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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 0.93 (Because I like its functionality)

Multimedia Player(s): Winamp 5.04 (Plays most media files)

Chat: GAIM, YIM, and MSN

Web Design: Notepad & Dreamweaver

Graphics: Photoshop, Paintshop, and GIMP

Spyware Protection: Ad-Aware & Spybot Search and Destroy

Antivirus: Avast Home Edition

Compression: WinRAR, WinZIP

Office Suite: MS Office 2003 Professional

E-Mail: Outlook 2003 + Mozilla Thunderbird

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Browser: Firefox

Media Player: Foobar2000 and Windows Media Player

Chat: AIM

Web Design: Frontpage 2003

Graphics: Photoshop CS

Spyware Protection: See browser

Antivirus: None

Compression: WinRAR

E-Mail: Outlook 2003

Downloading: Azureus, Ares, SoulSeek, GrabIt, and mIRC

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abc, firefox, explorer :p, windows media player, Msn messenger, mirc, flashfxp, activesync, apache, iis, nero, winzip, notepad, word, winamp, daemon tools...

thats about it... but there is loads of programs that I have but I dont use that often...

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Browser: Opera 7.54 (I have four other browsers installed though)

E-mail: Thunderbird 0.7.3

Music Player: Winamp 5.04

Chat: MSN Messenger 6.2 (using audio + video)

Movie player: InterVideo WinDVD + Windows Media Player 9.00.00.3128

P2P: Shareaza 2.0.0.0 (LimeWire occasionally)

Dock: ObjectDock 1.04 Build 469

IDE: Microsoft Visual Studio 6.0 Enterprise Edition

Office: Office XP

OS: Windows XP Professional

Firewall: Sygate Personal Firewall

Anti-Virus: AVG 6.0 + Norton Anti-Virus Corporate Edition

Other: Stardock Object Desktop (DesktopX, WinFX, WindowBlinds), PuTTY, SpywareGuard, AdAware, Skype, CDex, PaintShop Pro 9, Gimp 2.0, ACDSee, MusicMatch JukeBox, Java 1.4, JDiskReport, Microsoft iSCSI Initiator, Visual C# 2005 Express Edition Beta, etc.

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WinXPro

Audio: foobar2000

Video: Media Player Classic

Browser: Firefox (IE + Maxthon for WinUpdate)

FTP: Filezilla

(De)Compress: WinRAR / 7Zip

Chat: Gaim / MSN6 + Plus! 3

Image: MSPaint

Anti-Malware: NIS 2001 (had the same burned CD for ages, has yet to fail me) + Ad-Aware SE

Text: metapad

Doc's: OpenOffice (too lazy to find a pirated MSOffice2k3)

Slackware10 -- 2.4.7

Update thinger: Dropline

Environment: GNOME 2.6.x (whatever's most recent)

Audio: Rhythmbox

Video: Totem

Browser: Firefox

FTP: gFTP

Chat: Gaim / aMSN

Image: The Gimp

Text: gEdit

Doc's: AbiWord

I use these because they provide the most features in a UI that isn't too bloated and retain quality and good looks.

PS: I provide screenshots because of the customizability they provide and I am proud of what I have done.

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OS: Windows XP Professional (SP2)

Browser: FireFox - best alternative to IE by a wide margin (in my opinion)

Anti-virus: AVG - most effective free anti-virus in my experience. The only one that has been able to automatically heal 100% since installed.

Music: iTunes - just the absolute best for playing and organizing music, hands down.

Internet Radio: MusicMatch Jukebox - MusicMatch MX radio is simply awesome.

Audio (not music): Winamp 5

Video: Windows Media Player, QuickTime, Winamp 5 (sometimes)

Chat: AIM + AIM Ad-Hack, MSN + MSN Plus! - everyone I know uses one or both of these.

Email: Gmail + Gmail Notifier - beats the pants off of all other free email services.

Image Editing: Photoshop, Illustrator - the standards for raster and vector image creation and editing.

Video Editing: Adobe Premiere - best all-around video editing solution for the PC (Final Cut Pro is a better program in my opinion)

Audio Editing: Sound Forge, Acid Pro - powerful and easy to use.

Web code/publishing: Dreamweaver - the best all-around HTML editor I have ever used.

Desktop Publishing: OpenOffice - just as good as MS Office, but free. Excel is still the best spreadsheet program by far though.

FTP: FileZilla - easy, full-featured and free.

P2P: Shareaza - all the popular networks, including Bittorrent support.

Anti-spyware: Spybot: Search & Destroy - always finds and fixes more problems than any other.

CD-Burning: Nero 6 Ultra, Sonic RecordNow - Sonic for quick burns, Nero for anything else.

OS Enhancement: ObjectDock (great alternative to quicklaunch toolbar), ObjectDesktop (when I get bored of Luna), PowerStrip (improves monitor performance drastically if set up correctly), 4t Tray Minimizer (I use it to minimize iTunes to the system tray)

I think that about covers it...

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Browser: Opera 7.60 Beta - standalone Mozilla doesn't impress me too much, I like how things are built into Opera, smooth scrolling, page % size increase etc, bits which I need extensions for from Mozilla, which annoys me somewhat. Also Opera with the new default skin looks really sexy, I'm a fool for eye candy.

Multimedia Player(s): Winamp 5.04 + Media Player Classic (for quicktime and real) + Windows Media Player (for porn) + iTunes for the music library and ease of sampling music, oh and of course, to update my iPod :)

Chat: MSN Messenger + Trillian for those who have yet to see the light and go to MSN

IRC: mIRC - still the best imo

FTP: FlashFXP - might not be the best around, I only use it to upload stuff to my space on my friends server so it doesn't matter, as long as it works.

Web Design: Dreamweaver because it's so easy and you can be lazy, and if you want to be 1337 edit the code manually in it too

Graphics: Photoshop CS + Paint Shop Pro 9 Beta - excellent combination, Paint Shop Pro does a few more things that Elements might do, but stuff which PS doesn't do.

Spyware Protection: Ad-Aware 6 SE + Spybot Search & Destroy

Antivirus: Nod32, best I've come across, not resource hungry, and does what any new good antivirus program should do - update itself.

Compression: WinRAR - le best

Office Suite: Office 2003 SP1, the best out there for my needs, and the new OneNote is really handy for someone like me who forgets stuff real quick.

Registry Cleaner: TuneUp Utilities 2004, good little gem for everyone to have :)

E-Mail: www.hotmail.com because nobody has given me a good reason yet to why I can benefit from an e-mail client.

CD/DVD Writing App: Nero 6 Ultra - Nero is the best, amen.

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OS ----> Win XP Pro ( Legit )

Browser ----> Opera 7.54, Firefox 0.9.3

Messenger -----> Msn Messenger 6.2 & Yahoo Messenger 6

Media ----> Winamp 5.04 ( both audio and video )

Security ----> Ad-aware 1.03, Spybot S&d, Zone Alarm 5.1 Free,IP-Scanner,IP-Tools,Neotrace

Zippers ----> Winzip 9.1 & Winrar 3.2

Tweakers -----> Tweak-XP 3.04, Magic Tweak 2.70 & Tune-UP Utils

Multimedia ---> Adobe CS,Flash MX,Acdsee 6

Download Managers ---> Dap 7.2 & Reget 4.1

Office Suite -----> OFFICE 2003 (legit)

Burning -----> Nero 6

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Browser: Firefox 0.9.x (compiled for AMD64)

Email: Thunderbird 0.7.x

Music Player: Winamp 5.04

Movie/DVD Player: Media Player Classic (NVIDIA ForceWare Multimedia 4.00.xx decoder) ;)

Chat: MSN/AIM

IRC: mIRC 6.16 w/ ircN8.0 beta

FTP: FlashFXP 3.0.1.1024

P2P: ew! no need for P2P ;)

Compression: Winrar 3.4.0 beta 5

Firewall: Hardware! :p

AntiVirus: Mcafee VirusScan Enterprise 8.0i beta

DVD.CDR/W Burning: Nero 6

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Browser: Firefox 0.9.3 (Optim.)

Email: Thunderbird

Music: Foobar2000 v.0.8.3

Movie/DVD Player: Windows Media Player

Chat: AIM/ICQ/MSN/YIM/XFire

IRC: mIRC (For my download needs)

FTP: SmartFTP

P2P: G3 Torrent (Suprnova), mIRC (IRCSpy), and Kazaa Lite K++

Compression: IZarc

Firewall: Zonealarm 4.5

Anti-Virus: NOD32 (New Beta)

OS: Windows XP Professional SP2

Clock: LClock

Spyware Removal: Ad-aware SE Pro, and Spybot

Spyware blocking: Spystopper 3.x.x and Spyware Blaster

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Browser: Firefox 1.0RC

Email: Thunderbird ... but still looking for something else with better filter ... (I got 10 account and must update the filter accordingly -> tedious job)

Music: Itunes (4IPOD), one of the best GUI, not bad on RAM

Movie/DVD: WMP

Office: OpenOffice (Free, I never spend more than 3hrs on this)

FTP: Filezilla

Chat: TrillianPRO

Voice: Skype

P2P: Limewire & Shareaza

Compression: PowerArchiver (One of the best)

Antivirus: Kaspersky Personal 5.0

Firewall: Outpost 2.1 (gonna move up 2.5: the best just getting better)

Editor: Crimson Editor (where i spend my time)

Spyware stuff: Spybot SD, SpySweeper

Util kits: TuneUp - CachemanXP

Encrypt tool: AxCrypt (ezi & free)

Burning tool: Nero (definite winner)

Else: Freeware OR GPL-ware :whistle:

All above enough to break my budget... :(

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OS: Windows XP SP2

Internet Browser: -Firefox 0.93

-Internet Explorer (for Windows update)

Email: Outlook 2003 SP1

Music Player: Winamp 5.05

DVD Player: Intervideo WinDVD Player

Movie Player: Media Player Classic (with all of the codecs)

Office: Office 2003 SBE SP1

Image Editing: Jasc Paint Shop Pro 8

FTP: CuteFTP Pro

Chat Program: The Old MSN Messenger that came with Windows XP as it is low on resources and is very intuitive and has all of the features I need

P2P: -Kazza Lite 2.4.5.3

-mIRC

-EMule

-Ares

-Soulseek

-Overnet (with fasttrack plugin)

Compression: WinRAR (simple goodlooking with FOOOD's Icons

Antivirus: NOD32

Firewall: Sygate Personal Firewall PRO

IDE: Microsoft Visual Studio 6.0 Enterprise Edition

Spyware stuff: Spybot SD, Adaware PRO

Util kits: TweakUI, X-Setup PRO

Burning tool: Nero Enterprise

DVD ripping: DVDShrink, DVDdecrypter, TMPGENc Encode/Author

Skinning: IconPackager: iCANDY Jr. Icons

YZtoolbar: iCANDY Jr. again

UXTHEME.DLL: Inspirational Royale

FireFOX: iCAND Jr. Theme

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Opera 7.6 for browsing. Best browser out there.

Outlook Express 2003, got it all.

Foobar2000, makes my dreams come true.

PowerDVD 4.0

WMP 10

Videolan VLC

Office 2003

Photoshop CS

FlashFXP

MSN Messenger 6.2 and IM2 for ICQ

BitTornado, Direct Connect, Kazaa-Something

WinRaR

Microsoft Visual Studio 2003 .NET

Tune-Up utilities 2004

Ahead Nero for burning.

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OS: Windows XP Home SP2

Browser: IE 6 (with sp2, popup blocker works just fine)

Email: Outlook Express (good pure email client)

Music: WMP10 (library management features)

Movie: WMP10

Messenger: Trillian Pro (no more platform issues)

IRC: Trillian

P2P: Kazaa Lite, WinMX (havent used these for some time now)

Compression: WinRAR (RAR's the way to go)

Firewall: ZoneAlarm Pro (easy and comprehensive..??)

Antivirus: Norton AV 2002 (never ever bothered me)

Ripper: Audiograbber (which is now free!)

Office: Office XP (don't really need 2003)

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Browser: Firefox

AV: Norton AV

Firewall: Sygate (looking for something better... just not zonealarm)

Music: iTunes

Multimedia: BSPlayer

DVD: PowerDVD

Chat: Trillian Pro

FTP: FlashFXP

CD Burning: Nero 6

p2p: DC++, Soulseek, ABC

Web Development: Macromedia

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Browser: Firefox 1.0 RC1

Email: Gmail

Music: WMP 10

Movie/DVD Player: Media Player Classic

Chat: Mainly MSN, sometimes Yahoo!

Burning: Nero 6.6 Reloaded

IRC: mIRC

P2P: Overnet, Limewire

Compression: WinRAR 3.40

Firewall: Norton 2005 Protection Worm

Anti-Virus: Norton 2005

OS: Windows XP Home SP2

Spyware Removal: Ad-aware SE Pro

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Browser: Firefox 1.0 RC1

Web-based Email: Gmail, Hotmail, Hushmail, Yahoo

Music Player: Winamp(internet radio and tv), foobar2000 (mp3s)

Video Player: WMP10

DVD Player: PowerDVD

Chat: MSN, IRC

Burning: Nero 6.6 Reloaded

P2P: Kazaa lite,Ares lite

Compression: Winrar 3.40

Antivirus: Norton Pro 2005

Firewall: XP(the updated one(SP2))

OS: Windows XP pro SP2

Spyware Detection/Removal: Lavasoft Adaware SE Pro, Spy Bot Search & Destroy/Ad-Watch

FTP Server: Serv-U

FTP Client: FlashFXP

Office: Open Office

Email: Thunderbird

Bittorrent: ABC

Tweakers: Tweak XP Pro 2.0.7

Photo/Image editing: Photoshop 8.0 CS

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browser: FireFox 1.0PR / Opera 7.0. ( they both have similar funtions, just whatever I'm in the mood for)

Music Player: 1by1 player (clean UI, little resorces, no uneeded/extra funtions)

Video Plaer: Media Player Classic 6.4.8.2 (the same as DviXplayer but allows screen shots)

DVD Player: Sony DVD player in my living room ('cause I don't have a DVD-ROM on my PC yet...)

Chat: MSN Messenger (because most of my friends are on it)

P2P: Bittorrent, DC++ (because they don't have cr@p on there network)

Compression: Winrar (need to say more?)

Burning: Alcohol 120%, Nero 9 (good emulation, good features)

Firewall: Sygate Personal Firewall (dunno.. 'cause it's free?)

Photo/img editing: Paint Shop Pro 8.0

web-based e-mail: gmail, hotmail

Spyware removal: Spybot: search & destroy (it's the best I've came across)

O.S.: Windows XP Pro SP2, Knoppix

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Browser: Firefox 1.0RC

IRC: mIRC

FTP: IE

Documents: Office 2003

CD Ripping: RealPlayer

Download Manager: Firefox & Flashget

Weather: Samurize Config

System Utilities: TuneUp Utilities

Spyware Removal: Spybot & HiJackThis

Graphics: Adobe Photoshop 8.0 CS

RSS: Klipfolio

Text: NotePad

Web-based Email: Gmail & Hotmail

Music Player: Foobar2000

Video Player: Media Player Classic

DVD Player: Media Player Classic

Chat: Msn messenger 6.2

Burning: Alcohol 120%

P2P: Shareaza & BitTorrent

Compression: Winrar 3.40

Antivirus/firewall: ZASS

OS: Windows XP pro SP2 & DOS 6.22

Bittorrent: Azureus

Tweaks: TuneUp Utilities & Autopatcher XP

Partition: Partition Magic 8.05

Search: Google Desktop Search

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