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ADHOC and ADHOC Labs, a Success!

The Advanced Developers Hands On Conference, formerly know as MacHack, had another great year of interesting keynotes, educational sessions, insightful papers and creative programs and utilities for the ADHOC Labs Showcase.

Winner of the Venture Capitalist Golden Pin Award for excellence is: Unsummarize 1.0b1 by Jorg Brown, with heaps of thanks for Sanford Selznick

In David Pogue’s keynote, he mentioned the “Summarize” service, which was a nice piece of work, but not that useful. Thing is, I don’t really need to summarize what I’ve just written.



Really, what I want to do is write a summary, and have the computer come up with all the details. The Unsummarize service does that.

The MegaManEffect is a application that emulates an effect seen in the classic NES game Mega Man 2. When you launch an OS X application, the screen goes dark, stars sweep the night sky and your application’s icon is presented in a blue letter box bar with a cheesy 8-bit music introduction.

Honorable Mentions:

EtherPEGCocoa v0 by Jonathan ‘Wolf’ Rentzsch

This is a port of EtherPEG to Cocoa. The basic improvement is that the image view window is a scrolling view. Thus, you can kick off EtherPEGCocoa, grab lunch, come back and check out what your co-workers looked at during their lunch hour.

ExposéHopper by Adam Goldstein

A game that lets you jump around your Exposé windows, collecting coins. It’s kind of a Window Server Mario game.

Scroll Plate By Lisa Lipincott

A Powerbook doesn’t have a scroll wheel. And it’s kind of hard to scroll with a trackpad. So I present to you a new way to scroll with a powerbook!

Scrolling has been done with a wheel before. But why use a wheel? We can scroll with something bigger, rounder, and wireless: the Scroll Plate! Start with a paper plate. Draw a big red arrow on one side, pointing up. And draw a big green arrow on the other side, pointing down. Now, to scroll up, show the up arrow to your iSight or other camera. To scroll down, show the down arrow to the camera. It’s that simple!

Other Notable Entries:

• ADHOC 19 Music Video by Linda Botez
  
• BadBadThing 0.1 by Chris Adamson - DVD to QuickTime capture
  
• EtherPegSaver by Uli Kusterer
  
• EULB Extension Program by Uli Kusterer – iBook logic board defect simulator
  
• Frodo Finder by Dick Furnas - locates Baggins Family in a given state or area code
  
• Magic 8 Ball v.1.0 by Robbie Rau - gives sound business advice
  
• MailToOnCrash by Avi Drissman – mails report to specified address on crash
  
• Neko Returns by Jonathan Johnson – cat that can catch your mouse cursor
  
• Not “The Same Old Trash” by Will Pazner – adds different effects to empty trash command
  
• Rumor Mill by Pure Evil Software (Geoff Adams and Brian J. Geiger) – passes anonymous rumors on a network
  
• Smart Mouth by Evan Roelofs - rewrites the code for the demo voice
  
• SpellingB by David Steinbrunner – tells you if what you enter is right
  
• Stupid Shell Tricks by Lucius Kwok - rewrites error codes to funny
  
• Talkicity by Adrian Botez, Uli Kusterer - gives animated pictures lifelike(!) personalities.
  

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