What does everyone deem worthy of the highest techie honour.... paying for their software.

Name your top three software titles that you buy or subscribe to legitimately. Not including Windows or service packs.... which of course we all pay for, or Linux

Ill start off.

1. Norton Ghost
2. Panda Internet Security 2006
3. Nero 6

Those are mine, just wondering what others run that we might benefit from knowing more about. They have all proved themselves indespensible in my day to day life, and as such I have bought copies....well I am a legitimate businessman afterall

Go ahead and preach your gospel of three.

Cheers
Tongy

Ghost certainly, and Paint Shop Pro.

Well for me its:

Microsoft Software Developer Network (Universal)
F-Prot Anti-virus
Nexthaus SyncJe for Outlook

!!

well i use linux and pay for nowt. Sometimes for good software donate if i can.

on windaz i paid for that defragin thing cant remember the friggin name now  :whoops: i bought it to test for someone, it was $11 iirc. not much any how.

Tag&Rename

Thats about it really

ive never paid for any software.... not since I got win95 bundles with my first PC

Quote from: brummiewell i use linux and pay for nowt. Sometimes for good software donate if i can.

Same as me, Ive made donations for AmaroK, QTparted and a few others; the only software (if I exclude PC games) Ive ever paid for is Windows 98 & XP.

Roxio Easy Media Creator
Trend Micro PC-cillin Internet Security
Firetrust MailWasher Pro

Wurdz, freeware but really useful. Theres probably a more modern alternative, but this Ronseals.
AtomixMP3, nice toy especially if you have 2xsoundcards.
Autoroute OK its not perfect but even with sat nav and AA-routing I still use this all the time for printing maps and planning alternate routes.

posting jsut one  - Jpadpro
http://www.modelworks.com/index.html

ilife (mac only multimedia stuff)
fraps (video recording system)
world of warcraft (game)

Id like to say photoshop too but never actually bought it.  Will do next time round tho.

Quote from: SteveFId like to say photoshop too but never actually bought it.  Will do next time round tho.

They all say that

Acronis TrueImage http://www.acronis.com/

I also have an old copy of Paint Shop Pro and Nero, everything else is freeware or came with something else or on a coverdisk.

Total Commander
smartSMS

Hmm

The various versions of Nero that I have bought
PowerDVD
Opera back when you had to pay for it

Spinrite 6 - Its just salvaged a bunch of hard drives I was going to throw out, and recovered my data. Best dosh Ive ever spent.

Nod 32 - Greatest antivirus ive ever used. Never ever failed me.

Microsoft Office - Never paid extra for, but a copy of office 97 came with my old old computer.