Dave Winer's Nipple

The Sims Online.
What the hell was I thinking.

That pet Pamela Anderson for my Palm Vx.

I'm going to limit my applications to those that were purchased completely via the web (and advertised via the web).
Stardock's Object Desktop
Ulead's DVD Movie Factory 2
NeoDVD Plus 4
GameSpy Arcade
Pinnacles Studio 8
Kyodai Mahjongg
Amiga Forever 4
There are many others, but I think that's enough to get a list going. I'm not against paying for software, as long as it is worth the money that is being asked ;-)

Kyodai Mahjongg, Snood, Adobe Illustrator. If I get a game for free through shareware and I like it, I will gladly pay for it - the creator deserves to paid for a good product.
Does this also count the software I've paid for through donations - like Blogrolling and Moveable Type?

kung-Log was the last software, even though I don't use it anymore.. I am going to pay for NetNewsWire as soon as I have some cash. I ALWAYS pay for shareware. I think it is that important

e-Sword, which was freeware but had an option for donations.

Trillian, Blogrolling, phpManager, and I've thrown a few bugs here and there to various projects/sites that I thought were really good (will probably throw some to sharpMT as I like his product).

Last shareware that I registered…good question…I don't think I have registered any. I'm not bothered by the nag screens.

The Logo Creator and ConquerCam

Adobe's Photoshop, Illustrator, and Acrobat; Quark Xpress; Microsoft Office; and Radio Userland. The professional applications I can understand that registering has its benefits. Heck, I like to use Radio for blogging. I had to register after 30 days. So says Dave Winer. Okay so can I go now? Beeep!

Shareware that I registered because they were genuinely useful:
The Bat - email client
FinePrint - print duplexer

Hmm..let's see… Movable Type, NewzCrawler, Spybot S&D, Out of the Park Baseball, n-Track Studio, Total Recorder, GURPS Character Assistant, BOSI, Quicken, Tax Cut… and probably more I can't recall.

Blogrolling!!

Watson for Mac OS was the first piece of shareware I ever purchased. Something about the Mac software community makes me feel more willing to purchase freeware/shareware than Windows. I'm also considering purchasing NetNewWire, not because I need any of the features not available in the Lite version but because it's a good product and I want to support future development efforts. If Mozilla.org started charging $15-30 for a license with lifetime upgrades I'd gladly pay.

As far as actual shareware goes: Trillian, WinZip, pMachine, NewsGator, Santa Balls, Zero Popup, etc. Plus a bunch of other software from the “big” guys (Adobe, Macromedia, Microsoft, Apple, etc.)

All my Micro$oft and Adobe are paid and registered. Most of my shareware is, or I dump it. I just paid for Stuffit, although I might have wanted to get someone elses archive program…

The last shareware I purchased was Bejeweled.

Over just the last week, I've registered CSSEdit, Transmit and WindowShade X and previously Pegasus Mail, Opera 6 & 7, TopStyle Pro, Jardinains!, WinRAR, and at least 4 or 5 more that I can't remember. I will gladly pay for ANY piece of software that I use. It's beautiful!

Last piece of software? Probably my copy of Windows XP. Everything else on this thing is either an old program I've had forever, or is freeware.

Most of the software on my computer is registerd shareware and some freeware ,and oh yea winXP

For me it's always games. (AirXonix, Jardinains, Snood, etc) I usually download the shareware version and then pay to get the rest of the goodies. Assuming it's something I like of course. I did also pay for blogrolling 'cuz it's soooooo wonderful!

Trillian Pro.

Last month I registered Movable Type and Trillian Pro. This month I registered NewzCrawler, and have plans for two or three others. Shareware is definitely alive (and better than most)

*poke*

I recently tried some keylogger shareware and liked it so I paid for it and registered it as well. I will always pay for a product that I like, If I dont like it, why use it? Keep Shareware Alive!!

NetNewsWire, CodeTek Virtual Desktop, Audio Hijack Pro, NoteTaker, Watson, FruitMenu, WindowShade X, OmniGraffle, OmniWeb, OmniOutliner, OmniDiskSweeper. I could go on. All of the above are more than worth what I paid.

The last piece of software I purchased/registered was VisualRoute from Visual Ware. Also recently, I purchased WinZip, Quicktime Pro, GetRight and SmartFTP.
I make a point of registering/purchasing everything that I use. I just think it is the right thing to do.

Audio Sliders last week.

Hm. I think it was BurnOut Menu for OS X, if I recall correctly (which I haven't really used much.) For some reason, I get more use out of the freeware than the stuff I actually pay for. Odd.

Last bit of software I bought was WinXP :)

Okay, I also did Norton SystemWorks, Sim City 2000 Unlimited Edition- they wouldnt let me download stuff unless I signed up, Oh, oh, Sierra's Outpost, and Windows ME-when I bought this buggy PC from EMachines, lastly Paintshop PRO…

Gawsh, no lie, I've probably spent over 1200.00 in the last 12 months on SHAREWARE.. Mostly for my iMac on osX. Lots of goodies to be had for that OS.

TextPad from Helios Software Solutions. I wrote a few open source add-ons for Dave Winer's UserLand's Radio and put a “Shareware” notice in the archive; I was surprised how many people paid.

I've registered quite a few shareware programs, but recently, MP3toWav Converter, and AtomTime Pro.

GetSmile, I think?

Registered Movable Type yesterday, but before that the last program I bought was Serif PhotoPlus 7 (well worth the money). XP Home came preloaded with the computer. I mostly use freeware or open source programs (Mozilla, OpenOffice.org etc.)

Tsunami MPEG Encoder and AudioGrabber. Isn't “free” software better?

One thing I've found interesting is that when I was using Windows I tended to not pay for shareware as much. Since I've made the switch to OS X I've paid for just about every piece of software I've used regularly. Recent purchases: Omni Outliner and Ambrosia's Pop-Pop (a great game if you have a mac).

I buy a few shareware products each year — most recently CoolEdit 2000, WS-FTP, Total Recorder, and Kit for Radio UserLand.

The last software I registered was NetNewsWire. I'm sure I could have gotten a review copy, but I wanted to give Brent the bucks. Before that it was Audio Hijack. Both great pieces of software.

I register software all the time. The most recent was TopStyle Plus. The free version was cute, but the full version is astoundingly useful. The platform doesn't matter. I have things for Windows, Pocket PC, Palm OS.
I'm still debating on which RSS Reader and FTP program I want to register. That's why I like shareware. I get to try them for a while before I vote with my cash.

I have purchased several versions of Microsoft Ofiice, donated to Moveabletype, Incredimail, Mailmoa, News Rover and several other shareware pacakges. If the software is good and I use it I will pay for it, with the except of Adobe which is way over priced and too hard to use. I only use the adobe reader which is free.

I've recently registered Total War: Viking Invasion! Arrr….
I also pay for Blogger Pro. And before that I paid for LiveJournal. Lessee….also paid for Zone Alarm Pro.

AIGO for Palm, Kyle's Quest for Palm (as far as shareware). I've bought my share of “full commercial” software, too, when it fills a need that isn't handled adequately by Free software (like MS Money because GnuCash doesn't cut it).

Fetch, EDU version for mac(I'm a starving student - after all). Last paid software: Wingnuts.

Hm. Bejeweled for Windows. Transmit by Panic Software. Blogger Pro. And I'm about to buy MaxBulkMailer.

I've paid for a few copies of Newzcrawler as presents for friends. Before that Trillian. I'm good about paying for shareware that I use regularly.

Last shareware I registered was probably the ONLY shareware I registered: Infogrames' Scrabble. I was on a Scrabble kick at one point when I ran across that game….it's a good one I must say, and registering it was definitely a benchmark in my software policies.

Shareware? Heck, I'm on a Mac - half of what I do is with shareware. Recent buys: NetNewsWire, LiteSwitch, Konfabulator, Salling Clicker. Oh, and I'm about to pay for a WiFi driver for my Newton (yes, really…).
Shareware is a way of life. It's *far* from dead.

I downloaded and promply registered a program called WeatherPop. It's for Mac OS X only, but if you've got that then I highly recommend it. Really groovy little program for getting weather info. It puts a very nice looking icon in the menu bar next to the volume and iChat icons. Very simple….very nice….also quite cheap.

The last shareware that I registered was The Bat! email client. Otherwise I think I have spent more money on Palm shareware than I paid for my Palm! :)

I just registered Tag & Rename, the mp3 ID3 tag editor. The amount of work and thought that was put into the product is what made me want to regsiter it. When I see a developer has gone beyond the simple application and really worked hard on making a superior product, I can't help but want to give the guy money so that he keeps making good stuff.

I have to admit, I can be pretty arbitrary about registering software. If it makes me go “wow,” I'll almost invariably contribute–last voluntary contributions were for Star Downloader (saved my life when downloading videos on a dial-up connection) and Mailwasher (saved my sanity when my webhost was taken over by uber-spammer Host4U).

The last piece of software that I purchased was Codeweavers Crossover Plugin. It'sd pretty nifty.

I paid for a French-English dictionary for my wife's Palm. I also registered Nero and Agent.

Blogrolling, Movable Type, Gallery, NewzCrawler…

DVD X-Copy, and Secure CRT just the other day…

Zonealarm, totally — actually Zonealarm Pro, Mailwasher, Paintshop Pro, Atomtime (cuh - I even paid for it - I LOVE it!), of course whatever I bought, Norton Antivirus; Adaware - I'm thinking of getting the full version. Anything that gets rid of **** automatically and keeps me running on time and makes my life easier is worth it.

The Bat!, Newzcrawler, NetNewsWire, Kung Log and Tag&Rename, recently. All under $50, best of their classes, all in continuous development and all been used almost daily for at least a few months before registering.

Blogger Pro, SamCal, Ad free Blogspot, the MP3 addition to Win Media Player. Also sent donations to Bloglet and Blogrolling.

I paid for NewsMonster, Blogrolling, Movable Type commercial AND donated for my personal copy, Limewire, and Microangelo.

NewzCrawler. I registered it the day I installed it, I love it that much. I am about to register Trillian and the browser I use on my cell phone from REQWireless.com which absolutely ROCKS! (If you don't have a great browser on your cell phone yet, try that one out!)

Snood
DivX (non-adware version)
WinZip
Paint Shop Pro
Win2PDF
PartitionMagic
and so on

My last registration was NewsGator. But my husband and I have been registering our software for years and years. I would estimate we've registered more than we've “bought commercial”–which amuses many of my online friends, since we even register things that have no “nag” such as mIRC. *shrug*.

Going to a college with a 20TB intranet leads you to generally stop purchasing software and pretty much getting things for free..though I still do my fair share of purchasing.
I purchased OSX Office, Snood, RealOne (who now says I didnt buy anything from them…), and a few games. They've all been worth it, short of RealOne.
So yes, Winer, I'd purchase software.

I registered a screensaver, Iris Party, a few months ago, & have always registered the shareware I keep. It's like tipping for good service-no one makes you do it, but it's the right thing to do. And if we don't pay these guys to create for us, we'll be the losers in the end when shareware no longer exists.

Can't eat. Can't sleep. Can't blog. Must play Enigmo.

I recently 'donated' to AvantBrowser, it's freeware, not shareware, but still very useful!