Thread: Your Favourite 5 Programs

1. Apache free webserver
2. Mysql free database
3. PHP free programing language
4. Dev-cpp C/C++ editor and compiler
5. Firefox

Photoshop CS2
iTunes
uTorrent
Windows Live Messenger
Wordpad

In order of importance:

FireFox : (or some other web browser, I just need one)

Blender3d : a 3d modeling program www.blender3d.org

mIRC : IRC client.

MS VISUAL STUDIO : Yeah, the whole kit'n'kaboodle.

Trillian

Oooh, thought I'd toss this in: The new Photoshop CS3 Beta's out and available for download. If you've got a registered (and preferably legal) version of CS2 or earlier, then it's free for unlimited use. Otherwise you get a two-day trial.
They've added a bunch of new junk and tweaked some things, but I haven't quite gotten to giving it a test run yet, though I did install it already.

1. Mozilla Firefox
2. Windows Media Player (for my music)
3. VLC Media Player (for videos with multiple audio and subtitle layers)
4. Azureus
5. Riva FLV Encoder (you can convert FLV's (for example downloaded youtube and googlevideo videos) to mpeg, avi, mp3 (etc), and ofcourse mpeg and avi (etc) videos to FLV's...)
6. Adobe Premiere Elements

These are my favorite

• 1. WinRAR (www)

• 2. Photoshop (www)

• 3. Vim (www)

• 4. Filezilla (www)

• 5. IE7/Firefox or an otherwise updated browser

Damn it Kaniaz. Can you not keep your avatar for at least one week. This is how I associate members. So when their avatar changes I can't find them. I actually have to read.

1. MS Office
2. Ulead VideoStudio
3. VirtualDub
4. Tmpgenc
5. Visual Studio 2005

1) Firefox & Thunderbird
2) AVG
3) Zone Alarm
4) Open Office suite
5) The Gimp
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THEN...
Lilypond (music manuscripting system)
Putty (SSH client to maintain my servers)
WinAmp (for lack of anything as functional but smaller)
FL Studio
Tracktion

Then a zillion VST synths and effects.

Vim[/b]

Howetzer, you use vim? Seriously? That is only, I don't know, the greatest text editor on the planet.

As for my avatars, I'm trying, but the temptation is far too much.

1. MSN Live Messenger

2. Morpheus

3. iTunes

4. winRAR

5. Skype

Originally Posted by MSG

1. iTunes
This hunk of junk is the slowest, crashiest, and most troublesome program I've dealt with to date. If ever there was a program that was the chunkiest of them all, this is it.
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I know, pisses me off. Sadly it is the best of the programs i tried, even if does suck big fat hairy man balls. It didn't use to be like this too, but I think ever since Itunes v6 (I need it for video ipod) it's gotten slower and slower.

Anyways, my top 5 :

Firefox - I would shoot myself if I didn't have tabbed browsing, plus way easier to use and less virusy than IE.

Photoshop - What the hell, it's fun to play around with!

Azureus - Excellent bittorrent client. I love bittorrent so much. Without it I couldn't watch shows I like that I can't watch the day they air, or get programs like photoshop free! (do you really think I payed $$$ for it)

Notepad - Extremely convenient for opening random weird files with extentions you've never heard of, or for ripping content of the internet (for example Google Video, you can download the original file! No more waiting for it to download with the google video player open, and then having to rename the GVI file AVI&#33.

Daemon Tools I can't live without my emulation software. I hate having to deal with stupid CDs all the time.

UltraISO - By far the best CD burning program I've used. It not only allows you to burn just about any type of CD format, it can even convert between formats for a more convenient file type.

WinRAR - I've been using the 40 day trial for 2+ years. You gotta love the stupidity, it tells you to buy occassionally, but never actually stops functioning completely . Like UltraISO, it is by far the best tool for the purpose, as it opens just about every archive out there.

Yeah, okay, maybe my list of five ended up as 7, but who's counting?

Give µTorrent a try. I used to be a devoted Azureus user, until I tried µTorrent.
Basically, µTorrent does almost anything Azureus can do (and the list of things it can't do is closing very, very quickly), but is infinitely smaller.
Azureus runs at ~25MB of RAM on my PC, while currently µTorrent is running at 2.2 MB with twelve active torrents.
Plus, µTorrent's got a brand new, shiny web UI so you can start torrents on your PC at home while out on vacation in the Bahamas, or while you're up in the dorms at school. You just download the torrent file and send it through the web UI and your computer at home starts the download. You can even control bandwidth limits, torrent priorities, pause and restart torrents, etc.
Basically, it's everything you could ever want from a torrent client.
Oh, and did I mention that the whole thing runs from a 174 kB standalone .exe?

Originally Posted by Tsen

Give µTorrent a try. I used to be a devoted Azureus user, until I tried µTorrent.
Basically, µTorrent does almost anything Azureus can do (and the list of things it can't do is closing very, very quickly), but is infinitely smaller.
Azureus runs at ~25MB of RAM on my PC, while currently µTorrent is running at 2.2 MB with twelve active torrents.
Plus, µTorrent's got a brand new, shiny web UI so you can start torrents on your PC at home while out on vacation in the Bahamas, or while you're up in the dorms at school. You just download the torrent file and send it through the web UI and your computer at home starts the download. You can even control bandwidth limits, torrent priorities, pause and restart torrents, etc.
Basically, it's everything you could ever want from a torrent client.
Oh, and did I mention that the whole thing runs from a 174 kB standalone .exe?
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Niiice, I'll definitely give it a try. 25meg RAM is okay, but that sounds pretty cool. I'm always open to new ideas.

In no particular order:

Firefox - doesn't need any explanation, does it?
Adium - nice multi-protocol IM client for Mac OS X
UNIX command-line - my all-purpose IDE consists of GNU Screen running with three tabs open at all times:
1) Vim
2) Bash shell
3) a doc viewer, more or less (hope some of you get the pun)
Gimp - more productive UI than PhotoShop IMO, F/OSS, free as in beer, a must-have
LyX - much better than a word processor

winrar
trillian
soulseek
itunes
solitaire

Originally Posted by Kaniaz

Howetzer, you use vim? Seriously? That is only, I don't know, the greatest text editor on the planet.

As for my avatars, I'm trying, but the temptation is far too much.
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Actually... I just copied and pasted yours so I would look cool and seem to know what I am talking about. 8)

Just for making music:

Anvil Studio
Cantabile
DrumSite
Sound Forge 6
Audacity
Acid Xpress

Just my basic five...

1.) Spyware Doctor --> Anti-Spyware.
2.) Registry Mechanic --> Cleans up the registry a bit.
3.) AnyDVD --> Backup DVDs.
4.) Daemon Tools --> Emulate disks.
5.) WinMX --> P2P.

May I add AVAST! as my antivirus software. It's free and better than Norton. And Audacity, kinda like photoshop, it's just fun to play with. Now my top five has nine!

Winamp
Ventrillo
World of Warcraft
etc
etc
etc
BitchX
Porn Finder Deluxe

1)Firefox (Extensions, safety, speed, themes, etc.)
2)Winamp Pro (Gotta love the speed and hotkeys)
3)Media Player Classic /w CCCP Codec
4)Winrar (I never actually double click the file, just right click extract to /. And you never see the buy winrar thing)
5)Skype. I talk with my friends all the time on this.
6)uTorrent. Best torrent client, period.

I found a new favorite program: Celestia
Screenshot:
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Originally Posted by Howetzer

Actually... I just copied and pasted yours so I would look cool and seem to know what I am talking about. 8)
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I compared and saw you didn't even bother to change "or an otherwise updated browser". Haha, you .. deceiving .. thing!

1. Utorrent
2. Mozilla Firefox
3. world of warcraft
4. Desktop link to this
5. Vent





Anyone know where i can get the photoshop torrent?? thanks tons.