If they don’t have anything due soon, I’ll figure out a way to send them something, even if I don’t get anything in return other than they stay in business, able to continue developing their products. The benefit to a subscription is that your cost to get on board is usually reasonable, in some cases you can keep the subscription for just the time that you need the software and, sometimes, it actually might be cheaper over the long run (though that isn’t usually the case, unfortunately).įor those apps which I use that aren’t subscription-based, I’ll often reach out to a developer if it’s been a while since I last paid them something (like 18 months-2 years) to see if they have a major new release upcoming. Subscriptions gives them a reasonably steady stream to do that. ($49.99 new for Bus圜al from BusyMac or the Mac App Store, free update, in Setapp, 23.1 MB, release notes, macOS 10.12+ $49.99 new for Bus圜ontacts from BusyMac or the Mac App Store, free update, in Setapp, 12.7 MB, release notes, macOS 10.12+)Īs more and more developers turn to subscriptions, I remove more and more apps down to the minimum ones needed, unlike a number of years ago.Ī few years ago, I thought that subscriptions were the spawn of the devil.ĭevelopers, both big and small, need income on a steady basis in order to do basic things like pay the rent on the office or apartment or the mortgage, pay themselves a living wage, etc. Perpetual-license versions include free updates for 18 months, after which a 40%-off renewal is required to receive another 18 months of updates, although older versions will continue to run indefinitely. However, buy-once perpetual licenses will still be sold through the BusyMac Web site. Version 3.12.2 of Bus圜al fixes some minor bugs and lets you edit To Do completion times for iCloud and Reminders, while version 1.5.1 of Bus圜ontacts now copies the job title and the company name when clicking an address and choosing Copy Name & Address.īusyMac also notes in a blog post that the Mac App Store editions of Bus圜al and Bus圜ontacts will move to subscription-only pricing by the end of January 2021. Bus圜al also fixes a bug where the app may crash when dragging/dropping contacts to notes. When restoring from a backup, you can now restore selected calendars or contacts as local (enabling selective restoration instead of replacing all your existing contacts with a previous snapshot).īus圜al now enables you to configure a shared CalDAV calendar to ignore colors set by others, resolves an issue that could delete Zoom meetings when modifying an event on Google accounts, addresses a date conversion issue with Exchange where the timezone isn’t correctly specified, and ensures that copied events include end dates for all-day events. In December 2020, BusyMac released Bus圜al 3.12 and Bus圜ontacts 1.5 with added support for M1-based Macs and Office 365 Hybrid Authentication. #1651: Dealing with leading zeroes in spreadsheet data, removing ad tracking from ckbk.#1652: OS updates, DPReview shuttered, LucidLink cloud storage.#1653: Apple Music Classical review, Authory service for writers, WWDC 2023 dates announced.1654: Urgent OS security updates, upgrading to macOS 13 Ventura, using smart speakers while temporarily blind.#1655: 33 years of TidBITS, Twitter train wreck, tvOS 16.4.1, Apple Card Savings, Steve Jobs ebook.
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