OK, if the winner of the Apple Design Awards is somebody who can simply eye-candy up a chess-player... that's telling.

Look at what swayed it for them. Was it that the app was actually USEFUL? Nah-ah. It simply showcased Rendezvous, Mail, iChat, and friggin' iTunes.

And it took the gold.

All of us need to remember, that there are ancient, command-line chess programs that are powerful. Apple's OWN chess program was quite nice. So it had kinda been done... but when the top world-beating OS X app at the WORLDWIDE DEVELOPERS CONFERENCE, is well, a chess game... kinda makes you wonder.

Nothing against Freeverse. They're great. But to take "BEST MAC OS X PRODUCT" and "BEST MAC OS X TECHNOLOGY ADOPTION"??

Chess? With me teasing these guys all the time about their juicy chessclub brains but no practical applications arising? Did I call it?

Link?

Never mind. I found it.

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And the winner of the Best Mac OS X Crap Settler is...

Hey, we need our own awards, brother thalo. Let's see...the categories. Best Eye Roll Inducer. Best use of gratuitous and unnecessary eye candy. Etc., Etc.

Yeah, the thalo.net awards. Too bad if we took it seriously, and voted for quality, nothing would get nominated, lol. Unless we do what the shill rags do, and give "best" status because it's the best in a field of crappy also rans.

But yeah, maybe like you say, we point out the worst of the worst. "Most Bloated" "Easiest to Break" "Least Reliable"... ya think X would sweep the crappies?

All those designers competing for the coveted thalo.net pile rating.

…ya think X would sweep the crappies?

I wish I knew a sculptural artist. I'd love to see a dark (very dark) bronze dog-crap-swirl award with steaming highlights, all on a classy pedestal much like the Oscar.

For Worst Use of Stripes I'd like to nominate Microsoft Word (the Test Drive version). Somewhere in between (or beyond) the stripes are toolbar icons. It's hard to tell.

For Best Use of Beachball to Pretend the Program is Actually Doing Something I'd like to nominate The Finder.

For I'm in Love with Mind Metal, and it Shows I'd like to nominate Xupport (an otherwise useful utility).

For Best GUI App that is Nothing But a Front End for the CLI I nominate TinkerTool.

For Best Less-Is-More App I'd like to nominate DeLocalizer. Nothing wipes out vast swaths of OS X faster or better than DeLocalizer.

For Best OS X App that (minus the stripes) Actually Looks Like it was Built for OS 9 I nominate NotePad Deluxe.

For the I Drank the Kool-Aid…Every Last Drop I'd like to nominate Konfabulator.

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Hey, we need our own awards, brother thalo. Let's see...the categories. Best Eye Roll Inducer. Best use of gratuitous and unnecessary eye candy. Etc., Etc.

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How about: Best Smiling Rendition of “Thank You, Sir, May I Have Another” By An X-Man While Being Reamed Up The Ass By Apple?


Markle

Microsoft Office apps get "Slowest Friggin' Startup" that's for sure. And all of Office gets the "Least likely to work with dark highlight colors."

I swear, that's the first thing I test now. I go and set my text highlight color to black or a dark color, and see if the highlighted text drops out to white globally across the app. This is something that should work across the entire operating system, but almost never does.