Looks like MacZOT did it again … iClip, which is a great little image clipping program, is free for this weekend (until 02JUN). They’re currently working on version 4 and the freebie is version 3 so I suppose some might call it a “stunt,” but at least it’s quite a cool one as the program is already great if you don’t wish to upgrade later on.
Yesterday macZOT featured HoudahSpot which is a search program with much more discrete parameter capability over spotlight and other search progs. I found it interestingly useful – It’s like a faster, easier, and therefore useful form of the unix find command. I didn’t much like that it wants to stick a brown spotlight icon up in the menubar (why couldn’t they have a pref to embed their abilities in the regular spotlight menu?) but that’s a small matter.
Today on macZOT – HoudahSpot:
HoudahSpot is FREE to the first 5,000 people.
Feel free to share this site’s URL with your friends. However, once this form disappears, the offer is over.
Free Registrations So Far: 1867
So, right now there are over 3000 licenses available for free just by going over to get it. MacZOT is a really quite interesting site that offers a featured shareware type product every day for extremely reduced prices. I’ve been really quite impressed by their offerings and have found some neat things there. No, I don’t have anything to do with the site or any products therein – I just find it useful.
Livescience has come up with an interesting entry on language:
Sermons are full of “good times” and tabloids aren’t all that “trashy.”
Or so say the results spit out by VIEW, a language program that can calculate how often and in what combinations words appear in a variety of English languagecategories.
… The project was born as a tool to help those learning English get a handle on nuances of the language. Understanding the most frequent words and how they’re used colloquially is an important part of the process …
Oddly enough, though the study is based at an American Uni, it is specific to Brit English at the moment.