What are your essential apps?

gartywood · Post by **gartywood** » Thu Apr 24, 2003 3:12 am

Well its kinda hard to say for a Linux User. Soooo much just comes in the distro that you take for granted...especailly if you've only been with the penguin for a year like me.

Gaim - much better than the AOL linux aim client
Mozilla - because i dont wanna pay for opera
StarOffice - Offers everything MS office Pro does at a fraction of the cost
the gimp
Samba
Webmin
Xine
Ogle
xmms

Well those are what i go find everytime i decide to fuck up my linux install...or just reinstall for the sake of reinstalling. They are basically all on my 1 DVD so I just have to carry that around and i'm set...its just a matter of installing the updates when i get it installed

Bruce · Post by **Bruce** » Thu Apr 24, 2003 6:30 am

> StarOffice - Offers everything MS office Pro does at a fraction of the cost
Have you looked into openoffice? The GPL fork of staroffice.

Eric_the_half_a_bee · Post by **Eric_the_half_a_bee** » Fri Apr 25, 2003 12:02 pm

hmm ..well there's a few
Office XP
Winamp 3 and the update(s), its so pretty
MSN, though i use others this is my favorite
Cubase SX, best music editing software short of sibalius
Wavelab 4
Photoshop 7, come with image ready 7, i have no idea what that does
DivX and MP3 codecs
Power DVD
Media Player 9
Style XP, a groovy thing for skins on XP
Samuri Jack desktop wallpaper
Cookie blocker
Pop-up blocker
Script Blocker
Norton 2003
Vegas 3, lovely video editing from sonic foundries
Win MX
Clone CD
Nero 5.5
Winzip 8.1
Win rar
Divx making software
mIRC
...thats all i can think of for now.....

FireAza · Post by **FireAza** » Sun Apr 27, 2003 1:02 pm

Image Ready is anouther image proggie, pretty much the same as Photoshop, but with a few changes here and there.

raijinfolly · Post by **raijinfolly** » Sun Apr 27, 2003 1:15 pm

Essential Apps?

Ultra-Edit 32
Winamp
Zmud
AIM+
Kazaa
Adobe Photoshop
Microsoft Excel XP
Internet Explorer (netscape and opera don't support enough meta-tags)
ACDSee 4.0
Scansoft Paperport
Guide Plus+ (for my ATI All-In-Wonder card... gotta have an interactive programmable tv-guide

)

Essential Background Apps?

Apache Webserver
PHP4
mySQL
Argosoft Mail Server Pro
Microsoft FTP service
Norton Anti-Virus Corporate Edition
Argosoft Time Syncronizer (literally free... no backdoors, spyware, or adware... but only works on win2k and winxp)

Infin8Cyn · Post by **Infin8Cyn** » Thu May 27, 2004 4:27 pm

Bump/Necro...

Let me list a few of my toys:
MyIE2 - Better than IE, faster, yadda yadda yadda. MSIE + Toys - Fluff = Teh Win.
Microsoft Office - Yep.
Thunderbird - Required for eMail. You want viruses? Go ahead, use Outlook.
NetLimiter - Keep apps from using my damn upload speed
Sygate Firewall Pro - Firewall...
NOD32 Virus Scanner - Better than Norton, faster, and updates more.
EndItAll 2 - Advanced Process Terminator
Jasc Paint Shop Pro 7.04 - Sleek old interface, quick load, handles 95% of all formats, better than Photoshop for GIF/PNG/etc exporting.
Adobe Photoshop CS - Good for everything, powerful, takes time to load however.
Winamp 5 - Need my Mp3's.
ACDSee 5 - Image browser/etc., Faster than 6 by a long shot.
RegWorks - Advanced registry editor, tweaker and monitor.
Your! Uninstaller - Quick, efficent uninstallation manager.
Quicktime 6.5 Pro - Gotsa have my MOV fix and QuicktimeAlternative doesn't do it for me.
Exact Mouse - Crosshairs, color picker, magnifier, etc. EXTREMELY helpful while doin' graphics...
Color Impact Pro - Color Scheme Creator.
Neat Image - Noise removing software for digital images.
DeadAIM - AIM 5.5+ addon.
LanGuard Network Security Scanner - Yup.
eEye Iris Network Traffic Analyzer - Sniffer, only across Hub'd networks. No ARP Poisoning here...
Ethereal - See above-ish.
eEye Retina - Network Security Scanner
Stat Security Scanner - Network Security Scanner
NeoTracePro - For moderating a forum, it's handy to know where your trolls are
comin' from.
SysInternals TCPView - Need to see what apps are holding what ports? (freeware graphical version of netstat)
WS_FTP - FTP Support
F-Secure SSH Client - Yup.
NetStumbler - For wardriving w/the WiFi card..
Webreaper - Freeware website cloner.
Multi-Network Manager - FAST switching from IP - IP and ALL other network config options.
WinTools.net Professional - A suite of tools for increasing operating system performance.
Serious Samurize - Umm... how to explain... Monitoring tool of all sorts.
UltraEdit-32 Text Editor - Full fledged hexeditor & text editor. Syntax highlighting too boot.

Submiqent · Post by **Submiqent** » Fri May 28, 2004 3:54 am

thats a big list. then again its only apps.
Openoffice
iTunes 4.5
MSN,
Photoshop 7, come with image ready 7
After Effects
Nimo Codec Pack 8
Xvid Codecs
FFdshow codecs
Media Player 9
ATi File Player (for playing those files nothing else can - and screenie-ing)
Style XP, a groovy thing for skins on XP
Mozilla
NOD32
Preimire (you know that adobe program, i cant spell

)
Kazaa
Azereus
FlashFXP
Alcohol 120%
Nero 6
Winrar
Flash MX 2004
Dreamweaver MX 2004
Director MX
mIRC

T8y8 · Post by **T8y8** » Fri May 28, 2004 5:07 am

Kazaa Lite K++ 2.4.3 - Music + Programs
Dreamweaver MX 2004 - Web Design
AIM 5.5/AOL 9.0 - Evil, but needed
Quintessential Player - ULTIMATE Media player
AVG 6.0 - Free Virus Scanner
Ad-Aware - Spyware-be-gone
MyIE2 - IE + Tabbed + Other = Goodness.
Photoshop CS - Image Editing to the max.
Windows XP Prof - Best OS, ever.
Virtual PC 6.1 - One box = XP,NT,95, Redhat 7.3
Dameon Tools - Iso's need homes too
Nero - Burn, baby, Burn
NetStumbler - Fun in the sun
MSN Messenger 6.2 - The real, OFFICAL client.
Yahoo 6.0 - Gotta have the 'Hoo
Remote Administrator 2.1 - Control Anything, Anywhere
PowerArchiver 2003 - Zip/unzip ANYTHING
WinFast PVR - TV while surfing....
WinFast FM - Radio while surfing
Kazaa lite Codec Pack - I can watch ANYTHING
EvilLyrics - Look up any song.
Style XP - Makes it all green.
Alcohol 120% - Make them thar 'backups'
Adobe After Effects, Encore DVD, Premiere - Video of DOOM.
Abyss Web Server - 64 gigs of hosting, unlimited bandwidth.
Zone Alarm - A real mans firewall.. Well, not really, but it works
cmd.exe - Best way to rename files.
rundll32.exe - Something important
cftmon.exe - Something else important
Microsoft Office 2003 - I can type!

To name a few

Post by **Martin Blank** » Fri May 28, 2004 6:00 am

Essential apps?

Most of what I see here aren't what I would consider essential. Important, maybe, but not essential.

For me:
Cygwin: Unix on Windows
SmartFTP or FileZilla: FTP transfer; they compete and my loyalty shifts
Google Toolbar for IE: Popup blocking and quick searches
Firefox or Mozilla: No-nonsense browsing
Sygate Personal Firewall
Ad-Aware
Various AV, depending on current loyalty, features, willingness to fork over cash.
Trillian

That's pretty much it for the essentials. Some tools I like to keep around include a Winternals CD and OnTrack Easy Recovery Pro, but those are niche apps.

T8y8 · Post by **T8y8** » Fri May 28, 2004 7:12 am

Oh, but they ARE essential. I'd die without every program on that list

TopCat · Post by **TopCat** » Fri May 28, 2004 8:41 am

/me wonders when Deacon is going to notice that Brian pirated CuteFTP...

Deacon · Post by **Deacon** » Fri May 28, 2004 2:42 pm

[quote="TopCat";p="343177"]/me wonders when Deacon is going to notice that Brian pirated CuteFTP...[/quote]
He didn't say he priated it. He said he kept his old version.

[quote="Brian";p="45870"]CuteFTP 4.2 - the newer versions don't like my registration key, and I like 4.2 just as well anyways. CuteFTP is a great client, and if I had more money I might buy a proper license, but I feel like they charge too much for their product.[/quote]
If you have a license for CuteFTP 4, that license key will not work to register any other version or product, as you do not have a license for any other version or product. You would have to upgrade your license ($14.99 to version 6 Home, $19.99 to version 6 Professional (best value)). Software isn't free to create, produce, QA, distribute, market, etc. Think you can drop $15 to get the latest and greatest? It's a good thing, especially since it now includes FTPS (Implicit and Explicit SSL/TLS) support. I highly recommend dropping the $20 to get CuteFTP 6 Professional. $20 to upgrade 4-year-old software *and* get a huge boost in capabilities and features doesn't strike me as an unbearable burden. How you can consider that too much is really beyond me. Give me a call at 800-290-5054 x138, and I'll set you up

Skorpion · Post by **Skorpion** » Fri May 28, 2004 3:59 pm

Stuff I use all the time:

WMP9: Sure it's bloated, but it works better than anything else I've found.
IE: I need to be online, this is the easiest way. Cleaning up after it is annoying, though.
Google Toolbar: Less crud to clean up after using IE.
MSN6.1: I like MSN, so I keep updating it.
AIM 2.2: AIM without all the spyware, unnecesarry features, and audio ads.
Excel 2000: Excel is what I use to code up all my character sheets, army lists, and the like.
Notepad: I keep all my lyrics and stuff in it.

MasteR · Post by **MasteR** » Sat May 29, 2004 7:43 am

Windows:
Gaim
Winamp
Firefox
Thunderbird
Winrar
mIRC
Azures
Photoshop
OpenOffice.org
Games galore
Various other things

Linux:
Gaim
Xmms
WineX
OpenOffice.org
Azureus
Just about everying that I can compile.

Post by **Blaze** » Sat May 29, 2004 8:04 am

Trillian
Paint Shop Pro 8
FileZilla
Norton Anti-virus
Avant Browser (An IE plugin, but it revolutionized my web browsing, sooooo....)
MGI VideoWave III
Ultimate Zip
Sony CDExtreme
Spybot
Adaware
Word 2000 for all my writin' skillz, yo!

aaaaaand...... that's about it. Lots of others, but none I NEED.

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