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Re: How To Protect Your Program Against Piracy

twitter-14147963 — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 15:34:15 -0000

BTW, if you are looking for models for "free", there is the great book by chris anderson called "FREE" (Read it, it was worth the read)

Re: How To Protect Your Program Against Piracy

arikfr — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 13:51:51 -0000

Yes, I thought about it after writing, that a fifth model is giving away software for free and charging for service. Where giving away for free can be opensource or not.

Re: How To Protect Your Program Against Piracy

ilan — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 13:41:18 -0000

if there was a 5. in you answer, would that be 'open source'? :)
great post, loved your idea of a web service

Re: How To Protect Your Program Against Piracy

twitter-14147963 — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 13:31:04 -0000

Great post, Thanks you Arik.

Re: Save Valuable Time - Block Facebook for 75% of Your Time

arikfr — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 15:41:53 -0000

You don't need to unpack it- you need to open it with Firefox.

Re: Save Valuable Time - Block Facebook for 75% of Your Time

nameaguest — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 19:36:12 -0000

somehow it doesn't work. I tried to dowload the extension and unpack it with winrar, but it didn't extract any files. oh help, i need this - facebook is depressing.

Re: Shortening URLs using bit.ly API and PHP+Zend Framework

macpress — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 07:16:58 -0000

thank you for the code

Re: Mac OS/X Tip: How To Change Screen Capture Location

macpress — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 07:14:45 -0000

i'm glad now we have cocktails.app it going easy way to do this

Re: How To Send SMS Message From Python Via Skype

arikfr — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 17:21:21 -0000

Glad I could help :) They sure have a lot to improve with their
documentation.

Re: How To Send SMS Message From Python Via Skype

jamiekirkpatrick — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 14:30:17 -0000

Thanks dude..saved me having to dig through shed loads of (not very clear) documentation.

Re: Save Valuable Time - Block Facebook for 75% of Your Time

arikfr — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 15:31:08 -0000

I'm a bit busy right now, so can't commit. But it's sort of open source,
you're more than welcome to download the greasemonkey version and fix it for
FF 3.5.2. Thanks!

Re: Save Valuable Time - Block Facebook for 75% of Your Time

cool — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 11:28:59 -0000

cool :)
but can you update it, it don't work on ff version 3.5.2
thanks!

Re: Make your blog printer friendly!

arikfr — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 14:44:19 -0000

Delete.

Re: Make your blog printer friendly!

toner dolumu — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 13:23:41 -0000

GREAT! very cool

Re: Another Example Of How Wrong The Game And Music Industries

arikfr — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 03:55:12 -0000

Of course most app developers don't make decent income, but that's applies
to the traditional software business too - it's not because of the pricing.
If at all, the low pricing enables them to increase the chances of making
any revenues.
And saying that only apps like the kindle make decent money is wrong too,
because there are many examples of utility apps that generate good income
too, like Instapaper or Tweetie. Although that depends on your definition of
"decent"...

Re: Another Example Of How Wrong The Game And Music Industries

ekampf — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 16:56:11 -0000

most app developers dont make decent income (or income at all).
we only hear of the very few who do...

The companies that do have a decent model on top of an app make their money indirectly (like Amazon selling you Kindle books and letting you read them via an app)

Re: Gravatars to Google Contacts Importer

arikfr — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 10:50:28 -0000

Glad to hear that ! :) Thank you for the translation.

Re: Gravatars to Google Contacts Importer

wxzbb — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 10:43:22 -0000

Well, all my friends like the translation of this article, and thx again for this perfect solution!

Re: Gravatars to Google Contacts Importer

arikfr — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 06:41:08 -0000

Thanks, but please note that:
1. it didn't work for some people (probably something to do with a
combination of .NET version and OS version).
2. I switched to Mac, so I no longer maintain it...

Re: Gravatars to Google Contacts Importer

wxzbb — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 06:34:09 -0000

Hmm, good solution. Well i'll translate this article into Chinese later on my blog.

Re: Gravatars to Google Contacts Importer

Robertobastia — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 20:26:43 -0000

Vorrei revistrarmi su messeger

Re: Save Valuable Time - Block Facebook for 75% of Your Time

arikfr — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 12:29:15 -0000

No, it won't, but maybe someone else developed safari plugin.

Re: Save Valuable Time - Block Facebook for 75% of Your Time

Caitlin — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 10:06:46 -0000

will this work with safari?
argh i'm this desperate. haha. i have no self discipline.

Re: Save Valuable Time - Block Facebook for 75% of Your Time

Caitlin — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 09:56:56 -0000

will this only work with firefox? I have safari, but need this program so badly! facebook is going to steal my life from me.

Re: Handling RSS Feeds with PHP using Zend_Feed

arikfr — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 13:28:53 -0000

I only showed how to use Zend_Feed - it doesn't have to be used inside of a controller, and that's why I didn't mention the need to disable the layout.