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Take Control eBooks 20% off via MacSanta today
Still looking for gifts for your friendly neighborhood switcher or new Leopard user? Nothing says "I love you, but I'm sadly incapable of planning ahead and getting organized enough to buy actual, physical presents" like the gift of eBooks. Well, maybe cash says that too. Anyway, if you were in the market for some topnotch Mac guides, you could take advantage of today's 20%-off MacSanta discount on the Take Control line from TidBITS.Your choices include classics like "Take Control of Thanksgiving Dinner" and "Take Control of Your Domain Names..." not to mention plenty of Mac, iPod and Leopard help. At $8 for most titles with the discount, it's a steal.
MacSanta returns
The MacSanta promotion is back again this year. Basically a number of Mac developers are offering a 20% discount on their products for one day with the coupon code MACSANTA07. The products available change each day, but have included first class applications from the likes of Rogue Amoeba and others. If you miss a Featured Deals, they have some Extended Deals available through December, though the discount is only 10%. So if you like Mac deals keep an eye on MacSanta until Christmas; they even have an RSS feed to make it easy.
xPad developer says macZOT and Brian Ball ripped him off.
Since MacHeist is over, we need a new punching bag in the indie Mac developer arena, right? Last week Mac App a Day crashed and burned in a predictable fiery death. Now macZOT - or at least one of the key players behind macZOT - faces some scrutiny over a licensing deal he made with the original developer of xPad. The gist of it is that - according to Garrett Murray, the aforementioned xPad developer - Brian Ball screwed him out of over $4,000 in a rather unprofessional and weasily way. There's a slight catch, however, in that the way Brian got out of honoring a gentleman's agreement was by using the loophole that Garrett himself put in the contract! Oops.Read Garrett's side of the story in detail on his blog (ahem... before you comment, please?) and decide for yourself whether he got played or not. Despite the very stupid mistake Garrett made by having a loophole in his contract that clearly had so much potential for misuse and disaster, I'm still taking his side on this one. I think Brian played dirty pool and that kind of behavior really shouldn't be rewarded, whether it's technically playing by the rules or not.The end result - no matter whose side you take on this one - is the xPad is now free for all and anyone who paid Garrett for it, since November '06 when it defaulted back to him, is getting a refund. Something tells me Brian also just got added to MacSanta's "naughty" list.UPDATE: My follow-up and comments from Brian can be found in "Ball responds to xPad developer's claims."Thanks Chris and Ryan!
MacSanta: 20% off popular Mac Apps
Almost a dozen companies are offering a 20% off sale until Christmas. Rogue Amoeba, Bare Bones, Potion Factory, Unsanity and more. You'll find a full list of participating developers at the MacSanta site. Just shop at their normal company stores and enter MACSANTA as a coupon code during checkout. You'll save 20%, until 12/25/06. It's a great time to pick up some superb software at excellent savings. I'm about thaaaaaaat close to plonking down the money for Fission. For further holiday spirit, there's also a poem.
