List your best computer programs

[therealblaze]

Here's a list of the computer programs that I find the most useful and of good-quality.

ACDSee - ACD Systems (image viewer/browser)
Ad-aware - Lavasoft (ad/spyware remover)
Audio Catalyst - Xing Technology Corporation (mp3 player/ripper)
Eudora - Qualcomm (e-mail)
F-Secure Antivirus
mIRC - mIRC Co. (IRC client)
Partition Magic - Powerquest (hard-disk partitioning software)
Photoshop - Adobe (image editing software)
PowerDVD - CyberLink (DVD player)
WinZip - WinZip Computing, Inc. (compressing utility)
ZoneAlarm - ZoneLabs (firewall)

At this moment I use Internet explorer for surfing and Windows Media Player for viewing mpg/avi movies.

So what are your favorites?

[Mann Slaughter]

Forte` Agent (a newsreader)
WinRAR; WinACE; WinZIP
Any of my CD burner progs:
CloneCD; Fireburner; EZCD5


To bad Napster had to go and die on me. :(

[slortar]

I'm getting kind of fond of VirtualDub (mpeg-1 to avi conversation tool).

Getright (download manager), Cuteftp (ftp client) and Tinyweb (minimalist web server program) are all current favorites, too.

[Slacker]

Nero Burning ROM
WinZip
WS FTP
Homesite (HTML program)
Opera (browser)

[AHunter3]

BUSINESS SOFTWARE
FileMaker Pro
Nisus Writer
Microsoft Excel

INTERNET SOFTWARE
Eudora
Opera>I haven't finalized my loyalty yet
iCab> ""
Hogwasher
NetFinder

ART & MUSIC
Photoshop
SoundEdit 16
N2MP3
GraphicConverter
Bryce
SoundApp
Acrobat

EVERYDAY-USAGE UTILITIES
MacLink Plus
Toast
Timbuktu
Cisco VPN
DAVE
Script Editor
Stuffit Expander / DropStuff
QuicKeys

INDISPENSABLE 3rd-party CONTROL PANELS / EXTENSIONS
DefaultFolder
FinderPop
Open With (Contextual Menu Module)
OtherMenu
Flash-It
Snitch
Remember

[rjung]

Transmit - FTP server that's quick, simple, and kicks ass.
GraphicConverter - If GraphicConverter can't read it, it ain't worth looking at.
iMovie - Absolutely essential if you have anything resembling a life. ;) Saved my bacon one Thanksgiving, too.
BBEdit - Text editor of the gods.

[MrVisible]

Ultraedit. Hands-down, kick-ass text/binary editor.

Photoshop. Duh. Ultimate power over the two-dimensional universe.

Pegasus Mail. An email client that doesn't assume I'm a suicidal idiot.

MS Access. I do all my role-playing stuff in a serious database of my own design. Makes DMing a breeze.

Oh, other DM tools...

Visio

Treasure Generator

Spellbook manager

[Natural-J-Bankie]

Favorites:

Windows 2000 SP2 - OS
Edit Plus - Text editor
Photoshop - Photo and image editing
Illustrator - Vector based 2d stuff
SoundForge - Audio editing
EAC - CD ripping
LAME - MP3 encoding
Winamp - MP3
MPTagger - MP3 tagging and renaming
Nero - CD burning
CloneCD - CD burning
Audio Galaxy - P2P
Morpheus - P2P
Effective Desktop - Hides tray icons/customizes start button (not menu)/allows virtual desktops
SmartFTP - FTP client
Dreamweaver - HTML/website
Flash - Flash animation
WebWasher - Ad/pop-up/cookie blocker
ZoneAlarm - Firewall
Ghost - Backup
InnoculateIT - Anti-virus
WinZip, WinRar - Compression
IrfanView - Image viewer/converter
VNC - Java based remote access tool
Word, Excel, Access, Outlook - Word processor, spreadsheet, personal database, email/address book/calendar

Stuff I use anyway:
Outlook Express (for news) - OK, but not great
Quicktime, Realaudio, WMP 6.4 - They all kinda suck
IE 5.5 SP2 - They got rid of support for plugins! Bastards!
IIS (web and FTP server) - Too many security holes

[Baraqiyal]

Wmainfo (http://www.abyssaudio.com/) – WMA tag editor. (WMA files are audio files, but much smaller than MP3s)
DBPowerAmp (http://www.dbpoweramp.com) – Music Converter
ThumbsPlus (http://www.thumbsplus.com) – Image organizer
Paint Shop Pro (http://www.jasc.com) – Image editor
SureThing CD Labeler (http://www.surething.com/ST/)
AI RoboForm (http://www.roboform.com/) – Web Form filler outer and password manager
WZebra (http://www.nada.kth.se/~gunnar/zebra.html) – Othello game

[AHunter3]

rjung:

BBEdit - Text editor of the gods.


Oops, add that one to my list, too. I couldn't live without BBEdit.

[Purd Werfect]

ACDSee - Image Viewer
Photoshop - Image Editor, Creator
WinRAR - Compression Tool
Password Safe - Secure Password Database
PIRCh - IRC Client
Ad-Aware - System SPAM Cleaner
Internet Explorer - Browser
Visio 2002 - Diagram Drawing Program. I have a love-hate thing going on with this one, but it doesn't have much in the way of competition.
WinAmp - MP3 Player
Token 2 - Telnet Client
Fruity Loops - Digital Percussion Looper
Sasami 2K - Media Player
Lotus Notes - eMail and Collaboration Client. I hate it, but it's for work.

And I also use a bunch of products my company makes, but it wouldn't be right for me to mention them here.

[AuntiePam]

http://www.printcharger.com has a nifty little program called "email stripper" -- it takes the <<<>>> marks out of your forwards.

[Darwin's Finch]

I think just about all of these have already been mentioned:

WS FTP
ACDSee
Paint Shop Pro
Netscape (for web, mail and newsgroups)
Windows Media Player 7.0
File Maker Pro
Creative PlayCenter 2 (used to rip CDs)
WinZip
MS Excel
Wordpad

Just about everything else on my PC is a game.

[Fenris]

In addition to those listed,

Windows Commander (http://www.ghisler.com/): the ultimate Windows Explorer replacement. It's a perfect gem of a program, reminding me of a well made pocket-knife with all the nifty things it does in additon to being an Explorer replacement, from batch-file renaming, to compressed file utility (you can treat .zip-ped or .rar'd or .ace'd files as directories, adding and subtracting or uncompressing files on the fly), a built-in FTP client which lets you treat FTP sites as directories, etc. It's a perfect program.

Fenris

[Badtz Maru]

SecureCRT - powerful and versatile terminal program.

WS-FTP Pro - nice FTP program. I used to use FTP Explorer because you don't need to start over on a download when it is interrupted with it, but I started using WS-FTP Pro at work because that was all I had and I've come to prefer it's interface.

Netscape Composer - yes, I know there are much better web design programs out there, but this was the first I used and it's the easiest for me, it's so intuitive that I didn't need to read any documentation or help files the first time I designed a page.

[Badtz Maru]

Oh, and TweakUI. I like to keep my system as simple as possible. I don't know why it wasn't included as part of the typical install of Windows, it's very useful.

[Critical1]

Sensiva is one I havent seen mentioned, it lets you use your mouse to issue comands by holding right click and drawing a shape, they dont have to be pretty to work and I was skeptical at first but I hate useing a pc without it now.

[yosemite]

Mac Software

Netscape
BBEdit (The only game in town. I have 4.5. Is BBEdit 6.0 a big improvement?)
SimpleText
Photoshop 6
Illustrator 9
Dreamweaver 4
Fireworks 4
ImageReady 3
Outlook Express 5
IE 5
Gray Amp (low-end but useful MP3 player)
Vicomsoft FTP (the best!)
SoundJam (burning MP3s)
Toast (burning CDs)



Windows Software

Netscape
HomeSite 4.5
Cute FTP
EditPad (Love it)
CPU Cool (I have this weird thing with my PC overheating. This program fixes it.)
Dreamweaver 3
Photoshop 6
Illustrator 9
Easy CD Creator
Outlook Express
Office
Solitaire

[Triskadecamus]

ZipMagic

I run programs out of zipped files, import files from zipped files. I turn directories into zip files from Windows Explorer by changing the name of the stuff directory to stuff.zip. I make self-extracting zips, test and repair zips, and that's when I don't just ignore the entire phenomenon of zips, which are just folders named .zip from my point of view.

This is the right idea about compression. It's invisible, except that I don't compress anything I don't want compressed. Handles incoming files, and my virus scanner reads [i]through[i] the compression. (So does everything else, though.)

Great program.

AXicons

Icon editor. Extracts icons from DLL, and EXE files, imports images from files, screen capture, or devices. Save to ICL, or ICO formats, multiple size/color combinations. Pixel by pixel editing.

[JCThunder]

I'm surprised no one mentioned KaZaA - My new & improved Napster. Realy nice.

[rjung]

Originally posted by yosemitebabe
BBEdit (The only game in town. I have 4.5. Is BBEdit 6.0 a big improvement?)
Depends on what you consider "big". ;) I like it, though.

[Cleophus]

Windows software:

Nero Burning ROM-burns anything. I'm not exaggerating.

Quake III

Winamp

Outlook Express

Mac software:

Microsoft Word 5.1-Why bother with newer versions if I don't use the features? Plus, it's stable.

MacLink Plus

Micronet Utility 7.5.1-This baby will format and partition anything. Screw the hacked version of HD SC Setup.

Netscape Navigator 4.77

StuffIt Expander 5.5

Disk Copy 6.3.3

Plus, I run all that on a PowerBook 540c: 33 Mhz 68040. I don't need a PowerPC! :D

And a quick mention goes to vi, my favorite UNIX text editor.