kludge
- n a badly assembled collection of parts hastily assembled to serve some particular purpose (often used to refer to computing systems or software that has been badly put together)
- While I agree that iTunes is a bit of a kludge, Apple has the ability to create a whole experience that starts with the computer and extends to Mail, iPhoto, iTunes, GarageBand .
- But the original telephone-time-telling technology was clearly some kind of absolutely fantastic retro-kludge: Richard Frenkiel was assigned to work on the time machines when he .