Discover and share the best of the web!
Learn more about Digg by taking the tour.
A picture can be worth a thousand words...
phillryu.com — ... and a fake screenshot nearly a thousand bucks worth of software. Delicious Monster, Dave Watanabe, the Iconfactory, AppZapper and others are sponsoring a fake Leopard screenshot contest with thousands of dollars worth of prizes for the best entrants. May the best fake win!
IntelMac- 885 diggs
- digg it
- goat77, on 10/12/2007, -30/+6Why?
- rm999, on 10/12/2007, -15/+25They want to waste money and a lot of peoples' time?
and how did this get 70 diggs before getting a single comment? - metsfansam, on 10/12/2007, -13/+24Because Mac geeks can't wait for the real leopard screenshots and set up this contest to fed their appetites for updates.
- infinium, on 10/12/2007, -8/+1A picture can be worth a thousand words...Yes it can. Light Blue and Grey is a pain in the ass to read. Change your website, my head hurts now.
- rm999, on 10/12/2007, -15/+25They want to waste money and a lot of peoples' time?
- gabeN, on 10/12/2007, -3/+10Perhaps with an avenue to distribute fakes, we won't have to waste our time with supposedly "leaked screens" that turn out to be fakes after all. Great Idea!
- r2d7, on 10/12/2007, -3/+9Unfortunately Digg will be the "avenue". I can't wait for 100's of "OMG THE REAL LEOPARD SCREENSHOT".
- Heretushi, on 10/12/2007, -7/+7I really like this idea. Maybe if enough people join the contest Apple could get creative input from the community who care enough about Mac OSX to put blood and sweat into what they think would make a great addition to the software. And with the added bonus of 900$ worth of software, I can't see any bad side to this.
- degree, on 10/12/2007, -4/+9Explain to me the step where blood is required for faking a screenshot?
- ignorantcow, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Since when does Apple take suggestions? Remember the 14-year old iPod girl episode? (She sent a letter to Steve and got a overly-legal reply) I personally think Apple will do just fine with their specially trained UI designers- not a bunch of teens in their late 10s.
- jerwood, on 10/12/2007, -5/+35What if Steve Jobs plays?
- wuxia, on 10/12/2007, -33/+7lame. I am burying this story.
- actorboy, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8Yeah, the chance to win $900 worth of software is pretty lame. Idiot.
- synth7, on 10/12/2007, -22/+3Someone will soon round up the latest version of all of those apps, as well as their respective cracks, and pass it around like a doobie.
- birch25, on 10/12/2007, -2/+14all those apps are already available easily. how much is this costing the developers who are offering their apps as prizes? none. one more peson get's their app for free. what it does do is get more people looking at their products and, i know many of you would never do this, buy their apps.
this is good for the developers, good for apple, and good for the mac community in general.
- birch25, on 10/12/2007, -2/+14all those apps are already available easily. how much is this costing the developers who are offering their apps as prizes? none. one more peson get's their app for free. what it does do is get more people looking at their products and, i know many of you would never do this, buy their apps.
- mtindia, on 10/12/2007, -14/+0This is what is all ado about my blog: Information Visualization. See my most recent post on Visualizing Comments on Blogs [a href=http://akbani.blogspot.com/2006/07/visualizing-comments-on-blogs.html ]
- spdorsey, on 10/12/2007, -8/+5Perhaps we'll see something interesting.
- goat4, on 10/12/2007, -28/+9this is some queer ass ***** mac fanboy jackoffery.
- rockysworld, on 10/12/2007, -12/+5jackoffery?
hehe, lol - actorboy, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6 I am conflicted. As a diehard Mac user, I want to digg you down. But then you used the word jackoffery, which makes me want to digg you up.
Eh, ***** it. Dugg down.
- rockysworld, on 10/12/2007, -12/+5jackoffery?
- PayneX, on 10/12/2007, -5/+24http://si.ist.psu.edu/instructors/camplese/files/Windows_Vista_(screenshot5).jpg
-
Submitted by: John C Dvorak- leonbev, on 10/12/2007, -7/+8Good one. I don't think that most diggers will catch the joke right away, though.
- funduk, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2it's hideous! :p
- digitaldivider, on 10/12/2007, -11/+3marked as lame. who gives a ***** how well you can make a fake? isn't that what fark photoshop contests are for?
- ja2ke, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7If you read the article, you'd see that their use of the word 'fake' is a little flip - the idea of the contest is to come up with a fake UI and set of features that could conceivably top the real OS. The contest is being put on by guys from MacThemes.com, which is a Mac UI design/theming enusiast site. The goal isn't just to dupe retards with your fake. There's already plenty of that.
- iodeken, on 10/12/2007, -10/+3this is really worthy of the front page
- actorboy, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Made it there. Guess it is.
- davidlow, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3One very positive side effect of this contest:
All those gullible people (including me sometimes) who've stared at those fake screen shots over the years will finally see how easy it is to create a professional looking image of something that doesn't exist.
Maybe the fakes won't waste so much of our time from now on, because after this contest people won't spray those links all over the place. - Langford, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1Is there an equivalent cash prize if someone didn't want the software?
Oh well, as long as people have fun, it's all fine. - Crypty, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0Agreed it is worthy.
I'd be in this for sure if 2 things weren't holding me back.
1) Is he looking for something outrageous and incredible, or something plausible and well executed(a "good" fake)
2) No mac to take a screenshot to start with :(
Anyone willing to take one and upload to www.imageshack.us and post a link?- r2d7, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I'd be in it if I could be arsed downloading and installing Vista, taking a screenshot and uploading it for a giggle. Curse my laziness.
- brkn, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Why do you want all that mac software as a prize if you don't have a Mac?
- StepJoe, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I thought the picture of the leopard dog was hilarious. MOOF! I hope that picture wins the contest.
- ignorantcow, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dogcow
- Darkkish, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Why the hell is the lepord spotted dog saying "Moof"??
- judgeFire, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1The dog's name is Clarus. That clear it up?
- wassim2k, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Start by fixing this blog's colors, since you can't ready the light gray titles over the blue background.
- olliewager, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Start by getting a browser that can render a page properly
- ThrasherC, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Some of us are stuck with IE whether we want it or not. I have to use IE because my office mandates it, and regardless of whether you are happy about it, IE still has the largest market share out there in the browser world. Its typically not a good idea to alienate the majority simply because you don't like the browser they use.
- cheesy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0My theory is that if you use a standards based design and it looks like crap on IE, that's Microsoft's fault. Everyone will benefit from Microsoft fixing their browser, and if they don't then hopefully it will be enough reason for people who can switch (or the offices that won't let people use other browser) to actually switch to a standards compliant browser.
Digg is coming to a city (and computer) near you! Check out all the details on our 
© Digg Inc. 2008 —
Content posted by
.jpg){kind=link}