We asked several Apple II software developers for their take on Microsoft's acquisition and what it means for retrocomputing enthusiasts.ĮBay monitoring and bidding tool for Mac, Windows, and Linux. On Monday, June 4, 2018, Microsoft purchased online code repository GitHub for $7.5 billion. Peter Ferrie, Joseph Carter, David Schmenk, Andy McFadden, Kelvin Sherlock Do you think it would it help if I put all this info on the website to let people understand my motivations - ie why there's no hidden 'catch'? BTW the stuff on the homepage is still all true - I was writing the software purely for myself long before I heard of the ebay affiliate program.KansasFest will be bigger and better than ever in 2018-and a large part of that is due to the organizing committee's efforts to evolve the event. What it does mean though is that I can provide AuctionSieve for free and hopefully I'll make enough money from all those 5cents to help me develop it further. The 5c doesn't get added to your auction bid or added to the sellers costs - it's effectively just an adverstising cost to ebay like banner ads. It works like this - as part of their program, when you view one of the auctions from AuctionSieve, if you then bid on the auction, I get 5c. I wasn't sure whether I could mention this before because they have terms in their legal agreement about confidentiality, however I've just had a hard look at it again and I can't see anything to say I can't. One thing I should definitely mention is that I'm not doing this totally for free - I'm part of the ebay affiliate program. I believe in creating software that's a joy to use. Also I don't believe in just ease of use. I hate buggy software and I really hate spyware. No worries NDH - I'm a skeptical guy myself. Hope it's helpful somewhat, even if it's not all good news! An impressive piece of work, certainly. ![]() This slows me down when I want to rapidly scan a list of auction titles. Along that thread, the item pictures can be annoying, since they often limit the number of auctions that display in the window. Sortable columns would be nice, as well as a feature to remove unwanted columns. Even so, I'd almost certainly use it - I could set it up to download the day's auctions before I went to bed, and see what the sieve had for me in the morning. In order to make the Sieve truly useful, you could have it download all the descriptive text (if this were possible), though that would make for a lengthy download (on the order of a hour or two?) as well as a cumbersome data file. ![]() ![]() Many "hidden treasure" auctions can be found by searching the descriptions. ![]() Negative: - I, and I suspect many other collectors, won't use it, since it doesn't search the auction description text. The keyword weighting is a good idea, and implementation was good. I only referenced the help file once, to read about the keyword weighting, so it's intuitive, too. It downloaded all the auctions in the RPG category very quickly, and sorted them in a logical and easy to use format. Nice install/uninstall routines too - I can't stand software that puts a ton of icons everywhere, or which wants to insert itself unasked into my startup folder. I meant to write this the other day, but forgot! Positive: - The software appears very well thought out and written.
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