The winnah...

So it was down to the wire, but I just registered:

NetNewsWire

I decided on NNW because, of all the apps on my machine, it's the one I use the most that I haven't paid for. Which brings up an interesting point -- when I entered my serial number, it was all anticlimax. Brent doesn't disable any functionality before you register, and I still had 2+ weeks on the evaluation copy.

I would have preferred a blast of trumpets, or something.

Early candidates for next week are:
• Konfabulator
• Watson
• Entourage Email Archive X (I'm a very happy registered user of Softhing's Outlook Email Archive)

This last almost beat out NetNewsWire tonight, since Entourage (and any other Office app) was crashing on open. A quick Google search led me to a page documenting how to rebuild the Entourage database. It's exactly what you would think: just hold down the option key when you double-click on the application, then select "Typical" or "Advanced" from the resulting dialog box.

I kid you not. Nevertheless, it recovered my e-mail, 21 megabytes in all. Now I need to archive it before it does it again.