Software you can't live without

[MrBlank]

Hi all,

Just a list of programs that you use day to day.

Chrome - I'll say now that I'm a heavy Google user and so Chrome nicely integrates with everything I do especially the syncing. Pinned tabs include Facebook, Gmail and YouTube.

Skype - Friends migrated from windows live messenger to Skype years ago, used to have daily calls going constantly and we would come and go.

Steam - Unfortunately with games this cheap I have three times as many games in my library that I don't play versus the ones I do.

Notepad++ - Excellent text editor. Apart from general use I will write scripts and what not with this.

7zip - Excellent compression and archiving tool.

Microsoft Office - Word / Excel

Origin - Only for Battlefield 3.

Putty - Mainly just so I can submit Uni assignments from home. Also used to access minecraft server at uni =D.

ImgBurn and MagicDisc

VLC

GIMP 2

CCleaner - Honestly just use it for managing start-up applications and uninstalling programs.

Defraggler - Not so much these days since my main drive is now an SSD but still have plenty of HDDs.

Core Temp and gadgets from addgadgets.com including cpu, gpu, network and drives meters

​Picasa 3 - Use it as the default image viewer.

Eclipse - Most uni assignments have been using Java.

I think that covers most of the programs that I use regularly. I would be interested in what programs that you all use often and in particular the alternatives to the ones I'm using

[Helltech]

7ZIP

Photoshop

Audition

Vegas

Skype

Chrome

Auslogic's Disk Defrag

Avast

CCLeaner

Media Player Classic

MagicISO

Office (well I could switch to OpenOffice, I guess)

[MrBlank]

7ZIP

Photoshop

Audition

Vegas

Skype

Chrome

Auslogic's Disk Defrag

Avast

CCLeaner

Media Player Classic

MagicISO

Office (well I could switch to OpenOffice, I guess)

Yeah I've tried and used OpenOffice many times but I just can't stand it. Although I have been increasingly using Google Docs for group collaboration but the final document still ends up being transferred to Office for final formatting.

[Guest]

Windows

Chrome

Skype

CCCleaner

MagicDisk

VLC

Notepad ++

Handbreak

Teamviewer

Dropbox

Mac

Alfred

Skype

VLC

IStatMenus

CleanMyMac

Hotspot Shield

TeamViewer

Logic Pro

Dropbox

:)

[kpsl808mg]

winrar/ 7zip

jane

vlc

foobar2000

real temp

cpuz / gpuz

3dmark / heaven

nitro

irfanview

FF

Thunderbird

IRC

Trilian

audacity

super

steam (nowadays)

[JoshgameWasTaken]

I wouldn't say these are one's I can't live without but I use them on a regular basis and in no particular order...

Google Chrome

Songbird (would be MusicBee if I could get to work properly with my sound card)

Photoshop CS6

VLC Media Player

CCleaner

CDburnerXP

TeamViewer

Steam

Skype

Unified Remote

Virtual CloneDrive

PeaZip

[xkronusx]

Chrome

Vlc media player

Mumble or vent

gtalk

wmp

malwarebytes (only for scanning individual files)

winrar

ccleaner

basically a lot of whats already been said lol

[Helltech]

I'm suprised at the amount of people that use VLC > MPC. I have used both for so long, and can say everything about MPC is so much better.

[GunGriffin]

Mozilla Firefox

VLC Media Player

Autodesk 3DS Max

Adobe Photoshop

Adobe Premier

Adobe AfterEffects

Steam

Actual Multiple Monitors

CCleaner

Defragler (Before I got an SSD)

InfranView

DropBox

Kaspersky Internet Security

Bandicam

[Brnton]

Chrome

Itunes

Steam

Avast

As long as i have them installed im fine.

[lutzee]

Chrome,

putty & filezilla(the kind of go hand in hand),

outlook,

hexchat(IRC client for those who dont use it),

teamspeak,

foobar2000,

notepad++(all uses, including programming),

git of some form,

dropbox,

VLC,

winrar

This is if i had to give up as many programs as possible.

[crocski]

OPERA

utorrent

winrar

itunes

Photoshop

[MrBlank]

I'm suprised at the amount of people that use VLC > MPC. I have used both for so long, and can say everything about MPC is so much better.

VLC is more widely known? I will check out MPC thanks.

[MrBlank]

Mozilla Firefox

VLC Media Player

Autodesk 3DS Max

Adobe Photoshop

Adobe Premier

Adobe AfterEffects

Steam

Actual Multiple Monitors

CCleaner

Defragler (Before I got an SSD)

InfranView

DropBox

Kaspersky Internet Security

Bandicam

Actual Multiple Monitors looks interesting as well as their other products, thanks.

[Helltech]

I'm suprised at the amount of people that use VLC > MPC. I have used both for so long, and can say everything about MPC is so much better.

VLC is more widely known? I will check out MPC thanks.

​Yeah you should try it out, its got a very similar layout. I know Linus uses it.

[Jozi]

Winrar

VLC

Real temp

Cpuz / gpuz

3dmark / furmark

Mirc

Mumble

Firefox / chrome

utorrent

Notepad

Avast

CCleaner / Defragler

Paint

Poweriso

Stereoscopic Player

Steam

Afterburner

[Oisin Maguire]

LaTEX

MathLAB

MathCAD

Tina

:-)

[EChondo]

Chrome

Steam

Format Factory(such a beautiful format converting program, videos, pictures, audio)

VLC

Paint/GIMP

Then I need the occasional MSI Afterburner, Real Temp/Core Temp, Prime95 for testing.

[Wats]

Java

uTorrent

WinRAR

AIDA64

Chrome

[Ghost]

I will try to be as original as possible

DreamScape

MSI AfterBurner

(drivers ofc)

Dropbox

Advanced System Care

Rainmeter

[s0nrise]

Windows:

Chrome

Steam

TeamSpeak,

mIRC

Spotify

Netbeans

Fraps

Putty

PowerISO

and now Start8

[Borek]

I'm surprised no one mentioned Daemon Tools yet. What software are you guys using to mount your ISOs?

[lutzee]

I use Magic Disc much more lightweight, i guess i overlooked that

[Dim]

Chrome.

That's pretty much it; I don't do heavy gaming anymore, I don't have a job, and university hasn't started.

At the moment, the only two programs open are Chrome and my Antivirus (Avira).

[Emkryan]

Steam

Auslogics Disk Defrag

CCleaner

Prime95

CPU-Z

MSI Afterburner

Chrome

Any media player