Software you bought for home use...

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Software you bought for home use...

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Don't list stuff you got from work (for free) or use at work... also don't list games, but just apps that you use around the house or for other personal reasons.

1] WinRAR - For the 10000s of uses I've had for this, I think a measely $30 license paid itself off over and over by now. I use it everyday and I prolly couldn't live without it. :drool:

I think that's all I can remember :icon30:
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Post by Canis »

Calculator.app
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Post by +JuggerNaut+ »

WinRar
couple of years of ASE
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Nero

can't think of anything else atm
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Post by PhoeniX »

You know, I've been using computers for 10 years and I don't think I've bought a single piece of software. I got things such as XP for free (legally).
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Post by Captain »

PhoeniX wrote:You know, I've been using computers for 10 years and I don't think I've bought a single piece of software. I got things such as XP for free (legally).
Aye :icon30:
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Post by Postal »

lol, paid software.
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Post by SoM »

i've never bought software/liecense

only shit i bought was when i bought a PC back in 92, since then its warez baby
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Post by +JuggerNaut+ »

Postal wrote:lol, paid software.
lol poor kid
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Re: Software you bought for home use...

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dzjepp wrote:.

1] WinRAR
lol...fucking nitwit...
a defining attribute of a government is that it has a monopoly on the legitimate exercise of violence...
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Post by Massive Quasars »

XP Home bundled, most recently
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Post by Postal »

+JuggerNaut+ wrote:
Postal wrote:lol, paid software.
lol poor kid
lol, lol
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Post by bitWISE »

Trillian Pro
Visual C++ 6
Torque Game Engine

Maybe some others. I almost bought ANTS .NET Profiler but I just couldn't justify the cost (they were willing to hook me up for $150 even though they sell it for like 300ish) even though its a badass tool.
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Post by horton »

Ive got legit copies of Nero, some DVD shit, etc - but that all came bundled with DVD-writers, video cards etc.

The only non-gaming shit I've actually handed money over for is XP Home OEM, it didnt come with a PC, I paid for it when I bought a load of components for the first PC that I built from scratch.
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Post by prince1000 »

anapod
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Post by AmIdYfReAk »

XP MCE 2005....

Uhhh,

.....

Hummm.. *post*
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Post by Grudge »

Win XP
Norton Antivirus
Quicktime Pro
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Post by seremtan »

never paid for any apps or OS, only games
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Post by Canis »

seremtan wrote:never paid for any apps or OS, only games
...because they have CD keys that'll get you banned and kicked from servers if two of them are out there?
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Post by Foo »

Windows. That's it, I think. I should have paid for a Paint Shop Pro license for the use I used to get out of it.

For everything else, I found a viable free alternative or had it anyway. Nero for CD burning (CDBurner XP Pro is alright but Nero edges it out), 7-Zip for compression, Irfanview for most image stuff, SmartFTP, OpenOffice, AVG, Miranda, Firefox. What else?
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Post by MKJ »

nero is free?
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Post by plained »

hehe believe it or not ive bought'en wares to do work for clients comp needs in the past

i fact0rd it into the price
it is about time!
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Post by +JuggerNaut+ »

MKJ wrote:nero is free?
.........
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Post by Scourge »

MKJ wrote:nero is free?
It is with burners sometimes. I have two versions of it free.
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Post by MKJ »

oh, right. its still paid software then :icon32:
in any case, its not a "free alternative"
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Post by dzjepp »

MKJ wrote:nero is free?
nou :tear:
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