Software I have purchased in 2007

Some people like to buy clothes and I definitely have a desire to buy good software. Be it commercial software, or shareware, I would get myself a license as long as I find it useful.


  1. Springy
  2. BetterZip
  3. PulpMotion
  4. HTTP Scoop
  5. Connected Flow - Aperture Plugin
  6. Connected Flow - iPhoto Plugin
  7. Sticky Window
  8. PDF Studio
  9. Coda
  10. Parallels
  11. Oxygen XML Editor (include the license for SVNClient)
  12. VMWare Fusion
  13. Screen Recycler
  14. iLife 2008
  15. iWorks 2008
  16. Keynote Pro - Eclipse Pro
  17. Graphic Converter 6.0 upgrade
  18. Fission
  19. Write Room
  20. VMWare Workstation 6.0 for Linux
  21. 1Password
  22. IntelliJ 7.0
  23. Mac OS X 10.5
  24. MarsEdit 2.0 upgrade
  25. TheMacPak


The heavily used application


With OS excluded, I still have a couple of candidate.
VMWare Fusion, iWorks, Connected Flow Aperture Plugin, 1Password. This one is tough so there will be two winners - VMWare Fusion and 1Password. You can find both application running on my mbp everyday, my development work rely very much on VMWare and 1Password could help me to manage the password for the different kind of account I am having.

The worst investment


There's several of them, TheMacPak, Screen Recycler, Parallels and Oxygen XML Editor. But if I have to pick one, it will go to Parallels. I bought it even before it ships, it works OK but definitely resources hog. Besides, I am so used to VMWare that I jumped right into it when they have the mac version ready. Sometimes, I should just wait and decide.

The bang of the bucks


Springy. It's very useful, especially with the context menu integration. The good thing is, it even works with JAR files, that helps me to navigate through the java library which I need to tackle in development work.

The interesting candidate


Apart from the application above, I would also like to mention a service which I used a lot over the year. I purchase the stock photo and vector graphics which I used in presentation from iStockphoto. They used to be quite cheap ($10 for 10 credit) but have increased the price recently. Still, they offer a wide range of quality photos that could liven up the boring presentation.