Must have software
 

Is there software that you find you can not live without? I just reloaded Vista (and it still has issues, btw), and I found there is some software that will make the reload list.

I am sure we have done this before, but why not a revisit.

Please list the software, what it does, and if possible a link.

ACDSee (Picture viewing, editing and organization software)
www.acdsee.com

TreeSize Pro (Shows you where your hard drive space is being used).
www.jam-software.com

WinRar (compression/decompression) software
www.winrar.de

I look forward to your listings.

t.

Probably not the list you're looking for....

SUN Studio 12: Development software
http://developers.sun.com/sunstudio/downloads/index.jsp

Adobe PhotoShop CS2: Best graphics software EVER
www.adobe.com

MS Visual Studio 2005 Professional: Development IDE

unRAR (basically winrar for UNIX)

MPlayer: Open source movie player

Azereus: BitTorrent Client

...there's probably more...

PrimoPDF- lets you PDF anything you want to without complication.

CS3 is better. A lot of much needed finer control than CS2 allows.

As an administrator I've got pretty generic requirements for my machines

Putty

Cisco VPN

vim/notepad++

Firefox

AutoCAD, photoshop, Firefox, +1 for ACDSee - awesome previewer.

Oh, and Linux. Or Mac OSX. :)

Avast, Winpatrol, AVG anti-spyware, Firefox, Thunderbird, Belarc advisor and Driver Magician will keep you pretty much bullet proof.

If I were stuck on a deserted island and had the choice of bringing with me only two tools, they would be:

1. A satellite phone
2. Microsoft Excel.

I use Excel every single day to keep track of what needs to get done, as well as chart progress, user requests, trending - I even keep my track days ordered in a spreadsheet!

Lots of folks love Excel for the pretty charts and graphs - I don't need it for that -- it's the numbers that matter. Remember in the Matrix - that guy on the ship looking at all the numbers? I suppose that's how I see the world... :eek:

-Z-man.

DVDFab Platinum for copying DVD's from Netflix.

EAC and LAME for ripping cd's into high quality mp3's

Limewire for the occasional song when making compilations for the kids.

Nero 8 Ultra for many projects

Blink
Protowall
Spider/spiderbite
MS Office suite
iTunes

Google Desktop: finds lost stuff on your computer.

Isn't it also borderline spyware?

No one could find me, or my computer, interesting. Spy away. I can hear someone at Google yawning right now.

Office
Firefox -- with IETab extension
Sygate Personal Firewall
Windows Defender (or whatever their new spyware software is called)
Photoshop
notepad
divx codec

There are several other bits that I have, but they aren't must haves, they are just very convenient.

At work my must haves are different

SecureCRT -- numero uno telnet/serial/ssh app, much better than putty (but not free)

firefox -- with IETab extension

Pidjin -- great free IM software that works on most IM networks

Remote Desktop

notepad

wireshark

I can't believe you all run without anti-virus and firewalls

Here it's installed automatically, and have the same version installed at home, symantec corporate. PIX firewall here at work, at home it's a linksys router/firewall

The following free stuff -

OpenOffice instead of MS Office
AVG Anti Virus instead of Norton
7-zip instead of WinZip

link?

I agree with you on SecureCrt. As a former Cisco admin this was one of my daily tools.

My wife works at Symantec, so we run all their stuff. (And that's not always good!) As a former Veritas guy I am loyal to their backup and StorageFoundation stuff.

I run Ubuntu for the home file server, but Vista for the gaming machine (only for DirectX 10).

I am also a fan of Camino (browser for the Mac).

What is spider/spiderbite?