5 licenses of "Application as Service" giveaway

[sujay]

Application as Service
http://www.eltima.com/products/application-as-service/
http://www.application-as-service.com/
http://www.program-to-service.com/

Anna Brooks from Eltima Software Company has agreed to giveaway 5 licenses for our blog readers. To ask for a license follow the rules:

• This tool is for specialized use. Convince me that you are in a definite need of this software and that your problem won't be solved without such advanced/special tool. Try to say in your words, avoid copy-paste.
• Take a screenshot of your desktop, upload it to http://imgur.com/ and leave a link here. You might want to remove items with sensitive/offensive name from the desktop. why I need this? Lets say, it's just a wish..... I like to see how different desktop environment suits different minds and sometimes this leaves a hint how experienced an user is.

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The giveaway will run for 7 days and will run until 24th Dec, 2011, 23:59 hrs.

See here

---------- Post added at 08:42 AM ---------- Previous post was at 01:52 AM ----------

Clarification on the rules I have made

From my previous experience I have seen few comments that just only asks for licenses without saying anything else or something very casual.

In limited license giveaway I have always liked when people comment in a more detailed way saying their need for the software. I have usually discriminated these comments from those casual comments because casual comments don't reflect your need for the software.

This time I am being more strict because this is a specialized tool. This is not for everyone's daily usage. Moreover a license costs $80. So, I don't want to go it to wrong hands. Asking for a screenshot of your desktop without giving too much explanation of the way to do, is to discriminate experienced users from common ones. I am not in need of your personal info. You are free to remove sensitive wallpaper/file-names/file-icons from your desktop.

What you guys say? Is it too strict and too laborious? It shouldn't take more than 15 minutes of your time.

[jelson]

Taking a screenshot isn't too strict.

In fact, some giveaways are a great deal more laborious: use the menu below, join this, share that, like this, x pts for this, y pts for that.... whew

Besides, it only takes less than a minute to take a screenshot of my desktop (about 3 clicks); what would be time consuming is cleaning it up. Too many icons not properly corralled in my Fences. It's a mess.

Fact is I'm completely sympathetic to your decision.

And if someone doesn't know how to take a screenshot,

what are the odds they've ever seen accessed Admin Tools to open Component Services, much ever tweaked their running services?

Or... used the command line to open services.

Stick to your guns, man.

Personally, I've been pondering how I could make good use of this tool. I'm only half-convinced myself I could make good use of it.

[sujay]

@Jelson:

And if someone doesn't know how to take a screenshot, what are the odds they've ever seen accessed Admin Tools to open Component Services, much ever tweaked their running services?

Thanks bro... that's exactly I thought ..

what would be time consuming is cleaning it up. Too many icons not properly corralled in my Fences. It's a mess.

I know.. I know... If I was a commenter I would have hide all desktop icons and have opened all the tray icons while taking the screenshot. I am not sure if your fences (www.stardock.com/products/fences/ ?) is able do that..!!

Personally, I've been pondering how I could make good use of this tool. I'm only half-convinced myself I could make good use of it.

Same here, even I don't have a proper use of it..

[Bearcat]

What you guys say? Is it too strict and too laborious? It shouldn't take more than 15 minutes of your time.

I would think it would be a good thing myself Sujay, because it will help to weed out those who apply for any giveaway they come across, even though they don't need the software. I'm with jelson, "stick to your guns".

[sujay]

Very poor response in the giveaway. 5 licenses and only two requests so far...