{"id":2559,"date":"2009-05-01T13:16:27","date_gmt":"2009-05-01T21:16:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/37prime.wordpress.com\/?p=2559"},"modified":"2009-05-01T13:16:27","modified_gmt":"2009-05-01T21:16:27","slug":"moron-of-the-week-adam-frucci-of-gizmodo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/2009\/05\/01\/moron-of-the-week-adam-frucci-of-gizmodo\/","title":{"rendered":"Moron of The Week: Adam Frucci of Gizmodo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yet another gem from Gizmodo, where common sense is not required. It is Adam Frucci who must be desperate for page-views on his contributions. Spare yourself from reading the abomination that is his so-called article. A not-so-well-thought-out excerpt:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;Every single Mac app costs money. Where&#8217;s the freeware on Macs? On the PC, I used Texter to create macros for things I type a lot, which is free. On the Mac, there&#8217;s TextExpander, and it&#8217;s $30. There are loads of free FTP clients for the PC. On Mac, you use Transmit, and it&#8217;s $30. Tweetie is a nice enough Twitter client, but it sure isn&#8217;t $15 worth of nice. TextMate is a great, robust text editor, but no text editor is worth $54.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Seriously? <strong><em>Every single Mac app costs money?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I guess Adam Frucci is the authority of computing world. He knows for sure that every single Mac app costs money. There are no freeware.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I wonder what <a href=\"http:\/\/filezilla-project.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Filezilla<\/a> is. It is an open source FTP client that is available for Linux, Mac and Windows. It is also free.<\/li>\n<li>There&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/cyberduck.ch\/\" target=\"_blank\">Cyberduck<\/a>.<em> &#8220;Cyberduck is an open source FTP, SFTP, WebDAV, Mosso Cloud Files and Amazon S3 browser for the Mac.&#8221;<\/em> It is also free.<\/li>\n<li>There are other <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techmixer.com\/best-free-mac-ftp-client-to-connect-ftp-server\/\" target=\"_blank\">free Mac OS X FTP clients<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Evaluating the\u00a0statement about the absence of freeware on Mac OS platform, we hereby award Adam Frucci as Moron of The Week.<\/p>\n<p>Way to go for perpetuating the idiotic Mac vs. Windows argument, Mr. Adam\u00a0Frucci. Please stop using computer now.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to read his idiotic &#8220;article&#8221; just search for &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?rls=en&amp;q=adam%20frucci%20mac%20freeware\" target=\"_blank\">Adam Frucci Mac Freeware<\/a>&#8221; using your favorite search engine (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?rls=en&amp;q=adam%20frucci%20mac%20freeware\" target=\"_blank\">Google<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yet another gem from Gizmodo, where common sense is not required. It is Adam Frucci who must be desperate for page-views on his contributions. Spare yourself from reading the abomination that is his so-called article. A not-so-well-thought-out excerpt: &#8220;Every single Mac app costs money. Where&#8217;s the freeware on Macs? On the PC, I used Texter &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/2009\/05\/01\/moron-of-the-week-adam-frucci-of-gizmodo\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Moron of The Week: Adam Frucci of Gizmodo&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[946,4,6],"tags":[254,403,404,801,1111,1200,1212,1276,1483,1753,1851,1871,1931,2009,2083,2511,2517,2836,936,3026,3039,3131,3216],"class_list":["post-2559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements","category-news","category-rants","tag-adam-frucci","tag-applications","tag-apps","tag-cyberduck","tag-filezilla","tag-freeware","tag-ftp","tag-gizmodo","tag-idiot","tag-junk","tag-leopard","tag-linux","tag-mac-os-x","tag-media","tag-moron","tag-resources","tag-reviews","tag-stupid","tag-tech","tag-trash","tag-troubleshooting","tag-vista","tag-windows"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcNtU-Fh","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2559\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}