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