Many of these voids in functionality create vacancies that developers for Mac OS X can occupy or thrive in, given the right vision, implementation, or something as simple as good timing. In a similar vein, the Sparkle project ( ) has rapidly assumed the vacant position of software update engine of choice for independent developers. The Growl project ( ) turned the mundane and cumbersome "jumping icon" user notification for applications into an elegant, translucent, and customizable badge of information for those application developers that didn't necessarily want to write our own notification systems or rely on Mac OS X's clunky leaping icons. Some events take a while to unfold or find their niche or hang around for a while then pick up steam to suddenly become real assets. The release of NeoOffice (), an aquafied port of the Open-Source OpenOffice suite in spring of 2005, also heralded a major event in the story of Mac OS X. Sometimes these events are "ah-ha" events, such as the preview of Time Machine for Leopard at WWDC, where the normally complex and tiresome task of daily backups and recovery of lost files and folders blossomed into something both sensible and fun. Once in a while, an Operating System Event occurs which has the potential to drastically change the user experience for everyone who works on the platform. MacFUSE: The Man Behind the Mask Interview with Amit SinghĬolumn Tag: Source Hound MacFUSE: The Man Behind the Mask Interview with Amit Singh Educational Institution and Student Discounts.
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