Your Favorite Applications

[jbkalla]

Some apps on my mac I couldn't live without:

1) PhotoshopCS2/ImageReadyCS2
2) Dreamweaver8
3) Quicken 2006
4) Firefox
5) MS Word/Excel 2004
6) Adobe Acrobat 7
7) iTunes
8 ) Reunion 8 (Genealogy application)
9) Toast 7 (CD/DVD burning app)
10) AdiumX (chat program)
11) Google Earth
12) iLife Suite 2006

Not necessarily in that order... :-)

What are your must-have applications?

[Ronald S. Jr.]

Photoshop CS2
Firefox
Microsoft Word
Limewire Pro
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
Google Earth

[Woolburr]

Firefox, Panda AV, PowerDesk Pro 6, MS Office 2003, Nero and PSP 10.

[Jaymz]

Photoshop CS2
Acdsee Pro
Trillian
Unreal Tournament
WoW
EQ
Visual Studio
Dreamweaver
Azureus
Xitami
Nero
Notepad
DSLR Remote Pro (on the laptop only)

[ArcticEOS]

Photoshop CS2
BF2
DVD shrink
Trillian
Crazy Browser
Various virus scan tools

[jbkalla]

ArcticEOS, I just looked up Crazy Browser! I'd never heard of it. What do you like about it?

[Ronald S. Jr.]

He apparently hasn't learned about Firefox. Looks like it's a tabbed browser.

[CyberDyneSystems]

PSCS (1)
Raw Shooter Premium
BreezeBrowser
ACDSee V4 (yep.. old timer)
FireFox
I-Tunes (gotta admit Apple has this whole Ipod thing locked!)
Regedit ;)
Mirror Folder
Nero
Xcopy32 /s/e/v

[tommykjensen]

Just to name a few.

PSCS 2
Ultra Edit
WS FTP Pro

[KirkM]

PSCS
Final Cut
Mac The Ripper
MPEG Streamclip
Toast Titanium
Popcorn
Handbrake
Quicktime Pro

[jbkalla]

PSCS
Final Cut
Mac The Ripper
MPEG Streamclip
Toast Titanium
Popcorn
Handbrake
Quicktime Pro

Oh, right! I should have mentioned Handbrake (DVD Ripper/Shrinker app) and Quicktime Pro, also! :-)

[Anthony J Howe]

Adobe Photoshop CS2 & bridge
Final cut pro 5
DVD studio pro 4
Aperture
Microsoft word & Excel
iTunes
Sonicfire Pro 4
Motion
MacTheRipper
QuickTime Pro.
Safari.

[Sledhed]

PSCS
Raw Shooter
Neat Image
Firefox
Thunderbird
Illustrator CS
InDesign
AutoCad

[ron chappel]

Have neatimage and never use it anymore.It makes everything look far too plastic.
Have CS and never use it.It's WAY too stupidly,idiotically complicated! I use my fully legal version of elements 2 instead ;)

About the only other thing that comes to mind is Irfanview,a very quick,high quality image viewer.It's free too with no adds or spyware!

[ArcticEOS]

ArcticEOS, I just looked up Crazy Browser! I'd never heard of it. What do you like about it?

Tabbed browser.... and I hate Firefox :)

[ArcticEOS]

He apparently hasn't learned about Firefox. Looks like it's a tabbed browser.

Sorry Ron, I dont like Firefox. You have to download tons of plugins just to see flash pages and java scripting. Let alone, any webpage made using Photoshop. Im not into that. :cool:

[jbkalla]

I like FF because I'm used to it and it's the same on UNIX, Mac and Windoze. It's nice to have continuity! :-)

I'd never heard of Crazy Browser. I might have to try it sometime...

[Jaymz]

Sorry Ron, I dont like Firefox. You have to download tons of plugins just to see flash pages and java scripting. Let alone, any webpage made using Photoshop. Im not into that. :cool:

I don't care for Firefox for the same reason. I tried many different browsers, I didn't like most of them. I ended up making my own.

[PacAce]

Some apps on my mac I couldn't live without:

1) PhotoshopCS2/ImageReadyCS2
2) Dreamweaver8
3) Quicken 2006
4) Firefox
5) MS Word/Excel 2004
6) Adobe Acrobat 7
7) iTunes
8 ) Reunion 8 (Genealogy application)
9) Toast 7 (CD/DVD burning app)
10) AdiumX (chat program)
11) Google Earth
12) iLife Suite 2006

Not necessarily in that order... :-)

What are your must-have applications?
So, what are you using to back up your hard drives? You do back up your drives, don't you? :)

[PacAce]

Sorry Ron, I dont like Firefox. You have to download tons of plugins just to see flash pages and java scripting. Let alone, any webpage made using Photoshop. Im not into that. :cool:
Hmmm, I must have obviously missed something because I use FF all the time but I don't remember installing any kind of plugins outside of the initial install I did of FF (this is on the Mac; I do know that my FF on the work PC won't allow me to play flash files--can't even install the plugin for it). :confused:

[jbkalla]

So, what are you using to back up your hard drives? You do back up your drives, don't you? :)

Unfortunately, very rarely! I subscribe to the "Yeah it's a good idea, but what are the odds of it happening to me?" train of thought.

Of course, while using Windoze, I've formatted the hard drive for a new OS and forgotten to get everything backed-up first! :oops:

A few months ago I backed up all my photos onto dual-layer DVDs, but since then I've taken a bunch of photos I really wouldn't like to lose. I guess I really need to do that more often, at least!

I have Retrospect 6, and have had the program since 1998 or so, but I've never gotten it to work correctly. Not sure why I keep buying it! I'm not sure if the problem is operator error or the media I've tried to use...

[PacAce]

Unfortunately, very rarely! I subscribe to the "Yeah it's a good idea, but what are the odds of it happening to me?" train of thought.

Of course, while using Windoze, I've formatted the hard drive for a new OS and forgotten to get everything backed-up first! :oops:

A few months ago I backed up all my photos onto dual-layer DVDs, but since then I've taken a bunch of photos I really wouldn't like to lose. I guess I really need to do that more often, at least!

I have Retrospect 6, and have had the program since 1998 or so, but I've never gotten it to work correctly. Not sure why I keep buying it! I'm not sure if the problem is operator error or the media I've tried to use...
I use SuperDuper! to create a bootable copy of my system drive on one of my external drives which has been partitioned into 3 logical drives so that I can have a bootable backup of my iBook system drive and two copies of my PowerMac system drive. I also have backup copies of my other hard drives.

I've already experienced a problem after installing an update to 10.4.? where I couldn't get the system to boot up. Fortunately, I had a good bootable backup on an external drive so I was able to recovery the system pretty easily. (Turned out that one of the aftermarket disk utility software that came with my harddrive enclosure for monitoring disk performance was screwing up my system. Needless to say, that software is no longer on my system.) Now, I always backup my system drive before installing any kind of updates to it.

[jbkalla]

Actually, I had forgotten that I used SuperDuper when I changed my main hard drive from an 80GB to a 200GB. It worked flawlessly! I should get another large hard drive and dupe at least the stuff I can't stand to lose...

I've never had a problem updating the OS, though I've heard of it happening...

[thomascanty]

ACDSee V4 (yep.. old timer)

The best version they released before it got all bloated!

My list, in no particular order:

Firefox (still running 1.0.7 on this computer)
Photoshop CS2 (I have Bridge running a lot more than PS!)
BreezeBrowser Pro
Downloader Pro
ACDSee (version 8, but I still have v4 on the laptop)
K-Meleon (I have several browsers on this computer)
Eudora
Mailwasher
Excel
TextPad
JAlbum
MSN Messenger
NetDrive
SmartFTP

[Michaelmjc]

Various virus scan tools

Thats one of your favourite apps? poor guy, you need a mac, no viruses to worry about.

Mine would be,
iLife suite
Dreamweaver suite
Photoshop CS2

[Citizensmith]

Mine are,
For work
Lotus Notes (work email account)
MS Office 2003
Adobe Acrobat 7 Pro
Macromedia Studio 8 Pro (plus Coldfusion Developer)
Trimble Pathfinder Office
Photoshop (7 at work, CS2 at home)

For Internet
Firefox 2 or IE 7
Thunderbird (personal email accounts)
Smart FTP

Other stuff
WMP 10 (as I didn't get suckered into an overpriced Ipod, my player is cheaper, smaller, and has a radio built in :) )
Nero (for burnin' stuff)
allTunes (for getting music)

And a crap load of games and such. They aren't exactly vital though.

[Big WIll]

1) PhotoshopCS2
2) Dreamweaver 8
3) Fingerprint Scanner Software! (annoying microsoft one)
4) Internet Explorer because the above doesnt work with firefox!
5) Windows Media Player 11
6) McAfee
7) AdAware

[jbkalla]

I thought I'd post my favorite PC antivirus and anti-adware/spyware apps:

1) Lavasoft AdAware SE (http://www.download.com/Ad-Aware-SE-Personal-Edition/3000-8022_4-10045910.html?part=dl-ad-aware&subj=dl&tag=top5) (free)
2) Spybot Search & Destroy (http://www.safer-networking.org/en/mirrors/index.html) (free)
3) AVG AntiVirus: Free Edition (http://free.grisoft.com/doc/2/lng/us/tpl/v5) (free!)
4) ZoneAlarm Free (http://www.zonelabs.com/store/content/company/products/znalm/freeDownload.jsp) Firewall (free)

AVG in particular is good! Works better than McAfee and Norton, and it's free! Plus, it doesn't cause problems like the other two seem to quite often. (at least, I never had any problems with it)

[Michaelmjc]

I sure dont miss all those virus scanners, spyware scanners, firewalls, etc... They are a pain in the ass! But I have to admit, ZoneAlarm did work great when I had it.

[rklepper]

PSCS2
Respondus
Impatica
Camtasia
Backup Exec
Statistix
Mathcad
Diskeeper Server Standard
I Tunes

[blonde]

PSCS2
Iview media pro 3
itunes
toast
popcorn
macjanitor
ms word
transmission
firefox
vlc
deskshade (hides all files on your desktop)

i think thats about it...

[Citizensmith]

deskshade (hides all files on your desktop)

You actually have an application to hide files on your desktop? I just tell my desktop to display as a webpage and then not select a web page and they all disappear. Does deskshade do something beyond hiding stuff?

[blonde]

i hate when my entire desktop is cluttered with tones of files and icons so deskshade hides them by pressing the F6 button and brings them all back by pressing the F6 again..

[blonde]

oh and i can also use it to lock my computer which i never do...

[Citizensmith]

i hate when my entire desktop is cluttered with tones of files and icons so deskshade hides them by pressing the F6 button and brings them all back by pressing the F6 again..

So basically it does the same thing, just with better efficiency, cool, thanks

[thomascanty]

You actually have an application to hide files on your desktop? I just tell my desktop to display as a webpage and then not select a web page and they all disappear.

Judging from his list of applications, he's using a Mac. You're describing an option on a PC. The Mac may not have that.

[~sharon~]

Photoshop CS2
AdAware
Avg
Nortans
PSP 8
Nero
Msn

[Michaelmjc]

Command + H on a mac hides the program currently open, I find fast user switching very convenient. I have my one desktop with all my crap and mess on it, then just switch to other, and its gone! :)

[ssim]

I've only seen Breezebrowser mentioned twice in this thread. It along with downloader pro,are absolute must haves.

Photoshop CS2
Adobe Acrobat
Total Commander

The normals gamut of anti-virus and spam blockers.

[jbkalla]

Photoshop CS2
AdAware
Avg
Nortans
PSP 8
Nero
Msn

Sharon, if I haven't said it before, welcome to POTN! :-)

[PuR HART]

PS CS2
Probabaly not considered proggies but love the Total training videos and Lynda.com's
Spybot
adaware
anydvd
dvd Decrypt
DVD copy
Nero 7
AVG
Flash FXP
trojan hunter
who needs a firewall proggie when you are behind a Linux machine

[rklepper]

How do you run all those apps on a Linux box?





PS CS2
Probabaly not considered proggies but love the Total training videos and Lynda.com's
Spybot
adaware
anydvd
dvd Decrypt
DVD copy
Nero 7
AVG
Flash FXP
trojan hunter
who needs a firewall proggie when you are behind a Linux machine

[JCR]

He likely means he uses a linux machine to protect his network, something along the lines of this, http://www.smoothwall.org/
Just as a passing point, I have run PS in linux in the past, through vmware/NT4 on an SMP (dual processor) machines, plenty fast at the time. The multiple desktops in linux are useful and fast, unlike the windows attempts I have seen.

My favourite programs, none. Just the right tool for the right job.
Most fun programs, have to be RomeTW and Battlefield II, I'm a sucker for a game, do they count? ;)

[Mark_Cohran]

Photoshop CS2/Bridge
Quicken 2006 (personal finances)
Quickbook Pro (for business finances, invoicing, etc.)
iView Media Pro (for cataloging files)
Toast Titanium (for burning archives/catalogs to DVD)
Final Cut Pro
iTunes
Safari
Soho Notes
Dreamweaver MX

and a bunch more.

Mark

[Calzinger]

3D Studio Max 8 + VRay Adv 1.47.02 Renderer (3D Rendering)
Adobe Premiere Pro 1.5 (Video Editing)
Adobe Audition 2.0 (Audio Editing)
Macromedia Flash Studio 8 (Flash)
Zend Development Environment (PHP Editing)
Opera 9.0 (Web Browsing)
Nero 7 (DVD/CD Burning)
Winamp (Music)
+ other ridiculousness