Archive for the ‘money’ Category

Sticky Windows and pricing

Thursday, April 19th, 2007

Sticky Windows is a nifty little app. that allows you to create little tabs on the edges of your screen that are attached to windows. Click a tab and the window is brought to the front, click it again and the window disappears. It is simple and useful, especially for the many terminal windows I often have cluttering my desktop all day long.

I’ve written before on how Mac OS X has the ability to loosen my wallet. Synergy was a $5 app. that I had no problem buying. Now Sticky Windows is also useful and to my eyes is also a utility app. Certainly the coding behind it is more complicated than Synergy but that isn’t how we should price apps. Sadly Sticky Windows is too expensive. At $15.95 (come on guys, make it $16) I just can’t justify the expense.

At $5 I would buy it without thinking.

At $10 I’d think about it but probably buy it.

At $15 I think about it and decide not to buy it.

TextDrive brings Joyent to my life

Friday, October 20th, 2006

Banks. Banks are king at getting new customers and forgetting about their current customers. Every fantastic offer you see your bank advertising has “Not for current customers” tacked on the end. “0% APR with 6 months to pay and a free rabbit hutch!” they shout and then whisper “For new customers only.” They spend millions of our money on getting new customers and forget to spend anything on us.

I want a freaking rabbit hutch.

TextDrive is giving me a rabbit hutch plus some rabbits and the whole damned animal farm. What is the catch? I just have to carry on being their customer which I was planning on doing anyway. No extra money, I don’t have to sign onto other plans or upgrade or take out a second mortgage or even sell one of my future children.

They give me more for nothing extra.

Thank you TextDrive, thank you Joyent. You guys rock.

Creating a small fortune

Tuesday, August 8th, 2006

It’s easy creating a small fortune. Start with a big fortune and spend most of it…

(Adapted from The Hardest Way To Make An Easy Living by The Streets. That line always make me laugh.)