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As of June 8, 2009, there are 36,687 applications in the Apple App Store. If you wanted to purchase all of those applications it would set you back around $ 76,785.

As I was poking around an old harddrive tonight, I realized that I hadn’t re-uploaded the content from a trip to Thailand that Monika and I took back in 2002. Check out the Thailand Travel Log.

It was really excellent finding the old content, and Monika and I spent awhile reminiscing. 

I originally built the Thailand Travel Log using Blogger. Notice the veeery narrow content area and the very small images. I was targeting a much smaller screen at the time. Back in 2002 Blogger allowed you to export your blog to static HTML pages that you could then upload to your own web host. Luckily for me, I still had the static pages. I have no idea where my content on the Blogger site itself actually went to. 

This is an interesting lesson for me regarding good backup and archiving practices for my personal content. Be consistent!

For some people, Scrabble is an addiction. They dream of clearing off all their wooden tiles and making triple words. I’m not one of those people. I’m a terrible Scrabble player which, I think, contributes to me shying away from the game whenever possible. Why is this a problem? My wife LOVES Scrabble! Years ago she figured out that I was never going to be a Scrabble fan, and when she did force me to play the occasional game, she usually ended up helping me. 

I’ve always felt a bit bad about not liking Scrabble, so as a part of a master plan to get better at Scrabble, I bought the Scrabble game for the iPhone. I’m surprised to say, I was hooked. 

The game itself is very nicely designed and one of the better iPhone apps, I’ve seen. The developers over at Electronic Arts have done a pretty amazing job of cramming the whole Scrabble board onto your iPhone and provided for very intuitive controls. After even just a few minutes, you get the hang of the zooming and scrolling. The shuffle feature was key for me, as it quickly let me iterate through the possible combinations of my tiles. When even the shuffling wasn’t enough to help me find a word, the “Best Word” feature came to the rescue. They limit you to only 4 best words, but fair is fair.

My wife tells me that the computer player isn’t very good, not that I could tell, it beats me all the time. Not to worry though. There is a multiplayer mode that works over wifi!

As of February 7, 2009, 2:06 am there are 18,417 applications in the Apple App Store. If you wanted to purchase all of those applications it would set you back around $ 53,034.

As you might have noticed I’ve been looking into the offerings in the Apple AppStore.

I ran across this interesting discrepency. You can get the free version of Instant Motivator for a bargin price of $999.00!

Check you click through the application however, the version seen is in fact the free version available at no cost. 

I’ve run across other discrepencies like this one, where the price quoted in the results seen in the browe section of iTunes doesn’t match the price seen on the application’s page. 

Digging a bit deeper, I found a reference to Instant Motivator Free on the App Shopper site. It looks like the price is bouncing all over the map. 

I wonder if this was the application developer fooling around or fat fingering the price.

As of February 6, 2009, 3:19 pm there are 18352 applications in the Apple App Store. If you wanted to purchase all of those applications it would set you back around $ 52956.

As of 4:21am on Feb. 6, 2009 there are 18351 applications in the Apple App Store. If you wanted to purchase all of those applications it would set you back  around $ 52,945. 

Maybe I should open up something for donations.