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Essential Programs
I know this has been done before but I haven't seen it for a while. So, what software is essential to you? Mine would be:
MyIE2 - The Cadillac of web browsers IMO. Many features. K++ - No reason you should be using regular Kazaa with this. eDonkey\eMule - Excellent program for downloads, though slow. Alcohol 120% - All about the virtual drives. Nero 6 - Good CD Burning program. Winamp 2.xx - Still my fav program for playing MP3s. I'm sure I forgot a few, but that's good for now. |
Trillian - without it, I'm isolated
XChat - when I do manage to get on the #tfp channel, XChat > Trillian's IRC support AvantBrowser - I prefer it to MyIE2 BCDC++ - campus runs a DC hub, this is the best Windows-based client there is WMP - Hate it all you like, but I prefer it to listen to MP3s with SSH - Gotta manage my servers somehow. :) Cygwin/WinGNU32 - Very useful to have *n?x command line utilities in Windows Mathematica - I take notes in it, I do my homework in it, it's amazing. Edited to add: gVim - Best text editor ever (DOWN WITH EMACS) :D |
Internet Explorer
K++ Windows Media Player AOL Ad-aware 6 Microsoft Word |
Firebird -- Bar none, best browser Ive used
Mozilla -- I use the regular Mozilla on my Debian box, Firebird isnt optimized for Linux Instant Messenger Winamp 2.9 SSH -- Like Pragma, gotta manage the server somehow Textpad -- Best Windows text editor Ive ever seen Sygate Firewall -- great little firewall for use on my Windows box |
Camino
Adium iTunes Eclipse XCode sub-etha-edit terminal :) |
edit: on the freeBSD box, its a whole other story ;) |
Ad-Aware
Spybot S&D POW! Trillian MaxMem NAV Atomic Time Synch DAP SoulSeek Winamp 2.9 (never, never, Never 3.++) dbPoweramp (for conversions) Winzip notepad IrfanView SpywareBlaster MRUBlaster MediaPlayerClassic and NiceMC for what MPC won't play. there are probably more, but those get regular use. |
developer studio
windows xp IE tortoiseCVS 4NT pro motion intel compiler x86/xscale ARM ADS vtune masm xoreax intellibuild dmake, nmake, opusmake fed sourceoffsite ultramon maxivista beyond compare EVC 3/4 MSDN pngcrush imagemagick thumbsplus winiso powerwarchiver asciipr0n yahoo messenger tightvnc network stumbler outlook express avg notepad wordpad for cr/lf messed up about 50 other CLI tools and feh to acrobat. |
Trillian
DC++ DivX/XviD Winamp 5 ChrisTV MS Office SmartFTP Windows Media Player 9 |
My most essential application would have to be Proxomitron. Beats the hell out of all those "embedded" Pop-up killers in other web-browsers, but also allows you to cut out adverts, sounds, annoying animated GIFs, blocks well-know banner ad sites etc. Essentially speeds up your browsing a significant amount.
After that... Opera 7.0 (liked it so much I paid for it) Notepad (great for drafting up posts, and I use it to take notes during meetings) Outlook (would be lost without it; absolutely essential for my job) Cisco VPN client (have to tunnel back into the office somehow) Cisco Aironet (wireless networking rocks; both for the office and my home wireless network) Word (use it everyday) Powerpoint (use it everyday) Excel (use it everyday) MS Project (use it every week) IE (some pages still don't like Opera) SameTime (IBM/Lotus Instant Messenger app; used in work to talk to my colleagues around the globe in different time-zones) I like Photoshop 7, but stopped using it as I didn't have a licensed copy. I don't like pirating. So now I use Photoshop Elements, a good entry level app by Adobe I got with my scanner. Mr Mephisto |
Safari, iTunes, MSN Messenger, Mail, Myth: The Fallen Lords, Acquisition, & Quicktime to watch my porn. :D
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Internet Explorer
WMP K++ WinRAR Winzip Paint Shop Pro 8 Notepad School stuff Word |
Trillian
Bittorrent (any form) Spybot S&D Opera QCD player (the soma skin on top of everything in the minimized state is absolutely perfect) Pagemaker (I do form layout sometimes) Photoshop Office 2k3 (It really is pretty good) And too many games to mention. That's about it |
Zonealarm
Nav corporate spybot adaware bt++ eudora trillian winamp 2.9 (the last crash-free edition!) Acid Pro 4.0 (best audio editor EVER) Arachnophillia (notepad with HTML macros) |
hrm...kinda depends on how one defines 'Essential'...
meaning, 'Must Install' or 'Use Everyday'. ....assuming the latter...
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Irssi
Mozilla Gabber Gnome-Terminal |
Bittorrent ++
Kazaa Lite ++ dBPowerAmp NetCaptor Total Commander Flash FXP IrfanView PanicWare Popup Stopper UltraEdit Ad-aware Trillian mIRC Newsbin Pro winRAR :D |
Outlook Express
Winamp 5 MSN Messenger IE 6 SQL Plus 9 Visual Basic JEdit Microsoft Word Microsoft Excel DC++ Ad-ware ISOBuster Damon |
trillian
x-chat ad-aware paint shop pro nero 5.5 winamp 2/5 myie2 kerio pf power archiver thumbsplus overnet flashget media player classic |
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