XYplorer Beta Club

Before everybody gets too excited: I don't like flexyplorer.

Keeping you informed about my wild thinking:

1) I will (probably) keep XYplorer as the name for the main product line. So no changes here. It's too late. A conversion would suck an incredible amount of energy, similar to the current language project.

2) I plan to offer a special product line exclusively sold to users living in low-income countries at a so-called "fair price". This special edition, let's call it the "tropical edition", could well use its own name. And there is more room for creativity, since it does not need its own domain. It can be a subfolder of xyplorer.com.

UHURU - Swahili for freedom
It's a good thing you intend to do. Not enough devs. (any?) do that.

admin wrote:Keeping you informed about my wild thinking:

1) I will (probably) keep XYplorer as the name for the main product line. So no changes here. It's too late. A conversion would suck an incredible amount of energy, similar to the current language project.

2) I plan to offer a special product line exclusively sold to users living in low-income countries at a so-called "fair price". This special edition, let's call it the "tropical edition", could well use its own name. And there is more room for creativity, since it does not need its own domain. It can be a subfolder of xyplorer.com.

Nice!!

Oh and, contradicting much of what I said earlier, don't sweat the current name. There may be an inverse relationship between quality of name and quality of software, regarding file managers. People may expect it, like brilliant professors are expected to be absent minded. Kind of like "What a crap name. It must be good".

Almost forgot.

Yeah, I like almost everything here. Bravo! (I did not get the Huffington Post remark, though.)

Arianna Huffington, who is of Greek descent, is the founder of the Huffington Post. She is the only "Arianna" I know of and comes top in any Google search of that name.

FILBR or FYLBR
short for File Browser, like how WEBBR is short for Web Browser.

dotcoms for both available.
Update:
FYBRR also available
FIBRR would have been nice but .com taken.

If you want to dedicate it to Felix Baumgartner then FILYX. (has reversed XY in it, like Felix!!)

Update:
The asterix bug has bitten me, liking the yx ending names right now.

DIRYX also available.

serendipity wrote:If you want to dedicate it to Felix Baumgartner then FILYX. (has reversed XY in it, like Felix!!)

Update:
The asterix bug has bitten me, liking the yx ending names right now.

DIRYX also available.

I like Filyx, but as I said, I'm finished with the idea of changing the name, and I don't think Filyx would be good for the tropical edition: it has the problem of spelling and pronouncing.

Yesterday I was shortly fascinated by the idea to call the tropical edition "Tukan" (until I noted that this beautiful bird is spelled differently in almost every language: toucan, tucano, tucán, tucan, toucane ...). Otherwise I would have loved to do this:
http://www.tucan.com/

BTW, does anybody happen to know the font used in the above link?

FeatureCreep wrote:UHURU - Swahili for freedom

And has some negative connotations in certain places in my part of Florida...it's the name of a local group known for civil protests and such...

Upon hearing UHURU the first thing that leaps to mind is Lt. Uhuru from the original Star Trek series. A file manager connected with science fiction? Maybe not such a hot idea.

aurumdigitus wrote:Upon hearing UHURU the first thing that leaps to mind is Lt. Uhuru from the original Star Trek series. A file manager connected with science fiction? Maybe not such a hot idea.

Yes, that's how I first learned of the word. But there must have been interference on Roddenberry's coms frequency. He named the character 'Ahura'.

I had the Star trek association in mind. I think an association between a technology product and a popular sci-fi movie or series can only be a good thing. There is probably a lot of overlap between fans and potential customers, especially the early adopters and tech-opinion makers.

In that vein, 'Cortex', the name of the futuristic Internet in the series Firefly and movie Serenity, would probably be a good name for an information intensive software product.

The cerebral cortex is that part of the brain that "plays a key role in memory, attention, perceptual awareness, thought, language, and consciousness" (Wikipedia).

But the concept of 'freedom' seems better for a variant product intended for "users living in low-income countries", and many of the poorest are in Africa where the largest indigenous (almost) lingua-franca is Swahili.
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Borut wrote:Yes, FleXYplorer seems acceptable (if I may put it that way) and with a nice Latin root flex,

Yeah, but what kind of root is 'plore'. 'FleXYplorer' is deplorable. I implore you not to use it.

Sorry Borut. I couldn't resist.

FeatureCreep wrote:But the concept of 'freedom' seems better for a variant product intended for "users living in low-income countries", and many of the poorest are in Africa where the largest indigenous (almost) lingua-franca is Swahili.

In my opinion, the word and concept of freedom is being misused all over the world. I would avoid to connect a commercial product with a notion of freedom, of bringing freedom to someone, of knowing what the freedom should be like and so on. Not acceptable. Also, we are talking here not (only) of Africa.

Borut wrote:In my opinion, the word and concept of freedom is being misused all over the world. I would avoid to connect a commercial product with a notion of freedom...

I.T. workers of the world unite. You have nothing to lose but your carpal tunnel strains. Smash the operating system.
Yeah, you're probably right. Considering also J.C.'s comment, it's best to avoid anything vaguely political.

Don's put the name issue to rest but he does keep coming back to it. So, while ideas keep coming...

What about the name of a famous person.

LINNAEUS

Organizing stuff into files into a hierarchy of folders has some obvious precedents. Carl Linnaeus was the man most responsible for the modern clasification system in biology.

Linnaeus.com is not available (dang!) but Linnae.us is. For $4!

admin wrote:BTW, does anybody happen to know the font used in the above link?

Fritz Quadrata - Example at linotype.com
Note that as usual the white on black feels "denser" than black on white.

As for the name of TAFKAX & for the sake of amusement, I had thought of Nexys... (though the domain belongs to one of those shallow domain name resellers).