呵呵，很多人都介绍过这个原型软件了，正在学习《信息系统分析与设计》和《Web应用程序设计》的同学们，你们可以试一下这个软件，至少看起来它还不错……

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    好吧，我承认，发布这篇随笔的目的是为了获取该软件的License。这款软件的for Desktop版本可以免费下载，不过功能上有很多限制，当然，如果符合以下条件，你可以获取一份免费的License Key：

• If your company bought Mockups for Confluence, JIRA or XWiki, ask your IT admin for your company's license information and use it FREE of charge.
• If you are a do-gooder of any sort (non-profit, charity, open-source contributor, you get the idea), email us with a short blurb and we'll send you a license, FREE of charge.
• If you are a technical/software blogger or journalist willing to write us up (honest reviews are the most useful to us) email us a short blurb with the link to your blog and we'll send you a license, FREE of charge, so that you can evaluate Mockups properly.
• If you are willing to demo Mockups to an audience of at least 15 people (at a user group, a conference, a BarCamp), email us your info and we'll give you two licenses, one for you to keep and one to give away at the event, FREE of charge.
• If you teach a high-school class, email us the name of your school and your class, plus the number of students in your class. We will send you a license for all of them.
• A note to university students and professors: we currently do not offer free licenses to universities, but we'll be happy to offer you an additional 50% off any orders of 10 or more licenses. Let us know if you're interested and we'll set up a discount code for you.

    话说看到第五点，我想high-school可以，university肯定应该没啥问题了（当然，我还远不是顶个球的professor），不想马上被紧接着的下一条给打击了（虽然有折扣，但是，嘿嘿……），还专门标注了黑体（原文如此），没办法，还是适用一下第三条吧，呵呵……

    话说Adobe AIR真是不错，如果想在下载软件之前试用一下功能的话，可以试试online版本的：http://www.balsamiq.com/demos/mockups/Mockups.html。其实，这种东西开发起来难度不是很大，关键是这种应用上的创意确实很难的。

    一周六，一帮哥们（什么也不是的大学教师, me included）约打球，小齐晚到一步，我们已经玩起来了，他拿了个球在场边观战了许久，说：“你们让一个教授顶个球站在场边半天了，忍心么？”，是为“顶个球的professor”。