Third party Mac software is what makes OS X such an amazing platform. And if you develop for a cool platform, best to have a cool name to promote your products. Here are the five best named companies in the Mac universe.
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Thoughts: Probably the best name ever.
Rogue (noun):
1 a dishonest or unprincipled man : you are a rogue and an embezzler.
• a person whose behavior one disapproves of but who is nonetheless likable or attractive (often used as a playful term of reproof) : Cenzo, you old rogue!
2 [usu. as adj. ] an elephant or other large wild animal driven away or living apart from the herd and having savage or destructive tendencies : a rogue elephant.
• a person or thing that behaves in an aberrant, faulty, or unpredictable way : he hacked into data and ran rogue programs.
• an inferior or defective specimen among many satisfactory ones, esp. a seedling or plant deviating from the standard variety.
Amoeba (noun):
a single-celled animal that catches food and moves about by extending fingerlike projections of protoplasm. Amebas are either free-living in damp environments or parasitic.
• Many families and genera in the phylum Rhizopoda, kingdom Protista, including the aquatic Amoeba proteus.
Company Info:
Location: USA
Primary focus: Audio
Company weblog: Under the Microscope
Flagship Product: Audio Hijack Pro
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Thoughts: A play on MicroSoft? Maybe, but way cooler.
Tweak (verb):
1 twist or pull (something) sharply : he tweaked the boy’s ear.
2 informal improve (a mechanism or system) by making fine adjustments to it : engineers tweak the car’s operating systems during the race.
Company Info:
Location: Italy
Primary focus: Graphics
Company weblog: TweakerSoft Blog
Flagship Product: VectorDesigner
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Thoughts: Staving off complete chaos by developing Mac software.
Sanity (noun):
the ability to think and behave in a normal and rational manner; sound mental health : I began to doubt my own sanity.
• reasonable and rational behavior.
Company Info:
Location: USA
Primary Focus: System Enhancements, Interface
Company Weblog: Unsanity Blog
Flagship Product: ShapeShifter
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Thoughts: Primal and playful.
Fly (verb):
1 (of a bird or other winged creature) move through the air under control : close the door or the moths will fly in | the bird can fly enormous distances.
• (of an aircraft or its occupants) travel through the air : I fly back to New York this evening.
Meat(noun):
1 the flesh of an animal (esp. a mammal) as food : rabbit meat | [as adj. ] meat sandwiches | assorted meats.
• the flesh of a person’s body : this’ll put meat on your bones!
• the edible part of fruits or nuts.
• ( the meat of) the essence or chief part of something : he did the meat of the climb on the first day.
2 archaic food of any kind.
Company Info:
Location: USA
Primary Focus: Graphics, Productivity
Developer’s Weblog: Gus Mueller’s Web site about *stuff*
Flagship Product: VoodooPad
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Thoughts: A soft-core oxymoron.
Delicious (adjective):
highly pleasant to the taste : delicious home-baked brown bread.
• delightful : a delicious irony.
Monster (noun):
an imaginary creature that is typically large, ugly, and frightening.
• an inhumanly cruel or wicked person : he was an unfeeling, treacherous monster.
• often humorous a person, typically a child, who is rude or badly behaved : Christopher is only a year old, but already he is a little monster.
• a thing or animal that is excessively or dauntingly large : this is a monster of a book, almost 500 pages.
• a congenitally malformed or mutant animal or plant.
Company Info:
Location: USA
Primary Focus: Information Management
Developer’s Weblog: Call Me Fishmeal
Flagship Product: Delicious Library
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Did I leave off an excellently named company? Your company perhaps? Let me know in the comments.
Rogue Amoeba
TweakerSoft
Unsanity
Flying Meat
Delicious Monster