Computer Software What kind of programs do you use on your computer?
#1
Posted 25 September 2006 - 07:42 AM
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.
#2
Posted 25 September 2006 - 09:50 AM
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.
#3
Posted 25 September 2006 - 06:34 PM
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. ;_;
#4
Posted 25 September 2006 - 07:44 PM
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.
#5
Posted 27 September 2006 - 09:48 AM
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.....
#6
Posted 29 September 2006 - 02:21 AM
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.
#7
Posted 29 September 2006 - 04:18 PM
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
Posted 29 September 2006 - 06:17 PM
#9
Posted 29 September 2006 - 06:52 PM
And all you people seem like you use some quality programs.. Fantastic!
#10
Posted 07 October 2006 - 08:47 AM
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
#11
Posted 24 October 2006 - 03:13 AM
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;
#12
Posted 06 November 2006 - 08:23 PM
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)