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Dan Hallock
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14 years ago @ Just Another iPhone Blog - Tweetie 2: ‘New ... · 3 replies · +2 points
First: Tweetie _has_ been updated for free for current users. We're on 1.3.2 now, and there's been a ton of stuff added. It's not like you were saddled with some bug-ridden, low-featured 1.0 and left to dry.
Second: The App Store does not offer upgrade pricing. Sure, the Snapture dev(s?) figured something out, and you know, yay for them, but I'd rather my $3 went toward paying Atebits to develop Tweetie, not to develop a complicated, labor-intensive way to offer upgrade pricing.
Third: scale your expectations appropriately to the price, dude. Price _does_ affect the principle of this sort of thing. I demand upgrade pricing in $2000 Adobe suites. I expect upgrade pricing from $50 apps. I'm mildly surprised when I don't see it in $20 apps. For a $3 iPhone app? Meh.
This world is not yet perfected. In the meantime, give Apple a little time and space and I'm sure we'll get upgrade pricing in the App Store, give Atebits $3 and I'm sure we'll get a nice Twitter app, and breathe deeply, sip some nice tea, and I'm sure you'll feel better. And I'll bet you $3 that by the time Tweetie 3 rolls around, your wounded heart will have recovered from this offense.
14 years ago @ Just Another iPhone Blog - Tweetie 2: ‘New ... · 0 replies · +1 points
14 years ago @ A Geek, Observed - CSA 2009-07-22 · 0 replies · +1 points
14 years ago @ A Geek, Observed - Bounty · 0 replies · +1 points
Yep, I'll share. The successes, anyway.
14 years ago @ A Geek, Observed - Introductory Star Trek? · 0 replies · +1 points
The three-letter acronyms started with TOS and TNG; it was an established way to refer to the different series by the time Voyager and Enterprise came along, so they got shoehorned in.
Oh, and I forgot about TAS: The Animated Series. There was a 22-episode run of an animated continuation of the original series in 1973-74. (That one was also just called Star Trek, TOS and TAS are add-on names used by fans.)
(Re the auto-compliment: have you gotten the monocle one yet? That's my fave so far. :-) )
15 years ago @ A Geek, Observed - The Key Dance · 0 replies · +1 points
15 years ago @ HighTechDad Blog - Fix It: Safari 4 Beta ... · 2 replies · +1 points
There's a preference pane called PlugSuit which can show you all the loaded SIMBL/InputManager hacks on your system, reveal them in FInder, and can manage the SIMBL ones with a nice front-end, something SIMBL itself doesn't give you.
15 years ago @ HighTechDad Blog - Fix It: Safari 4 Beta ... · 2 replies · +1 points
Rather, the Plugin API doesn't actually let developers do everything they want to do (I don't know enough to make a detailed feature comparison, but I don't think plugins can modify the search box like Inquisitor does, or add menu items like DeliciousSafari does.)
Safari simply doesn't have a generalized extension architecture like Firefox has, so the developers need to hack it if they want to add/change certain types of stuff.
15 years ago @ HighTechDad Blog - Fix It: Safari 4 Beta ... · 4 replies · +1 points
InputManager hacks are injecting code into Safari at runtime, and are completely unsupported by Apple. I don't have any problem with using them -- indeed, I have 1Password, GreaseKit, and DeliciousSafari installed right now -- but as a user and as the admin on your own system, you need to understand that these are unsupported hacks, and the potential for breakage with new Safari versions is very, very high.
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