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iDress

iDress

Make labels, envelopes & more from Address Book

Version:  1.3.6

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Not bad, but...

Feedback Type:  Review

Contributed by: Brian Hawthorne Tuesday, July 29 2003 @ 11:07 PM PDT

Product Platform: MacOSX

Used Product For: Have Not Tried

Recommend Product: NO

I have been using SnailMail (free!) to print envelopes for a while now. It works great, it is fast, and does most of what I want. The one feature it wsa missing was the ability to easily create a letter to go in the envelope. iDress sounded like it could do this ("easily create stationery").
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Unfortunately, I never got beyond the license agreement that comes up when you try to mount the disk image. The description says this is shareware, yet the license agreement says:
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"You may not:
<br>• copy the Documentation,
<br>• copy the Software except to make archival or backup copies as provided above,"
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In what way is that shareware???? Get with the program, guys. Shareware means that you want us to share it with other people, try it, and if we like it, we send you money to register it. What you have here is called COMMERCIAL SOFTWARE with a free demo.
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Also, when that license agreement pops up, it says that you are hereby granting me a license to use the software. Which is it? Doesn't anybody read these things their lawyers write for them?
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Change the description to Commercial, and I'll be glad to come back and rate your software more appropriately. Or fix your license agreement so that this truly is shareware, and I'll be even happier.   
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Not bad, but... - Eric_Hanson_1

You are correct that iDress is not actually "shareware". It is a "demo-ware" product. However, given the fact the demo is fully-functional (with the exception of the added watermark on the output) and the fact that licensing fee is quite nominal for the utility that we feel the application provides, calling it a "commercial" product (the only other label that VersionTracker provided us other than "freeware") didn't seem appropriate.

As for the licensing agreement, it's all very standard stuff. If you use iDress, you should be licensing it. At this time, we're not giving it away for free. If you've licensed it, you are free to use it as much as you'd like, but you are not allowed to give it away to others.

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Monday, August 04 2003 @ 11:20 AM PDT