Mr eel
Omnifail
It must be hard making shareware software. You go out of your way to build something you think people would like, you compete closely with all the other companies making permutations of your product and do it all with a minimal development or marketing budget. On top of that you find people pirating your software.
So of course you would do all you can to both discourage piracy and encourage honest people to register your software. I have a lot of sympathy for the situation small software companies are in and I make a point of registering software I use. Sometimes though, I think developers just get it wrong.
Case in point, Omnigroup’s limitations for the Omnioutliner demo are stupid. It limits an outline to twenty items only. Bah! Nowhere near enough to seriously use it. You can toy with it, but you’ll never get the outline to the point where you want to use Omnioutliner’s clever features — the point where it can actually differentiate itself from the other outliners on the market. I would much prefer a full-featured, time-limited demo.
This dialog really put me off. I was happily poking away, then BAM, FAIL. It was unexpected and it annoyed me. So fuck it I say. I think I’ll buy a different outliner.
Brik - CC-licensed Beats and Bass
After a long time gestating, my mate Simon and I are finally beginning to push our latest little enterprise onto willing listeners. It’s a net-label. The music releases are variously Drum and Bass, Dubstep, Hip Hop etc. Basically anything with a beats and bass focus — we just like that stuff a lot, right.
All releases are licensed using Creative Commons and are free to download.
I’m very proud to have the first release on the label, using my Rule of Three alias. So if you have ears and are willing, go and have a listen.