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Anonymous
23-10-06, 12:38
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Barley
23-10-06, 12:59
Hmmmm, let me think.

Firefox - I know it's personal preference, and I love the thing. I find it easy to use and less intruisive than IE. I love the ability to tab, as well as the plug ins and themes you can get for it. It even spell checks as you type into it now!

Save Icon - It's a little app that you place in your system32 folder, then run a small registry file. It lets you right click on My Computer and save the position of all your icons. So when your PC crashes or whatever, and ALL your icons line up on the left again, you can right click on My Computer and restore the location of your icons. Really useful :)

DrunkDwarf
23-10-06, 13:55
VLC Media Player - http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

Plays pretty much everything...

Mozilla Thunderbird - http://www.mozilla.com/thunderbird/

Firefox is the favoured golden child thats one sandwich short of a picnic, Thunderbird is the truely gifted child that no-one seems to give the recognition it deserves.

Anonymous
24-10-06, 09:06
7-zip.

www.7-zip.com (i think)

It is so useful, and will zip or unzip anything.

iTunes

Ok, so to many its not a necisity, but to me, as i use it every day, it it.

www.apple.com/itunes/ (i think)

danno1234
24-10-06, 09:46
mine would have to be the \"start\" application.
normally found on the bottom left but its movable
comes in different colours and oh boy its useful for errrrmm

starting things... :D

Robin
24-10-06, 11:25
ZoneAlarm - The free one was great. So impressed that i bought the Pro version

Virtual Daemon - DVD/CD Emulator for reading ISO's etc. Brilliant and free.

danno1234
24-10-06, 12:22
Auto shutdown you guys posted a link for me back awhile ago
really useful as it can determine time and application usage so when you finish downloading ect it autoshuts down your PC...i love it

Gregoroth
24-10-06, 18:00
IE/Firefox (basically, a web browser)
Ad-Aware SE/Spybot Search & Destroy
DC++
AVG Free 7
Windows Media Player
PowerDVD

Thinking about it, there's a lot of apps that I really need.

Anonymous
25-10-06, 08:49
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Firerat
25-10-06, 09:29
Bash

http://www.gnu.org/software/bash/

Well ok thats not really an application, more an interface

GCC

http://gcc.gnu.org/

Without it I wouldn't be able to compile anything :)

vim

http://www.vim.org/

a Powerful text editor, Has context highlighting, very good for editing config files and looking at source code.
( I don't code , but I do blunder around when something dosn't compile, I have managed fixed the occasional thing )

grep

www.gnu.org/software/grep/

sed

http://www.gnu.org/software/sed/


and lots of other little things

Excellor8
26-10-06, 11:19
Bitcomet for me. Low on system resources and a good search facility. :D

t31os
01-11-06, 14:52
VLC
Utorrent
Firefox
RealAlt
Diskeeper

Lovefist233
01-11-06, 16:49
Steam - I hate it but I need it
Flash - for when im bored and want to animate something
Windows Media Player & VLC, the combination that plays almost everything (except .rm i think)

Belso
02-11-06, 10:02
R-Image - Makes backing up a hard drive so easy.

IE7 - Everything else is just crap

VLC Player - Plays basically any video format, works wth Linux and is it excellent at streaming videos.

Microsoft Word 2003 & Publisher - Anyone can use them easily.

AVG Security Suite - Its free and does an excellent job.

:D

danno1234
02-11-06, 12:10
[quote:b8f8777c8a=\"Excellor8\"]Bitcomet for me. Low on system resources and a good search facility. :D[/quote:b8f8777c8a]

yep yep i agree.... with above....and

www.orb.com so when im at work i can watch or listen or view
any file on my home PC. Streams all your media to what ever PC you log in by. Also can turn on and view my webcam.....

It can also be viewed on any mobile phone using indows media player 10.

JMFD
02-11-06, 17:03
Firefox, Photoshop and Teamspeak

DeCrYpT3R
03-11-06, 09:28
bitcomet :D

msn messenger :P

and teamspeak :wink:

ibradshaw
28-11-06, 14:53
pspad (www.pspad.com)
oracle express (www.oracle.com) - the free one
alzip (www.altools.net)
perl (www.activestate.com)
bginfo (cant remember!)
getright (www.getright.com)
spark / wildfire (www.jivesoftware.org)
cd burner xp pro (www.cdburnerxp.se)

are all the freebies i love! :)

john348
28-11-06, 15:10
firefox again as it has the ability to save a full tabbed page. i.e. I put all the forums on one page and then bookmark the whole thing. Then when I want it back one press and it opens all the forums again.

HyperSquiZ
28-11-06, 15:12
Firefox
3D Studio MAX 8
Ventrillo
WinAmp

Thats all I really use other than the games I play.




Unless im in a creative mood, then I need:
Photoshop
FRAPS
Adobe Premier
Flash MX2004
Dreamweaver MX2004

Plus a few other pricey bits of software.
:D

Hosser
28-11-06, 21:20
Microsoft's Remote Desktop Connection software. Also a huge fan of Opera.

MattyW
09-01-07, 21:24
Firefox - I have a lot of space for bookmarks. Aria is my 7th.
MSN - To chat to mates, and apparently idiots who can't spell.
Windows Media Player 11 - Don't snipe me because I don't use winamp, I found it slow loading

Isquish
12-01-07, 10:41
Firefox

winamp


that's it - games come and go but I NEED my browser and mp3's

'Squish

Anonymous
12-01-07, 10:45
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jonnycross
15-01-07, 04:27
PhotoshopCS2
anmationshop (freebie)
Clipboard recorder (freebie)
Alien Skin ( all of them)

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a150/jonnycross/sigs/sunrisejc.gif

psychocandy
21-01-07, 23:22
http://www.ccleaner.com/ ... great junk cleaner
http://www.avantbrowser.com/ ... firefox is for folks who cant be trusted with proper browsers :P

http://www.dbpoweramp.com/ .. easiest mp3 ripper(if you can get pre v 10)

http://www.exactaudiocopy.de/ the best cd ripper bar none