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Which programs do you use, and why?


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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)

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--Internet--

Browser: Firefox - its just great

FTP: Filezilla - simple ui

Firewall: Outpost - Good protectoin

Downloader: Flashget - Good UI, great features

Torrent: Torrentstorm - Fasterst torrent afaik

Regular p2p: Warez p2p and Klite 2.43 - Dunno

Instant Msg: Gaim - Looks cool

IRC: HydraIRC - Looks cool with good ui

Email: Outlook2003 - Very sluggish but has good ui

Spam: Spambayes & Outlook - Great spam filters

--Entertainment--

Video: Media Player Classic and VideoLAN - unbeatable combo

Audio: Foobar2000 - greatest audio player

--System--

OS: XP Pro - its the standart

Spyware: SpywareBlaster, Adaware, Spybot - theyre free

AntiVirus: Trend Micro Enterprise Edition - not a resource hog and detects more than norton

Burning: Nero, Alcolhol 120% - theyre cool

Compression: TUGzip - nice ui, supports 7z

Office: MS Office 2003 - cos its the best

Graphics: mspaint, Photoshop CS - cos its the best

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Internet Browser: Firefox v0.8

Email Client: Outlook 2003

IM: MSN Messenger 6.2 with MSN Plus 3

IRC: mIRC v6.14

CD/DVD burning: Nero v6

Office Suite: Microsoft Office 2003 Professional

Text editors: Notepad2

Antivirus: Symantec Anti-Virus CE 9.0

Firewall: Sygate Personal Firewall Pro 5.5

Photo/Graphics: Adobe Photoshop CS

Media player: Foobar2000 / WMP9

File Compression: WinRAR

P2P Programs: eMule / KaZaA Lite K++ / WinMX

Development: MS Visual Studio .NET 2003, Borland C++ Builder 6.0 Enterprise, Macromedia Studio MX

Imageviewer: ACDSee 5.01

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os: windows xp

browser: firefox (normal browsing), myie2 (when i want something different)

im: miranda im or gaim (depending on mood)

office suite: ms office 2k3

audio : winamp5 (most of the time), foorbar2000 (again when i want something different)

video : media player classic

antivirus: symantec antivirus

firewall : zone alarm pro

burning: wmp9 (audio), alcohol 120% (anything non-music)

compression: winrar

spyware removal : ad-aware and spybot search & destroy

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Browser: Currently MyIE 2. Just gave up Mozilla for it. It is way cooler than I thought.

Music: Music Match Jukebox. I paid for it, it has good library features.

Office: Microsoft Office. Have to be compatible.

Graphics: Paint Shop Pro 7. It's what I know. Plus Irfanview sometimes.

Email: Outlook Express 6. It works great with hotmail.

Utilities: Always Norton. It's what I know and Norton AV is really good.

Archive: WinRAR because it handles every format out there that I need to use, but I archive in ZIP mostly

Backup: Norton Ghost 2003 Update 3. DOS version from a boot floppy

CD: Easy CD

DVD: Nero

Movie Players: PowerDVD and Windows Media Player 9

FTP: WS_FTP. Like many others out there.

DVD Video Editing/Making: Ulead products with Nero for final burn.

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OS: Windows XP Pro SP1

Internet Browser: Mostly IE, Firefox 0.8 a little when researching

Email Client: Microsoft Outlook 2000

IM: MSN Messenger 6.1 with Messenger Plus! 3

IRC: mIRC v6.15 (mind I dont IRC much..)

CD/DVD burning: Nero 6

DVD/Video: Windows Media Player 9

TV: DScaler

FTP: SmartFTP

Downloads: Star Downloader

Office Suite: Microsoft Office 2000 Professional

Text editors: Notepad, Wordpad and PHPEdit

Antivirus: none :/

Firewall: Router has one :p

Photo/Graphics: Macromedia Fireworks MX 2004 ;)

Media player: Winamp 5.03a

File Compression: Filzip, WinRAR and Winzip (yes I have three :p )

P2P Programs: eMule, Kazaa Lite K++

Development: MS Visual Studio .NET 2003, MS Visual Basic 6, Macromedia Studio MX 2004,

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OS: Windows XP Home SP1

Internet Browser: Opera 7.51

Email Client: Outlook Express 6 SP1

IM: MSN Messenger 6.1

IRC: mIRC 6.15

CD/DVD burning: easy cd 6 plat & alcohol

DVD/Video: PowerDVD 5 Deluxe

FTP: flashfxp

Downloads: Opera 7.51

Office Suite: office 2k sp3

Text editors: Notepad

Antivirus: none

Firewall: sygate personal

Graphics: ps cs & psp8

Media player: mpc

File Compression: winrar

P2P Programs: klite res

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copy/paste is great, here goes...

--Internet--

Browser: Firefox 0.8+

Email: Thunderbird 0.6

FTP: WS_FTP Pro and IE6

Firewall: none

p2p: eMule, Ares, Soulseek, KCeasy - i have so much is 'cus i've been trying them out but eMule is a keeper

Instant Msg: MSN

IRC: eblase2

--Entertainment--

Video: WMP9 with Fdshow codec - been working great

Audio: winamp 5

--System--

OS: XP Pro

Spyware: Spybot

AntiVirus: Symantec Corp. 9

Burning: Nero 6, Alcohol 120%

Compression: PowerArchiver

Office: MS Office XP

Graphics: Irfanview, Photoshop CS

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Browser: firefox 0.9

Mail Client: thunderbird 0.7

Music Player: itunes makes my 7000 songs very organized

Chat: gaim

Movie player: media player classic

FTP: FileZilla

p2p: soulseek

Documents: abiword

Burning: iso powertoy

CD Ripping: itunes

Download Manager: firefox works just fine

Graphics: photoshop cs, gimp

Zip: winrar

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Operating System: Mac OSX

Browser: Safari (Best.... Browser... Ever. Firefox comes in close second though.)

Mail: Mail

Chat: iChat, MSN Messenger

Music: iTunes

Video Player: QuickTime, MPlayer. (I prefer QuickTime though).

Video Editing: Final Cut Pro 4

Vector Drawing: Flash MX 2004

Image Editing: Photoshop CS

PHP Programming: Dreamweaver MX 2004

Database: MySQL

Web Server: Apache

Word Processor: Microsoft Office 2004

And I'm using the UNIX Terminal all the time. :D

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OS: Windows XP Professional SP-2

Browser: Mozilla FireFox 0.9, Internet Explorer 6.0

FTP: SmartFTP

Chat: MSN Messenger 6.2 with MsgPlus 3

Office: Microsoft Office 2003

Audio: iTunes 4.6

Video: Windows Media Player 10.0 Beta

AntiVirus: Symantec AntiVirus Corporate Edition 9.0

Firewall: Norton Internet Security 2003

Burning: Nero Burning Rom 6.3, Alcohol 120%

Compression: WinRAR 3.30

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Browser: Firefox .9 (sh*ts on all others IMO)

Music Player: Winamp 5.03 Pro

Chat: AOL Instant Messenger

Irc client: None, haven't used IRC in years

Movie player: WMP 10 Beta

FTP: WS_FTP (Small, fast, and easy to use)

p2p: Kazaa Lite for Music Videos, Soulseek for Mp3s, DC++ or BT for *other things* :ninja:

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O/S: WindowsXP Pro

Browser: Internet Explorer 6

Email: Outlook 2003

IM: Trillian Pro

FTP: SmartFTP

Media Player: Winamp 5.03 Pro

AV: Norton Systemworks Pro 2004

CD Burning: Nero 6

Compression: WinRAR 3.30

Other Software: Plaxo Contacts, StyleXP, Weatherbug Pro, Active Sync, GameSpy Arcade, Click2Call, QuickTime, Real Player, Ad Aware, and whole lot of other stuff I can't think of.

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Browser: Firefox 0.9

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

Chat: Miranda (fully customizable, plugins, minimal, does what I want it to do)

Irc client: mIRC 6.x (I dont use irc much, dont remember which version I have)

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

FTP: IE6 (Dont use FTP's much either)

p2p: DC++ (easy to use, over 20 terabytes of electronic music)

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