Which programs do you use, and why?

[Sondreee]

Im just wondering what programs people use for common stuff like browsing, listening to music, chatting etc...I made a list for you to fill out (you can add stuff if you like)

I'll start;

Browser: Opera 7.5 (best functions)

Music Player: Winamp 5.03 (more features than itunes, less resource usage)

Chat: Msn 6.2 w/ msgplus 3 (nice interface, has a lot of features which miranda lacks)

Irc client: Opera 7.5 (I dont use irc much)

Movie player: Media player classic (not bloated, takes little resources, plain and simple)

FTP: SmartFTP (haven't bothered to check out any alternatives)

p2p: kazaalite (ability to disable uploading, easy to use)

Edited June 1, 2004 by Sondreee

[acedriver]

Browser: MyIE2

Music: Foobar2000

Movie: Media Player Classic (+ ffdshow, can play almost everything)

IM: Yahoo!, MSN

P2P: eMule, Azureus, DC++

Firewall: Sygate Personal

Antivirus: F-Prot

FTP: Filezilla

Download manager: Flashget

Graphic Viewer: Acdsee Classic 2.43 (extremely fast)

[sciguy007]

Browser: firefox, customizable, stable, and i like my theme for it

email: thunderbird

music: iTunes, cause its the easiest to use with my ipod

video/DVD: media player classic, its a lite program, and does everything i need

IM: trillian, cause id rather only use one program for aim and msn, and i like it

antivirus: norton antivirus 2004, cause i have it

FTP: cuteftp/smartftp

image viewer: windows picture viewer

[STV]

Browser: Internet Explorer (simple to use and works for me)

Email Client: Office Outlook 2003 (its just easy to use, one of the finest programs i have bought)

Music Player: Windows Media Player 9 (great media management and looks really nice)

IM/Chat: MSN Messenger 6.2 (very nice tablet specific features) and AIM (i dont really like it, but I cant get some of my "buddies" to use MSN Messenger

Irc client: N/A

Movie player: Windows Media Player 9 (great media management and looks really nice)

FTP: N/A

p2p: N/A

Programming: Visual Studio.NET 2003 (great interface and allows easy creation of programs, and etc.)

i just use what is comforable to me and gets the job done.

STV

[tang_tito]

Browser: IE (well... it's already there, haha)

Music Player: Winamp (good sound, easy to use, and has a lot of skins)

Chat: MSN 6.1(haven't upgraded to 6.2 haha)

IRC: -----

Movie Player: WMP(it's... there)

FTP: CuteFTP(find it easy to use)

P2P: Kazaa (only sometimes)

Image Viewer: ACDSee

[xplatinum]

IRC: mIRC(fast transfers,easy to use,for me at least)

Movie Player: Video Lan(AWESOME QUALITY)

FTP: FlashFXP(bloody fast)

mIRC : You do realise that it depends on whoever sends it to you and not IRC itself.

VideoLAN : You do realise that it depends on how the video was encoded and VideoLan has nothing to do with the quality. Media Player Classic could have the same quality considering its the same video file.

FlashFXP : You do realise that it depends on the server you're connected to ? SmartFTP would be just as fast considering its the same server.

As for me,

Browser : FireFox (fast page rendering. simple. not bloated)

IM : MSN 6.2 (got used to it and that's what mostly everyone use)

FTP : FlashFXP (ease of use. FXP support. Clean interface)

FTP Server : BPFTP server (ease of use and to configure)

AntiVirus : Symantec Anti-virus Corporate 9 (clean interface. fast loading)

Audio Player : WinAMP (loads fast. easy to use interface)

Video Player : Media Player Classic w/ ffdshow (easy to use. very fast loading. just the best)

P2P : KaZaa and eMule (depending on what I want)

IRC : mIRC -- NoNameScript (ease of use. that's where alot of things are)

Email : Eudora (if I would have a pop3 account)

CD-Burning : Burnatonce (very clean interface. minimalist)

Archiver/UnArchiver : WinRAR (ease of use. supports all format I need)

[Hankyone]

Shareaza

Smartbarxp

Firefox

Foobar2000

Photoshop

Nero

Flashget

Cheatbook 2004

Tuneup Utilities

;) think thats all

[CoolCatBad]

Firefox,Opera (I uninstalled IE, again)

Outlook Express (You know, it shouldn't be working since I got rid of IE, but it does)

ClamWin Antivirus

Apollo Music Player

MPC and Zoom video

2xExplorer

K++ 2.4.3.

[Chouzan]

Browser: Mozilla Firebird

Email Client: Popcorn

IM Client: Miranda

IRC Client: TinyIRC

Audio Player: Foobar 2000

Video Player: VLC Media Player

Image Viewer: Irfanview

FTP Client: LinasFTP

Office Suite: Open Office

Compression Utilities: Iceows

Burning Application: Burnatonce

I use the smallest applications possible (Open Office and Mozilla Firefox are exceptions), as long as there is no loss in productivity and support. :D

[Raum]

Music

Listening: Foobar. Easily switch between multiple playlists, I have keyboard shortcuts mapped out to my preferences (Hold CTRL and Shift + 1-6 for volume toggles, CTRL and Shift + - or = to switch playlists, up down left and right arrows let you go forward and back a song or forward and back 10 seconds in the current song, CTRL and Shift + ~ makes foobar show/hide, ctrl and shift + spacebar pauses/unpauses). Easy plug-in use, works for surround sound on my 5.1 setup effortlessly, decent equalizer, nice opacity settings, highly configurable in every way, low resource usage.

Ripping: CDex. Perfect rips all the time, CDDB makes ripping even easier, tells you the error amount which is convenient and so on.

Burning: Nero. Nice and comprehensive, easy to use.

Graphics

Creation: Photoshop 7. Only reason I see to go to CS is for keyboard shortcuts, so I'm content with 7. Great program.

Viewing: Windows Picture and Fax viewer works great for me.

VS: Photoshop and Stylebuilder.

Internet

Bittorrent: Azureus. Only 3rd party BT client I've tried and it works great. Interface is similar to programs like Kazaa and Soulseek rather than individual windows like BT default.

Soulseek: Superb for downloading full albums.

Firefox: My favorite browser. Fast and highly configurable, works how I want it to.

Trillian Pro: Easily my favorite messnger. Use the Quicksilver theme ever since I discovered the program. Logging, renaming contacts to their actual names...so many things I love about this. I can't stand the interface of aim compared to this or the interface of Gaim which reminds me of aim too much, and miranda I just didn't like at all.

Other

Ultramon: Gives me second moniter a taskbar, yay :)

Reshacker: Great for modifying system files or creating Shell32's.

Bootskin: Easy to use no hassle boot screen changing program.

WMP8: Easy to use video player that's always satisfied my needs.

[JCAP]

I think i posted mine in one of the 3 other threads just like this. Search for it if you want to know for some odd reason. :sleep:

yeah me to :sleep:

[eye_see_you]

Reshacker - modifying winblows

Winammp- music

Video Lan- for media and streaming

Photoshop CS/ Image ready - image handling

Sothink DHTML and GLanda - for web content creation

DVD - Shrink - Copying my DVD Collection / Also DVD- X-Copy

Visual Studio.Net - vb.net, asp.net and SQL front end development

Borlands JBuilder- java based creation tool

Samurize- allows me to monitor etc

Nero- for burning, also Clone CD

[A.K.R.]

Web Browser: Mozilla FireFox (except for Windows Update and surfing Microsoft websites, which means Internet Explorer)

Office Productivity Suite: Microsoft Office Professional Edition 2003

Mail Client: combination of Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 and MSN Explorer

Media Player: combination of Nullsoft Winamp and Windows Media Player

Zip File Utility: PowerArchiver

CD Burner: I use Windows XP's built-in CD writing support (enough for me)

DVD Burner: not yet...

Windows Tweaker: TweakUI (part of Microsoft's Windows XP PowerToys package)

Windows Skinner: Neowin UXTheme Multi-Patcher v1.5

Graphics Program: combination of Microsoft Office Picture Manager and Ulead Photo Express 4.0 (wish I could get Adobe Photoshop... :( )

Desktop Enhancement Tools: Desktop Sidebar, Serious Samurize, LClock and Y'z Dock

Anti Virus Software: Norton Antivirus

Spyware Scanner: Spybot Search and Destroy

Windows Graphical Enhancers: Y'z Shadow

I think that's all, but this list may change in the future...

[_NeMeSiS_]

Browser: Opera 7.50 (less resources for me than firefox when loading multiple pages)

IM Client: MSN 6.2 w/ MSN Plus 3

IRC Client: mIRC 5.91 w/ ircN 7.27

Audio Player: Winamp 2.91 (love foobar, but got winamp shortcut keys setup - never actually look at winamp ;))

Video Player: Media Player 6.4 (better than any other wmp) + PowerDVD (for m2v's)

FTP Client: FlashFXP

Office Suite: MS Office 2k3

Compression Utilities: WinRAR (why install any other?)

Burning Application: Nero Burning ROM 6.something..

Download Mangager: FlashGet

[uniacidz]

Browser: IE, MyIE2, Opera

Mail Client: Outlook Express

Music Player: Winamp

Chat: Windows Messenger 4.7 modded version, ICQ

Irc client: Mirc

Movie player: Windows Media Player, Media Player Classic, Power DVD

FTP: WS FTP

p2p: Kazaa Lite Resurrection

Documents: Word 2003 (Whole Office 2003 Suite)

Burning: Nero

CD Ripping: Easy CD-DA

Download Manager: Flashget

Antivirus: Pc Cillin 2003

Fax: Winfax 10

Weather: Weather Watcher

System Utilities: Registry Mechanic, System Mechanic

Spyware Removal: Ad Aware, Spybot

Graphics: Paint Shop Pro 7

Zip: Winzip, Winrar

[habtro]

Browser: Firefox (i like the interface)

Music Player: winamp 5 (easy to use)

Chat: Msn 6.2 (lots of neat features)

FTP: Serv-U 2.5i (old, but very easy to use)

p2p: shareaza, emule, kazaalite

Antivirus: Norton Antivirus 2003 (good enough)

Documentary: Office 2003 (latest one)

Graphics: Photoshop CS, Illustrator CS, ImageReady CS

Zip: WinRAR

Spyware Removal: Ad Adware, Spybot

mIRC: dunno how to use it :(

[ozgeek]

Internet Browser: Mozilla Firefox 0.8 (for it's high-customizability, feature-rich) For IE-only sites, Avant Browser.

Email Client: Mozilla Thunderbird (Fast-loading, very good filter engine)

IM: MSN Messenger 6.2 with MSN Plus 3

CD/DVD burning: Nero Ultra Edition

Office Suite: Microsoft Office XP Professional

Antivirus: Norton Antivirus 2003 Pro

Firewall: Zone Alarm Pro 5

Photo/Graphics: Macrmedia Fireworks MX 2004, Paint Shop Pro 8

DVD Movie Player: Power DVD 4 XP

File Compression: WinRAR 3.30

P2P Programs: Kazaa Lite 2.4.3, emule

PartitoinMagic 8

Resource Hacker

Regseeker

Tweaking: X-setup, tweakui, regedit

[insanekiwi]

audio: 3c-1c,tag&rename,eac,itunes,winamp.

reasons: eac encodes nice and fast. itunes mp3 management rules. winamp 2.9x = fast small player.

burning: nero,alcohol 120%

reason: simply the besttools around

graphics: photoshop,illustrator

internet: firefox,trillian,flashfxp,outlook,xchat

documentary: office 2003

system related: tweak ui,spybot,oo defrag,x-setup,tune xp

unstuff: winrar,isobuster

video: autogk,dvddecrypter,media player classic,powerdvd,vlc

[Colin-uk Veteran]

Internet Browser: Crazybrowser

Email Client: Outlook express

IM: MSN Messenger 6.2 with MSN Plus 3

CD/DVD burning: Nero 6

Office Suite: Microsoft Office XP Professional

Text editors: Wordpad, notepad, PHPEdit

Image viewer: ACD3

Antivirus: AVG

Firewall: Outpost firewall

Photo/Graphics: Adobe photoshop

Media player: winamp 2.9, WMP9

File Compression: cant remember the name :pinch:

P2P Programs: Ares, Sharezea

Other protection: spybot S+D, Ad-aware 6

;)

[STV]

to add to my previous list:

Office Suite: Office 2003 Professional (has a whole bunch of features that i need to do work faster)

DVD Player: Windows Medai Player 9 and WinDVD (just works great)

Media Creation (publications): Office Publisher 2003 (very easy to use and the final product looks wonderful)

Media Creation (graphics): Paint, Photoshop Elements 2.0, and Office Picture Manager (together they make a great team)

HTML/XML (and the like): Office Frontpage 2003 and Visual Studio.NET 2003

Note Taking and Filing: Office OneNote 2003 (great app that takes advantage of many Tablet PC features that Windows Journal doesnt provide) and Windows Journal (for quick note-taking)

STV

[speedy_kevin]

Browser: Opera

Mail: Webmail

Music: Winamp

IM: MSN Messenger

Burning: Nero

Graphics: photoshop, fireworks

FTP: FlashFXP

AV/Firewall: McAfee

Others: Spybot, TuneUp, jv16

[krmathis]

Mac OS X (Home + travelling)

Browser: Mozilla Firefox, Safari and testing out Shiira.

E-mail: Mail

Music Player: iTunes

Chat: iChat

Irc client: ----

Movie player: VideoLAN Client

FTP: Transmit

p2p: Acquisition

Windows 2000 Pro (Work)

Browser: Mozilla Firefox

E-mail: Lotus Notes

Music Player: iTunes

Chat: ----

Irc client: ----

Movie player: VideoLAN Client

FTP: FileZilla

p2p: ----

[Zimbo]

Browser: Myie2 (is better than Firefox)

Email: Outlook Express (although its Microsoft, easiest for my Hotmail account)

Music Player: Quintessential Player (doesn't take up as much resources than Winamp

Chat: Msn Messenger 6.2 + MsgPlus 3 (Possibly the best combination)

Movie Player: WMP, Quicktime + PowerDVD (Dont use anything fancy)

P2P: Kazaa Lite Ressurection 0.0.7, TorrentStorm + Shareaza (TorrentStorm is the best Bittorrent Client!)

Cd Burning: Nero (Speaks for itself)

Firewall: Netgear Router (came with it)

Anti-Virus: Norton AntiVirus 2004 (the best)

Photo Editing: Serif Photoplus 8.0 (Not as good as PhotoShop but what the heck

Download Manager: Fresh Download (Easy, simple and fast)

Landscape Editor: Vue D'Esprit (So easy to use)

Adware Removal: LavaSoft Ad-Aware

Zip and Rar: WinRAR

[null_]

Browser: Internet Explorer

Email: Mozilla Thunderbird, Hotmail Web Interface, Yahoo! Mail

Music: Winamp

Chat: MSN Messenger 6.2, AOL Instant Messenger 5.2, ICQ 2003

Movie Player: WMP

CD Burning: Nero

AntiVirus: Grisoft AVG 6 Free Edition

Photo Editing & Graphics: Photoshop

Adware/Spyware Removal & Prevention: Ad-aware, SpywareBlaster

[jack_canada]

Browser: Mozilla Firefox

Music Player: iTunes

Chat: Trillian

Irc client: HydraIRC

Movie player: Media player classic

FTP:Flashfxp

p2p: kazaalite

Antivirus:Mcafee 7.1

[Myria]

Let's see :]

I love these post's that ask you list something of yours! Oooh, how could I resist.

Browsing: Firefox

Mail: ThunderBird

Instant Message: Miranda IM

Office stuff: Open Office

Music: Winamp

Irc client: Irssi (running from Linux box, of course :p)

Movie Player: Media Player Classic

FTP Client: Filezilla

Misc Programs:

Adaware, CCleaner, Spybot.