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Naming schemes
by T. J. Brumfield on Friday 18/Apr/2008, @19:03

Very few apps have names that immediately spell out what they are. Photoshop and Word being great examples of the exceptions, but what does Nero do, or Napster? Everyone knows, yet people insist that the only way people will understand a program's name is if it plainly describes what the software does.

Did people know what Google meant? Today it is a verb for searching. Pick a name you like, and then establish the identity of that name with a great app.

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Re: Naming schemes
by 138 on Saturday 19/Apr/2008, @02:56

>what does Nero do

Burns rom(e). :)

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Re: Naming schemes
by Tim on Thursday 24/Apr/2008, @12:19

That's always been one of my favorite software puns. Someone was thinking way too hard when they came up with that name. And the old Colosseum on Fire icon was excellent too.

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