You’ve Purchased HOW Many Apps???
I stumbled across this Mac application recently after seeing one of my friends, @chartier, tweet about it and thought I’d share it with you so we can all be staggering around in disbelief at the sheer number of apps that we have purchased (and how much we’ve spent on them!). I’d been trying to find a program like this after a friend and I were discussing how many apps we’d purchased for our iDevices. After seeing David’s tweet, I decided to download it and give it a go.
The application, by WetFish Software, is called App Store Expense Monitor. It’s a free app (donations accepted). It’s just a straightforward zip file for your Mac. Run it, and the program finds all the apps in your iTunes Mobile Applications folder. It tells you the App, Developer, Category, and Price of the apps you’ve downloaded.
It shows the current price of the app, although you can edit the price to reflect what you actually paid for it — good for those that might have been free or that even (gasp!) cost more when you purchased it than they do now.
It can be exported as a CSV or XML file. I did have to change the path so my Mobile Apps folder could be located, as it wasn’t quite in the standard spot. However, this was easy enough to do, as it just involved choosing the desired path and selecting it in the options.
Try it and see what you think. You can download from their website here: http://wetfish.de/software/osx/app-store-expense-monitor/ . I have 342 apps totaling $593.57. Leave me a comment below and let’s compare purchases.
Good Enough
I’ve been away from blogging lately. You know how it is. You start working on something, commit to it, think you’ll stick with it. Then life gets in the way. Before you know it, you’re a couple posts behind. Then a week, a month, and before you know it, a year has gone by.
I write something every day. So, why don’t I post it? Mainly because I think that no one but me will give a rats ass about what I have to say. Yep, typical self-deprecation from the typical over-achiever who was never quite good enough. Because even if you did care about it, heck, even if it was a top blog, I’d still think it wasn’t good enough. But, I’m in good company. Even Mother Theresa had doubts. She just channeled her doubts into her life to do good works. So I keep trying. And one day, maybe, just maybe, it will be good enough.
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