Your Fab Five Payware

[Gooberlx2]

Because lxskllr suggested it here.

I think the more interesting question would be "favorite payware?" What's valuable enough to buy, because there isn't a free replacement. even when there are free alternatives.

Excludes games.

1. Adobe Lightroom
2. Crashplan (cloud service)
3. Acronis TrueImage
4. MS Office (Though I only use it at work. I don't have enough need to buy it for home. Much prefer it over LibreOffice)
5. Sony Vegas Movie Studio

 

[lxskllr]

Lavabit email. Offers server side encryption. No one can view your mail

SpiderOak cloud backup. Fully encrypted. No one can view your data

I think that's it.

 

[blurredvision]

I don't have the need to purchase much software for home use, so when I do, I feel it's worth the money. Software I've recently purchased:

1. Adobe Lightroom
2. Malwarebytes Pro
3. VMware Workstation 9

 

[Chiefcrowe]

Hmm, the ones that come to mind right now are:

Macrium Reflect
Dreamweaver

 

[xSauronx]

lightroom
office

pretty much everything i use is freeware. i do have vmware workstation, but not so much because i needed it as because i got it for free as a student. player would do me fine if its all i had.

 

[KentState]

The only software that I've purchased for home is DVDFab and VMWare Workstation. Beyond that, everything is free through MSDN or games.

 

[ultimatebob]

Lavabit email. Offers server side encryption. No one can view your mail

SpiderOak cloud backup. Fully encrypted. No one can view your data

I think that's it.

You really seem really paranoid about people tracking you and reading your stuff... you must work for the CIA or something

 

[lxskllr]

You really seem really paranoid about people tracking you and reading your stuff... you must work for the CIA or something

Nah, I prefer to think of it as preventative maintenance ;^)

Once your data's released, you don't get it back. Whether things are fine right now or not isn't the issue. If you don't take care of business now, the future can bite you in the ass.

 

[notposting]

Besides games and MS Office, some non-standard software purchases include:

Paid $50 for points towards My Movies, have obtained more points since through contributions. I also ended up paying for the iOS (and Android?) versions. It handles metadata for my video collection and does the ripping on our server. The plugin runs on the HTPC and transcodes to extenders, and I can work on the metadata database from any of our computers.

Also paid for the lifetime subscription to AnyDVD (and later the upgrade to AnyDVD HD). Constantly updated and hasn't failed me yet.

I paid for Fingerprint to enable printing to our networked printer from Apple stuff.
Paid for My Channel Logos for WMC.
I think some ad removal software back a few years ago also (commercial skip for DVR)

At the low price level of "apps" or very cheap semi-pro software I don't even blink most of the time now...I do the research and will buy quality.

Quality isn't my complaint with free software usually...it's when it gets abandoned and development halts, or doesn't get updated for new OS's, etc.

 

[Berryracer]

1- Internet Download Manager
2- FlashFXP
3- WinRAR
4- Nero Platinum v12
5- dBPoweramp

 

[Chapbass]

VMWare Workstation, Cubase, Native Instruments Komplete, MakeMKV (yeah, its free for now).


Pretty sure thats about it...besides office I suppose, but that one is obvious.

 

[corkyg]

1. Microsoft Technet (covers all MS products & OS's)
2. Acronis TrueImage (2013)
3. Malwarebytes Pro (1.65.1.1000)
4. NitroPDF (8)
5. Roboform (7.8.35)

 

[lehtv]

Fraps
Better File Rename

 

[Gigantopithecus]

Office 2010
SPSS 20
Illustrator 6
Acrobat Pro X
...those appear to be the only payware titles I have installed on my desktop.

 

[abaez]

AnyDVD HD
xplorer2
Admuncher
Mediamonkey

 

[lehtv]

Why do you pay for Mediamonkey, abaez? The free version does all I need it to.

 

[Chapbass]

AnyDVD HD
xplorer2
Admuncher
Mediamonkey

Good call, forgot about that.

 

[abaez]

Why do you pay for Mediamonkey, abaez? The free version does all I need it to.

Primarily for the automatic update/scanning of new files I place in my mp3 folder.