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Computer Software What kind of programs do you use on your computer?

#1   Split Infinity 

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    Posted 25 September 2006 - 07:42 AM

    I'm not the one to get into anything serious, I just like to experiment with the tools I've got.

    Paint Shop Pro 7: Super old imagery program. Better than Paint, it gets the job done.

    Microsoft GIF Animator: Hard to use, but free. Makes animated GIFs obviously.

    Flash Capture: Easily download .swf files and run them in a browser. Also free.

    Spybot - Search And Destroy: Hasta La Vista, spyware.

    AVG Free Edition: Updates daily and keeps those pesky viruses at bay.

    ZoneAlarm: Stops inbound/outbound signals and lets you decide their fate. Effective firewall.

    Windows Media Player: Standard media player. I like to customise it with skins sometimes.

    WinZip: For all your compression and decompressionilisational needs.

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      Posted 25 September 2006 - 09:50 AM

      Mozilla Firefox - Most important. Has ChatZilla and DownThemAll extentions, though they're hardly used.
      Flash Develop - Experimenting with Action Script and stuff like that.
      FlashGet - Supposedly makes downloads faster. I doubt it.
      RPG Maker 2003 - Just for seeing how my ideas come together before actually coded.
      Blender - 3D Rendering thingy! Woot!
      GIMP 2 - An art program.
      Paint.NET - An art program
      MS Paint - My favourite spriting utility. All effects are done by hand.
      Microsoft GIF Animator - Very vertasile Gif Animator. Easy to use and has the basics.
      Giffy - Converts Gifs to Bitmaps and Bitmaps to Gifs without fuss. Comes with interlacing and transparencies.
      Irfanview - Fixes up the Quality of images, also a converter.
      WindowBlinds - Skinning made easy.
      Limewire - How else do I get my songs? ;_;
      Windows Movie Maker - Built in movie-maker. Occupies my time making small movies/trailers.
      Fraps - Records on-screen stuff. Gonna be useful for game trailers.
      Windows Media Player - Basic music player.
      WinAmp - Music player.
      Google Earth - Hey! I can see my house from here!
      Windows Live Messenger - *insert MSN message noise*
      Simple CSS - CSS development tool.
      WS_FTP - Basic FTP client. Useful. May get a new one later.

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        Posted 25 September 2006 - 06:34 PM

        Microsoft Notepad: The core of a web developers artilery.

        Internet Explorer 6: Yes, you explore the internet in this.

        Photo Studio 5: An image editing program. It has the tools that I can't find in PS: CS2. :P

        Photo Shop CS2 (trial version): Yes, I finally got it. It has all the tools of the real thing, but it's free, and you can use it forever if you know what you're doing. ;D

        Adobe Image Ready: Has a few tools that Photo Shop doesn't have, and you can transfer images between the two without saving anything.

        MS Paint: Used to make basic skins.

        MS Calculator: Used to calculate things, like resizing pictures to scale.

        GS Password Generator: You all know what it's for. I hardly use it anymore though.

        Zone Alarm Pro: Basic Firewall, works really well.

        Norton System Works: Great Firewall (prevented 3/3 hackings so far) and great virus protection (trojans ain't a problem).

        iTunes: Use it ocasionally, you know what it's for.

        Google Earth: Yes, it's the earth, and yes you can spy on people with it.

        Windows Media Player: For all those trailers I missed at E3. ;_;

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          Posted 25 September 2006 - 07:44 PM

          Oh boy, let's see:

          Mozilla Firefox/Opera: Web browsing and web development

          Mozilla Thunderbird: Email

          MSN Messenger/Skype: Communication

          Adobe Creative Studio + Macromedia Studio: Graphic Design, Flash Design, Web Design, etc.

          VMWare Workstation: Application Design & Testing

          NOD32: Antivirus

          Spybot/Ad-Aware/Spy Sweeper: Anti-crap software

          Flash Develop/Netbeans/Eclipse: Software/Application Design

          CuteFTP: FTP

          UltraEdit: General purpose text and binary file editing

          Autodesk Inventor: 3d engineering modeling (robotics)

          Office 2007 (Beta 2 TR): Productivity tools (Word, Excel, Powerpoint)

          That covers most of my usual programs.

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            Posted 27 September 2006 - 09:48 AM

            My list of applications, which isn't very long.

            iTunes: Syncing music to my iPod, music player

            Last.fm: 'Scrobbling' my music to www.last.fm

            Internet Explorer: Internet Browser, hoping to switch to Firefox soon.

            Limewire: Downloading Music.

            Microsoft Office 2003: Productivity Software (Word, Excel, Powerpoint)

            Ifranview: Viewing pictures, offers basic editing features.

            Microsoft Paint: Extremely basic avatar creator, hoping to get Photoshop Elements soon.

            Zonealarm: Basic firewall to protect my PC.

            That's all, I guess the list is pretty long. I could use them all that once if I want.....

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              Posted 29 September 2006 - 02:21 AM

              Windows XP Pro: Operating system. But miles away from Mac OS X.
              iTunes: Music. Great program. 39 days of music. 60 GB.
              Windows Media Player: All videos.
              Windows Live Messenger: Communication and such.
              Zone Alarm Pro: Anti-Spyware and such.
              Mozilla Firefox:Quality internet browsing.
              Adobe Photoshop CS2: Graphic design.
              Games:
              Half-life 2: Episode 1, Half-life 2: Deathmatch, MapleStory, Age of Empires 3, Space Cowboy, Warrock, FlyFF, Gunz, Warcraft 3.

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                Posted 29 September 2006 - 04:18 PM

                Lesse...

                Mozilla Firefox: You know, stuff like exploring the internet. Except cooler!

                Adobe Photoshop CS + Imageready: Use for backgrounds or whatever, and some really basic animations.

                iTunes: Music and all that jazz.

                Micorsoft Office 2003: For school and the like.

                GAIM: Like AIM, except without all the viruses and junk. Plus, you can use pretty much any messenger with it. Phenominal.

                Thats really all I use on a regular basis.

                #8   Split Infinity 

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                  Posted 29 September 2006 - 06:17 PM

                  Wow, I managed to coax Max out of the news forum. I feel pretty special now.

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                    Posted 29 September 2006 - 06:52 PM

                    Split.. Quit trying to get the 200000th post. It's going to be me.

                    And all you people seem like you use some quality programs.. Fantastic!

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                      Posted 07 October 2006 - 08:47 AM

                      Let's have a look...

                      GNOME - Main desktop environment
                      Beryl - Putting all that free CPU to use by adding useless eye-candy
                      Firefox - For posting this
                      Thunderbird - Email managing
                      GAIM - Instant messaging
                      amaroK - Better that iTunes ^_^
                      KolourPaint - Best MSPaint alternative I could find
                      GIMP - Only good Photoshop alternative anybody can find
                      GQview - Nice image slideshow app
                      gFTP - When I'm having problems with Firefox's FireFTP extension
                      Konqueror - Superior file manager to Nautilus, but don't really use it for web browsing
                      VIM - For doing all of my nerdy text editing
                      OpenOffice.org - Mainly for writing school reports
                      Porthole - Because managing Portage from the terminal can get annoying sometimes

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                        Posted 24 October 2006 - 03:13 AM

                        Hmmmm... o.o;

                        Adobe Photoshop 9 CS2 - For designing interfaces & creating textures.

                        Adobe Premier Pro 1.5 - Video Editing program

                        Soundforge 6 - Sound editing program

                        Autodesk 3DS Max 8.0 - For modelling, animating and rendering 3D models and terrains.

                        Bloodshed Dev C++ - Fast, free and great C++ compiler.

                        Microsoft Visual Studio - When Dev C++ is unavailable.

                        3D Game Studio Pro - For building 3D applications & games.

                        Internet Explorer 6 - Because i'm too lazy to download Firefox =\

                        AVG Antivirus - Anti-Virus Prorgam

                        Adaware Personal - Anti-Spyware Program

                        MSN Live Messenger - Duh >.>

                        Microsoft Works (it's an oxymoron!!) 2000 - Word/Excel/Access

                        Jasc Paint Shop Pro 5 - For when I couldn't be bothered to wait for Photoshop to boot up -.-

                        Hamachi 0.9 - A nifty program that emulates LAN over the Internet.

                        X-Fire - A program that records how long you play certain games for and more.

                        Winamp - I hate Windows Media Player >.<

                        .. That's about it o_O;

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                          Posted 06 November 2006 - 08:23 PM

                          I use:
                          Microsoft Office 2003 -- A pack of progams for writing
                          Mircosoft Internet Explorer -- For Online Information
                          Spybot(search and destroy) -- For destroying Cookies
                          AVG Free -- For destroying virus
                          Paint -- For making pictures or imgaes
                          Windows XP Home
                          Windows Movie Maker -- For making movies
                          ZoomBrower EX -- For pictures, images, and movies form my canon camra
                          Real Player -- For watching online movies( and trailers) and listening to music
                          Windows Media Player -- For watching online movies( and trailers) and listening to music
                          Quick Time Player -- For watching online movies( and trailers) and listening to music
                          CyberLink Multimedia Launcher -- For watching DVD movies on my computer
                          Acrobat Reader 5.0 -- For reading stuff or something (personally I do not know what it does)


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