Ultra Recall on sale at BitsDuJour coming soon.

Posted by satis
Oct 15, 2023 at 04:10 AM

Buying from BitsDuJour makes me a little nervous because much of the software sold there is old, or janky, or the companies are selling apps that aren’t well-maintained.

For example, in the Mac section one of the top listed apps is something called ThoughtOffice, for $96.77. When I saw screenshots memories flooded in and I immediately recognized it as being a renamed version of IdeaFisher—an app I’d bought in the late 80s that came on a couple of dozen 800K floppies. I did some searching and discovered that it was indeed the same app, and it had gotten sold off and renamed a dozen years ago.

But not only hasn’t the app been updated since 2007, the website for the developer is defunct.

By comparison Ultra Recall is certainly not in that bad a shape, and small updates have continued to drip out, but the current v.6 was originally released four years ago.