Applications You Couldn't Live Without

[Anonymous]

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[Barley]

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]

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]

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]

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...

[Robin]

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]

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]

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]

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[Firerat]

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]

Bitcomet for me. Low on system resources and a good search facility.

[t31os]

VLC
Utorrent
Firefox
RealAlt
Diskeeper

[Lovefist233]

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]

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.

[danno1234]

[quote:b8f8777c8a=\"Excellor8\"]Bitcomet for me. Low on system resources and a good search facility. [/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.