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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.

Weak Dollar == Strong Canon

Wednesday, January 3rd, 2007

The weak US Dollar and the strong Euro is making my credit card itchy. For just US$686.35 (518.928 EUR) one can get, including shipping to Ireland, a Canon EF 70-200mm f/4L lens, Canon 67mm UV filter and a Hoya 67mm Circular Polariser. That is a bargain (and about 300 EUR less than the same on the usually cheap Pixmania.ie)

Late Christmas present to me? Must resist!