Registering the Program

If you like Pineapple News and continue to use it for a period of more than one month, you really should register it. I have spent a truly unimaginable number of hours getting it to work as well as it does.

To encourage this practice, some functionality is disabled until the program is paid for. When you buy a registration key, it will be good for all current versions of the program up to 1.x. When and if I get around to version 2.0 or later, there may be a small upgrade fee.

Some shareware programs are time-limited in some way. For example, a shareware app might allow you access to all its features for 15 days, then severely limit what you can do with it after that, until you pay for a registration. Personally I don’t like being subjected to clock-watching, and it seems like the author of such a program is just begging his users to go looking for wherever the program has stashed its install date, so the offending file can be removed and the trial period extended indefinitely. Pineapple News is not time-limited, except that it expires every now and then, which is explained below.

Benefits of registration

Purchasing your registration key

There is a page at my web site that details how you may purchase a registration key. You can go to that page here: Pineapple News Registration. The practical upshot of this exercise should be that you give me some money, and I give you a registration key. You cannot continue the registration process until you have your key.

Applying your registration key

At this point, you should have received an e-mail that contains your name, exactly as it should be spelled for the purposes of registration, and your registration key. From the program’s application menu, select “Preferences ...,” and go to the tab labeled “Registration.” Enter your name and registration key. This will only work if you enter the information exactly as it appears in the e-mail, so be careful. I suggest you copy the registration key to the clipboard and paste it into the proper field by pressing ⌘V.

Press the “Register” button. If all goes well, the program will inform you that it is now registered. The data is saved in the program’s prefs file, so you won’t have to enter it again.

Do not share your registration key with anybody else. That would be stealing.

From now on, your registered name will be added as a header to each and every post you make to USENET. Anybody who wishes to look will be able to see that you are one of the people that helps make software development possible for the Macintosh platform.

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