Non-free software worth paying for.

[Genocidicbunny]

UltraEdit

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What makes it worth the money over Notepad++? Im looking at the features, and it seems that many of the things it can do, Notepad++ ( which is free) can too. I might be wrong here though.

 

[Speedo]

Column mode, its scripting capabilities and projects are enough to sell me. Doesn't hurt that it's also a hex editor, the UltraCompare program that ships free with it is sometimes a lifesaver, and it's one of the few editors I've seen that can reliably handle massive (several hundred MB+) files. YMMV of course.

 

[Comraddict]

Column mode, its scripting capabilities and projects are enough to sell me. Doesn't hurt that it's also a hex editor, the UltraCompare program that ships free with it is sometimes a lifesaver, and it's one of the few editors I've seen that can reliably handle massive (several hundred MB+) files. YMMV of course.

Notepad++ has plug-in for Hex editor. It does compare too. However, UltraEdit is indeed capable of opening files of gigabytes in size.

 

[Macha]

Apart from games, I have not bought myself any new software in the last while. If it came to it, of the paid software I use, Windows would be the only one I would purchase again and even then, maybe not if wine ever got full compatibility with the newest games.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

I found an old versiion of Photoshop (I think 3.0, at least it was from 1999) that my mom got for her college thing. She says she only paid about $30 or 40 for it. I'd say that's worth it. It still works, too!

Maybe there can be found a copy of it online. To buy, I mean.

 

[Till]

I'm not aware of a free equivalent to Sandboxie.

(Edit: Notepad++ supports column selection, as well, by the way.)

 

[Aramazd]

Aside from Windows, MS Office and games, I don't buy anything.

$60 for MS Office Ultimate 2007. (if you're a student)

Best $60 I ever spent.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

I've heard Norton Ghost is worth the price, I don't know if it's true or not though.

 

[dutchfire]

Is MS Office really worth it? I'm using OpenOffice, and I've found that it does most of the things I need to do exactly the same. I haven't really used it to write long documents and such though (LaTeX does that job for me), but for the casual reading of .docs and doing some quick calculations with spreadsheets, it works surprisingly well.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

I use OpenOffice as well. But that's because our newest copy of MS Office is almost 10 years old. And I also have a copy from 1995 -- on floppy disks. And I don't have a floppy disk drive. Figure it out yourself. (Although I did finally transfer it to a CD. Now to get the darn thing installed.)

 

[Zelig]

Is MS Office really worth it? I'm using OpenOffice, and I've found that it does most of the things I need to do exactly the same. I haven't really used it to write long documents and such though (LaTeX does that job for me), but for the casual reading of .docs and doing some quick calculations with spreadsheets, it works surprisingly well.

It was well worth the $60 for me, I use Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Outlook and Access extensively.

If openoffice.org does everything you need, probably not worth paying for MS office though.

 

[lndm]

And I also have a copy from 1995

My favourite version

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

My favourite version

I think it's 4.3 or something. I got the date from a text file on one of the disks.

I'd say that any decent data recovery is worth paying for (if you need it). Backups aren't always reliable, anyone remember my scratched DVD?.

I use Recuva, free, myself, but not quite the best (good for my purposes), however I've tried trialware data recovery programs (which can pull out maybe 100 kb at a time) and they work.

 

[Aramazd]

It was well worth the $60 for me, I use Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Outlook and Access extensively.

If openoffice.org does everything you need, probably not worth paying for MS office though.

OneNote is pretty awesome as well. But, I wouldn't pay $300 for Office Ultimate.

 

[Fetus4188]

Other than games, this is the proprietary software I use:

Windows Vista Home Premium and everything that comes with it
Visual Studio 2008 (free through school)
ObjectDock Plus

.. and that's it

Here's the freeware/open source stuff I use:
Mandriva Linux
Firefox 3
Thunderbird 2
Pidgin
Hamachi
winamp
Paint.NET
GIMP
Picasa 3
Open Office
Notepad++
Python 2.5
Ruby 1.8
VLC Media Player
muTorrent
7-zip
avast!
Foxit

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

muTorent? I've never heard of that one. Neither has google.

And I thought GIMP was open-source, as well as Firefox and Thunderbird.

Edit: And 7-Zip. And VLC.

 

[Zelig]

muTorent? I've never heard of that one. Neither has google.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ΜTorrent

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Oh, thanks. I always spelled the funny character as u.

 

[lndm]

Easily done. The greek letter mu is an 'm' but in English we write it as a 'u'.

 

[Fetus4188]

muTorent? I've never heard of that one. Neither has google.

And I thought GIMP was open-source, as well as Firefox and Thunderbird.

Edit: And 7-Zip. And VLC.

That's why they're under freeware/open-source.