Archive for November, 2007

A Tasty Treat for Your Mac

The folks over at Aquafadas are running a promotion entitled, “Give Good Food to Your Mac.” It’s a very sweet deal as you get to choose from 28 different Mac OS X apps and the more you purchase the bigger the discount. If you purchase three apps, you get a 30% discount, 40% for five, 50% for seven and 70% for ten.

Here’s a little hint, pick the five apps you really want (even if they are the most expensive apps available). This will start you off with a 40% discount for the apps you want. Then pick the two cheapest apps — once this brings your discount up to 50%, the total will probably be less than it was without those two apps (unless you’ve only been choosing the cheapest apps). Finally, pick the next three cheapest apps — you should end up with ten apps for a total cost which was less than price of your original five! You’re getting the five apps you want, plus another five free and then they’ll throw in another app at check out (for me it was Postino, a feed reader — I’m not sure if they give the same bonus app away to everyone or not).

This great deal is time limited and ends on December 9th, so get on over there and scoop up some great Mac apps.

The full list of apps can be found after the jump.

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In Space No One Can Hear You Blog

My how time has flown. It’s been four months and a day since I last blogged and I need to get back to it. By now I’ve probably lost all of my subscribers and NetNewsWire doesn’t even recognize it as a dinosaur (I guess that means my blog’s turned into oil — yay for me with it nearing $100/barrel).

I have several unfinished posts stuck here in WordPress and several more rattling around in my head. For those of you who are still hanging around, here are some of the topics:

  • The Advanced Ruby Studio (I attended this back in July).
  • How to distribute your Ruby app without giving away your source code.
  • Performance tuning a networking application (in C).
  • Developing for mobile phones (specifically the iPhone and Google’s Android).
  • Game programming in Ruby (with and without Rails).
  • Interviewing technical candidates.
  • Startups.
  • Book reviews.