what software can you not live without?

scherzo · Post by **scherzo** » Sat Aug 11, 2007 8:18 pm

there are some handy apps out there and i'm curious if anyone has used, is using a program they found great for spicific tasks etc.

for example i have a program called

foulderprintplus

and what it does is 'index's what is on a drive, or disk i.e. dvd and creates a text document for it

now when someone like myself has 200 dvd's of backups of everything you could think of and I wanted to find by backup of

winrar

i use windows search and search drive E: ( which i partitionied to only 5 gig ) drive E: containes all the text documents of the folderprintplus exports of each dvd, cd etc,

ea cd is labeled 'cd 1' - cd 2, cd 3 , etc

now when I search it finds it in disk 50

and i know where it is immediatley

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Sat Aug 11, 2007 9:15 pm

programs I can't live without, at least the ones I can think of off the top of my head:

- Firefox
- VMware / VMware server
- Notepad++
- Ms RDP client
- Winrar / 7zip

Probably a ton more, and I won't get into Linux ones as the list would be too long.

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Chris Vogel · Post by **Chris Vogel** » Tue Sep 04, 2007 8:42 pm

Pretty much anything that comes with Ubuntu, plus Thunderbird and a LaTeX distribution. The reason Ubuntu fits me so well is probably a combination of having good defaults and me being too lazy to change the defaults.

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Tue Sep 04, 2007 9:53 pm

Oh yeah forgot to mention thunderbird. I often take it for granted, but it seems theres very few free email clients that support Imap, so Thunderbird is definably in that list for me.

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Chyse · Post by **Chyse** » Wed Sep 05, 2007 1:27 pm

World Of Warcraft
World Of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade
Itunes
Ventrilo
Internet Explorer (Haven't found any reason to get firefox)

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Wed Sep 05, 2007 6:33 pm

lol IE is the portal to spyware. Switch to firefox or Opera. Also I don't know how people go without tabbed browsing.

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Chyse · Post by **Chyse** » Wed Sep 05, 2007 11:38 pm

Red Squirrel wrote: lol IE is the portal to spyware. Switch to firefox or Opera. Also I don't know how people go without tabbed browsing.

IE has tabbed browsing now.

EDIT: just downloaded firefox. i'll be using this from now on. lol.

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Thu Sep 06, 2007 4:14 pm

Haha. Use firefox, never look back eh.

And yeah forgot IE 7 had tabbed browsing. IE7 is horrid to use though. I just hate the whole top interface, its like messed up or something.

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Chyse · Post by **Chyse** » Thu Sep 06, 2007 8:13 pm

idk, firefox is kinda confusing. like...how do i see my history from like 3 days ago? lol

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Thu Sep 06, 2007 8:55 pm

ctrl+h

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Chyse · Post by **Chyse** » Fri Sep 07, 2007 6:11 am

....awesome.....
okay, but now i have to re-download flash and shockwave player because IE comes pre-packed with it. =/

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MagicBrowser · Post by **MagicBrowser** » Fri Nov 02, 2007 8:24 pm

I'm overly fond of SequoiaView.

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Chris Vogel · Post by **Chris Vogel** » Fri Jan 11, 2008 2:17 am

Chris Vogel wrote: Pretty much anything that comes with Ubuntu, plus Thunderbird and a LaTeX distribution. The reason Ubuntu fits me so well is probably a combination of having good defaults and me being too lazy to change the defaults.

I dumped Thunderbird for Evolution, Firefox for Epiphany, and OpenOffice.org for AbiWord and Gnumeric. (LaTeX remains on standby.) The switch is going okay so far, but Gecko – and therefore Epiphany – can’t use native GTK+ widgets for HTML forms, although I do believe a fix is in the trunk. Oh, and AbiWord has a weird mixture of American and British English – colour, color, and centre at first glance – despite my preference for American English.

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Lamez · Post by **Lamez** » Sat Jan 12, 2008 1:04 am

lol, he wants to know how to delete his history, because he does not want he other peeps to find his porn.

lets see:
-RealVNCServer
-FireFox (my dad switch from IE to FF, and now he hates IE, after being a long follower of IE.)

-SmartFTP
-Dreamweaver
-Nortons
-Trillian
-Windows Media Player (that is right, I love it)
-WinRaR
-COD2WoW

I think that is it!

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Mon Jan 14, 2008 9:43 pm

WMP classic is FTW, I use that myself. I hate the later versions. They're just bloatware now, and so are most other media players.

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Lamez · Post by **Lamez** » Mon Jan 14, 2008 10:53 pm

WMP 11 is so laggy, I do not like it

I perfer WMP 10, even though I have WMP 11 installed

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Stasi · Post by **Stasi** » Tue Jan 15, 2008 12:05 am

SONAR
IE 7
XnView
Windows Media Player
VLC Media Player
Dreamweaver
SWiSHmax
GIMP
Sophocles Screenwriting Software

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Lamez · Post by **Lamez** » Tue Jan 15, 2008 12:23 am

really IE 7?

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Stasi · Post by **Stasi** » Tue Jan 15, 2008 5:26 am

Depends on what I'm doing, but for the most part, I surf with IE and I surf a lot. I have a tightly-tuned installation of Firefox for when I want to peruse lower security webspace.

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Lamez · Post by **Lamez** » Tue Jan 15, 2008 5:31 pm

oh, you are crazy I will give you that.

But what do you have 2 different media players?

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Stasi · Post by **Stasi** » Tue Jan 15, 2008 8:26 pm

Why do you say I'm crazy?

I have two different media players because both give different functionality for different codecs, taking video captures, and playing DVD's.

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Lamez · Post by **Lamez** » Wed Jan 16, 2008 8:57 am

why don't you just download the codecs and plugin em in, oh wait you are not running WMP, lol

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Oneria · Post by **Oneria** » Thu Jan 17, 2008 9:37 pm

i'd be lost without me photoshop

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manadren · Post by **manadren** » Thu Jan 17, 2008 10:13 pm

Firefox, Winamp, Azureus, Irfan View, media player classic, winrar, godfather

I view most of my videos with Media Player Classic or Zoomplayer. The only reason I even touch WMP (and IE) is for Netflix instant viewing.

Synergy is a godsend at work, I use the same keyboardmouse to control 3 PCs (spanning 6 monitors). Lots of stuff to keep track of... Also at work IE and outlook (no choice), VMWare Infrastructure client, GSX client, Netbackup, putty, frontpage (no choice), RDP, and VNC, and a bunch of apps with web based interfaces.

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Reaper · Post by **Reaper** » Sat Jan 19, 2008 7:14 pm

I can't live without some kind of music player. And right now it's WinAMP because Microsoft Vista sucks.

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