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?

Firewall in my router.

Anti-Virus is bloat-ware crap. I have never run anit-virus longer than two days and I've never had a virus. Just be careful what you open and don't use file sharing programs. If I really need something bad, I hop on IRC and get a secure FTP transfer from people NOT in a channel where "warez" is part of the name.

That said;

GIMP
Firefox
Audacity
PuTTy
FileZilla
Winamp Pro

Pretty standard stuff for an old Interweb warrior.

deceptively simple but true. I also have never had a problem with virsuses by following the same basic rules

emacs!

Windows XP
Explorer
MS Office

photoshop is the do it all graphics program. have to know my way around avid and maya for work. bt never touch them unless a directors making me.

anybody have a copy of windows 2000, or 98 they'd be willing to part with? i live in an entirely mac environment. but need a PC operating system if i'm ever going to install the power commander on my bike.

MS Outlook
MS Office Word
MS Excel
Adobe Photoshop CS
Adobe Reader
Macromedia Dreamweaver
FTP Voyager
Kinnexus 3.2 - Realtor Software
Roxio Videowave 7 - DVD Builder
Norton
Spybot
Various software for some of my hardware (Scanner, Printer, Camera, Phone)

besides MS Office Apps and the usual Firefox, etc.
....

ArcInfo, ArcView, etc. - GIS software
Campbell - datalogger software
Systat or other - statistics software

those are the really essential things

Way too much of my computer and my time is spent maintianing and protecting said computer.

I used to run the hp BASIC software - which was absolutely amazing for a programming language and environment, but I "graduated" to not doing so much hands on research.

other than what installs with OS X:

Final Cut Pro
Aperture (v2 just came out)
Logic 8
Transmit (ftp)
Photoshop CS3
Flip4Mac
Adium (multi chat client)
Handbrake
Tubesock
TextWrangler

nostatic,

I am curious, why do you use both Aperature and Photoshop CS3? Do you use each of them for different things?

t.

Bloatware? You must only receive email from really smart people as well. Avast is worth it's weight in gold. The only time I ever know it's there is when it notifies me that it updated or in the rare cases where it finds something.

This can't be possible. We're told here all the time that there's nothing a pc can do that a mac can't do, and do it better.