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Perhaps Apple doesn’t consider purchasing Apps an investment that needs too much consideration because it seems to be the only acquisition that doesn’t offer an “Add to Wish List” option like TV shows, movies or albums do. Sometimes buying Apps can result out of impulse but there is some consideration there. It would be nice if I can place Apps in the same basket as every other digital medium that iTunes offers. I’m just saying.
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Know Your App Spending
Recently Michael tossed an informal poll asking how much anyone budgeted for the month on iTunes purchases for both music and Apps. Quite frankly I don’t even surpass the $7 mark in a month and the expenditures that are made derive mostly from Apps and I was curious in knowing how much I had invested in them. They’re addicting and convenient little buggers that can get out of hand if you don’t pay attention to how much the prices add up.
Surprisingly enough, there is a free application that tells you just that. It’s called App Store Expense Monitor and it sits discreetly on your status bar.
Upon initial launch, it scans your iTunes folder for “.ipa”-files, extracts the contained information about it and displays the total amount of money you spent on the App Store.
The inventory of Apps that it catalogs is not just limited to purchased ones but it equally displays free Apps that you downloaded as well.
If you’re an organization freak like me, you’ll even appreciate being able to export your entire list of purchased Apps straight into a spreadsheet (.CSV format) to be opened and styled with the Numbers.app for archival purposes.
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The Pixar Story headed to iTunes →
It took Wall-E to convince me how much I now appreciate and fully enjoy CGI films. Brian made mention of a brilliant documentary depicting Pixar’s inception, culture and success. There’s now upcoming Pixar reports that they have information confirming that The Pixar Story documentary will soon be made available for purchase through Apple’s iTunes Store (U.S.).
