MacHack Best Hack ContestThis is a copy of the resulting ballot. Voting happens during lunch on the same day as the Hack Show, and results get announced at that evening's banquet.
Once again, we'd like to thank everyone who entered for the fun, excitement, and hacks!
14th Annual MacHax(TM)
MacHack Best Hack Contest
The Ballot
Check up to five hacks.
Were this the actual ballot, we would encourage you to put ballots in the box in the atrium by the end of lunch.
Yoot hacks are marked with a "-Y".
| Name | Authors | Short Description | Yoot |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3D QuickTime Dynamics | Olof Hellman | 3D MD application and movie | |
| ACRONYMity | Karl Kornel-Y, 18 | turn a word into a stupid phrase | Yes |
| An ATypoKill Hack | Adam C. Engst | auto-correct for Eudora | |
| AppleScript in Acrobat plugin | Michael Dautermann | embed applescript into pdf files | |
| Bad Cats | Donald Brown | Movie about cats and internet | |
| Bomb O’Clock | Chris Russ | When crashes, blinks 12:00 | |
| Boxer | Tom Zerucha | manipulate any file on the palm | |
| ChairFix | Jesse Boettcher-Y, 18 | unlock city chair feature | Yes |
| Close Window Thing | Joshua Shaffer-Y, 17, Len French II-Y, 20 | Effects on close window | Yes |
| Codewarrior UI plugin | Glenn Meter | marathon in a plugin window | |
| Commentator | David Shayer | source code commentor | |
| Dialing Addresses | Jon Rentzsch | uses palm speaker to dial phone #’s | |
| Disapearing Hack | Phil Smith-Y, 14 | makes icons on finder disapear | Yes |
| Divestiture | Rich Siegel, with help from Greg Marriott | splits winds of microsoft apps in two | |
| Dock Strip | Miro Jurisic, Alexandra Ellwood | makes control strip look like a dock | |
| Doggie-Style Windows | Mark Johns-Y, 16, Justin Lee-Y, 16 | makes wins run away from front wind | Yes |
| Dynamic Desktop Hack | Greg Tapolow, TGCC, with thanks to Tom Becker | animated desktop | |
| Easy as pi | Philippe Casgrain | ProcInfo Calculator | |
| EggTracker | Hunter Green-Y, 14 | tells about easter eggs | Yes |
| EtherPEG | Peter Bierman, Sam Bushell, Stuart Cheshire | network sniffer for JPEGs and GIFs | |
| filks | greg Tapolow | Apple based filks | |
| Finder Grok | Shane Looker, Aran Clauson, Rob Tsuk | added inline wild card searchin folder | |
| Finders Peekers | Florian Dejako, Thomas Tempelmann | file system framework | |
| FishHack | Mike Neil | Control Panel for Billy Bass | |
| Fun Police | Sean Harper-Y, 19 | Productivity enhancement | Yes |
| G4 Portable | Doug Clarke, Troy Benjegerdes | collaborative remote gdb debugger | |
| Game manager | Jon Hirschberger-Y, 12, Hunter Green-Y, 14, Hollin Wilkins-Y, 12 | helps select favorite games | Yes |
| Genie | Joshua Juran | MacOS command shell program. | |
| Gray Matter | Allon Stern | antialias text on a Palm | |
| Hack On | Doug Clarke | daylight coming and my hacks not done | |
| Haxor Speak | Phil Smith-Y, 14 | change text file into hax source speach | Yes |
| Hex Shortcuts | Allon Stern | allow you to enter any character | |
| I survived MacHack Y2K | Jay Weiss | What we look like at end of Machack | |
| Icon Parade X | Ben Martz, Wilfredo Sanchez | brings icon parade back | |
| iDebugger | Geoff Adams, Diane Reamy | customize jasik’s debugger for iBook | |
| iDew | Micah Alperm-Y | An iMac made out of Mountain dew Cans | Yes |
| Internet Explorer 5.5b1 | Jimmy Grewal, Steve Falkenburg, Matthew Vosburgh | Even better web browser | |
| IPFlakeWay | Peter A. Sichel, Tom Becker | allows to make internet con flaky | |
| iSimple | Hollin Wilkins-Y, 12, Jon Hirshberger-Y,12, Hunter Green-Y, 14 | you type it talks | Yes |
| JasikGDB | Gavriel State | Jasik theme for KDE. | |
| Jon’s Quiz Show | Jon Hirschberger-Y, 12 | a monty python quiz show | Yes |
| Just Do It | Paul Baxter | gets rid of “are you sure” dialog | |
| Katz | Tom Zerucha | use a mouse on a palm | |
| L33T LIEK JEFF K. | William Mackay-Y, 19, Paul Oppenhein-Y, 19 | makes you type leet speak | Yes |
| LibVorbis For MacOS | Chris Hanson, xiph.org | audio codec similar to mp3 | |
| Los Alamos Security | Jonathan Gary | implements Los Alamos Security Pract. | |
| Mac OS X MP Enabler | Josh de Cesare | enables multi-processing on Mac OS X | |
| Mac OS X Throbber | Jorg Brown | MacOS X emulator/ button throbber | |
| MacHacksBug | Doug Clarke, Troy Benjegerdes | collaborative remote gdb debugger | |
| MacMagic and URLAlbum | Dylan Matthews-Y, 10 | two hacks one internet, one not | Yes |
| Mixed Mode Madness | Paul Baxter | 6502 inter in the mixed mode manager | |
| Monitor Doubler | Eric Traut | doubles the size of your monitor | |
| More Kitties | Michael Rutman | Screws with your web pages | |
| No, its not ok | Diane Reamy | end annoying alerts, w/ only ok option | |
| NoShitSherlock | Matthew Slot | Wild card utility for the finder. | |
| Open DVD | Vincent Gable-Y, 16, George Warner, Jason Seng | ||
| Open Via Map | Josef Wankerl | opens files based on file name ext | |
| OS X Ready! | Avi Drissman | Adjusts hard drive for OS X | |
| OS X Single Window Finder | Mike Schmiderer | emulates single window finder - OS X | |
| Palm Flying Toasters Screen Saver | Sanford Selznick, Nevin Liber | Prevent Palm screen burn in. | |
| Pc Game’n Junkie | Jay Weiss | Song Parody of “Junk food Junkie” | |
| Pixel Artist’s first hack | Carol Goodell | BlackTieWithYellowFlourish.com | |
| Pizza Hack | Maurita Plouff, Eric Raymond | Automates pizza decisions | |
| Plaid pocket | Andy Furnas-Y, 12 | moves item from desktop into folder | Yes |
| PostScript OSA | Leonard Rosenthol | postscript as a system wide script lang | |
| Precious Memories | Daniel Becker-Y, 16, Lynda Botez | compilation of machack | Yes |
| Process DOOM for Mac OS X | Stan Shebs | Kill OS X processes from DOOM | |
| Quit Something Else | Andrew Downs | Quits multiple apps in low memory | |
| Rekt_ayMæk | Gregory Lo-Y, 25 | give the impression w/ broken monitor | Yes |
| Return of Cap’n Magneto | Al Evans | classic mac game | |
| Santa Paravia | Thomas Knox | Port of apple two game | |
| Screen Rotator | Paul Baxter | Rotates screen, and flips | |
| Secret Decoder | Toby Rush | shows invisible files | |
| Semaphore | Lucius Kwok-Y, 23 | displays semaphore flags | Yes |
| ShoveIt Deluxe | Wilfredo Sanchez | compress/decompress tool | |
| SimpleTrap | Ned Holbrook-Y, 21 | SimpleText in a trap | Yes |
| Snooze Alarm | Jon Rentzsch | monitors whether forhead hits display | |
| Softshoe | Lisa Lippincott | Prevents accidental tapping | |
| Subversive Component Hacks | Sam Bushell | four hacks that capture QT components | |
| System Pulse | Jonathan Gary | Monitors event frequency | |
| The Duplicator | Eli Lakritz-Y, 13 | it duplicates files | Yes |
| The Rant | Greg Tapolow | entertainment rant | |
| Typogen | Mike Ferris | Generates typos while people are typing | |
| UPPER TEXT | Jessica Baxter-Y,13 | makes all text upper case and sorts it. | Yes |
| Vertigo | Drew Thaler, Ed Wynne, Darrin Cardani, keith Stattenfield | Drops entire desktop into 3D stereo | |
| Voyeur | Donald Brown | Application showing a webcam | |
| Waste with Stylers | Tom Becker | WASTE w/ links and images | |
| WinCE | Mark Darling | Windows look and feel simulator | |
| WinCopy | Donald Brown | contextual menu that copies files | |
| X-MENu | James Correia | it makes OS X menu for 9 |
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