What Apps Did You Buy This Year?
There’s a lengthy discussion going on at Lifehacker about software that their readers have purchased this year. In the spirit of that post, I decided I might as well chime in and list the applications I have paid for this year or am planning on purchasing next year.
Purchased
- iDefrag - A great app that keeps my filesystem healthy and performing well. I reviewed it last January. The lastest version (1.5.8) works for Intel Macs too.
- Delicious Library - I’m slowly building up my DVD & tech book collection and this app will hopefully keep track of everything. I’m looking forward to the next version.
- SubEthaEdit - Nice text editor designed for collaborative coding
- TextMate - Amazing text editor, I use the Cobalt color layout.
- Transmit - Best. FTP. App. Ever.
- iShowU - handy app for making screencasts, which I unfortunately haven’t used much.
- Pukka - small app for bookmarking to del.icio.us
- Macromedia Flash 8 Professional - I laid down the big bucks to purchase this app for a class of mine so I wouldn’t have to live at the computer lab on campus.
- Parallels - For when I need to use Windows
- Barquee - I think I bought this in 2005. It was a great iTunes add-on while I was on my PPC G4 Mac Mini. Now that I’m all Mactel, it doesn’t work. I tried to get a refund but no go. Don’t get it if you run an Intel Mac - it only works half the time.
Will Probably Purchase in 2007
- OS X Leopard - no explanation needed
- CSSEdit - I’ve always been a big fan of doing ALL my coding in TextMate, but I recently downloaded the trial of CSSEdit and am kinda hooked on the CSS auto complete feature. No more needing to remember random things like text-decoration: line-through;
- Office 2007 for Mac - Pretty much required for students. Word, PowerPoint and Excel oh my! Office 2004 for Mac is ridiculously slow through Rosetta.
- Adobe Photoshop CS3 Educational Version - I will be buying this. I use Photoshop almost everyday for cropping images to be posted on the blog or making graphics for other projects. The Photoshop CS3 beta is a good indicator of what’s to come and I like it.
Now it’s your turn. What applications, Windows or OS X, have you purchased this year? What apps will take hold of your wallet next year?
I have purchased a huge number of applications this year including:
- MenuCalendarClock
- AppZapper
- Delicious Library
- Menuet
- NetNewsWire (using NewsFire now)
- SuperDuper!
- Transmit
- OmniOutliner Professional (for kGTD)
- Yojimbo
- VoodooPad (no longer in use)
- Acquisition
- OmniWeb
- Color Schemer Studio
- skEdit
- Quicken 2007
+ all the apps included in the MacHeist bundle
Like you, I plan on purchasing Office 2007 and Photoshop CS3 next year. OS X Leopard, however, is a definite as-soon-as-it-ships purchase.
Everything below is for Mac but the ones specified otherwise:
Bought/Acquired in 2006 (* means ‘acquired’):
-NetNewsWire
-FlickrExport for iPhoto
-Parallels Desktop for Mac
-Audio Hijack Pro
-Missing Sync for Windows Mobile
-Adobe Photoshop CS* (faster than CS2 when running in Rosetta)
-Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac* (for when TextEdit just won’t cut it)
Planning to Buy/Acquire in 2007 (* means ‘will acquire’)
-Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
-Adobe Photoshop CS3* (Universal, baby!)
-iShowU (the demo version leaves ugly watermarks!)
-Transmit (I’ve been using Cyberduck ’cause I couldn’t get Transmit)
-TextMate (I really want to try this one out
-Newsgator Go! (for my Windows Mobile phone)
I’m also planning on upgrading to a Flickr Pro account, but that’s not really an app… So, that’s it. :).
I turned my purchases into a blog post(thanks for the idea Paul!)
Will definitely bougth Leopard and CS3 next year but Office 2007? They turned off the support for VBA scripting! And for Office 2004 running slow, are you sure? It’s running quite fine on my MacBook.
Bought in 2006: NetNewsWire (although I think I never used this… prefer online reader), CleanApp (way better than AppZapper), Transmit (although Fugu done just fine for me), TextEdit (got TextMate too but not going to move any time soon), Parallel (hell yeah! Now I can run all of my previous Windows program…)
And as for iShowU, it’s pretty interesting since I’m going to offer alot of screencast next year (you know… for trading stuffs and the likes)
Since getting my Mac, I’m an avid software purchaser. This is something that PC always failed to persuade me to do. Weird. Mac apps just scream to buy them. Theyre all so useful, beautiful and lightweight. ’nuff said. Purchased many, but most favorite and daily used: NewsFire and TextMate (Twilight skin)
Dimitry
“Transmit - Best. http://FTP. App. Ever.”
I bought transmit also, and don’t regret it. However, more than any other piece of software on the mac transmit gets unsupported praise. How exactly is transmit the best. http://ftp. app. ever? What does it do that others don’t? The world may never know.
“I use Photoshop almost everyday for cropping images to be posted on the blog or making graphics for other projects.”
Seriously? To crop photos? That’s like using a ferrari to drive to the corner store and buy milk. You could save hundreds of bucks by using something like image well.
@gary:
read http://paulstamatiou.com/2006/02/18/review-transmit-35/ for more about the best. http://ftp. app. ever.
“I use Photoshop almost everyday for cropping images to be posted on the blog or making graphics for other projects.”
Emphasis on “making graphics for other projects” =)
You bought NetNewsWire, and you probably forgot. ;)
I can’t remember all the apps I bought, but I know I really regret paying for Disco.
Ohh yeah, I bought Disco too. Waste of money. I think I bought NNW in 2005. I definitely bought Newsfire in 2006 though.
I think CSS Edit is good for newbies, but I find it to be bloated and cumbersome to a more advanced user. Textmate FTW.
Bought this year:
* Textmate
* Transmit
* AppZapper
* Awaken
* Pixadex
* CandyBar
* Disco (Biggest. Waste. Of. Money. Ever. Well actually, it didn’t work for beans on my macbook but works great on the G5, so w/e)
Textmate is hands down the best app ever. I use it for everything (CSS, XHTML, Blog Posts, Apache Config files, EVERYTHING!!! IT RULES!!!)
Oh yeah, Newsfire too. :)
I got skEdit, Transmit, EasyCrop and EasyBatchPhoto. I’m really kicking myself I missed the MacHeist bundle and I really should have gotten the full suite from the folks who did EasyCrop et al - I didn’t think I’d need the Batch app but five minutes after buying EasyCrop I regretted my decision.
“read http://paulstamatiou.com/2006/02/18/review-transmit-35/ for more about the best. http://ftp. app. ever.”
Ahh, thanks Paul. My apologies.
Bought in 2006:
Microsoft Office 2004 (had to even though I didn’t want to lay out the cash)
TextMate
CandyBar
Wallet
Disco (Really lacking features, I really hope they do something about it…in this state it just won’t do)
AppZapper
Quicktime Pro
Planning to buy in 2007:
Leopard
Adobe Photoshop CS3
Transmit
NetNewsWire or Newsfire
Delicious Library is painfully slow once your book collection goes beyond a certain size. Also, more crucially for those with books in several languages, it does really manage to find books in languages other than English, despite claims to the contrary.
These are the two reasons why I switched from DL to Booxter
http://www.deepprose.com/
Both quick and reliable on French books with its link to the Bibliothèque nationale de France guaranteeing that every single French book will be recognised.
Cool idea,
As i’m a Win & Mac user here goes:
Purchased 2006
- Corel Draw X3 (PC)
- Opus Pro XE 5.5 (PC) Best Multimedia Dev App for Win
- QuickTime Pro (Mac)
- Delicious Library (Mac)
- TextMate (Mac)
- 3D Weather Globe & Atlas (Mac)
- DivX 6 (PC)
- Axialis IconWorkshop (PC) Great Icon Creator
Plan to purchase 2007
- Mac OS 10.5 Leopard
- Office 2007
- Opus Pro XE 6.0 (PC)
- Vista at some point
- Google Earth Pro (PC)
Also looking forward to any cool little apps which come out for the Mac over the coming year. And I’m sure that I’ll hold off Vista until all my apps work with it which could result in a lot of mini apps I purchased over the years needing updating $$$.
2006 was the year I made the switch so I’ve purchased quite a bit:
Max OS 10.4
iLife 06
iWork06
iShowU
AppZapper
Textmate
Transmit
SuperDuper
Omni Outliner Pro
Wiretap Pro
Audio Hijack Pro
BIAS Peak LE 5
Soundtrack Pro
other I can’t remember right now
Plan to Purchase:
Leopard
iLife 07
iZotope Ozone
Newsfire