Wednesday, January 9, 2008

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  • NetNewsWire - Now free as a bird

    NetNewsWire Tip to Colin from The Uber Geeks for the news that NewsGator has now made 4 of it’s products free.

    NetNewsWire, FeedDemon, NewsGator Inbox, and NewsGator Go! are all available for download now for free.

    If you purchased any of those apps after December 9, 2007 you can get a full refund.

    So why did they release all of these applications for free? As Nick and Greg put it, it’s simply a marketing a move to saturate the market more for their other for-pay services.

    NetNewsWire has long been my favorite RSS reader and it’s great to see it being made available to even more users.

    Oh, and if you didn’t notice, each of those apps also received an update!





  • Bento goes 1.0

    Bento

    Back in November, FileMaker released a preview of their soon-to-be-released personal database app, Bento.

    Yesterday they officially released the gold version of Bento.

    The design in functionality of Bento is such that you’d think it was just another iWork application. It meshes extremely well with Apple’s design standards set in its iWork apps and has an almost limitless number of uses.

    It’s available in a single-license and family-license at $49 and $99, respectively.


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  • Inquisitor alters search results with affiliate links…users go mad

    Inquisitor

    Sigh. One of my favorite add-ons for Safari, Inquisitor, has unfortunately been removed from my computer.

    As reported by TUAW, Inquisitor alters search results to insert the developers affiliate links higher up in the rankings. According to the developer, the affiliate links will gradually move further down the results the more you search for a term and do not click on the links (thus “learning” that you don’t want those links in your search results).

    The issue most people seem to be having is that this wasn’t disclosed up front. I have to admit it’s a clever form of displaying advertisements, but I just can’t keep using the app when something as major as altering search results wasn’t disclosed…making me wonder what else wasn’t disclosed.

    I, along with every other rational person, understands that bills have to be paid and that some compensation for the developer is a good thing, but transparency in the software business is a necessity if you want people to keep using your apps. Simple as that. People want to know if you’re altering their experience, and yes, altering search results is most certainly altering a users experience without their knowledge.

    UPDATE: David was kind enough to drop in and he was correct in pointing out that I left out a link to his response. My mistake. I apologize. Here’s the link to his response about all of this. I would love for David to show where this has been “public knowledge” (implying that this info was easily accessible and known by most people who used the app) before all of this hoopla.





  • TextMate: No longer a reason to avoid Git

    I wrote recently about my headaches using Subversion with iWork documents (“iWork hates Subversion”). The consensus from the comments was that I needed to ditch Subversion for a more modern version control system. Both Mercurial and Git were popular among commenters. (I decided on Git, incidentally. The transition was extremely smooth.)

    TextMate bundle editor

    One TAB reader, HG, lamented that a TextMate bundle doesn’t yet exist for Git. Consider that old news. Well, unofficially. It is currently under review within the TextMate user community, but the Git bundle has been written and is available to any TextMate user who syncs to the TextMate SVN repository.

    Copy (or link) the bundle from Review/Bundles into Bundles and relaunch TextMate or Reload Bundles (under the Bundles menu), and voilà!, your copy of TextMate now supports many of Git’s version control features — in addition to every other open-source version management system on the planet.

    Instructions for syncing from the TextMate SVN repository is available at the TextMate wiki.







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