Help set Purity free
Purity is a great little app for clearing out the cruft that accumulates in your Mac’s hard drive. It costs $10, but you could help make it free — or even open source.
Developer Tim Parnell has promised to make Purity freeware forever if he gets $250 in donations. As of this writing, he has raised $70, with 13 days to go in this billing cycle. For $750, he’ll take it open source.
We’re not sure what he means by “billing cycle,” but $250 seems reasonable when you consider that Parnell wants the cash “to maintain my current lifestyle until I can get an actual job.” When he finds work, he’ll likely make more than that just for showing up at the office for a couple of days.
After downloading Purity and checking it out, we’re impressed with its capabilities. It checks on a ton of stuff — everything from your Cyberduck connection history to your Dropbox cache to your AppZapper log — and deletes it.
It would indeed be a worthy addition to Mac freeware, so we’re pitching in $10 for the cause.
Posted Wednesday, April 7, 2010 in Cool-stuff
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