[Requiem]

Which applications could you never live without? Big or small, list 'em! Maybe we'll discover a few more gems in the process. I'll get the ball rolling, anyway:

Unlocker
http://ccollomb.free.fr/unlocker/
Great little thing if you find yourself stuck with those "file in use" errors.

SyncBackSE
http://www.2brightsp...cback/sbse.html
Useful backup software that's not unnecessarily complicated. Sure makes a change.

phpDesigner
http://www.mpsoftwar...phpdesigner.php
I resisted IDEs for so damn long, but this thing is a nice deal. If you're a programmer, a PHP programmer specifically, you should try it some day.

Daemon Tools
http://www.daemon-tools.cc/
Virtual discs, what more could you want?


It's a short list, but I reckon everything else installed on my PC I could replace with some other tool that would do a reasonable job and I'd be happy enough with it. But the above four applications are something I regularly use and rarely get away from.

[KennEH!]

I would put daemon tools on my list. Yet the new version is full of ads.

Mozilla Firefox
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/
The best browser ever.

AVG Free Edition
http://free.grisoft.com/
Use to use Avast, but I still received viruses, that the Avast found.

7-Zip
http://www.7-zip.org/
Always need a good unzipper.

Real/Quicktime Alternative
http://www.free-code...Alternative.htm http://www.free-code...Alternative.htm
There not programs, but they replace the need of downloading them. Uses Media Player to play the files. Even works for you browser.

CDisplayEX
http://sourceforge.n...cts/cdisplayex/
What I use to read all my downloaded comics. Can open whole folders at a time and zips. There is also an option for to add captions to a comic.

DFX
http://www.fxsound.com/
Makes your songs sound soo sweet. Enhances them to your own liking. I consider it more of a program than a enhancement because of how much you can customize the sound.

Combined Community Codec Pack
http://www.cccp-project.net/
Look at what Sway said.

All I can think of for now.

This post has been edited by KennEH!: 17 February 2008 - 08:44 PM

[Kvitne]

Sweet topic man! I'll make two lists, but here's my Mac one for the time being.

Mac:

iLife Suite
http://www.apple.com/ilife/
Great group of programs for multimedia creation. I dunno how many times iMovie has helped me big time on a school project, and I've made books of pictures with iPhoto as presents for people in the past.

Adium
http://www.adiumx.com/
While iChat is a great application that has been much improved in Leopard, Adium is my choice of instant messenger, mostly because of the amazing amount of customization available.

Transmission
http://www.transmissionbt.com/
The best torrent application on the Mac. takes up very little memory and is very easy to use.

ComicBookLover
http://www.bitcartel...comicbooklover/
This application is a must for any comic book enthusiasts who own a Mac. It's essentially the iTunes of comic books.

Perian
http://www.perian.org/
The swiss-army knife of quicktime. Allows playback of .avi and other video formats not normally associated with the application.

I'll add more later, most likely when I stop playing Professor Layton. That game has me hooked!

[???????]

Well, here's a list of applications I don't think I could go on without, even when they are seldom used:

Blender 3D
http://www.blender.org/
I've been meaning to get back into this for a while now. Having looked at this website has made me want to get back to completing that list in my signature. I only know of it because of a guy named Cloud from one of Nine's old message boards (VG Axess in 2005, I believe?).

WinRAR
http://www.rarlab.com/
While I realize that this isn't all that unique, I zip and unzip stuff almost all of the time.

FireFox
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/
While I don't think it's the best, it's still pretty good. It's strangely the one I use most often. If not for my older brother downloading it, I would've never heard of it.

Opera
http://www.opera.com/
I think this one might actually be better than FireFox, but I haven't been using it because I'm to lazy to switch over.

Paint.NET
http://www.getpaint.net/
While I haven't been using it all that often, because MS Paint is all I really need right now, this program is still pretty useful, in my opinion. It kinda reminds me of PaintShop Pro.

Videora iPod Converter
http://www.videora.c...Converter/iPod/
Ever since one of my aunt gave me their old video iPod, I've found great use for this program.

Ad Aware
http://www.lavasoftu..._aware_free.php
While I don't have to use it all that often, it's nice to have.

AVG Free Edition
http://free.grisoft.com/
Hell, if it weren't for my older brother installing this on my parents' computer, I wouldn't even heard of this thing until much later than I did. I'm glad he installed it.

Audacity
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
I don't know whether or not I should put this up here, because I think I've only ever used it once or twice, but I have a strong feeling that I'm gonna eventually end up using it again. In Sway's Advice Column, he directed me to this program.

uTorrent
http://www.utorrent.com/
Another application Sway let me know about. I use it pretty often.

Trillian
http://www.ceruleanstudios.com/
I found out about this thing when I was trying to build my own message board. Some moderator on a Invision Plus support board had this in his signature. I hardly use it anymore. The most and first time I've I ever used it in months was when Pokemon Diamond/Pearl/Battle Revolution were still being talked about on these boards.

Well, that's all I can think of. If I ever get around to reinstalling Linux again(without completely wiping out Windows this time), I'll post a list for that as well.

This post has been edited by ¿¿¿¿¿¿¿: 17 February 2008 - 07:29 PM

[Sway]

Sticking to freeware, but I use many programs by Microsoft and Adobe every day and could not get by without them, as well as a few other $20-40-ish programs.

Dial-a-fix
http://wiki.djlizard.net/Dial-a-fix
Great for quickly and efficiently fixing those little Windows problems that pop up from time to time.

RightLoad
http://rightload.org/
Quickly upload files to your web space without having to deal with a clunky interface: just right click and upload.

Taskbar Shuffle
http://www.freewebs....kbarshuffle.htm
Rearrange your taskbar and system tray icons and buttons by simply dragging and dropping.

Media Player Classic
http://sourceforge.n...?group_id=82303
Simple, fast media player with tons of options and the added bonus of not being tied to its own internal codec pack like VLC is.

Combined Community Codec Pack
http://www.cccp-project.net/
Gay anime shit abound, but in my opinion it's the de facto codec pack for those who are into advanced video. The Kazaa Lite Codec Pack goes much too far, and DefilerPak doesn't go far enough, but CCCP is the baby bear of codec packs -- just right. I think Requiem turned me on to this after I expressed disappointment in DefilerPak's minimalist installation leaving much to be desired.

AvsP
http://avisynth.org/qwerpoi/
Awesome, more visual editor for AviSynth. These two programs combined are my first stop in restoring/improving video quality.

VirtualDubMod
http://virtualdubmod.sourceforge.net/
Another important program in my video editing arsenal, this is more of a non-linear editor and encoder. Rapidly losing ground to AviDemux, but can still open a lot of stuff the latter app cannot.

µTorrent
http://www.utorrent.com/
Advanced BT client with an extremely small memory footprint. Edit: Beaten.

Launchy
http://www.launchy.net/
Opening anything is at your fingertips. Just hit Alt+Space, then start typing what you want and Launchy will find it and run it.

[KennEH!]

Taskbar Shuffle is awesome I love it. Glad you posted it.
I would've added Combined Community Codec Pack, but it's not really an application.

[Sway]

You install it and you can modify it through an interface. Close enough.

[NiGHTS Noob]

I use a lot of the stuff that's already been posted, but I guess I also use Thunderbird

http://www.mozilla.c...ts/?flang=en-US

It's a great thing to have when you don't feel like logging into your internet every time just to see if you've got a new message, makes everything easier.

[Kvitne]

Actually, ever since Leopard came out, I've preferred using the default Mail application that comes with the OS. It's just a good overall program.

Mail
http://www.apple.com...tures/mail.html

[???????]

Well, it's been almost three years and I sure hope you guys have some new apps to share with the group.

I'm gonna update this with six:

RocketDock - Freeware. You know how Mac-whores like Kvitne and some Linux users have the ability to launch applications and open files from a dock? Now you can in Windows.

Ducklink's Screen Capture - Freeware. You can take screen captures and save them without having to copy and paste captured images into an image editing program first. It also allows you to capture windows and specific portions of the screens. I know you can do the former on any OS and do region capturing on Macs, and most likely systems running a Linux distribution, but it's still more convenient, especially for Windows users. The most important feature is the scrolling capture. As its name implies, it makes capturing an entire page that scrolls possible. If it's already possible, then I sure as hell don't know how to do it, but I'm sure that this program is more convenient to use than that method.

GIMP - Open Source image editor. Gotta be honest, I can't tell you everything it's capable of, but it's definitely more useful than Windows' default program, Paint, when you're trying to do more complex tasks and some Linux distributions come with this program. I switched from Paint.NET to this after a while.

CamStudio - Open Source video capturing software. Still trying to work out some things to get properly compressed videos, but this is a good alternative to commercial video capture programs. I still sometimes use my pirated copy of Camtasia in its place, however.

MediaCoder - Freeware video and audio encoder. Like many freeware and open source products, there is a steep learning curve, but there are tutorials and this program has proven to be good for conversion.

Photo Story - For us Windows users, the default application for video editing is Windows Movie Maker. Photo Story allows for me to patch videos, images, and audio together easily. Unless you plan on doing some higher level editing that WMM can actually handle, then this has most, if not all, of the vital features.

I know I have more, but I honestly can't remember them right now. I might start a topic in regards to our most frequently used browser add-ons, if I haven't already. I know I have on Project AFTER Forums, but I don't think I have here.

This post has been edited by ???????: 07 January 2011 - 04:14 AM

[Sway]

Now that we're all using smartphones, I really like the Android Lightsaber app. Also Google Navigator is great, Shazam is cool, and Steamy Window is essential.

Also I would have Kvitne's apps if I had an iPhone.

[???????]

I don't use a smartphone. My phone of choice is a $30 Samsung flip-phone. I have a time card that I still haven't used that I plan on calling people with should the cops ever start trailing me for a crime I committed.

Anywho, here's another that got me through my first semester of college:

OpenOffice.org - As the name implies, it's an open source application. It's a great alternative to Microsoft Office Suite. Programs function very similarly to their MOS counterparts, so getting use to the application shouldn't take much effort. It's help feature is even done similarly.

Edit:

Winamp - My media player of choice.

Defraggler - Donationware. Obviously used for defragmentation of your disk drives.

Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware - Been using it for a few years along with other programs with similar functions. With my general knowledge, this program, and help from this page on Malwarehelp.org, I was able to remove a nasty virus on more than one occasion from my desktop. I dunno how the fuck I got the same virus more than once. I do know that I'm a dumbass for doing so, though...

This post has been edited by ???????: 07 January 2011 - 05:59 AM

[Season-Shifter]

Buzz - Hey it works, usually. I find the midi features to be a bit, lacking, to say the least, but I find that the visual interface works out well and it can be quite entertaining to use. I'd say it's definitely worth a try if you have used or do use trackers for making music. For me, it's one of many things I use to put a track together.

[Kvitne]

Sway, on 06 January 2011 - 11:50 PM, said:

Also I would have Kvitne's apps if I had an iPhone.

Woohoo!

I'll post later, if I can drag myself away from Minecraft for long enough.

[nick_phizz]

Mrax, you'll never actually get around to using Blender 3D. Just delete it.

Kvitne, nice avatar.

Application list:

Windows:

FL Studio
Music production. Used to use it, now I don't.

Autodesk Maya
School. Nuff said.

Mac:

Reason 4.0, Logic Pro, and Pro Tools
More music production. Replaces FL Studio. Also use for school projects involving sound.

Maya
Again.

Photoshop
Unless I missed and skipped right over it, I'm surprised at least one person didn't mention it. I plan on buying CS5, but keep forgetting. Discounts are awesome.

Microsoft Office
Self explanatory.

Handbrake
DVD ripper and converter. Free. Awesome.

iTunes

CandyBar
Icon changer. Not free... can be...

uTorrent
Already stated by someone else. Just put for the joke of the last application.

[KennEH!]

Droid Apps:

Goggles
Not really useful but very fun. Can recognize images (logos paintings etc) and phrases through your camera, putting througha n image search and gives detailed information on it.

Slacker Radio (iPhone as well)
Move over XM, this is the radio app. A online radio app get go you have a plethora of stations to choose from that are commercial and talk free, though you can have ABC News periodically give you updates. A search function lets you find stations giving you music by certain song/artist and related music. Music is skippable, so if you want to listen to song you don't have to (can even ban a song/artist). Free version comes with ads and limited song skipping, paid version gets you unlimited skipping and song caching - allowing you to download a number of songs of a chosen station for offline play.

Coupon App
Uses your GPS's location to give you local stores deals and coupons, most of which don't need to be printed but just shown at the counter.

Bump
Program for easily transferring contacts, photos, and app through bluetooth.

Paypal
Not much use in the North America, but using the bump feature to transfer funds is great.

Download All Files
Self explanatory.

LauncherPro
Allows for landscape view of home menu, gives you the ability to set columns/rows resizes app and widgets to your whim, and more.

I love my Droid.

["That Other Guy"]

KennEH!, on 12 January 2011 - 03:03 PM, said:

Droid Apps:

Goggles
Not really useful but very fun. Can recognize images (logos paintings etc) and phrases through your camera, putting througha n image search and gives detailed information on it.

I can never get this to work. For some reason it never finds anything I scan. Not even barcodes, which I've been able to scan via other apps.

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Slacker Radio (iPhone as well)
Move over XM, this is the radio app. A online radio app get go you have a plethora of stations to choose from that are commercial and talk free, though you can have ABC News periodically give you updates. A search function lets you find stations giving you music by certain song/artist and related music. Music is skippable, so if you want to listen to song you don't have to (can even ban a song/artist). Free version comes with ads and limited song skipping, paid version gets you unlimited skipping and song caching - allowing you to download a number of songs of a chosen station for offline play.

Pandora is superior.

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Coupon App
Uses your GPS's location to give you local stores deals and coupons, most of which don't need to be printed but just shown at the counter.

No opinion, sans to say that you are a grandma for using coupons. Also I am too

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Bump
Program for easily transferring contacts, photos, and app through bluetooth.

Never once have I been in an instance where this has been helpful or useful. Most people I know don't own smartphones.

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Paypal
Not much use in the North America, but using the bump feature to transfer funds is great.

I don't know what you mean by "not much use in North America." I use the paypal app all the time to send money to people, because Paypal doesn't like to work on my computer due to the date being wrong.

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Download All Files
Self explanatory.

I don't even know what this is but it sounds useless.

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LauncherPro
Allows for landscape view of home menu, gives you the ability to set columns/rows resizes app and widgets to your whim, and more.

My version of Android came with ADWlauncher, but from what I understand, all of those features are available on the standard Android 2.3 launcher, except maybe changing the number of columns/rows.

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I love my Droid.

I dislike people who misuse smartphones. I bet you even have a taskkiller app on there you evil son of a bitch.

I'll post a list of my useful apps in a bit I guess.

Also fuck you Kvitne Darkwing is my thing.

This post has been edited by "That Other Guy": 14 January 2011 - 09:54 PM

[nick_phizz]

Is there an app for Live Wallpapers?

[???????]

Xpadder - I use this frequently. Map keys to buttons on your controller. I use it with games that don't support a game pad, lack any way to remap the controls/have very limited options when it comes to remapping the controls, or both. Since it can also emulate mouse functions, I also use it in conjunction with the On-Screen Keyboard to navigate when I'm too lazy/tired to use my actual mouse and physical keyboard. Also allowed me to actually use a computer from my bed before I got my laptop.

I debated posting this since it's now a commercial product ($10 USD), but I got it way back when it was free. Hell, I don't even remember how or what year... I don't know what new features the most recent version may have. If I decide that they're useful, however, I may send some cash towards the creator for that upgrade.

nick_phizz, on 10 January 2011 - 06:50 PM, said:

Mrax, you'll never actually get around to using Blender 3D. Just delete it.

Hey, I posted that three years ago! Plus, I've used it since then...

[nick_phizz]

You're right.. I didn't pay attention to that date, but my point still stands. Delete it. Or make something. Start simple. It's not like you don't have the time.