samsung is poison I just signed in to the galaxy store to update good lock because it broke on me and now it's spamming my notifications with ads for their own services and enabling things without my permission
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this is a little utility for the Mac called Sapiens. I could tell you all about it but the website (requires a Flash emulator like Ruffle, it hasn't been updated in a while) should be able to do all the talking.
but, if you insist: it was a launcher that you could invoke by moving your mouse around in a circle. it displayed the apps that you most commonly opened from it in a radial pattern, and if you were dragging a file while opening it, it would just display the ones that supported that filetype.
unfortunately it seems like it'll fade into obscurity. it eventually hopped over to the Mac App Store but has been delisted since then. nobody's ever attempted to recreate it for any other platform, but the shareware version from ages ago has ironically stood the test of time (at least for now). if you're running an older machine then go and have a look
one thing that I miss about the mac software scene growing up was how not just polished, but also fun everything was. you'd grab even the most basic of software off of some random website and it came with like a high resolution icon designed in photoshop plus a whole bunch of bells and whistles in the UI. you'd do something and your computer would make a little noise to tell you that it's working on it. UI elements would stick out in a way that felt natural. it's something that windows and even linux didn't quite get; the fact that computers should be enjoyable to use and not just tools that let you do stuff.
unfortunately it seems that the philosophy has largely fallen out of favor even on the apple side. I still might see something cool from time to time but I can't look at something and go "man I want that" because it's mostly just utilitarian white boxes now. I really think that the world would benefit as a whole if people started throwing mildly fun stuff into software again.
- set your pages to dark mode!
- sync your tabs and history with any browser compatible with Firefox Sync!
- watch as your tabs completely and irreversibly black out every single time you switch to another application, forcing you to reopen them and lose your spot
- the toolbar autohides but the rest of the page doesn't load under it
- cool scrolling bugs, especially on wikis
- block ads with uBlock Origin!