmod 777 ...

August 18 2007 at 5:16 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply