Zero character password?
June 11th, 2009
Signing up for my city’s new online system for paying my water bill. Is it just me or would a zero-character password in this situation be a bad thing?
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If you have a Mac, go buy the MacHeist 3 Bundle!
March 31st, 2009
If you have a Mac, go buy the MacHeist 3 Bundle!
Right now it has ten applications, worth $621.75 if purchased separately, for only $39. If enough people buy it, we will all get additional applications that would take the total value up to $950.70. Even if you just want one or two applications in the bundle, it’s likely that the price of the apps you are interested in will add up to more than the $39 bundle price.
25% of your bundle purchase goes to charity, so you can 1) get some cool Mac apps, 2) help some charities, and 3) help unlock the additional applications (if you buy and the additional apps later get unlocked, you get the newly unlocked apps–you don’t have to re-buy, for example).
I’ve been playing around with a few of the apps already. The Acorn image editor is nice because most of the time I’m just doing really simple image edits and by the time PhotoShop or The Gimp (which I can’t really stand) start up, I could have already opened up the image and made the change in Acorn.
The game, World of Goo, is fun. I’m not a big game person but this one’s been able to hold my interest thus far. It’s really well-done and is physics-based.
Kinemac is impressive in that it’s a $300 app in a $39 bundle. I’ve never been all that creative so I’m not sure I’ll ever do anything really neat with it, but it allows you to pretty simply build 3D animations for presentations or videos.
WireTap Studio is nice because it can record sound from any application on the Mac. So if you’re streaming your local public radio station in iTunes and want to record a show, you can use WireTap Studio to do it.
If you’re into cooking, Sous Chef seems like a neat recipe database tool.
And if we get more people to buy the bundle, we’ll all get BoinxTV, a $199 live video production application, and then when the next milestone hits we’ll get The Hit List and Espresso, a neat task management and HTML/CSS/JavaScript editing suite.
So go buy the bundle, already!
Don’t Panic
March 6th, 2005