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My Dream App finalists four to six announced
9:09AMThe finalists join the three announced yesterday and will compete with 18 others to have their idea developed by the ad hoc team of Mac programmers.
Finalist number four is Michael Yuan, whose Cookbook suggestion is more than just a recipes database integration; there is full screen remote or voice activated recipe viewing, iPod and phone syncing for shopping lists and Leopard voiceover technology integration to have recipes read aloud.
My Dream App development manager John Casasanta said this will appeal to Mac users' love organisation.
'One big thing this has in it's favour is that there were several other similar ideas in the entries so there seems to be a market for an app like this,' he said. 'It definitely makes good use of OS X technologies so that's a plus.'
Michael Wuerthele's Chatboard idea is a visual group collaboration tool, a virtual network-enabled whiteboard that allows participants to drop in images, sketch simple diagrams, and basically add
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Developer judge Jason Harris said that he pushed this idea pretty hard.
'I picture it as a window that blends into your desktop that your group of friends can "push" content to - pictures, movies, songs, flash games, that loud screaming sound, websites, whatever. It's P2P file transfer that "just works" between you and your friends, in other words,' he wrote. 'It'll be great for goofing off in class AND for getting things done!'
The sixth finalist to date is Farzad Sadjadi, who has proposed Portal, an application that would easy to use network syncing of folders and documents between Macs with a 'whimsical, futuristic' 3D interface. File transfers are represented by wormholes on your desktop, and relevant icons are sent spiraling through the wormhole.
My Dream App administrator Phillip Ryu noted that during CEO Steve Jobs' keynote at Apple's World Wide Developers Conference, one of the loudest cheers went up when Leopard's Time Machine app was demonstrated.
'I think Portal would be a great compliment to the app,' Ryu said. 'and I can imagine some custom crazy futuristic looking windows, rips in the space time continuum delivering future releases of the app to users occasionally, and a lot of tongue in cheek humour, such as claiming the app came to us from the future.'
The first three finalists proposed an RSS-based virtual newspaper, a system-wide 'post-it' note implementation and a Desktop based game.
