And the Winner is...
MercuryMover! For the uninitiated, MercuryMover is a program that lets you move and resize your windows from the keyboard. Until now, MercuryMover was called MyWi. While i never disliked the name, i wasn't really sold on it either. The number of people in the beta group who said that they thought it sounded like something to do with the Nintendo Wii really tipped the scales in favor of making a change.
So how did we end up with MercuryMover? After soliciting ideas from wives, friends, family and loyal blog reader i was left with three favorites:
- PrimeMover
- Glazier
- MercuryMover
pretty much in that order. As a recovering philosophy geek, i really liked PrimeMover . The whimsicalness and symbolism of Glazier appealed to my Mac sensibilities. MercuryMover was a dark horse, but had the advantage that Mercury had an elemental sort of parallel with Helium (and truth be told, i'm even more of a recovering molecular biologist that i am recovering philosopher). So how did the dark horse brighten? Two reasons:
- mercurymover.com was available
- The dearth of other mercurymovers on google.
If you're a beta tester (or want to be one) there's a new build out with the new name at http://www.heliumfoot.com/mercurymover/beta . Thanks to everyone who weighed in on possible names!
46 days until launch day.