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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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Browser: Firefox 0.9 - What can I say?

Music Player: Winamp 5.03 - Great music library, burning features, etc. Might change to foobar, cuz I like teh minimalisticity.

IM: Miranda, MSN Messenger with Plus!3 - I only need to go on MSN most of the time. but just in case, I also have Miranda installed.

Movie player: Media player Classic & Windows Media Player - Don't watch stuff that often but I have Quicktime and Real Alternative.

FTP: CuteFTP Pro - Great FTP client, it's very good and runs nicely + it has SSH

p2p: Emule+, ABC - Emule+ is comprehensive, while ABC is good for downloading recent files.

IRC: Excursion - Great script, for mIRC.

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Browser: Firefox 0.9.2, Avant Browser 9.02 (build033) and Opera 7.5 (whicher does what I want to do best :D)

E-mail: The Bat! 2.12

News (text): Forte Agent 2

News (binaries): Newbin Pro 4.3.1

RSS: FeedDemon 1.11

IRC: mIRC 6.16

Audio: WMP9 and WinAmp 5.03

MP3 Tagging: Mp3tag 2.22

MP3 Ripping: EAC 0.95 prebeta 5 + LAME 3.90.3 (--alt-preset standard)

Text: UltraEdit 10.20b, EditPlus 2.12 and Notepad2

CD Burning: Nero 6.3.1.17

Graphics: PaintShop Pro 7.04

Archives: WinRAR 3.40 beta 2

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Browser: Firefox (I have loved it since 0.6)

Music Player: Winamp (Although JetAudio is a close 2nd)

Chat: Mostly AIM with DeadAIM

IRC: mIRC (I find that I'm using it far less nowadays)

Movie Player: WMP (Still does the trick)

FTP: FlashFXP

P2P: Bittorrent and Kazaa Lite Ressurection in emergencies

MP3 Tagging: Tag&Rename 3.1

MP3 Ripping: EAC 0.95 with Lame

CD Burning: Nero

Graphics: PaintShop Pro 8

Archives: WinRAR up until tonight when I started using Izarc (so far so good)

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OS: Windows XP Home Edition

Web Browser: Firefox

E-mail: Thunderbird

Music: Winamp

Video: Media Player Classic and Windows Media Player

Image Viewer: SlowView

Graphics: The GIMP and MS Paint

IM: MSN Messenger and Messenger Plus!

CD Ripping: CDex

File Archiving: IZArc

Firewall: ZoneAlarm

CD Burning: CDBurner XP Pro

Streaming: RealPlayer Enterprise

Registry Cleaner: RegSeeker

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Browser: Opera

Email: Thunderbird

Chat: MSN Messenger w/ Messenger Plus

IRC client: mIRC

FTP: SmartFTP

P2P: Shareaza

Music Player: Winamp 5

Movie player: WMP

MP3 Tagger: Mp3Tag

CD/DVD Burning: Nero / Alcohol 120%

Archiving: WinRAR

BitTorrent: ABC

that's about it.. :D

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Web Browser: Internet Explorer - it works

Music Player: Winamp 5 - very fast, efficient GUI

Chat Program: MSN Messenger with Messenger Plus! - nothing beats MSN

IRC Client: mIRC with the Invision script - it's got pretty colors :wub:

Movie Player: Winamp 5 - it's damn sexy

FTP Program: Windows Explorer - it gets the job done

P2P App: KaZaA Lite for porn / eMule for rare files / Piolet for individual songs (damn relatives) / BitTorrent for most warez

Firewall: ZoneAlarm Pro 4.5.594 - excellent product

Archiver: WinRAR - quick, efficient

CD Writer: Nero - non-bloated, does what it should

CD Ripper: CDex - soon to be replaced (outdated)

E-Mail: webmail via Gmail - Google is my soulmate

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Browser-Opera 7.54 simply the best/fastest

Chat-none-they ALL suck and are insecure

Music-Winamp 5 Pro

Video-WMP

P2P-WinMx

Firewall-NAT and kaspersky anti hacker

AV-Kaspersky Personal Pro 4.5

FTP-SmartFTP

Archiver-Winrar

CD Writer-Nero 5.5.14

E-mail-TheBat CorpEdition

OS-4 XP Pro's-1 XP Home-1 98SE

Reg Cleaner-EasyCleaner-RegCleaner-Registry Checkup

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Browser: FireFox 0.9.3

Music Player: WMP 10

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

Irc client: none :/

Movie player: Media player 10

FTP: None :/

p2p: Morpheus, Searches kazaa, morpheus, gnutella, G2, limewire, and other networks, so i get tonnes of results

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OS: Windows XP Pro

Web Browser: Opera

E-mail: Opera

FTP: FileZilla

BitTorrent: Torrentstorm

Usenet: Agent + Binary News Reaper 2

Music: Foobar

Video: MPC + VLC

Image Viewer: Irfanview

IM: Miranda

File Archiving: Winrar

Firewall: Kerio 2.15

Antivirus: NOD32

Registry Cleaner: Tuneup 2004

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an update from previous post in same thread:

desktop:

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os: windows xp pro

browser: mozilla firefox

bittorrent: shad0w's

p2p: shareaza

im: trillian pro

file archiving: winrar

firewall: sygate personal firewall

antivirus: norton antivirus 2004

music: winamp5

laptop:

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os: windows xp tablet pc edition

browser: maxthon

bittorrent: n/a

p2p: n/a

im: trillian pro

file archiving: winrar

firewall: sygate personal firewall

antivirus: nod32 (trial)

music: winamp5

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Browser: Firefox 4 lyfe

Music Player: Winamp 5.04 with the classic skin

Chat: Miranda IM

IRC: never use it unless i download

Movie Player: Winamp 5.04

FTP: Filezilla

P2P: BT, WASTE, eMule, Kazaa, Warez P2P, WinMX, DC++ and Piolet.

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Browser: MYIE2 (Maxthon) - does what I want with an interface similar to IE - so its easy to use

Email: Outlook 2003

Music Player: Winamp 5 for listening / MMJB for tagging

Chat: AIM 5.2.3292 (all my friends use AIM so only makes since) ..

IRC: never use it

Movie Player: WMP9

FTP: WS_FTP LE (free, simple, fast, effective without the bloat... does everything I need and want)

P2P: BT , Soulseek, eMule

Firewall: Zonealarm 5

AV: NAV 2004

Other(s) that I use frequently; Photoshop CS, Reason 2.5, WinRAR

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Browser: Firefox

Multimedia Player(s): Winamp 5.04 | Media Player Classic

Chat: MSN Messenger (failed to find an alternative client with a decent interface) | AIM

IRC: mIRC

FTP: Filezilla

Web Design: Notepad | Dreamweaver

Graphics: Photoshop | MS Paint: 1337 Edition

Spyware Protection: Ad-Aware | Spybot Search and Destroy

Antivirus: AVG Free Edition (to lazy to find my norton 2004 pro cd)

Compression: WinRAR

Office Suite: MS Office 2003 Student and Techer Edition

Registry Cleaner: CCleaner

E-Mail: Outlook 2003 + PGTGM

CD/DVD Writing App: Nero 6 Ultra Edition

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Browser: Firefox

Media: Winamp 5.04, MPC

Chat: Miranda-IM

IRC: mIRC 6.16 (running siRC as a script)

FTP: FTPRush, great looking interface.

Office: MS Office 2k3

Spyware/Antivir: None, unless I know there is a virus etc. Which I havent had since I picked up my router a year and a bit ago.

Compression: Winrar

CD/DVD: Nero 6

On a side note I also use these: Essential NetTools, O&O Defrag, Visual Studio .NET, Macromedia Studio MX.

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browser: firefox (best newest brower, has a tabbed UI, extensions, good download manager, innovative)

music player: winamp 5 (faster and cooler than WMP Bloatware)

chat: msn messenger 6.2 (fun, cool and easy to use)

movie player: media player classic (qt alternative plugin makes it the best)

ftp: ftp explorer (free & good enough for what I need to do)

p2p: shareaza (tops)

cd burning: nero 6.x (easy to use, very powerful)

download manager: firefox built in (works, thats it!)

email client: thunderbird (best there is, easy to use)

firewall: windowsxp sp2 firewall (don't have money to throw away)

antivirus: eTrust EZ Antivirus 6.3 (it's just like my fav VET AV, but cheaper)

compression: winrar / powerarchiver (the latter for 7zip format support)

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Browser: Opera 7.54

Mail Client: The Bat!

Music Player: Windows Media Player 9

Chat: MSN Messenger

IRC: mIRC

Movie Player: Windows Media Player 9

FTP: SmartFTP

p2p: N/A

Documents: Word 2000

Burning: Nero 6

CD Ripping: Exact Audio Copy with L.A.M.E

Download Manager: N/A

Antivirus: AVG 7 Pro

Fax: N/A

Weather: N/A

System Utilities: N/A

Spyware Removal: Ad Aware, Spybot, Spyware Blaster, HiJackThis

Graphics: Paint Shop Pro 7

Zip: WinRAR

Usenet (reader): Agent

Usenet (binary downloader): Newsbin Pro, Newsleecher

RSS: FeedDemon

Text/Programming Editor: EditPlus

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Browser: Firefox

Music player: Winamp 2

Chat: iMessenger 3 beta, Yahoo

FTP: Core FTP Lite

Web Design: Notepad, Namo

Graphics: Photoshop

Spyware Protection: None

Antivirus: AVG Free Edition

Compression: Windows xp Zip

Office Suite: Wordpad

E-Mail: Firefox

CD/DVD: Windows xp

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Browser: FireFox [Very fast, tabbed browsing, simple]

E-Mail: Thunderbird [Reliable, friendly UI, simple]

Audio: iTunes [simple, easy browsing/searching, perfect organisation, sexy, simple]

Chat: Gaim [Handles Gadu-Gadu IM]

Miranda [Very simple, takes care of all IMs]

Anti-Virus: Norton Anti-Virus 2004 [Most developed scan and support]

P2P: KaZaA [For random songs only]

eMule [P2P that actually works for me. Only when files not on BT]

ABC (Bit-torrent) [Quickest downloads for movies]

Burning: Sateira Recordius [if you want simple, but functional - CHECK THIS OUT!]

Alcohol 120% [For whatever Recordius can't handle]

Compression: PowerArchiver 8.8 [sexiest program that supports .rar and .ace]

Movies: PowerDVD 5 [it's simply the best for quality]

Office: MS Office 2003 [There is nothing else to use]

Graphics: Photoshop CS [Most functions, I'm used to it already]

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