Source : Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing

fritterware
     
        An excess of capability that serves no productive end.  The
        canonical example is font-diddling software on the Mac (see
        {macdink}); the term describes anything that eats huge amounts
        of time for quite marginal gains in function but seduces
        people into using it anyway.  See also {window shopping}.
     
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