Mr. Bond Posted February 9, 2006 Share Posted February 9, 2006 Similar to some of your lists... Firefox - Lightyears ahead of IE. And half the bugs! XLink-Kai - Why use XBLive, when you have a friendly, open-source community that also supports mods? FlashFXP - For all your FTP needs. iTunes - Because I am just another pawn in Apples quest for world domination. Azureus - Had no problems...though I might try uTorrent now because of you guys. Cubase SX3 - Me + Music Recording = Enjoyable waste of a Friday night Stepmania - Yeah...I've become addicted to DDR. 343 songs and counting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thegafferazzasatz Posted February 12, 2006 Share Posted February 12, 2006 1) Office XP -used all time obv. 2) MSN messenger 3) PCDJ FX VRM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZX81 Posted February 12, 2006 Share Posted February 12, 2006 some good free ones are: crapcleaner (from ccleaner.com) & process explorer (procxp from sysinternals.com) {censored} cleaner is great for fixing broken regisry links (removing) and removing clutter. I use procxp for seeing what is running under windows and toggling off unnecessary processes before gaming) & Object dock for the mac look day to day I use mainly firefox / incredimail / office 2003 / macaffee security suite (I use azerues for torrents on my desktop; and dvddecrypter/shrink there; ultraiso/poweriso/ nero) I find nero showtime is the best player for me, esp with shrunk dvds Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swad Posted February 12, 2006 Author Share Posted February 12, 2006 Font Expert is a great app for those who need to manage a lot of fonts. I looked around for a good program to do this and it's the best one I've found! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Metrogirl Posted February 12, 2006 Share Posted February 12, 2006 Font Expert is a great app for those who need to manage a lot of fonts. I looked around for a good program to do this and it's the best one I've found! After years of messing around with fonts I've found just a handful which I always put on any system I build, and I keep a few others handy for special jobs. The ones I install by default are - Dark Courier. Yes, it's Courier but a specially crisp version - if you're a writer you NEED this to satisfy publishers - normal Courier just looks feeble on the page with most laser printers. Distressed Olympus. (usually called F***ed Olympus) - great 'old' typewriter font. Gill Sans.- the whole set. Just nice, clear and sharp for sans-serif work. Girls Are Weird. - I used this odd font on a website years ago and, well, I just like it. It's weird and I'm a girl. ITC Garamond 2000. I used an old version of Corel Gatineau on a website and then lost it in a disk crash. It took years to find another Gatineau/Garamond font which had italics with matching uppercase and lower case slants (some don't), and with the hooked "H" and drop apostrophe. Corel's version had been brought into line with Garamond and lost some of those features. ITC has the whole lot. London Tube. An imitation of the script used in London Underground signs. Marriage Script. A nice joined-up script font for fancy work. Monsoon. A very clean and tidy handwritten script. Mylius. This is the font used by British Airways. I use it for all my printed correspondence, it's really nice. Pica. Another typewriter font. Village. If you ever watched 'The Prisoner' you'll recognise this. Witzworks. A comic-book speech-ballon script. For editing fonts (and removing the er, unwanted glyphs from samples, and changing the text) I use Font Creator Pro3. Most of the above are links which will download the font or a zipfile with all the font parts. Note they are WINDOWS TrueType format. I haven't linked Mylius because BA are very proprietary about it. The rest are public domain to the best of my knowledge - at least I found them all on the web without any restrictions. If you think they shouldn't be here PM me and I'll remove them! Edit - I searched the web and discovered that lots of people are trying to get their hands on Mylius and you can't download it anywhere. As it's commercial, very expensive and under copyright I won't be risking linking to it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billeuze Posted February 24, 2006 Share Posted February 24, 2006 Many of the above programs and: treesize, http://www.jam-software.com/freeware/index.shtml A tny little app gives you a right click menu in windows explorer. will tell you the size of all directories within the directory or drive you right click on. extremely useful for locating source of what's filling up your hard drives. also context highlighting text editor, http://www.context.cx/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hitesh Posted March 10, 2006 Share Posted March 10, 2006 Stickies for windows Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
non sequitur Posted March 10, 2006 Share Posted March 10, 2006 I always install DVDshrink and videora ipod converter (i havent found anything better) if the computer has a dvd drive (i use old computers form time to time ). Mozilla Firefox is a must, and so is itunes. never liked winAMP. i also always install objectdock, because its the best way to access your programs. period. i also tried desktopX on my 1ghz laptop, and it runs great. widgety goodness . teamspeak, xfire, and trillian are also a must, even if im not gaming. best messengers ever. and i also refuse to use MS Office if i have a choice. i use openoffice.org2.0, because it is free, not as buggy, and has more utilities intalled. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Veeoh Posted March 10, 2006 Share Posted March 10, 2006 Easy.. Textpad uTorrent Filezilla and Filezilla Server Firefox Thunderbird. Ta Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hitesh Posted March 11, 2006 Share Posted March 11, 2006 I like the SPOTLIGHT in mac .... which is the best search program for Windows ? may be some thing like spotlight This is been a great thread....object dock is lovely ..thanks for the info non sequitur Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
treleung Posted April 7, 2006 Share Posted April 7, 2006 Itunes Firefox DamnNfo BsPlayer VLC Player DVD Shrink / AnyDVD Trillian Pro FlashFXP utorrent Kaspersky Anti-Virus 6.0 Alcohol 120% WinRAR Photoshop Office PowerIso Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
myzar Posted April 7, 2006 Share Posted April 7, 2006 No one mentioned the best filemanager , there's a copycat on every os but the original is TotalCommander http://www.ghisler.com/ I find scary that many people mentioned Itunes eeewww Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mimix Posted April 10, 2006 Share Posted April 10, 2006 uTorrent, firefox (flashgot, stumbleupon, answers, adblock, adblock filterset.g updater, reveal), thunderbird, kerio personal firewall, Avast!, ad-aware spybot SD itunes (podcasts and mp3s), DivX player 7-zip, Alcohol 120% daemon tools, VM-ware (native installs only), partition magic, Blender, Adobe CS2, NVU, Synfig, Flash 8, Steam (DOD, DOD:S, CS, CS:S) it goes on and on really Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colonel Posted April 10, 2006 Share Posted April 10, 2006 All I really use is Bit Commet and VMWare. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bwhsh8r Posted July 15, 2006 Share Posted July 15, 2006 Litestep iTunes Trillian Microsoft Virtual PC (i try out alot of oss) Azureus Motorola PST (for my phone so I can hack that) DVD shrink/ decrypter Roxio easy media creator suete 8 Magiciso Hard Drive Killer pro (for the feds if i get audited) adaware se spybot s & d Mozilla Firefox / Opera 9 beta 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eric C Posted August 8, 2006 Share Posted August 8, 2006 I'd say Gaim is the best chat client for windows. But I use Linux, so I may be partial. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bwhsh8r Posted August 17, 2006 Share Posted August 17, 2006 I'd say Gaim is the best chat client for windows. But I use Linux, so I may be partial. I use both because i have the bsd, and that requires it... i much prefer trillian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tsun Posted September 8, 2006 Share Posted September 8, 2006 ethereal : network analyzer putty : connect to stuff winrar : extract everything daemon tools : mount iso's reason : sound mixing/fun gaim : linux's answer the aim-ing firefox : web browser thunderbird : email client just my list, theres alot more great stuff out there of course ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MacBookOSX Posted September 15, 2006 Share Posted September 15, 2006 msn messenger windows media player sufficiant anti-virus nice high-speed a ready to use Windows with essential applications Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
modbin Posted September 19, 2006 Share Posted September 19, 2006 what about "the tools" like softice IDA W32DASM PEID HexWorkshop and finally modbin6 for some bios hackin` Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
koolaidman23 Posted September 19, 2006 Share Posted September 19, 2006 iTunes Alcohol 120% Kaspersky Internet Security 6 MS Office Firefox DVD Shrink 7-Zip, the best archiving tool there is, imo uTorrent - Azureus is huge, even with 2 gb of ram i hate it. VLC Player Flyakite 3.5 sd4hide Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kernalzero Posted September 20, 2006 Share Posted September 20, 2006 I won't repeat the ones already mentioned because I use alot of them but... WinHIIP - PS2 Harddrive tool UltraVNC - Remote desktop software UltraMon - Multiple monitor tool Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
williwilliwilli Posted September 20, 2006 Share Posted September 20, 2006 In addition to all your suggestions (thanks for them) I recommend "SUPER" as an Audio/Video converter, which has the ability to master about any file format and codec I can think of (including ipod video format and those used by some mogile phoses): "A GUI to ffmpeg, mencoder, mplayer, x264, mppenc, ffmpeg2theora & the theora/vorbis RealProducer plugIn", see the homepage for details and free download. Willi Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ttyseven Posted October 1, 2006 Share Posted October 1, 2006 Firefox Thunderbird Winrar Trillian W32Dasm IDS Pro Hex Workshop ResHacker "some mem dumping progs" Adobe CS 2 ( work :-D ) Macromedia Studio 8 ( work again ) VMWare ScummVM (Monkey Island rullllleeeessss!) Alcohol 120% Antivir Nero Truecrypt ISO Commander Got an Image File with all the stuff installed besides 2 or 3 progs which are a bit often updated like antivir.... these are my esstentials :-D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jedisinclair Posted October 1, 2006 Share Posted October 1, 2006 My list of essential Windoze apps... let me think: NONE !!! I'm running 100% hackintosh and I've found Mac counterparts for EVERY win app to be superior and I don't have ANY desire to use anything MS or windows. And it's all thanks to this forum !!! Thank you INSANELYMAC... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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