xa0s
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May sound like a silly question, but the more I speak to geeks the more I find out about superb programs that I have never heard of before. Even if you think it's widely known, just list it and a brief description. Feel free to list anything that doesn't come with Windows as standard
I haven't got much exciting which is why I made this thread really.
Anyway...
VLC Media Player: The best media player I've come across. Sleek and smooth and does everything I want without all the other nonsense.
Mozilla Firefox: The browser that suits me the most. Been using it for years.
Google Talk: Lightweight little messenger application that doesn't hog resources and is very quick. Does exactly what you want it to do without all the bloating extras that other messengers give.
DVD Shrink 3.2: Best DVD ripper I've come across. Use it all the time to rip DVD's to lossless .VOB files to store on my HTPC/PS3.
mkv2vob: What it says on the tin really. Superb for converting HD MKV's into .VOB's which can be read by the PS3.
Photomatrix Pro 3.0: HDR tool. Superb piece of kit.
Photoshop CS4: Everyone has heard of it.
Dreamweaver CS4: Mainly just use it for the FTP organization and the PHP syntax colouring.
uTorrent: Best torrent downloader for me.
Ares: Replaced LimeWire a few months ago.
Fast Stone Image Viewer: I use this for viewing RAW files without having to load them into Photoshop. Fast, sleek and easy to use.
PS3 Media Server: The best media server for the PS3. Very easy to use with tons of features. It'll change your PS3 forever if you're into streaming. It convinced me to build a HTPC just for streaming.
FLAC: Superb little codec that rips CD's into lossless audio. Each .FLAC is normally about 30mb but it's CD quality. If you've spent a fortune on your speakers and so on, this codec is for you.
mIRC: The best Windows IRC client.
So, just list what you use and what you use it for and it may turn into an alright thread.
[Edited on 06-03-2009 by xa0s]
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willay
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Can it be just apps in general? I only use windows at work 
VLC - best media player going
IrfanView - small app to view and edit images, also comes with a tool to do batch changes to aload of files
Wireshark - use it alot at work to look at packet captures
Putty - to access my seedbox/shells via SSH
Firefox - beats using IE
Outlook - nothing special here
x-netstat - very graphical way to show the netstat command, very cool way of linking processes to ports, protocol and how much bandwidth they are using
winscp - for transferring files over ssh
[Edited on 06-03-2009 by willay]
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xa0s
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Forgot about Wireshark. Good call.
I'll give x-netstat a go -- is it free ware?
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willay
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I dont thin kso no.
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xa0s
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no linking please.
[Edited on 06-03-2009 by willay]
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xa0s
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I also forgot about CuteFTP 8 Professional. The main FTP app I use.
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willay
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if I have to use graphical I'll go for FlashFXP, otherwise I just use ftp from the command line.
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xa0s
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quote:
Originally posted by willay
if I have to use graphical I'll go for FlashFXP, otherwise I just use ftp from the command line.
That X-NetStat is pretty decent actually. It's staying installed. Cheers.
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Aaron
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VLC, Office, Visio, DeepBurner, ImgBurn, AutoGK....oh and COD4 
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moka
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Firefox - Web browser
Ultramon - Dual monitor utility
Audacity - Sound editor
Putty - SSH
Daemon tools - Virtual Drive
Dreamweaver / Fireworks - Web design
Paint.NET - Image manipulation
UltraVNC - Remote Support
Diskeeper - System Maintenance
NOD32 - Antivirus
VLC - Media player (only use this when WMP cannot play a file)
Winamp  - Audio player (love this)
WinRAR & 7zip - Compression
Notepad 2 - Useful for simple code editing
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Sam
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Opera (web browser)
Firefox (web browser)
Chrome (web browser)
Internet Explorer (web browser)
Thunderbird (email client)
Notepad++ (text editor)
Photoshop (image editor)
Illustrator (vector editor)
OpenOffice.org 3.1 (office suite)
FileZilla (FTP client)
WinRAR (archiving utility)
[Edited on 06-03-2009 by Sam]
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xa0s
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Can you both write a description of what they do? I've got no idea what 'Diskeeper', 'Paint.NET', 'Daemon Tools', 'Audacity', 'Aultramon' and so on do...
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PhilC
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Wireshark - Network packet capture
Filezilla - FTP client
Firefox - Web Browser
Open Office - FTW
IMGBurn - Simple disc burner
Foxit - Lightweight PDF reader
The Godfather - Mp3 tag editor (recommended by robin on here i think!)
7zip - archiver
VLC - Media player
Debut video capture - Captures desktop or alternative video source in still frames or video clip
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pow
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VNC for remote control.
Does Google Talk support MSN addresses?
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ed
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Solidworks 2008 - buggy and crappy piece of CAD software, but it's what the university uses so I have to use it.
3DS Max - Not very good at it yet, so can't comment on if it's any good. But I want to use it for 3D renderings of my Solidworks drawings.
Realflow 4 - Use it to animate fluid. Not very good at it yet, so can't comment again 
Adobe Photoshop CS3 - Use it to do manual renderings of 3D models and colour in hand drawn sketches. Also use it as my primary scanning software.
Adobe Illustrator CS3 - Use it to turn hand drawn sketches into vectors, and to vectorise 3D mesh raster outputs from Solidworks so I can do more cartoon-like manual renderings of 3D drawings. Also do poster design.
Adobe Indesign CS3 - Using it to produce my portfolio and some leaflets and things I'm designing.
Adobe Premier Pro CS3 - Use it to hash together video outputs from Solidworks into movies for presentations.
Adobe Flash CS3 - Don't really do any Flash anymore cos it's crap. Javascript all the way!
Adobe Dreamweaver CS3 - Use it because I don't really like Notepad++.
Firefox - Just like it more than IE
uTorrent - Just like it really...
Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 - Learning how to make .net websites so I can step away from PHP.
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John
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IE8, Opera - Browsers
Remote desktop - does what it says on the tin
uTorrent - for downloading torrents
Photoshop - Image editing
Windows Live messenger - chat
Windows Media Player with cccp - Video viewing
Got other standard bits and pieces but nothing fancy or interesting anymore
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Dom
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MaxMSP 4.6 & 5 - Grapical Object Programming HERE
MathsWorks Matlab - I use it for audio filter design
Igor - Filter design
Sample Cahmpion - Real-time Reverb/Wave analysis software
Reaktor 5 - Grapihcal Object Programming by Native Instruments
Spotify - Allows you to listen to music, like napster
TrueCrypt - Creates a mountable (stored in a single file) encyrpt drive
Videora - Convert vids for iPod
CDex - Cd Ripper
Flac/Ape Codecs - usual lossless stuff
Mp3Tag - Editing Flac/Ape/Mp3 Tags
SyncBackPro - For automated Backups to external and remote drives/locations
Real & Quicktime Alternative - Realplayer and Quicktime codecs without the players
Native Instruments Komplete 5 - Music Apps
East West Orchestra and Choir - Orchestral and Choir Plugins
Live 7 - Audio Multitracker
Best app, RocketDock - Mac/Osx like dock, HERE
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