What are your essential apps?

Deaths_ally · Post by **Deaths_ally** » Sat May 29, 2004 8:26 am

gotta love how things change with time

Trillian pro 2.0
Winamp 5
BS player
Premiere 6.5, Pro
Photoshop 7, CS
Dreamweaver 2004
Norton Anti-virus
AVG anti-virus
Zonealarm
Full object desktop suite
Opera 7

Cyberliger777 · Post by **Cyberliger777** » Sat May 29, 2004 10:34 am

It is late in the game, but here is my list:

ZoneAlarm: It is the best and I would not have my computer hooked to the internet without it.

Slickrun: I have way to may files. This allow quick and easy acess to all my files.

Mozilla 1.6: It is all about Tab browsing and password manager.

Divx: for the 20 gigs of anime I have.

BS Player: Best player there is. Too bad it is not know that much.

Windows media player: I know, I know. There are better ones out there but I just like this one the best.

Spybot - Search and Destroy: no need for a explaination.

SmartFTP: It is free and a good FTP program. I would recommend this.

FrontPage 2004: Only because it have a preview part. If Dreamweaver allowed preview with out haveing to acess a sever I would use it.

Adobe Photoshop 8: For my website in progress. I love all the tools.

Deacon · Post by **Deacon** » Sat May 29, 2004 3:38 pm

Please avoid coloring your text unnecessarily. I can hardly read it against the very pale blue of the table cell in which your post resides, due to style I've chosen for the boards, which is much less offensive to the eyes than the default. Instead, us bold, underline, italics, size, etc. to format text

LaptopBoy · Post by **LaptopBoy** » Sat May 29, 2004 8:10 pm

my apps -
Browser - Oper 7.23. It ROCKS.
DivX, in whatever codec i can get,
GAIM: (Ugh.....AIM....Spyware Central)
Spybot - Search and Destroy - the ultimate spyware remover.
Tridia VNC - for scaring the heck out of people.....
Winamp,
Power DVD
and whatever else happens to be availabe when i have time.

Cyberliger777 · Post by **Cyberliger777** » Sun May 30, 2004 12:41 am

Sorry, I just felt white would be a good color.. I guess I will just stick to bold.

BtEO · Post by **BtEO** » Sun May 30, 2004 3:51 pm

Hmmm.. here's my little list
LiteStep - No more explorer shell
Opera 7.50 - No more Internet Explorer shit
Miranda-IM - No more multiple IM clients running
Winamp 5.03 - All my music in one handy place (No other client has all the plugins I need)
Media Player Classic - (+Winamp) No more Windows Media Player
Spybot - Search and Destroy - AdAware - Unfortunately, avoiding IE is not quite enough to avoid all spyware.
Metapad - Notepad++
Daemon-Tools - CD/DVD drive running at hard disk speeds anyone?
The Regex Coach - Words cannot express how godly this program is if you need to work with complex regular expressions.
StrokeIt - It took me half an hour to love mouse gestures in Opera, a few days later I got annoyed with them not working elsewhere and found this.
X-Setup - The king of windows tweaking tools

And finally a few other things that are essential.. but things which I feel the program you choose is largely irrelevant
Any Zip tool
Any AntiVirus tool
Any Firewall

Submiqent · Post by **Submiqent** » Mon May 31, 2004 6:49 am

[quote="BtEO";p="344072"]
Any Zip tool[/quote]

WinRar Is THE zip tool. Winzip does nothing compared to it. WinRar is the Mac of Zip programs. But without the price tag.

T8y8 · Post by **T8y8** » Mon May 31, 2004 7:02 am

WinRar is the Mac of Zip programs

... So it's bad?

Deacon · Post by **Deacon** » Mon May 31, 2004 3:55 pm

WinRAR is like a really hot...transvestite. Looks great, and delivers a little extra, but not in a good way.

http://www.powerarchiver.com <-- the shit...

T8y8 · Post by **T8y8** » Mon May 31, 2004 5:18 pm

http://www.powerarchiver.com <-- the shit...

What he said

dmpotter · Post by **dmpotter** » Mon May 31, 2004 7:24 pm

For all your compressing needs...

Well, it's what I use. "Supports" bzip2, gzip, GNU tar...

EvilPanda · Post by **EvilPanda** » Mon May 31, 2004 10:41 pm

Adaware
Mozilla Firebird (no install version for a reason)
mIRC
AIM (I havent found anything good to replace it)
DivX
winamp
xFire ( http://www.xfire.com because gamespy sucks)
Filezilla (FTP)
cdex (Great for ripping cd's)

BtEO · Post by **BtEO** » Tue Jun 01, 2004 12:39 am

[quote="Submiqent";p="344408"][quote="BtEO";p="344072"]
Any Zip tool[/quote]

WinRar Is THE zip tool. Winzip does nothing compared to it. WinRar is the Mac of Zip programs. But without the price tag.[/quote]

Well.. in terms of archivers I'm actually of the opinion you can never have too many

I gots me a WinZip
A WinRar
A WinAce
One of those IzArc's
Oh.. and a StuffIt

Plus I also got an Unziplify which is absurdly handy for those who like to try out lots of programs...

7on · Post by **7on** » Tue Jun 01, 2004 1:06 am

hmmmm

Safari
iChat
MSN Messenger
iTunes
iPhoto
Photoshop
Illustrator
InDesign
Acrobat Pro
Distiller
Halo (arguably essential, but I need it to breathe I tell ya!)
Quicktime Pro
Roxio Toast (w/ CD Spin Doctor 2)
VueScan
TuxRacer (Mwuhahaha)
Keynote

I do use Final Cut Express somewhat, but it is by no means essential. Just dabble now and then.

Submiqent · Post by **Submiqent** » Tue Jun 01, 2004 4:14 am

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Halo (arguably essential, but I need it to breathe I tell ya!) <-- Game not App!!!!
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