Save a Lemur: Club Thievey
Monday, 31 December 2007
Posted by austin in: HaloStatue, comments closed
Lemurs are beautiful and deeply threatened creatures that are found only in Madagascar. Mike Lee of Delicious Monster is organizing something called Club Thievey in an attempt to encourage people to donate to the Madagascar Fauna Group.
This is a worthy cause. While I still haven’t decided whether I’m participating in Laptop Giving or I’m making a last-minute donation for 2007 to Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors without Borders), I have donated to MFG; my wife did so earlier this year after reading Mike’s excellent Dinosaur Ranch. It’s the right thing to do, and I want to see Mike’s goal of 100 members in the troop reached.
I Paid for Twitterrific
Thursday, 27 December 2007
Posted by austin in: Apple, Technology, Twitter, comments closed
When Craig Hockenberry released Twitterrific 3 as either ad-supported or a $15 licence, I paid it immediately. According to one “Captain Marc” over at Odelbee, there’s a “hack” to disable the ads from Twitterrific, who apparently thinks that I’m a bit of an idiot for paying for Twitterrific. (Interestingly, between comment #9 and #21, Marc went from thinking that Twitterrific was a “POS” and a pretty good app.) “Captain Marc” is wrong: the switch from free to free+ads or paid wasn’t without warning; this was stated up front on the download page of Twitterrific.
He’s further wrong: Eudora was simply a tool for receiving and delivering … content
, yet it sold for quite a long time. Very few of the applications that I’ve bought for the Mac since I switched eighteen months ago have I had any qualms about buying after buying them, and Twitterrific is one of the apps that I use every day, multiple times a day. There are features I’d like to see, certainly, but it’s a damned good product and I’m proud to have paid for it.There’s plenty of software that I wouldn’t buy at full price; sometimes I’ve waited for bundles (and my unwillingness to pay full price has generally been justified by the lack of use the product ends up seeing). More often, though, I just stop using the product. If I use it, though, I pay for it. No ifs, ands, or buts about it. And so should you, “Captain Marc.” You certainly shouldn’t be posting hacks or alleged hacks.
More on this from Seth Dillingham and Justin Miller.
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