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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