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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: Mozilla (skinned and tweaked, I love it)

Office Suite: Office 2003 (best Office Suite yet)

Email: Outlook 2003 (I love this version of Outlook)

Music: Winamp (Version 5, best yet)

IM: Trillian Pro (Combines all my IM programs)

Movie Player: Media Player Classic (Much better than Windows Media Player)

DVD: PowerDVD (Wonderful for watching DVD's)

CD Burning: Nero (Always used Nero)

AntiVirus: Symantec Corp 9.0 (I think the best A/V you can get)

Firewall: Outpost Pro (Trying this at the moment, first impressions are good)

Defrag: O&O Defrag Pro (Very fast defrag tool)

Photo Editing & Graphics: Photoshop (Amazing program)

Adware/Spyware: Ad-aware and Spybot (Cleans the crap)

FTP: SmartFTP (Free and it works!)

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Browser: Opera, fastest

Email: Thunderbird, free

IM: Gaim, free and multi-protocol

Office Suite: Open Office

Music/Video: Winamp (w/iPlay skin), light on resources

Anti-virus: NOD32, light on resources, fast

Firewall: hardware router, convenient

Burning: Nero 6, DVD Encrypter

FTP Client: Filezilla, free and just as good as the others

IRC: mIRC

Pic editing: PS CS and MS Paint

Adware: PestPatrol (the best), Adaware, and Spybot

That's it.

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OS: WinXP Pro

Browser: IE 6

IM: MSN 6

Office Suite: MS Office 2003

Audio: Windows Media Player

Video: PowerDVD (dvd)

AntiVirus: Norton Corp 9

IRC: mIRC with NoNameScript (only for gui)

Burning: Nero

Compression: winrar

FTP: FlashFXP

Pic editing: Photoshop CS

Development: Visual Studio.net 2k3, Delphi 7,8

BitTorrent: Azureus

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Browser: MyIE2

Music Player: Winamp 5

Chat: AIM w/ Deadaim 4.5

Irc client: mIRC

Movie player: Winamp 5 (yeah...) or WMP9

FTP: SmartFTP

p2p: Kazaa Lite K++ or eMule, depending on what's up

image editing: Adobe Photoshop Elements 2.0

cd burning: Nero 6

DVD: PowerDVD

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OS: WinXP Pro, (Win2k at work)

Browser: Firefox, or IE 6 in emergency. (Use all browsers at work for web site development)

Office Suite: MS Office 2003

Audio, Video, DVD : Windows Media Player

AntiVirus: Norton 2000

Burning: Nero, Alcolhol 120%

Compression: winzip,winrar

FTP: Terrapin

Graphics editing: Photoshop CS

Development: Homesite 5, Visual Studio.Net

Downloading : BitTorrent (ABC), mIrc (invision), Kazaa Lite.

System maintainance : System Mechanic 3.8

Firewall : ZoneAlarm Pro

Spyware control : AdAware

Partition control : Partition Magic

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Internet Browser: Firefox v0.8

Email Client: Outlook 2003

IM: MSN Messenger 6.2 with MSN Plus 3 / Yahoo! Messenger / ICQ / XFire

IRC: mIRC v6.14 + nnScript v3.81

CD/DVD burning: Nero v6 / Blindwrite Suite

Office Suite: Microsoft Office 2003 Professional

Text editors: Ultraedit v10.x

Antivirus: Norton Anti-Virus 2004

Firewall: None, My own goddam common sense!!!

Photo/Graphics: Paint Shop Pro v8.01

Media player: WinAmp v5.03 / Media Player Classic

File Compression: WinZip / WinRAR / WinACE

P2P Programs: eMule / KaZaA Lite K++

Other protection: Ad-aware v6

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OS: Windows XP Pro

Browser: Avant Brower (usually) or Firefox (preventing spyware, testing sites)

IM: MSN Messenger 6.2 with Msg Plus 3 OR Yahoo! Messenger 6 OR AIM with AIMUtation

Office Suite: Microsoft Office 2003

Audio : WinAmp 5

Video : Windows Media Player OR Intervideo WinDVD

DVD : Intervideo WinDVD

AntiVirus: McAfee VirusScan 8

Firewall : McAfee Internet Security

Burning: Nero Burning ROM (general purpose) or CloneCD (copying protected CDs :whistle: )

Compression: WinRAR

FTP: CuteFTP Pro

Graphics editing: Adobe Photoshop CS

Web Development: Macromedia Dreamweaver MX 2004 or Adobe Golive CS

Software Development : Visual Studio .NET

General Downloading : ReGet Deluxe

P2P Downloading : eMule Plus or Azureus

Spyware control : AdAware and SpyBot Search and Destroy

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OS: WinXP Pro SP2 RC1, Win2k3 Server Enterprise, Longhorn 4074

Chat: AIM with Otsego (try it, free and just as good as DeadAIM)

Browser: Firefox

Office Suite: MS Office 2003 Pro

Email: Outlook 2003

Audio, Video, DVD : Windows Media Player, iTunes 4.5, Winamp 5.03

AntiVirus: Symantec Corp 9.0

Burning: Nero

Compression: Winrar

FTP: WS_FTP Pro

Graphics editing: Photoshop CS, Macromedia Fireworks

Development: Dreamweaver, Visual Studio.Net

Text Editor: Texurizer, notepad

Downloading : Emule, Kazaa Lite.

System maintainance : Norton Sys Works 2004 Pro

Firewall : Router...don't need one ;) Otherwise Zone Alarm Pro

Spyware control : AdAware

Partition control : Partition Magic

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Browser: FireFox .8

Mail: Outlook Express

IM: MSN Messenger

Media Player: RealOne 10

p2p: Kazaa lite, oDC

Image Editing: Adobe Photoshop 7.0

DVD/CD Burning: Nero 6.0 Ultra

IRC: mIRC 6.1

Web Design: Macromedia Dreamweaver MX 2004

Anti-Virus: Norton Anti-Virus 2003

Others: Virtual Deamon, Sonic Stage

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Browser: Slimbrowser v3.98 (runs off IE6's engine, tabs, more features then you can poke a stick at)

E-mail: Hotmail, maybe outlook for the family email

Music Player: Winamp 5.03 (looks cool, seen MilkDrop?)

Chat: MSN Messenger 6.1 w/ Plus! 3 (all up great features and design)

Irc client: t00 n3rdy

Movie player: Windows Media Player Series 9/Classic

FTP: CoreFTP

p2p: Kazaa Lite K++ & Shareaza

Other

Gfx: Fireworks MX 2004 (got photoshop cs and 3ds max and all that, i just always use this loads fast etc.)

Games: Quake 3, Project IGI, Postal 2, Hitman 2, Colin McRae 2.0 (still good), Warcraft 3, Morrowind 3 etc

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OS: Windows XP Pro

Browser: Firefox

Office Suite: Microsoft Office 2003

Audio : Foobar 2000

Video : Media Player Classic/VLC

DVD : WinDVD/PowerDVD

AntiVirus: NAI VirusScan Enterprise 7

Firewall : Sygate Personal Firewall Pro

Burning: Nero Burning ROM v5.5.x.x

Compression: WinRAR

FTP: FlashFXP

Graphics editing: Adobe Photoshop CS

Web Development: Macromedia Dreamweaver MX 2004

General Downloading : Flashget

P2P Downloading : eMule Plus or Azureus

Newsgroups: GrabIT/Xnews

Spyware control : AdAware

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OS: Mandrake Linux 10.0

Browsing: Mozilla 1.6

E-Mail: Mozilla 1.6 and sometimes Ximian Evolution

FTP: KBear

Messenger: Y! Messenger for Linux and Kopete for MSN and ICQ

Graphics: The GIMP 2.0

Music and movies: Totem Player (based on XINE)

Office apps: OpenOffice

P2P: DC++

Compression: KArk

Web Editor: Qaunta plus

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Just going to copy someone elses and change the details..hope you dont mind :)

OS: Windows XP Pro

Browser: Firefox

IM: MSN Messenger 6.1 with Msg Plus 3 OR Yahoo! Messenger 6

Audio : WinAmp 2

Video : WinAmp 2

Burning: Windows Xp

Compression: windows xp,WinRAR

FTP: FlashXP

Graphics editing: Adobe Photoshop 7

Web Development: Namo Web Editor

General Downloading : Getright

P2P Downloading : Kaza-llite

Spyware control : No need for it- :)...*pets Firefox*

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Browser: Opera 7.5

Music: RealPlayer 10 Plus

Movies: RealPlayer 10 Plus

E-mail: Outlook 2003

Launcher: Advanced launcher

HTML Editor: Spider Writer

Text Editor: EmEditor

CD/DVD Burning: Nero 6 Ultra Edition

Image viewing and organizing: ACDSee 6

Image editing: Photoshop Elements 2.0

Newsreader: Agent 2.0

Office Suite: Microsoft Office System 2003, GoBeProductive 3.0

CSS: TopStyle Lite 3.0

Registry Cleaner: RegSeeker

Instant Messenger: MSN MEssenger 6.1

File compression: Power Archiver

Spyware: Ad-Aware

System Imaging: Acronis True Image 7.0

Anti-Virus: Avast

Online Music Store: RealPlayer Music Store

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Edit, forgot the "why"...

Browser: IE6 [compatibility issues...my bank and job won't let me use anything else]

Music: Winamp5 [just owns...plain and simple]

Video: Media Player Classic [no bulky skins, etc]

E-mail: Outlook 2003 [personal preference]

Web Editor: Dreamweaver/Contribute [easier constant updates]

CD/DVD: Roxio Easy Media Creator 7 [used Nero for quite some time...gave this a spin...works wonderfully]

Image-Editing: Photoshop 8 CS / Illustrator CS

Document Creation: Acrobat 6 / Pagemaker 7 / Office 2003

OCR Scanning: OmniPage Pro 14

Registry Cleaner: Registry First Aid & jv16 Power Tools [RFA does the clean, jv16 cleans up the excess]

IM Client: gaim [half the resources of AIM]

FTP Client: FlashFXP [long-time user]

FTP Server: Serv-U 5 [easy user management]

Anti-virus: Symantec Antivirus Corp [job scheduling]

IRC: mIRC 6.14 (no scripts, no need)

Remote Access: Symantec pcAnywhere [best security i've found]

Defrag: O&O [job scheduling/reports]

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Browser: Firefox

Audio: Foobar2000

Chat: Miranda

Movies: VideoLAN / MPlayer

p2p: Azureus

Why?

Because they are all free, open source, lightweight. Foobar will play any audio file and mplayer wil play any video file, no crappy codec packs required.

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Windows XP Pro--

Browser: FireFox v0.8 & Opera v7.5

Music Player: WinAmp Pro v5.0

Chat: Trillian Pro v2.012

Irc: Trillian Pro v2.012

Movie Player: WinAmp Pro v5.0

FTP: Flash FXP v2.1.922

P2P: None - use

Newsgroups: NewsBin Pro v4.31

CD/DVD Burning: Nero & Alcohol 120%

Download Manager: None

HTML/Web Development: Dreamweaver MX 2004

Office Suite: Office 2003

Email Client: Outlook 2003

Firewall: Linksys router

Anti-Virus: AVG v6.0 Free Edition

Fedora Core 2--

Browser: FireFox v0.8

Music Player: xmms

Chat: Gaim

FTP: gFTP

IRC: X-Chat

E-mail: Evolution

HTML/Web Development: BlueFish v0.13

Office Suite: Open Office v1.1

Firewall: Linksys router

Anti-Virus: You don't need one for linux ;)

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OS: WinXP Pro

Browser: Opera 7.5

Office Suite: Office 2000

Email: Outlook 2000

Reference: Encarta DVD Reference Suite 2002 (currently)

Music: Winamp Pro 5

DVD: PowerDVD 4, WinDVD Platinum 5, Nero Showtime (Still testing between the 3, leaning towards WinDVD so far)

CD Burning: Nero 6, Alcohol 120%

AntiVirus: Norton Antivirus 2004

Firewall: Norton Internet Security 2004

Defrag: Diskeeper 8

Adware/Spyware: Ad-aware 6, Spyblaster 3.1 and Spybot 1.3

FTP: Bullet Proof

Compression: WinZip 8

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OS: Microsoft Windows XP Professional SP1

Browser: IE (faster, best compatibility, and I don't need anything fancy)

Music Player: Winamp 5 (used long time, very comfortable)

Chat: MSN 6.2 & plus! 3 (... need I say more?)

IRC: mIRC

DVD: WinDVD (Best quality)

Movie Player: Media Player Classic

FTP: FlashFXP (friendly)

P2P: BitTorrent (ABC)

AntiVirus: Symantec Antivirus Corporate 9

Firewall: ZoneAlarm Security Suite 5

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OS: WinXP Home SP2

Browser: IE

Office Suite: Office 2000

Email: Outlook/Hotmail

Music: WMP 9 (Had WMP 10 but hated it)

DVD: InterVideo WinDVD

CD Burning: Nero 5.5

AntiVirus: Norton Antivirus 2003

Firewall: Norton Friewall 2003

Defrag: MS

Adware/Spyware: Ad-aware 6

Chat: MSN 6.2 - MSG PLUS! 3 & AIM

p2p: WinMX 3.31

ToolBar: N/A

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