Your top 5 fave apps?

oneweb

What are your favourite apps? The ones which you just couldn't do without?

Mine are:
1) Goback - the app that has saved my arse so many times as to be worth far more than I paid for it. If you feck up your OS, apps or documents or tried out some sh!tty shareware piece of crap that's a pile of bonzibuddy crap, this baby will revert your drive to exactly the state it was in at a time in the past (not before it was installed though). (It's soooo sweet )

2) Digiguide - this thing is it when it comes to television guides. More than 2 weeks listings in advance, listings from any channels from here or the UK available, popup reminders, and the ability to automatically start up your TV card when a fave program is on. As a result of this, I watch far too much telly.

3) Mozilla - Browser suite. More secure than IE and far superior than NS4. Constantly updated with new features too.

4) Gnucleus - Peer2Peer filesharing app without adware.

5) Zonealarm - personal firewall. Stops loads of apps connecting to the net behind your back and puts your PC into stealth mode on the net.

Other good ones include DUmeter download rate monitor, NoFrillsTimer, GAIM universal instant messenger, MP3DirectCut MP3 editor.

Pimp Ninja

I think we did this a while back, but all the same, mine have changed. I did have a quick look for it, but couldnt ind it.

The applications Pimpeh cant do without at this moment, in no particular order.

• mIRC & No Name Script
  Basically NNScript has made IRC so much handier, and prettier. IRC, well that one speaks for itself really.
  
• AVG 6.0 Anti-Virus
  Everyone needs an antivirus, and although it may not necessarily be a favourite, its a must. I chose this because it was highly recommended, and it's free.
  
• Win DVD & DVD Region Killer / Xine (when it works)
  My DVD player of choice, making those long quiet hours of work pass by with ease. The Region Killer software manipulates the region codes of the software program, I think. The Drive is Region free anyway. (after some Firmware changing it is anyway)
  
• HLSW
  For all my game browsing needs...
  
• Alcohol 120%
  CD Imaging/Virtual CDrom Drive/CD Burning. Its all here in one application. For when youre just not arsed carrying a bag of CD's everywhere. Does everything I need it to and more.

Others that deserve honourable mentions
Winace - Zip Unzip says it all.
vim - for all your quick text editing needs, mostly used for html.
Winamp 3 - Because its better than Winamp 2.x
DivX, XviD and other various codecs - Cant play mpegs without those codecs.
Freelancer - Game of the moment
Partition Magic - For squeezing that little bit extra out of a drive when you need it.
Dell Access Direct - For those speshul extra buttons on my laptop.

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Ruu_Old

Win DVD 2000/DVD Genie - they are a must

E-Backup 1.42-Backs up my important emails, addresses, favourites and even my folders

AVG 6.0 - keeps away nasty viruses

AOL IM/DeadAIM - could i be without it? no

Winamp 2.81 - havent changed over to 3 yet , still with the classic

Another good one is....System Mechanic for keeping my system in tune

tman

• Winamp 3 - i only moved over from 2.81 yesterday, it's a bit more of a memory hog & the id3 tag editor has gone a bit crappy, but it's worth the upgrade for the plugins/skins.
• Total Commander - Formerly windows commander. great for previewing text/video/images/audio & a truely essential replacement for windows explorer.
• Getright - A godsend for dial up connections.
• Winrar - Unpacks most of the popular archive types out there & is great for packing zip & rar files. (plugs nicely into windows commander too)
• Nero/Clone cd/CDRwin/Daemon Tools - Can't decide which one is the most useful...

hostyle

• Nero / Daemon Tools / CDRwin - everything and its aunt for data backup and re-access
• PowerArchiver, for all your compression / uncompression needs (being able to unrar, but not rar is my only gripe)
• Phoenix, mozilla without the bloat
• ENCspot - don't accept anything less than 192 Kb/s LAME rips
• Activestate Perl, if other software isnt up to the job, write your own

s8n

- kazaa lite, no explanation needed

- winamp 2.8 (cos v.3 is just too clunky and hogs memory)

-windvd xp

-windows washer (best windows cleaning s/w out there at the mo)

- divx 5 codec

Mr E

1. Winamp 2.81 - No intro necessary
2. Download Mage - Best Download Manager available.
3. Mailwasher Pro 3.0 - Screen emails (remove spam, virii) at the server level.
4. Nero - Favourite CD Burning software
5. Realdraw, LView Pro, ColorSet, Examdiff Pro - Invaluable utils I use in work.

- Dave.

Jaden

1. Winamp - I mean, WTF uses anything else?
2. AVG 6.0. Gerrof you nasty viruses.
3. Irfan view. Free Image viewer/editor. I used to use a load others, including ADCSee and LView, but Irfanview rocks.
4. Openoffice 1.0.2. - You mean your still using Office 2000? LOL.
5. Winzip/Adobe/VNC - Needed for worky stuff.

zAbbo

In no real order, these are the apps i use most often

Mozilla Because its so much better

Macromedia Studio MX The best just got better, includes Dreamweaver etc.

Abit HW Doctor For Abit Motherboards

Nintendo 64 Emulator with NETPLAY

All Seeing Eye Scans Online Servers for Games, the best in the business

po0k

Putty
nero
Winamp
Opera
Winace/irfanview/BSPlayer

IronMan

Phoenix-The best version of Mozilla, some layout issues (eg this page!), but blistering fast.

Winamp 2.81 (Cause Winamp 3 is bloatware, thats why they are completely redesigning it this summer)

Kazaa Lite (For educational purposes!, and that genius of a tool, called KazaaSearch)

TextPad (NotePad on steroids, with a Find and replace feature that would make Bill Gates cry.)

mIRC (nuff said)

Polonious

Winamp
Nero/CloneCD
Popup Stopper
PC-Cilin
Winzip
Windows Media Player (9)

TacT

bsplayer - for those divx's with proper subtitle support (pet hate = dubbed films)
ad-muncher - I HATE POPUPS!
HLSW - for my half-life and mod needs
Isobuster - handier than anything if you don't want to extract an image file to hd and you haven't got any blank cd's around
Winrar - I'll never use winzip/winace again

PPC

• Powerarchiver - Great compression app
• Leechget - Download Manager ,much better than getright and freeware too. Also supports resumable downloads via h/ds and network
• IPSwitcher - Stores your ip configs for different networks and changes your settings in 2 clicks
• Winamp 2.9 - Winamp 2.81 with the media libary and radio/tv station finder
• NVDVD - Nvidia's dvd player, tis a little nicer than Power DVD

Ste-

Avg (cool freeware anti-virus)
Opera (cool browser)
Winamp 2.81 and 3 (because 2.81 will work on the oldest of pcs)
Realplayer (because nothing else will stream them .ram files)
Msn (Never a lonely night)

po0k

wget for windows is another handy app, along with Kazza lite 2.x

I would've said mirc, but putty allows me access to college server with most of the handy apps (bitchX, mutt, vim, nano, convert, pine, and hosting)

^whitey^

In no paticular order

-Winamp version 2.81

-Clone C.D and Clony XXL

-Kazaa Lite

-Adobe Photoshop 6.0

-Norton Antivirus 2002

Cabaal

- Pheonix Browser (latest Build)

- Winamp 2.8

- Kazaa Lite

- ACDSee (fastest image viewer I've ever seen

- Winrar (loads better then Winzip)

Trillian is also good but I cvan live without it tbh

GuanYin

Comic Chat

MS Paint

Word Pad

Pegaus Mail

Wordperfect

Cabaal

Originally posted by sykeirl
Comic Chat

MS Paint

Ain't it abit late for April fools

GuanYin

#sykeirl appears as Barry!!!

kaimera

AVG 6.0
MsN Messanger 5.0
NTI Cd maker delux
Eyeball chat
MS Office 2000

phaxx

Windows:

PuTTY - free telnet/SSH client for windows
MSN messenger 3.6 - because there's no damn way I'll use the recent versions
Opera 7 - excellent browser, using it with skins disabled. (the "windows" skin, actually, but same thing)
WebWasher - ad-filtering (and more) proxy server
Clipomatic - Enhanced clipboard - stores previous clipboard items, can be retrieved with ctrl-alt-v. Very useful for things like programming and site design.

Beardy:

irssi - IRC client, beats the pants off BitchX. Weee!
Samba - Used to access files on the server, no important data stored on the workstation. Windows profile stored on the server too, it's great.
vim - Just like marmite.
mutt - great email application, fast and simple.
wget - downloading with anything else is just painful.

Other things that deserve a mention are Windows Media player, (6.4 only, using anything else makes my eyes want to shrivel up and crawl away) VNC, HiddenMenu (Er, kinda like the start menu except it doesn't make my hair stand on end from frustration) and plenty others, too many to list.

Lemming

Win:

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PuTTY
WinSCP v2.0
WinAmp v2.8blah
Netscape 7
Nero


Linux:

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Pine
Samba
GCC
vi
Nagios & NTop
PHP

parasite

most of all of the above, plus admuncher
muy bueno

LoLth

AVG
Belarc Advisor (a pity they dont license it by itself)
Coffeecup Image map (useful now and then, when I do use it , it's a lifesaver)
Ad Aware 6 (have to register it sometime)
Notepad

Woden

Alcohol 120% (for most of my burning needs)
WMP 9 (yeah its not winamp but i like it)
iMesh (my p2p)
Mathcad (essential for college)
Opera 7 (cool browser)

honourable mention
Cloudmark (great spam protection for ms outlook)

carbsy

Goldenhawk CDRWin (Is there any other? :P )
mIRC
Lavasoft's Ad-aware
Exact Audio Copy (EAC)
Fruity Loops (w000t total genius :P )

Also worth a mention....

Daemon Tools (life saver)
WinISO (for tinkering with cd images before burning)

Bard

5's not enough...

Windows:
Browsers: IE6, Opera 7 and Mozilla 1.3
WinAmp 2.9
AtomixMP3
EditPad Pro
mIRC
Nero 5.5x
KaZaA Lite
WinZip

Mac OSX:
Browsers: IE5, Safari, Opera 7, Mozilla
Toast Titanium & iDVD
ircle 3.1 carbon
iTunes
Entourage
QuarkXPress
BBEdit Lite
RBrowserLite FTP
Limewire
Stuffit Expander