You can regard FinderPop as free. It can be included on magazine and Info-Mac CDs, etc. While I wouldn’t say “no” to a copy of your magazine if you do this, you are under no obligation to do anything.
While you're reading this, I’ll just plug my other freebie menu-related utility, Popup Navigator (available on Info-Mac, and on my naff homepage, below.) This allows you to see exactly where your open documents are located on your disks by command- clicking a document window's title. Much like the Finder, really.
Legal Niceties and Contact Information
(The following text shamelessly stolen from one of Peter Lewis’ programs; names have been changed to implicate the guilty. I’ll get round to doing my own real soon now.)
This program should do what is described in this document. If it doesn’t, you can simply stop using it. If you paid for the product, and within a year find that it doesn’t do what has been described here, then you can notify me — Turlough O’Connor — and your money will be refunded and your license cancelled.
Turlough O’Connor hereby disclaims all warranties relating to this software, whether expressed or implied, including without limitation any implied warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. Turlough O’Connor will not be liable for any special, incidental, consequential, indirect or similar damages due to loss of data or any other reason, even if Turlough O’Connor or an agent of his has been advised of the possibility of such damages. In no event shall Turlough O’Connor be liable for any damages, regardless of the form of the claim. The person using the software bears all risk as to the quality and performance of the software.
In short, you use this product at your own risk.
Note that use of FinderPop may, according to some theories, contribute to the heat death of the universe.
Contacting Me
If you’re having problems using FinderPop, contact me and I will do what I can to fix them.
<mailto: (Turlough O'Connor) turly@geocities.com>
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Bay/2573/
http://bounce.to/turly
Finally, a number of people have mailed me asking for my snail-mail address so they could send me something for my troubles, or why FinderPop is no longer “Pintware”. Well, the day of pintware may be here again: rather than burdening my poor postman, if you really think FinderPop is cool, and you’d like the opportunity to express your gratitude and get me a couple of pints for the evenings and weekends I’ve put into it, you can do so by “registering” it via Kagi for $7 at <h t t p : / / o r d e r . k a g i . c o m / ? 2 W G> (non-secure), or <h t t p : / / o r d e r . k a g i . c o m / ? 2 W G & S> (secure browsers.) Because FinderPop is free, I’ve made this text tiny and hidden it in the manual which no-one reads anyway, plus you’ll have to type in the above URLs — basically, I want to make it as difficult as possible for you :-) You get no “secret password” ’cos there’s no “registration dialog” etc., in FinderPop anymore. In fact, you get nothing in return other than a “Cheers, bud” and a raised glass the next time I’m down in the pub (plus the immense cachet of having bought me a pint!) Please *don’t* spread the word about this: I’d like any income derived from this to get me just a few pints every week or so — anything over and above will be donated to local Cork charities.
As usual, if you’re having problems with FinderPop, or have suggestions which aren’t mentioned in the introductory chapter here, drop me a line and I’ll do what I can…
