{"id":877,"date":"2010-07-23T14:27:43","date_gmt":"2010-07-23T11:27:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/?p=877"},"modified":"2010-07-23T14:27:43","modified_gmt":"2010-07-23T11:27:43","slug":"software-with-a-subtle-sense-of-humor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/software-with-a-subtle-sense-of-humor\/","title":{"rendered":"Software with a (Subtle) Sense of Humor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every once in a while you come across something in a piece of software that makes you smile. In this case, it was trying to open a 60MB CHM file in <a href=\"http:\/\/macitbetter.com\/\" rel=\"follow\">BetterZip<\/a>, the best OS X unzip utility out there. A lot of software out there tries too hard to be funny, and really doesn&#8217;t come across as such (I&#8217;m look at <em>you<\/em>, <a href=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/1238597241.png\">ImgBurn<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>But here&#8217;s a very serious program that does some very serious stuff. It&#8217;s never cracked jokes at me before, and it&#8217;s been a dependable creature, all business thus far. But all work and no play makes Jack a very dull boy. And so that brings us to the sense of humor &#8211; image after the jump:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img class=\"colorbox-877\"  loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/c197c1ba22edd8de1163971634e72e4c.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"634\" height=\"167\" \/><\/p>\n<p><br class=\"spacer_\" \/><\/p>\n<p>(Apologies for the bad screenshot!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every once in a while you come across something in a piece of software that makes you smile. In this case, it was trying to open a 60MB CHM file in BetterZip, the best OS X unzip utility out there. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/software-with-a-subtle-sense-of-humor\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":505,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[739,507,6,350,901],"class_list":["post-877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-software","tag-betterzip","tag-humor","tag-mac","tag-os-x","tag-software"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t<!-- All in One SEO 5.0.4 - aioseo.com -->\n\t<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Every once in a while you come across something in a piece of software that makes you smile. 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