What are your essential apps?

SothThe69th · Post by **SothThe69th** » Thu Apr 10, 2003 12:06 am

If I was burning MP3's, I'd need like 5 more discs. Actually, I'd probably convert them to Ogg first for the slight amount of space saving I'd get from it, though it probably still wouldn't knock it down to 4.

spoon · Post by **spoon** » Thu Apr 10, 2003 12:48 am

o Adobe Photoshop 7 - ...
o Winamp - music
o My extensive collection of random images for use with Photoshop
o Life32 - John Conway's Game of Life. Addicting.
o TradeWars Gold - I'm a sysop
o OpenMg jukebox and Net MD simple burner - minidiscs are god
o Nero - for the occasional CD
o WinZip - ...
o ZOC - good telnetter with REXX scripting abilities
o HyperTerminal - for when I want to telnet without scripting
o Notepad - better safe then sorry. I write HTML by hand
o ProgMan - nostalgic attachment to 3.1 <blushes>
o All of my other small files

SporkMaster · Post by **SporkMaster** » Fri Apr 11, 2003 1:47 am

Lets see...

-Mozilla 1.4- Who doesn´t like Mozilla?
-Winamp 2.9.... I can´t live without music.
-Nero - Just because.
-Winzip - Unizipping
-Winrar - Zipping
-Adobe Photoshop 7 - Someday it´ll be a legal copy.
-Trillian - Just because.
-DivX
-100-200 megs of music.
-Alto Mp3 Maker - I know there are better ones, but this one is small and quick.
-Nes/Snes/Sega Genesis Emulators with all the ROMS i can fit.

I actually carry this in my small Cd Wallet (It only fits 6 disks, so i just pack my Essentials Disk and some music cds).

zero · Post by **zero** » Fri Apr 11, 2003 2:17 am

AIM & MSN for the communications
Sonique - mad good audio player
CoolEdit Pro - multi-track recording and WAV editing
HammerHead - a simple yet extremely usefull software drum machine
Cakewalk Music Factory - for MIDI, not the best, but its what i can afford.

Adobe LiveMotion & GoLive = one rockin web authoring combo

along with the standard winRAR, CuteFTP ect. ect. ect.

Salvation122 · Post by **Salvation122** » Fri Apr 11, 2003 2:40 am

Zero, I highly recommend Sonic Foundry's music programs over Cakewalk and CoolEdit. Soundforge and Acid Pro are the two biggies, depending on what you're doing; for pure recording, you only need Soundforge, but for loop/sample-based song creation you need Acid.

zero · Post by **zero** » Fri Apr 11, 2003 2:48 am

yeah, i love Acid, but my comp crashed awhoile back and i couldn't find my Acid Music instal CD, and haven't been able to get a replacement, so i haven't done much loop-work

and as far as multi-track recording, im hooked on CoolEdit Pro, its what i know, i've been running it for years, and haven't had any problems with it so i cant see any reason to switch

cronO · Post by **cronO** » Fri Apr 11, 2003 4:31 pm

Well, I'll start my list now, even though I won't finish... (Chemistry in 5 minutes)

Photoshop 7 - A hobby of mine, I make sigs, backgrounds, and website stuff. (banners, buttons, etc.)
Winamp 2.81 - There's no finer mp3 player.
BPFTP - Once you get a crack, it's an awesome FTP program
Nexgen-Acidmax - My IRC script along with all my extras in it.
HLSW 1.0.0 - It's a program I use to find servers for half life and also to remotely manage a clan server which I help to run.
K++ - Think Kazaa on steroids... it gives you a 1000 user rating and allows you to "Search More" ad infinitum.

There are more, I'll finish later.

Mandor · Post by **Mandor** » Fri Apr 11, 2003 4:38 pm

List of software I use daily on Linux:

X-Chat: for IRC.
Xmms: MP3 player (pretty much like Winamp)
gAIM: AIM and ICQ pagers.
aMSN: Windows MSN emulator.
Mozilla: Web browser and mail client.
eDonkey: Because p2p rocks.
Wine: Windows programs emulator.

And thats all I can thing about right now. Of course I'm also using a photoshop-like program (The Gimp), and Xine (DVD and Video player).

Salvation122 · Post by **Salvation122** » Fri Apr 11, 2003 9:02 pm

[quote="zero";p="47836"]and as far as multi-track recording, im hooked on CoolEdit Pro, its what i know, i've been running it for years, and haven't had any problems with it so i cant see any reason to switch[/quote]
Hey, if it works for you. I found SoundForge's UI much easier to work with, and it obviously interfaces with Acid better, but I admittedly didn't have a full professional copy of CoolEdit.

zero · Post by **zero** » Fri Apr 11, 2003 10:29 pm

yeah, i'll give you the fact that unless you have the full version of cool edit pro, its next to worthless

Newgy · Post by **Newgy** » Sat Apr 12, 2003 9:19 pm

Pegasus mail. - favorite POP3 client.

everything else has been mentioned by someone.

Xyphic · Post by **Xyphic** » Sat Apr 12, 2003 9:40 pm

My word. I can't believe I didn't reply to this one sooner.

Anyhoo.

mIRC - well, duh.
Yahoo Messenger - lets me broadcast my ugly mug to the world.
MSN Messenger - because some of my friends won't use anything else.

DigiGuide 6.0 - because it cost me like £10 for 2 years worth of TV listings.
Outlook - keeps my life in order.
UltraEdit32 - after emacs, my favourite text editor. Emacs crapped out on me a while back so I use this now.
cygwin - for all those juicy *nix tools that make life so much easier.
Potatoshop Elements 2 - so I can potatoshop things, obviously.
Media Player 9 - I know, I know, it's MS but it's really quite good. Winamp died on me and I can't seem to get it working again. Anyway, I have an mp3 player now (Creative Jukebox Zen

).

Hmm... that's about it, I think. I use other things but they aren't essentials.

[edit]Oh yeah, I use Fractal Assistant by... uh... me! It generates fractals. Yeah. It rocks.[/edit]

Miso Beno · Post by **Miso Beno** » Wed Apr 16, 2003 5:01 pm

--Windows--

Winamp: Musics!
AIM 4.8: that 5.1 shit get son my nerves.
Yahoo: hate it, but the female counterpart I like uses it exclusivly
Paint: Best art program, Evar.
AbiWord: I can't afford multipul Office XP licences, so my pop gets that shit.
Seti@Home: I wanna get off this friggen planet.
Corel Suite 11: Because I'm too stupid to use Adobe.
Visual Studio .net: I need it for my College classes
Visual Studio 6: I use it to beat around some VB
Norton Antivirus Corperate: Because I can't seem to download enough Virii through Kazaa.
The Opera: Because it's just as good as IE, with the stability and security of mozilla

GLQuake: Because there's nothing like playing Q1 at 1600x1200
ACDSee 2.48: Leik my favorite image viewing program.

--Loonix--

The Gimp: when I feel like using loonix and i have pics
Star Office: because we all need spreadsheets
XMMS: MUSICS!
Mozilla: how else would I surf the intarwebnet

--Menuetos--
it comes with spare progs?

Newgy · Post by **Newgy** » Mon Apr 21, 2003 8:01 am

Xyphic, you should use trillian, it handles IRC, yahoo IM and MSN. + it is better than the usual msn messanger: it allows /me, tonnes more smilies and some other crap.

plug plug plug

FireAza · Post by **FireAza** » Tue Apr 22, 2003 12:25 pm

For me it's:
mIRC
Kazaa Lite
AdAware
Winamp
Getright
SmartFTP
ICQ
IE Spell
DIVX
Winzip
Quicktime

And that's all if you mean LEAGAL proggies

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