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New InstallAware X18 with Solana Payment Service

What a busy year at InstallAware!

From open sourcing, to publishing our Application Porting Toolkit; and now, one-upping it all yet again, arrives InstallAware X18:

o Solana Payments: Freedom from any and all app stores! And payment processors. InstallAware takes a meager 1% cut. Virtually zero transaction fees. Suitable even for micro payments.

Free yourself from app store levies and tyrannical monopolies! Claim your financial independence with InstallAware X18:

– Your software installation unlocks only after your public key receives funds.

– Transaction takes 1 to 5 seconds tops, requiring only an Internet connection.

– Your customers don’t pay anything to reinstall – reactivations are unlimited.

– You pay InstallAware only 1% of what you make, there’s no signup fees at all.

– Solana has virtually zero transaction fees – move aside please, old Ethereum.

– Got you thinking about micro transactions? How about nano transactions maybe?

– Sell direct on your own terms reclaiming the Internet from horrible fiefdoms!

o Windows 11 25H2: Bullet proof deployments with peace of mind to the latest version of Microsoft’s flagship operating system – still an order of magnitude bigger than Linux and Mac.

o Visual Studio 2026: Single-click convenience, scanning your solutions and creating setups instantly without having to go under the hood (if you want to, you still can – of course).

o New Runtimes: Checking one box transparently adds .NET 10, .NET 9, .NET 8 – including their ASP.NET and Desktop flavors – and of course, Visual C++ 2017-2026 to your setup project.

o SIDs and User Groups: Create dedicated users and groups for your services, on local or remote devices. Easily enumerate all existing users and user groups, translate SIDs to names.

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Get Out of Squircle Jail Free With InstallAware MP!

There’s a macOS Tahoe nuisance – icons being placed in squircle jail! Fortunately, there’s a smart company with a funny slogan to help with that, all programmatically (disclaimer – that’s us):

“Get Out of Squircle Jail Free With InstallAware MP”

https://www.installaware.com/iamp

Icons for macOS setups you build using this advanced installer, as well as apps you deploy with it, don’t have to worry about their icons being placed in squircle jail.

The tool takes care of it all using documented macOS APIs, and overrides the squircle jail defaults to display your original icons – exactly as they were designed to appear!

Star the source code repository at https://www.github.com/installaware/iamp – and build it from sources free.

If you want to see exactly how it’s done, here’s the relevant unit – https://github.com/installaware/IAMP/blob/main/utahoe.pas – hope that helps!

For more information, please read the awesome writeup at CompanyGlance:

https://companyglance.com/news/how-installaware-mp-fixes-annoying-macos-squircle-icons/