Aqua-Soft ForumsIf I had known Odject dock would expire I never would have spent any time setting up all my shortcuts and everything. Is there any way to hack the app to get rid of the time to live thing? I hate Stardock!!
Beta Version Expires
OD expires? Are you sure you have the newest release? The app may be designed to expire after a certain time so that older copies of it don't continuously get circulated.
www.objectdock.com - Latest version is v0.88
I was using 0.86, but what I'm saying is eventually Stardock will release the finished version, and when everyone's beta versions expire. Then we'll have to pay for it. We need a crack for the last beta versions so we can keep using it untill we choose to pay for it and not be controlled by Stardock and forced to buy it when they say to.
What ? are you sure? I havent had it expire? whats the number of days?
I don't remember when I installed it but I'm sure it expired. 2 days ago I rebooted and I got a pop up saying "beta version expired, go to stardock to check for latest version".
I have a feeling that they'll remove that expiration feature in the final release of the dock, and besides, is it not their perrogative to make their own program a try-before-you-buy? I personally haven't ever seen any message that you'll eventually have to pay. Even the expiry message you mentioned didn't say anything about paying, it just said "Hey, your dock is old. Go download the new one.", essentially.
And besides..
I hate Stardock!!
then stop using their products.
Cerebral, if you're such an advocate for Stardock why don't you just go and report me to Stardock for wanting to have it for free!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I'm sure there are others who feel the same way as me.
Yeah that expires thing is a no go,.... Mr Y, and Moby dont have anything like that. Plus the whole aquafying point is that it is a hobby, it's free.
If you start making money selling Mac functionality (the dock), they'll come down on you. It's not your work to sell.
The whole idea is that "no one earns any money aquafying".
You could just uninstall, delete the reg key and reinstall, or just scour usenet or kazaa for a serial.
Yea, the main reason I started this topic was just to let people know that the dock will expire if they didn't allready know.
Actually the expiry thing has been Jeff's SOP ever since his pre-StarDock (MacVision) days. His beta builds have a built-in expiry which gives him urgency to complete his next or final version. Usually, a non-beta build has no expiry date. Jeff's latest version (.88) is still a beta build and will expire by May 30, which means it will be a while before we see another update (Probably middle of May).
I think he allotted that much time (gap), so he can concentrate on his bread & butter projects (ObjectBar, MCP Core, etc.)
ObjectDock is free and will always be free. There is no serial for it. Most people who aren't subscribers to ObjectDesktop don't know what they're missing (almost daily updates and extra services for a WHOLE YEAR.) Unlike a lot of people, I paid for my OD subscription and the products and service that I get from StarDock are more than worth what I paid.
Object Dock is *not* going to be for sale.
Apple would sue StarDock and Jef if they were to start charging cash for OD.
I suggest you relax and realize that the expiry thing is just a developers way of reminding his/herself to get the newest build out.
I used to be a developer myself, it's pretty common practice to encode an expiration date in beta software.
Bling Blong Blung,
Grusic
Are you sure you date is current or correct?
actually.. even ver .88 of OD expires..
if you run your system date past May 27, it will stop running...
it even crashes, if you try and change the date while it's running...
As stated on the objectdock web site, this software is an "unsupported beta freeware". So it's a freeware.
Besides, I'm not sure requesting the creation of a crack isn't doing any good to this forum, especially after the latest events surrounding the Aqua Apps. Better be careful unless you want to attract even more attention than we already got lately ? 
They all expire (Odock). It's just to keep up the stardock dloads... It was a practice that dated back to the macvision days... I bet 100% of you that used macvision used a 'patched' version, weather you knew it or not...
Cheers
I'm not sure that they do expire. I've been using Objectdock two or three versions behind because they were more stable than the newer ones. I now use Y's dock because it delivers the more important features to me with no major bugs.
Set your date a few years ahead and see what happens. Close the dock first though... 
N.b. Y'z, yeah! 
Seems you guys didn't read my previous post. I explained it all. Read again.
Originally posted by MartinGy2k@Mar 5 2003, 04:01 PMCerebral, if you're such an advocate for Stardock why don't you just go and report me to Stardock for wanting to have it for free!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I'm sure there are others who feel the same way as me.
k, dude.. he doesn't need to go reporting anything.... if you paid any attention to what goes on at this site.. jeff the programer behind objectdock posts here.. he's a MEMBER...
and saying that we need a crack for a program that somebody is putting alot of time and effort into FOR free is not only rude and uncalled for.. it's just plain stupid....
you want a dock there's 3 of them out there.. i'm pretty sure that one of them'll stay free... if not.. OH WELL go buy a mac then you won't have to worry about a seperate app just for a dock...
I agree to you NeXus, beautiful words.
sure.. the expiring thing sucks...
but you have to understand why Jeff's doing this. Remember the very first copy of OD? Like a year ago? See, it wasn't supposed to be leaked and yet it seemed it was floating around and everyone had it. Jeff *COULD* have been in deep sh!t. So I am guessing he is again doing it as a precautionary measure..
But MD and YD dont have it.. maybe that means OD should get rid of it too...?
OK, I'm an idiot. I'm sorry Cerebral, and I'm sorry everybody. Nuf said?
Nexus, thx for the assist.
And MartinGy2k, no hard feelings, eh? I just thought it was a little wierd for you to be sayin you hated stardock and wanting to crack their free programs. 
--Cerebral