{"id":562,"date":"2006-12-17T21:27:26","date_gmt":"2006-12-18T04:27:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/2006\/12\/17\/the-dork-report-for-december-17-2006\/"},"modified":"2023-04-07T15:29:20","modified_gmt":"2023-04-07T19:29:20","slug":"the-dork-report-for-december-17-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/the-dork-report-for-december-17-2006\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dork Report for December 17, 2006"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

U2 announces Zoo2Live<\/em> [no longer online: u2.com\/highlights\/?hid=330], a new live album available exclusively to fan club members. Although it doesn’t say so explicitly, it would seem the audio is taken directly from the same show as the commercially available DVD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nine Horses, the latest project from David Sylvian, Steven Jensen and Burnt Friedman, releases their new EP Money for All<\/em> on Samadhisound<\/a> in January.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Criterion Collection uses its new blog, On Five<\/a>, to announce a new line of DVDs: “Eclipse<\/a> presents a selection of lost, forgotten, or overshadowed films in simple, affordable editions. Each series is a brief cinematheque retrospective for the adventurous home viewer.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Free Pinky!<\/a> (passed around work)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What iTunes needs: tagging.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

MacHeist<\/a>‘s bargain-basement pricing on their bundle ($356.74 worth of shareware for $49) has ignited something of a blogwar. A particular sticking point is that aside from the aforementioned bundle, MacHeist gave away several “unlocked” software downloads (free, fully-functional apps, but not registered and thus disallowing upgrades) during an extended build-up to the bundle launch. Even the most cogent analysis of the affair<\/a> on Daring Fireball fails to take into account one simple fact: what about upgrades? I used my unlocked copy of Voice Candy<\/a> the other day to record some podcast voiceover audio, and I was prompted to download a new update. If I had done so, I would have kissed goodbye to my freebie and had been forced to pay the registration fee to continue using the program. I suspect most of these unlocked apps have similar built-in upgrade notices and users will be seeing them every time they open them up, basically amounting to free advertising for the developers, reminding users who already have the product sitting on their hard drive that they are not full owners in what they are using, and that they are missing out by not becoming full owners.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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