"Feedbackware?  You just made that up!"

OK, yes I did.  I suppose I mean Betaware.

"Sounds more familiar, but what exactly is Betaware?"

These programs are potentially so useful to the right people that I'm somewhat loth to just let them out into the public domain.  The problem I have with making them shareware is that I want to get them properly play tested by people other than myself before charging people for them.

Don't take this to mean that we're dealing with Alpha products here.  All three have been thoroughly tested by myself, but I was the one who set them up on each system and ironed out any installation bugs.   The couple of times they've been tested externally there has generally been some kind of installation issue that I could have likely sorted if I had access to the machine but thwarted my efforts to fix through the end-user.  A lot of the time I suspect this comes down to relatively simple problems but if you're not expecting to beta test this can get a bit annoying.

So at the moment I'm up for a deal.  If you fancy installing one of these and getting them to work on your system please go ahead.  They've got a thirty day protection on them but as long as I'm getting decent feedback from you I'm happy to let a good few people have the registration codes for free (when I stop being happy I'll put them into a shareware section, but those of you that have already obtained the codes can continue to use the software for free). 

In return, I'd really appreciate detailed feedback on how the programs went for you - whether you have installation issues (if so we may be able to sort them out - email me) or whether it went swimmingly for you.