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

[GrandMaster]

--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

[mstx]

Browser: FireFox

Email: Thunderbird

FTP: Internet Explorer 6

IM: MSN Msgr 6.2

P2P: ABC, Soulseek

AntiVirus: McAfee 8

Audio: Winamp 5.x

Video: WMP 9

Graphics: Photoshop 7 / Cinema 4d

Zip/RAR: WinRAR

Defragging: O&O Defrag

Office: Office 2003

>CD/DVD burning: Nero v6

[Schmoove]

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

[beanboy89]

OS: Windows 98SE

Browser: Mozilla Firefox 0.8

Music Player: Winamp 5.03

IM: AIM 5.1

Irc client: X-Chat

Movie player: Winamp 5.03

Firewall: ZoneAlarm

[WigglesTheFish]

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

[Rushnak]

Browser: Firefox 0.8

Email: Thunderbird 0.6

Music Player: Winamp 5.03

Chat: Msn 6.1 w/ msgplus 3

Irc client: mIRC/xChat

Movie player: Wmp

FTP: SmartFTP

p2p: K-lite / BT

[Bearded Kirklander]

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.

[Novex]

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,

[ThisSiteHasLostItsCharm]

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

[Apollo]

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

[contra]

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

[VGVL]

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

[Kenny McCormick]

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

[Ridgeburner]

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:

[tscallions]

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.

[w33zy]

Win XP Home

FireFox

Win Messenger

2 Games : Counter-Strike Unreal 2k4

Win Media player

Thats it i think :laugh:

[jack_canada]

in opera, there's no option to move to next or previous tab with mouse gestures!!

how do set the mouse gesture up left to go to previous tab, and up right to go to next tab??

[jack_canada]

and is there a way to let opera open link in background when i drag the link and release it, like in myie2??

[AaronMT]

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)

[sjiggag23]

Firefox

Foobar

Msn

Aim

Yahoo Messenger

Nero Media Player

[Lycan]

OS: Win 200 Pro

Browser: IE6

Music Player: Winamp 5.03

IM: Msn

Irc client: mIrc 6.15

Movie player: Windows Media Player 9

FTP: Cuteftp Pro 6

p2p: DC++ and Emule

Antivirus: Norton Antivirus 2004

CD/DVD Burning : Nero Burning Rom 6

[DOGglee]

browser: firefox

music: windows media player 10

IM: MSN

IRC: mIRC

p2p: klite, azureus

[cmove]

Panther 10.3.4

Browser : Safari

Music : iTunes

IM : Adium

P2P : Edonkey Client

FTP : Transmit

[Bearded Kirklander]

I've switched over from WinZip to WinRar now as my main archiver. I bought the full license and am impressed with the 3.40 beta 2. Good stuff.

[Exon]

Browser: Firefox 0.9

Music Player: Winamp 5.02

IM: Miranda w/ Msn & Icq Protocol

Movie player: Media player Classic & Videolan

FTP: FlashFxp

p2p: oDC & ABC