Comments on: Konfabulator Will Have Some Company http://gigaom.com/apple/konfabulator-will-have-some-company/ Fri, 10 Feb 2012 15:36:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Mike http://gigaom.com/apple/konfabulator-will-have-some-company/#comment-305736 Sat, 30 Apr 2005 23:34:47 +0000 http://www.theappleblog.com/2005/04/14/konfabulator-will-have-some-company/#comment-305736

) you’re dragging out that old and *completely discredited* chestnut of “Dashboard was stolen from Konfabulator”. That’s completely wrong and you should definitely know by now why.

You’re right, one is for running javascript-based, user customizable, desk-accessory-type objects called “widgets”, while the other is for running javascript-based, user customizable, desk-accessory-type objects called “widgets”. Or is it the other way around?

Seriously, sarcasm aside, if any part of what I just said is incorrect, please provide an argument or link to back that up beyond “you should definitely know” because I don’t.

]]> By: Chris Stolzenberg http://gigaom.com/apple/konfabulator-will-have-some-company/#comment-305735 Sun, 24 Apr 2005 09:13:03 +0000 http://www.theappleblog.com/2005/04/14/konfabulator-will-have-some-company/#comment-305735 Nik you are right:

iPhoto sucks, its like letting the system control your files, reminds me of win. I prefer GC to control, organize and manipulate my pictures.

Besides that its good to know Apple watches the useful 3rd party helpers and integrates them if useful into the system even if its frustrating to developers, I loved for example my iTunes Control: Synergy it was well worth the couple of bucks.

]]> By: Eliah Hecht http://gigaom.com/apple/konfabulator-will-have-some-company/#comment-305734 Sat, 23 Apr 2005 16:52:14 +0000 http://www.theappleblog.com/2005/04/14/konfabulator-will-have-some-company/#comment-305734 Re: Spotlight: the killer for me is really that it defaults to “Show All” instead of “Top Hit”, so even if it picked the right result for me every single time, to launch something would be Cmd-Space, Down, Enter, instead of QS or LB’s Cmd-Space, Enter. That extra keystroke is really annoying.
Also it seems to search on substrings, instead of finding everything that contains your letters (as QS/LB do), so for instance “ffox” never finds Firefox, and “ps” never finds Photoshop.

]]> By: Jan-Hendrik Dorner http://gigaom.com/apple/konfabulator-will-have-some-company/#comment-305733 Sat, 23 Apr 2005 09:48:12 +0000 http://www.theappleblog.com/2005/04/14/konfabulator-will-have-some-company/#comment-305733 I programmed a while ago a personalized calendar, which includes the current weather condition and a forecast (please see my site
http://www.project24.info/weather.php for details). The calendar is quite popular ( over 1000 downloads from different persons every 24h).
But I think, the traffic will stop, because of the weather – widget.

]]> By: Richard Dalziel-Sharpe http://gigaom.com/apple/konfabulator-will-have-some-company/#comment-305732 Sat, 23 Apr 2005 09:18:58 +0000 http://www.theappleblog.com/2005/04/14/konfabulator-will-have-some-company/#comment-305732 A not re Spotlight to Eliah Hecht.
Spotlight requires several hours to fully index your HD so 15 minutes is hardly a trial.
Let it do a full index and use it for a few days as it has algorithms that learn how you use files.

]]> By: nik http://gigaom.com/apple/konfabulator-will-have-some-company/#comment-305731 Sat, 23 Apr 2005 04:13:52 +0000 http://www.theappleblog.com/2005/04/14/konfabulator-will-have-some-company/#comment-305731 Apple has long decided on integration vs. 3rd party – if they see something worth integrating they will. If that destroys / hampers 3rd party app writers, too bad.
I can understand this because it does indeed produce more value for the consumer. We get lots of extremely useful and highly polished applications for free with the OS. Do i mind? No.
As for the argument that 3rd party application developers will turn away from the Mac and do (what exactly?) instead, it’s not true. What is good for the platform is also good for 3rd party app developers.

ps; Except iPhoto – it keeps getting better, but it keeps sucking, too.

]]> By: Dmitry Markman http://gigaom.com/apple/konfabulator-will-have-some-company/#comment-305721 Sat, 23 Apr 2005 00:53:19 +0000 http://www.theappleblog.com/2005/04/14/konfabulator-will-have-some-company/#comment-305721 actually you can navigate Tiger’s Safari embedded
PDF document: use right click (or ctrl-click)
and you’ll see popup menu with all you need to
navigate the document

]]> By: Dmitry Markman http://gigaom.com/apple/konfabulator-will-have-some-company/#comment-305720 Sat, 23 Apr 2005 00:34:21 +0000 http://www.theappleblog.com/2005/04/14/konfabulator-will-have-some-company/#comment-305720 Safari’s PDF’s viewer isn’t rudimentary it’s based
on the new powerful PDFKit framework
what you see in the Tiger’s Safari isn’t an image
what is true that it doesn’t have controls to navigate pdf document
but I don’t like to see large pdf documents in the browser anyway and for short pdfs I don’t need
the controls

]]> By: response to articel http://gigaom.com/apple/konfabulator-will-have-some-company/#comment-305719 Fri, 22 Apr 2005 22:48:29 +0000 http://www.theappleblog.com/2005/04/14/konfabulator-will-have-some-company/#comment-305719 Apple’s display of PDFs inline is rudimentary at best. Basically, it displays it as an image. I don’t think anyone (Neither Schubert nor Adobe) has to worry about their implementation.

]]> By: Stephan Huebner http://gigaom.com/apple/konfabulator-will-have-some-company/#comment-305718 Fri, 22 Apr 2005 22:39:33 +0000 http://www.theappleblog.com/2005/04/14/konfabulator-will-have-some-company/#comment-305718 The best thing about the article is that it doesn’t critizise apple for including new features in its OS. I am really happy that Apple does such a good job (imho) in including useful features in OSX. And why shouldn’t it, even if someone else had “invented” something before? I mean, which software-developer can truely say he has made a program that doesn’t rely on anything else / any other program / any other way of doing things that wasn’t invented in an earlier program?
One last thing: As good as some of the 3rd-party-utilities are, they are just that: Programs that run together with others on the OS. In most cases they consume CPU-Power, RAM, whatever. I think the more elegant way is to have such functions within the OS itself. I personally prefer using the systems own functions over 3rd-party utilities. if they are comparable. I like having a “cleaner” system”. But that’s just me :-)

]]> By: Jeremy Pinnix http://gigaom.com/apple/konfabulator-will-have-some-company/#comment-305716 Fri, 22 Apr 2005 18:25:58 +0000 http://www.theappleblog.com/2005/04/14/konfabulator-will-have-some-company/#comment-305716 I have to agree with Brian regarding Dashboard. There are plenty of examples of prior art.

Good summary otherwise Nick.

]]> By: SmartMarc http://gigaom.com/apple/konfabulator-will-have-some-company/#comment-305725 Fri, 22 Apr 2005 18:13:01 +0000 http://www.theappleblog.com/2005/04/14/konfabulator-will-have-some-company/#comment-305725 BTW… Acrobat 7 ships with it’s own Browser Plug-In for viewing PDFs in Safari

]]> By: Nick Santilli http://gigaom.com/apple/konfabulator-will-have-some-company/#comment-305726 Fri, 22 Apr 2005 18:08:19 +0000 http://www.theappleblog.com/2005/04/14/konfabulator-will-have-some-company/#comment-305726 Noah – I don’t know from personal use, I’m just referring to what was said on the Tiger New Features page:
http://www.apple.com/macosx/newfeatures/newfeatures.html

I would assume to activate you would single click the time in the menubar. if that doesn’t work, then maybe there’s a setting to turn it on/off in System Preferences Time settings.

]]> By: Noah http://gigaom.com/apple/konfabulator-will-have-some-company/#comment-305727 Fri, 22 Apr 2005 18:00:39 +0000 http://www.theappleblog.com/2005/04/14/konfabulator-will-have-some-company/#comment-305727 I’m curious about your comment regarding displaying iCal items in the system clock… I’ve got Tiger and I don’t see any way of doing this.

]]> By: Eliah Hecht http://gigaom.com/apple/konfabulator-will-have-some-company/#comment-305724 Fri, 22 Apr 2005 17:48:47 +0000 http://www.theappleblog.com/2005/04/14/konfabulator-will-have-some-company/#comment-305724

You forgot to mention LaunchBar being redundant because of Tigers Spotlight.

Negative. I used Spotlight for about fifteen minutes before switching back to Quicksilver. It’s nice for searching, but crap for launching: too slow, and the highlight doesn’t default to the top search result. Now I’m just wishing I could get that stupid icon out of my menu bar…

]]> By: enc http://gigaom.com/apple/konfabulator-will-have-some-company/#comment-305723 Fri, 22 Apr 2005 17:44:49 +0000 http://www.theappleblog.com/2005/04/14/konfabulator-will-have-some-company/#comment-305723 You forgot to mention LaunchBar being redundant because of Tigers Spotlight.

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