On 3/13/11, Nick Sabalausky <[email protected]> wrote: > snip OSX is a nice OS. I gave it a try once or twice. The OS is nice, but man, when I started looking for software on the web I almost got sick. "Top 10 software for Your Mac", "5 Apps that will make your Mac Experience Awesome!", "This app will make you feel a Better Mac Person". "You deserve Beautiful Mac Software".
Ugh.. It's like every single app has a 10$ price tag and it's all about selling bullshit with pretty words hidden behind colorful websites. There was a text editor that had this one major feature: Full screen mode with black side-bars. That was it. Nothing else, just a text editor with black bars on the side running at full-screen. And there's a whole website devoted to how awesome and inspiring and unique this is, how it "helps you focus". And a price tag. People buy this shit, it's unbelievable. There was also this thread on Reddit with a guy making some window-management software. All it did was divide the screen and resized the windows and put them side by side or something. And apparently this was so awesome everyone started yelling "Take my wallet NOW!!!". Same thing happened on ycombinator. I know of at least Autohotkey which came out in 2003 with which you can do window management with ease. Hotkeys, keyboard or mouse, or add buttons to your taskbar that do whatever you want with your windows. There's an entire community devoted to writing all sorts of cool window management scripts, and that's just one small feature of this app. But apparently this Mac software that resizes windows is revolutionary, comes with a price tag and everyone thought it was the best thing that ever happened.
