Cool software

Every now and then you find something that’s just soo cool.

One of my work colleagues found a product called Jing and told the rest of us all about it.

It’s a tool for grabbing screenshots and annotating them. But you can also take movies with sound, and share them online with anyone.

I’ve used other products for this kind of thing but none were as easy and as much fun as Jing.

Reading through the end user license agreement, I think I owe them my soul at some point in the future.

Screenshot from Jing

But given that I probably already owe it to pretty much every software manufacturer in history, I don’t think it likely to be much of a problem.

I usually try to read the EULA on stuff that I install. Most of them seem to be more about covering their butt in case something goes wrong. But a lot of them are just plain weird.

I mean, when you buy a car should Ford or Holden be able to tell you where you can drive it? Who can sit in it?

And at some point in the future they can change who can sit in it without telling you and then sue you for breaking the agreement?

No-one would put up with that. So why do we put up with these strange end user licence agreements?

What is the weirdest EULA I wonder?

What is the craziest thing software vendors have tried to get away with?