Hi all,

Doing a bit of wondering (can't sleep)
What applications do you all use on a regular basis? Any special or exceedingly useful apps you use from time to time?

My frequently used apps include (in no particular order):
Firefox
Gnome-Terminal
Thunderbird
Pidgin
Apple Mail
Camino
Apple Terminal
Adium
iTunes
Skype

Plus a few gems which help out from time to time:
Cyberduck (FTP)
MS Remote Desktop
VirtualBox
TextMate
MacTheRipper
Handbrake
OnyX
OpenOffice
Time Machine

*cracks knuckled*

regular use [once a week or more] in no real order:

explorer
photoshop
maya
3ds max
vuze
winamp
word
excel
firefox
windows live mail
windows live messenger
cmd
virtualbox
7zip
Unreal Editor
vlc
adobe reader
dreamweaver

nautilus
gnome terminal
synaptic
gedit
filezilla


not so often:

CCleaner
Defraggler
Internet Explorer
Safari
iTunes
Windows Media Player
Media Centre

Many of the ones already said, plus:

• PSpad - the best text editor I've found so far. I did use TextPad but I'm too tight to pay for it, and PSpad is very similar.
• WinRAR - I really should pay for it, because it just wins. 7zip is an excellent free alternative, but it doesn't do the fancy stuff.
• Foxit - because Adobe Acrobat is just too damned fat.
• MS Backup - I have previously used WinRAR, SynchToy, Offline Folders and XCOPY, but I'm using Backup. It's scheduled for, err, right this second which is why I thought of it. It's very fast. It just took 6 seconds to backup my 500GB drive. Obviously I've not done any work this week!
• Acronis - mostly because it comes free pretty much every month on the PCpro cover disk! It works very well. I image my machines when I think it's a good time. I need to do my netbook tomorrow for example, before I load XP SP3. I always do it before major changes which could potentially go wrong.
• MS Paint - It used to be rubbish, but these days it does the job I need most often: Crop and save as PNG.
• uTorrent - It's just perfect. I seriously can't think of any way it could possibly be improved. It's light, fast, controllable, customisable - it just does everything a BitTorrent client should do.
• VirtualDub - This program is seriously old, but it still does the job within certain limits. It's light and intuitive, and free. I don't use video very often, but usually all I want to do is chop some bits out, crop, resize, rarely adjust a few things, maybe remove a logo and then encode it to DivX. Sometimes I need to add stills, or make an animated GIF. VD lets me do that in seconds.
• Hamachi - Not used often, but there are some times where nothing else will work. It's easy and reliable. As long as you're only Nazi firewalled at one end, you can set it to any port and break through. An SPI firewall could still block it, but I've never seen one IRL that actually does. It's the easiest way to blast a massive hole in your office security.
• FileZilla - the best free FTP server I've found. Does everything I need, and it's not a hog.
• RealAlternative - Because some people make nice videos in a stupid format.
• RealVNC - because you need it and it works.
• NetDrive - a free ap that maps FTP folders to a Windows drive letter. Lets me schedule simple Xcopy on-line backups for critical things, and it's just handy. There are other ways, but it's simple and easy.

My personal choice for everyday things:

• Windows Live - Mail and MSN. It works with Hotmail, it automatically backs stuff up, the calender is great, I love the automatic contact updates and I love MSN.
• Thunderbird - I use this on most of my PCs, because I do prefer it to Mail and it's the obvious choice on Linux. The Hotmail plugin keeps breaking though, so it's not on my main Windows machine.
• Aunty Vera - it scored higher than most paid-for aunty virus applications, and the price was right. I've had no problems with it.
• FireFox - I'm not a huge fan of the application, but I love the plug-ins. I simply do not enjoy browsing so much without my tool right there in my hand.
• Winamp - It's a little bloaty these days, but it has the best skins and plugins, and generally just works.
• MediaPlayerClassic - It's light, and better than VLC with regards to rendering quality and subtitle handling.
• Gimp - I absolutely detest this program. It does everything I need and it's free, but I really wish I could afford Photoshop. Everything takes me 5x longer in Gimp, because I can never find anything. It's mostly down to lack of use, but I've actually used it way more than Photoshop and yet that just seems "right".
• Open Office - I hate this too. MS Office is definately better if you need a powerful spreadsheet, or most frustratingly "Office Compatibility". However, it's free and it usually does the job.

Firefox
Thunderbird
Google Earth
Windows Explorer
Word
Excel
Photo Editor
Paint
Ace FTP
Kaspersky Security
iTunes
Windows Media Player
+others that I use less regularly.

At work:

Firefox - because IE is crap, Chrome doesn't save proxy passwords, Opera doesn't work with the Helpdesk software we have an I haven't been bothered to try Safari.

OpenEdge Architect - Progress development suite based on Eclipse. Sadly it does feel like beta software even though it's onto version 2 SP1.

Visual Source Safe - Microsoft's version control software.

Outlook - email

G42 - the in-house software that I help develop.

Reflections - a telnet client for connecting to the text based gui we are trying to move away from.

TextPad - text editor (JJ, is PSPad better than TextPad?)

That's about it at work apart from the odd word and excel document I use.

At home:

Safari - Beta version.

iPhoto - because I haven't spent the money on Aperture yet.

Transmission - P2P client.

iTunes - nuff said.

Zattoo - live streaming TV.

Mail - for email

Eclipse and XCode - for learning new programming languages.

VLC - for watching videos.

Then Pages and Numbers when I need to do stuff.

In any given week I will almost certainly use the following:

Firefox
IE7 (work)
MS Excel 2007
MS Work 2007
MS Outlook 2007
Coda
Pixelmator
iTunes
Adium
Preview
Pages
Numbers
TextEdit
Mail
Minesweeper
iCal

I think that's pretty much it.

Regularly

Internet Explorer 8
Mailwasher Pro
Zone Alarm Internet Security
Spyware Blaster
Spybot S&D
Word 2003
Excel 2003
Corel Photo Paint 11
ACDSee 32
Winamp
CDex
PowerDVD 8 Ultra
Reason 4
Cubase SX3
Native Instruments FM8, Pro-53, Absynth 3
Arturia MiniMoog V, Moog Modular V, CS-80V, ARP2600V
Korg Legacy Collection, Legacy Collection Digital (M1, Wavestation, MS-20, Polysix)

This may take a while

Outlook
Word
Excel
Powerpoint
Access
MS Project
Visio
Sharepoint
Defacto
Red dot
Opentext
IE
FF
FF portable
Chrome
MailWasher
Photoshop
Paintshop Pro
Expressions
Sharepoint Designer
Dreamweaver
Oracle
SQL Server
ORS
Ad-Aware
SpyBot search and destroy
cure ftp
Filezilla
Bugzilla
Winamp
Skype
MSN messenger
Process explorer
Norton AV, Firewall etc
Belarc advisor
WinHT Track
Xenu
Servers alive
7-Zip
Weblog expert
Notepad++
VLC
Virtual PC
Nero
Audiograbber
SiSoftSandra
TCPView
Computer-Repair-Utility-Kit-V2
TenKey
Sound Forge

Mmmmmmm Probably forgotten a few ( dozen ) but its the main ones I guess

Outlook 2007
Word 2007
Excel 2007
Powerpoint 2007
Visio 2007
Entourage 2004
Word 2004
Excel 2004
PowerPoint 2004
Outlook 2003
Word 2003
Excel 2003
Powerpoint 2003
Visio 2003
OpenOffice 2.1
Thunderbird 2.0.0.21
Firefox 3.0.10
Opera 10
Safari 4
Chrome
Internet Explorer 6, 7, 8
Lynx
Apple Mail
Apple Contacts
Apple iCal
Trillian
Skype
Pageant
PuTTY
FileZilla
Eclipse
Visual Studio 2008 C#
iTunes
Windows Media Center
Notepad++
TextPad
Adium
Apache 2
MySql 5.1
MySql Query Browser
MySql Administrator
PHP 5.2
Adobe CS3 Acrobat
Adobe CS3 DreamWeaver
Adobe CS3 Flash Professional
Adobe CS3 Fireworks
Adobe Acrobat Reader
Apple Preview
Kaspersky Internet Security Suite 2009
7-Zip
VLC
VMWare Fusion
VirtualPC
VirtualBox
JKDefrag
SVN
Tortoise SVN
Xcode
Gimp

It will change a lot in July, when I change jobs. A lot of the open source dev tools go away and I'll be using SharePoint, Microsoft Great Plains Navision, SQL Server, Exchange Server and the like.

Freeway - for web site designing
BBEdit - for editing plain text and writing Freeway Actions
Pages - for letters and more complex word processed documents
Numbers - for occasional spread sheet duties
NaviCat - for editing and administering MySQL databases - because PHPMyAdmin just doesn’t cut it - it}s too painful to admin a website through a browser
Photoshop
Illustrator
InDesign
Acrobat
Parallels - to run Windows on my Mac - only for Internet Explorer
Safari
Firefox
iTunes
Tweetie
Mail (for email)
NetNewsWire (for RSS reading)
Aperture (pro photo organising and cataloguing)

Mmm, what fun - lists of applications!

Let's see...

Mail
Safari
NetNewsWire
iTunes
iCal
iChat
Address Book
Stickies
Dictionary
Preview
Nisus Writer Express
Freeway
InDesign
Photoshop
Illustrator
Acrobat Pro (hack, spit)
Freehand (yes, you all thought it was dead and gone)
Painter
VueScan
Aperture
iPhoto
Coda (yes, I know I'm codeaphobic, but there comes a time...)
Transmit
Firefox
Camino
Linotype Font Explorer
Calculator
Audacity
iPlayer Downloader
Final Cut Express
Garageband
iDVD

And they're just the ones I use the most.

Firefox
Lotus Notes
MS Office 2003 (PC)
MS Office 2004 (Mac)
MS Office 2008 (Mac)
Remedy
iTunes
Adium
MSN Messenger
iPhoto
iCal
Address book
Apple Remote Desktop
Dameware
Cyberduck
Filezilla
iChat
Safari
Remote Desktop Connection
Preview
Avaya Site Administration
Blackberry software
Photoshop

Firefox
TweetDeck
Terminal
BOINC
Evolution (Mail client)
OpenOffice
VLC Media Player
Pidgin
Amarok
K3b

Firefox 3

Foobar with plugins, (secret rabbit and kernal streaming)

Outlook 2007 SP2

Photoshop CS4 Extended

Adobe Reader

Dreamweaver CS4

VLC

WMP 11

Photo Mechanic 4.5 (Words cannot describe how awesome this prog is use as a photo 'album and sorter' over an actual editor.

Microsoft Expression Web

Flac Frontend

POD Farm

WISE FTP5

Gearbox

TMPGEnc 4.0

Microsoft Map-point

NoteTab Pro

ImgBurn

Seamonkey

Hmmmm. This will very much be a work in progress:

• Safari
• SSH
• Versions
• Preview
• Coda
• Textmate
• Photoshop CS3
• Twiterrific
• Mail.app
• NetNewsWire
• iCal
• Adium
• Pidgin
• iTunes
• Skype
• Omnigraffle

Edd