Philosophical phriday - a lexicon of wares

  • Abandonware - left to rot in a cul-de-sac off the information superhighway
  • Adware - pushes products like a street dealer
  • Alienware - arrived from another universe
  • Aware - clues provided, boxes ticked, back to normal, things to do 
  • Badware - should be sent to the naughty step
  • Betaware - beta hope it works
  • Blackware - interleaved with whiteware, forms a zebra crossing
  • Bloatware - so fat it has its own postcode
  • Bundleware - less bundle of joy, more bundle of old rags
  • Cloudware - play misty for me
  • Copware - press the wrong button and get hit with 50,000 volts
  • Crapware - press the wrong button and evacuate your bowel
  • Creepware - started lower-left, imperceptably heading upper-right
  • Crimeware - reveals the secret password character-by-character on TV
  • Crippleware - almost does what you want, but not quite
  • Crudware - the oh so polite version of crapware
  • Donationware - like being mugged by the tin-shakers
  • Dribbleware - something to keep old aunt Doris amused before bingo 
  • Everyware - ubiquitous software
  • Expireware - demands money with menaces for The Ultimate Answer
  • Firmware - full of erotic entertainment
  • Floppyware - absent erotic entertainment
  • Foistware - mysteriously dropped into your shopping trolley 
  • Freeware - free as in birds not beer
  • Grayware - occupies the ominous shadow between white and blackware
  • Greenware - hugs trees, loves penguins, saves whales
  • Grossware - buckets of gore in glorious Technicolor
  • Hardware - stuffed so full of erotic entertainment that it might burst  
  • Hotware - a pointless waste of CPU cycles, warms the office on a cool day
  • iWare - from a company with defective shift keys
  • Junkware - used to navigate Asian coastal waters
  • Lameware - should be put out of its misery, call the vet
  • Liveware - as used in defibrillators and insulin pumps
  • Malware - programmed by Malcolm The Programmer
  • Meatware - human-powered grey-matter, a critical system component
  • Middleware - sits between the bottom and top of memory
  • Nagware - repeatedly reminds you of the things you foolishly agreed to do 
  • Netware - buckets of gore, less the buckets
  • Noware - software gleefully announced 'a while back'
  • Oldware - warns other software to get off its lawn
  • Payware - all it takes to make it work is just one more dollar
  • Peopleware - no AI here, no siree
  • Promoware - all flashing lights and glitter bombs
  • Ransomware - pay up or the PC gets it!
  • Scareware - shouts boo to entire flocks of geese
  • Scumware - floats to the top of the Interwebs
  • Secaware - for seekers of the very highest quality consulting, of course
  • Shelfware - gravity anchors for helium-filled shelving
  • Skinware - sold in blister packs
  • Skyware - simulates clouds in the cloud
  • Smartware - can be out-foxed by a pre-schooler
  • Someware - that program you dimly recall using years ago for something 
  • Spookware  definition redacted 
  • Spouseware - to keep your better half amused
  • Spyware - to keep your better half surveilled
  • Stalkerware - follows you home from the Internet cafe
  • Trojanware - appears quite useful but was produced by Big Software Co
  • Tryware - see if you can get this to install and run, go on, give it another go
  • Tupperware - cold storage for unappetising leftovers
  • Underwear - worn below the middleware
  • Vapourware - nearly as dense as inter-galactic space
  • Warmware - almost does what you want it to do, but not quite
  • Wetware - so funny you'll pee yourself laughing
  • Whiteware - appliance applications
  • Wormware - excellent for luring phish
  • Xware - it is no more, nice plumage though ...
  • Yware - nobody knows for sure what it's for
  • Zware - from the planet Zog, nanu nanu