What it says on the tin.
(If anyone is feeling positive, we could do vice versa also.)
For me, Word 2.0 on Windows was as good as it got. Super fast and it could sum columns of data (useful for invoices), a feature which has since been removed.
Freehand was leagues nicer to use than Illustrator, which Adobe used to kill it off (thank God for Affinity Designer)
QuickTime - used to be a useful little video tool. Now plays videos and, err, that's it.
QuickTime Pro, yes it only did about half a dozen things, but they were all you needed to do with 90% of small video clips.
Corel’s interface for all its tools has always been horrible.
> LomaxFairchild - about 2 hours ago ( #21 of 24)
> a feature which has since been removed.
Nope. I use it all the time - it's still there, just rather harder to find - the same problem that so many power users have with the ribbon.
- Build a table.
- Put a column of figures in, apart from the bottom cell
- Go to the bottom cell
- Ribbon: Layout / Data / fx formula.
=SUM(ABOVE)
Bingo.The Quicktime Player was fucking dreadful software. For some reason it was massively more resource intensive than any of the others and couldn't play anything larger than a postage stamp on a high end PC of the time without stuttering.
Every release of Visual Studio and SQL Management Studio seems to take longer to load than its predecessor.
And in the case of Visual Studio, crash more.
AND WHAT FUCKING IDIOT made it that the WinForms designer can't be locked at desiging forms at 96dpi without having to lock the entire application that way?
The endlessly useful Norton Utilities somehow ended up being the excerable Norton Antivirus.
I seem to recall that Norton antivirus and Norton utilities were two quite separate programs, both were excellent in the days of DOS and Windows 3.1. Then Peter Norton sold out and they transformed into bloatware.
The Quicktime Player was fucking dreadful software. For some reason it was massively more resource intensive than any of the others and couldn't play anything larger than a postage stamp on a high end PC of the time without stuttering.
Ah yes, on a PC maybe. It was fine on a Mac. Apple’s revenge at the time for MS products probably. ;)
There was much discussion at the time as to whether Norton Utilities was a marvel tool, or actually more dangerous than not using it at all.
It did save some lost work a few times, but I definitely felt it was a last ditch critical tool rather than thee everyday maintenance tool that some people used it for.
I'm old. in the early 1980s dBase III was a perfect administrative tool. it was a database application simple enough even for a no-techer like me. you could readily design a data compilation. I helped use it to manage the work of about 40 lawyers. the number of fields was limitless -- or at least I never approached a limit. the search function let you instantly create a report with any subset of fields you wanted. and the print was a 14 font! it was perfect.
and then it went away.
I can't really help in this thread, the history of Android dev has gone from being utter wank on stilts 7 years ago to being as fine and coherent a set of paradigms and tools as anyone could wish for.
Actually iTunes was once a really simple, clean and capable digital music player and catalogue system.
Then they started trying to get it to do loads of other shit.
Visual Studio
I used to use it daily, and my well-being has improved beyond measure now I no longer have to.
Paintshop Pro 5 again. I've been mucking about with it for years, and maintain that doing anything more complicated than it can manage well would require training, which not many people actually have.
Also the Web. That IMG tag was the beginning of the end. Allowing pictures was a total Pandora's Box.
To be honest, punched cards were fine, and I don’t know why anyone moved away from them.
in the early 1980s dBase III was a perfect administrative tool.
dBase II, Shirley? IIRC dBase III came out mid-eighties (I used both before moving on to Clipper etc).
#32 My main reason for not getting an iPhone was down to itunes. After installing it scanned my entire hard drive for any audio files at all (including those that were sound files for games) and put them all into a giant unsorted list, ignoring any file structure that was there in the first place.
Oh, OSX knows better about file management than to have file structures.