01-26-2010, 11:51 AM | #1 |
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What are some of the software programs you use?
I use Windows. Not a complete list of course and in no particular order, but some of the programs I use are:
Roboform (password manager) http://www.roboform.com EditPad Lite (text editor) http://www.editpadpro.com/editpadlite.html Fences (desktop organization) http://www.stardock.com/products/fences/ ObjectDock (desktop organization) http://www.stardock.com/products/objectdock/ Update Notifier (update utility) http://cleansofts.org/view/update-notifier.html The Bat! (email) http://ritlabs.com/en/products/thebat/ Axcrypt (encryption) http://www.axantum.com/axCrypt/ KeePass Password Safe (password manager) http://keepass.info/ VLC (media player) http://www.videolan.org/vlc/ USB Safely Remove (usb device manager) http://safelyremove.com/ PDF-XChange (pdf viewer) http://www.docu-track.com/home/prod_...s/pdfx_viewer/ WhoCrashed (crash dump analyzer) http://www.resplendence.com/whocrashed Unlocker (unlocking utility) http://ccollomb.free.fr/unlocker/ PowerArchiver (archiving utility) http://www.powerarchiver.com/ GoodSync (synchronize) http://www.goodsync.com/ BounceBack Essential (backup/pc recovery) http://www.cmsproducts.com/products/...essential.html Active Hard Disk Monitor (disk utility) http://www.disk-monitor.com/ SpeedFan (hardware monitor) http://www.almico.com/speedfan.php IMatch (digital image management) http://www.photools.com/ Mozilla Sunbird (calendar) http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/sunbird/ Irfanview (image viewer) http://www.irfanview.com/ FastStone Capture (screen capture utlity) http://www.faststone.org/ ConceptDraw (diagramming software tool) http://www.conceptdraw.com/en/products/cd5/main.php Recuva (file recovery) http://www.piriform.com/recuva I am NOT an affiliate, NOR am I associated with any of the above companies. |
01-26-2010, 05:40 PM | #2 |
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Wow, I thought I was up on my software and I never heard of most of these. Anyway, here's a partial list of the stuff I use most. I'm using Windows 7.
Incredimail (email) Paint Shop Pro X2 Microsoft Office 2007 (required for online classes) Internet Explorer 8 (works best for online school portal) AVG (antivirus) Ad-aware BN EReader software Adobe Digital Editions Calibre Kindle for PC Notepad ++ Digsby (multi chat client) Windows Media Player 11 (music/movies) |
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01-26-2010, 06:06 PM | #3 |
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I tend to reach a version of software that is "good enough" and stop upgrading to more bloated versions. I use a word processor from 13 years ago (Word 97), an image viewer from 10 years ago (ACDSee 2.44) an image editor from 13 years ago (PaintShop Pro 4.14) an FTP program from 14 years ago (CuteFTP 1.8), Adobe Acrobat (not the reader-- the full thing) from 9 years ago (v5). Use MediaPlayerClassic for video (with the look of Windows Media Player way back from Win95-- I also still use the desktop look of Windows95, and I'm XP, not Vista, but that's pretty mainstream there...)
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01-27-2010, 12:19 PM | #4 |
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Corel Paint Shop Pro Photo XI
Nikon Capture NX Firefox Calibre Microsoft Word mIRC iTunes Alcohol 120 UltraMon NoteTab Pro Finereader |
01-27-2010, 12:41 PM | #5 |
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Calibre, Gimp, Inkscape, Sigil, Atlantis Ocean Mind (the best word processor), Foobar2000, MetaX, Yamb, MP4Box, MP4Creator, mkvtoolnix, mkvextractgui, Handbrake, VLC, Utorrent, Transmission, Final Draft, Sophocles 2007 (last version), IMGBurn, Sabnzb+, Lottanzb, Grabit..... I run OSX, Linux and Windows, too many applications to list all of them
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01-27-2010, 08:28 PM | #6 |
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Firefox, Vuescan, Aperture, Gimp, Evernote, Dropbox, iTunes...and that's about it (there'd be more, but they're not on my Dock, so they'd be "occasionals").
I assume we're not counting iPhone apps. Cheers, Marc Last edited by montsnmags; 01-27-2010 at 11:47 PM. |
01-27-2010, 10:34 PM | #7 |
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01-27-2010, 11:37 PM | #8 |
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It's interesting to think about how streamlined my home computer use has gotten in the past few years. I've gone from a gaming desktop and hours of playing MMORPGs to a little netbook and a small crop of low-intensity applications:
- Firefox - Songbird (for music) - Thunderbird (for occasional usenet lurking; I just do email through the web) - GIMP (image editing) - OpenOffice (word processing/spreadsheets) - XChat (IRC) - Pidgin (instant messenger) I think all of those except Songbird were installed by default on my OS (Linux Mint). |
01-28-2010, 01:28 AM | #9 |
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Firefox
Rythmbox (Organize and play music) OpenOffice Scribus (DTP) Gimp Calibre MusicBrainz Picard (Identify and tag Music) Sigil TomBoy (Personal wiki) GreaseMonkey (Addon to firefox) DTA and Jdown (Download managers) Transmission (Bittorrent client) VLC MPlayer ChatZilla (Addon to firefox) AdBlock Plus (Addon to firefox) GEdit Anjuta (IDE) GCC GDB AWN (Dock) Compiz (Desktop effects) And a bunch of others now and then. All free. Most included in Ubuntu. I use them under Gnome. |
01-28-2010, 01:58 AM | #10 |
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Hmm, at home, I use:
WinXP Microsoft Virtual PC Textpad Office 2003 FireFox Unlocker Paint Shop Pro 9 WinAmp Various games some other apps that I probably just installed to use once or twice In my VPC: WinXP TextPad Visual Studio 2008 some other apps that I probably just installed to use once or twice On my work laptop: WinXP Microsoft Virtual PC Textpad Office 2007 FireFox Unlocker Paint Shop Pro 9 WinAmp KeePass And on my VPC whatever I need to get my work done... (right now, WinXP, VS2005, VS2008, VSS, TextPad, BeyondCompare, things like that) |
01-28-2010, 02:51 AM | #12 |
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Firefox
Opera Open Office Vuescan Faststone image viewer Winamp Media Player Classic Calibre CCleaner Skype Free Commander (Have Vista, Never use an Anti-virus. No probs with the OS) |
01-28-2010, 03:20 AM | #13 |
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IE7 (mainly) Firefox (sometimes)
MS Office Enhanced Windows Backup BabasChess - online chess GUI Foobar Avira AV Password Safe Get_iplayer - downloads BBC radio and TV progs Dummy File Creator - because modern disks are just too big! Microsoft Money (billionaire's edition ) Ad-Aware SpyBot Wise Disk Cleaner 4 Free DivX Player PowerDVD Forte FreeAgent - newsgroup reader Last edited by Sparrow; 01-28-2010 at 03:23 AM. |
01-28-2010, 07:29 PM | #14 |
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Firefox Live Messenger Office 2007 Newsbin Calibre Photoshop Nero Sopcast Streamtorrent Foxit Reader |
01-28-2010, 08:19 PM | #15 |
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