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Linked List: November 22, 2006

Wednesday, 22 November 2006

Prank Call on Telemarketer 

Hilarious.

Why You Shouldn’t Give Away Your Shareware App for Free 

Rory Prior:

I’ve been approached by the MacAppADay folks asking me if I want to give away a mere 5000 copies of one of my apps, like, for no money. This is just wrong on so many levels that I feel compelled to write something in case any other Mac developers out there are feeling crazy enough to get involved in something like this.

  1. Write cool Mac app.
  2. Give it to some guy with a flashy website.
  3. Don’t charge for it.
  4. ???
  5. Profit
Give and You Shall Receive 

Roustem Karimov, developer of 1Passwd, is glad they participated in MacZot:

I have to say that placing 1Passwd in MacZot was one of the best decisions we made this year. Not only did we have a day of record sales during the ZOT, our average daily sales more than doubled right after the event and continued to grow ever since. The success of MacZOT is what convinced us that being part of the Heist was a no-brainer.

Weather Channel Widget and Screen Saver 

Nice Dashboard widget from The Weather Channel. (Note to The Mac Observer: those double-underline link advertisements suck.)

Licensing the 2007 Microsoft Office User Interface 

Microsoft has assembled a 120-page book detailing the user interface guidelines for Office 2007, but you must agree to their licensing terms before you can use it. Licenses are free, but are not available to anyone building software that competes directly with Word, Excel, PowerPoint, or Access. Most interesting to me is that the license terms require that if you use any aspect of this new interface, your app must comply with the entirety of the guidelines.

There’s a 16-page PDF preview that pertains to resizing the ribbon.

Kernel Panic From .dmg Not a New Issue 

Alastair J. Houghton:

Yes, it really is possible to panic your Mac by mounting a dmg file. Those of us who work with the filesystem have known that this is possible for ages; I know I’ve reported at least one instance of this problem to Apple in the past.