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Yes, back in 2004 we did offer lifetime free updates for Professional Edition customers. We changed it to 1 year of updates a number of years ago, but indefinite access for the ver…

Those old Nikon scanners really were great scanners - VueScan will be there when you need it!

VueScan Developer here. We have a subscription option - but that's really intended for customers who have short term scanning needs (ie. scan all of your slides). If you purchase a…

Not a ton has changed for the better - but a few things have: 1. Ticket prices have come down in real terms (especially with the advent of low cost airlines) 2. Fuel economy on new…

I believe he is referring to the Lindy effect. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindy_effect

I think this is what Curb (formerly Taxi Magic) ( http://gocurb.com/ ) is doing.

Spreadsheets and word processors are good examples. Visicalc was overtaken by Lotus 1-2-3 which was overtaken by Excel. WordPerfect was overtaken by Microsoft Word.

This is great. I continue to use bitbucket for all of my personal repos since they provide unlimited private repos for free. I would use github for my private repos but I have lot'…

In-App purchases are for digital goods only (Content, Functionality, Services, Subscriptions). You are completely free to sell real/physical goods (ie. a train ticket) via your own…

I think that all of that can be supported by file formats. There is no rule that an image file format can only hold the pixel information. The issue is that it's hard for all vendo…

The person who invented the original traffic signal patented it in 1923 ( http://www.google.com/patents?id=EHJoAAAAEBAJ&printsec=f... ). The idea was unique, novel, and non-obvious…

Works for chrome. Doesn't work for Safari or Finder.

Good use of Twitter's css framework, bootstrap. Makes it much easier to launch a website with a decent UI without too much thought.

Unfortunately you can't write data to your application bundle. That folder is read-only.

Good use of Twitter's new Bootstrap framework http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/

Shameless self promotion - I'm the author of VueScan Mobile which will let you scan to your iPhone/iPad using WiFi printer/scanners from Epson/HP/Canon. I've been using this for aw…