Filed under: Humor, OS, Software, Cool tools
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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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
m said 2:14PM on 8-18-2007
Final Cut Pro for papercraft
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Rafe H. said 2:22PM on 8-18-2007
Terminal. Now I can do anything.
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Tinlad said 2:29PM on 8-18-2007
Boot Camp - The option to easily switch to a completely different life (that has more games).
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Napoleon Volatile said 2:34PM on 8-18-2007
One simple command; undo.
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Aeron Prometheus Michaelangelo said 2:40PM on 8-18-2007
Time Machine
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superadam said 3:05PM on 8-18-2007
Automator
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Gerald Buckley said 3:10PM on 8-18-2007
Hands down... Time Machine.
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derek said 3:17PM on 8-18-2007
This guy sounds like his personal life is fucking chaos
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Fernando said 4:36PM on 8-18-2007
Yeah, Uno would be cool.
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Craig Syverson said 4:47PM on 8-18-2007
iWork
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michas_pi said 5:03PM on 8-18-2007
Cover Flow for my closet...oh wait
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Sumsa said 5:16PM on 8-18-2007
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 ...
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Scooper said 6:26PM on 8-18-2007
Office 2004! ;-)
I would say Time Machine
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yakov chodosh said 6:52PM on 8-18-2007
spotlight
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Stephen Macklin said 7:10PM on 8-18-2007
iGTD
It would just get done whatever task I entered.
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Stephen Macklin said 7:12PM on 8-18-2007
I could use a little compression around the midsection. I wouldn't even mind if it were lossy!
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Taylor said 7:38PM on 8-18-2007
I can't even express how often I wish I had Spotlight in real life.
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Mo said 10:52PM on 8-18-2007
Stickies!
Oh, wait…
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omnicloud said 11:10PM on 8-18-2007
The whole Mac OS X operating system.
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Quine said 8:05AM on 8-19-2007
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.
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