What programs do you use for...

[Chzn8r]

What sort of programs do you use?

Me-

Internet Browsing: Opera

Word processing: Microsoft Word

Text editing: Windows Notepad

Audio Playing: iTunes

Ripping/encoding: iTunes

Burning: iTunes

Video playing: Windows Media Play (but Quicktime and Real if necessary)

Instant Messaging: AIM+

Filesharing: SoulSeek

Image creating/editing: Adobe Photoshop 7

FTP: SmartFTP

Virus Scanning: NOD32

Spyware detection: Adaware, Spybot

Software Firewall: Zone Alarm

File Archiving: WinRAR

Go ahead and fill in all the categories you can! Also, if you have any good ideas for another category, tell me and I'll add them :)

[Yamaneko]

Internet Browsing: Firefox

Word processing: OpenOffice

Text editing: Textpad

Audio Playing: Winamp 2.91

Ripping/encoding: CDex

Burning: Click 'n Burn Pro 2

Video playing: Media Player Classic

Instant Messaging: AIM / MSN

Filesharing: Kazaa / WinMX / Bit Torrent

Image creating/editing: Adobe Photoshop 7

FTP: CuteFTP Pro

Virus Scanning: AVG 6 Free Edition

Spyware detection: Adaware, Spybot

Software Firewall: Sygate Personal Firewall

File Archiving: WinRAR

[Enoki]

Internet Browsing: Avant Browser

Word processing: Microsoft Works

Text editing: N/A

Audio Playing: WMP

Ripping/encoding: Audacity

Burning: Easy cd creator

Video playing: WMP

Instant Messaging: AIM

Filesharing: WINmx

Image creating/editing: Eoff signature service (hehe)

FTP: N/A

Virus Scanning: McAfee

Spyware detection: Adaware, Spybot

Software Firewall: N/A

File Archiving: N/A

[Peegee]

Internet Browsing: Mozilla Firebox. Yes really

Word processing: Microsoft Word

Text editing: Windows Notepad

Audio Playing: Winamp

Ripping/encoding: I don't rip music, and I don't encode anime any more. But if I did I would use MusicMatch Jukebox

Burning: Nero

Video playing: (The)Core Media Player

Instant Messaging: AIM (Deadaim); ICQ, MSN, Y!M

Filesharing: K++

Image creating/editing: Adobe Photoshop 6

FTP: FlashFXP

Virus Scanning: Norton AV Corporate Edition

Spyware detection: Adaware

Software Firewall: None. In fact I'm in DMZ mode (yes really; mods can see my ip *wink*)

File Archiving: WinRAR, for Zipping

[Kirobaito]

Uh....

Internet: Internet Explorer
Imaging: Jasc Paint Shop Pro 8
Music/Video: WMP
Word Processing: Microsoft Word

[White Raven]

Me-

Internet Browsing: Internet Explorer

Word processing: Microsoft Word

Audio Playing: Win Amp

Ripping/encoding: WMP

Burning: Nero

Video playing: VLC Media Player

Instant Messaging: MSN Messenger

Filesharing: DC++

Image creating/editing: Paint

Virus Scanning: Systemec

Spyware detection: Adaware, Spybot

Software Firewall: Zone Alarm

[Xander]

Internet Browsing: IE6

Word processing: Microsoft Word (97 on my comp, 2000 at college)

Text editing: Notepad rules always.

Audio Playing: WinAmp

Ripping/encoding: Ahh something Lindsey put on my computer..Creative MediaSource or something.

Burning: Record Now DX. Just came on the comp.

Video playing: Windows Media Player or Winamp, good for watching lots of videos after each other.

Instant Messaging: MSN. I have AIM/YIM but rarely remember to put them on, MSN is easier for me.

Filesharing: Kazaa.

Image creating/editing: Adobe Photoshop 7

FTP: Don't use.

Virus Scanning: Norton AntiVirus

Spyware detection: Adaware, Spybot

Software Firewall: Norton Internet Security thing.

File Archiving: Umm, what's that?

I also use Dreamweaver for web design, Flash for animation, and 3D Studio Max, Director, and Premiere at college, although I'm not too good at those yet ^_^

[o_O]

For me:

Internet Browsing: Opera

Word processing: Microsoft Word

Text editing: Windows Notepad

Audio Playing: Winamp 5

Ripping/encoding: Winamp 5/Nero

Burning: Nero

Video playing: Winamp 5

Instant Messaging: MSN/AIM/Y!M/IRC

Filesharing: DC++

Image creating/editing: Adobe Photoshop 7

FTP: CuteFTP

Virus Scanning: Norton Antivirus 2004 Pro

Spyware detection: Adaware

Software Firewall: Zone Alarm

File Archiving: WinRAR

[Meat Puppet]

I just use all the stuff that came with my OS. I'm too lazy to download/buy other stuff, which may as well be better than the junk now; and I'm too lazy to join the microsoft campaign.

[Skogs]

Internet Browsing: Mozilla Firefox
Word processing: Microsoft Word
Text editing: Windows Notepad
Audio Playing: WinAmp
Ripping/encoding: RealPlayer
Burning: Roxio Easy CD Creater
Video playing: Real, WinAmp
Instant Messaging: MSN Messenger
Filesharing: KaZaA (it's been banned by my college, though), and DC++
Image creating/editing: MSN Paint
FTP: Uhh....
Virus Scanning: McAfee
Spyware detection: Ad-Awarr
Software Firewall: Uhh...
File Archiving: WinZip

[Loony BoB]

Internet Browsing: IE5.5 (at work) and IE6 (at home)

Word processing: Microsoft Word / Notepad / CuteHTML

Text editing: Notepad / CuteHTML

Audio Playing: WinAmp / Sound Recorder

Ripping/encoding: I forget.

Burning: Roxio Easy CD Creator 5

Video playing: WinAmp

Instant Messaging: AIM / Y!M / mIRC

Filesharing: BitTorrent / AIM / KazaaLite / mIRC

Image creating/editing: MS Paint :D I have PSP8, too, but rarely use it.

FTP: FTP Wanderer and FXP

Virus Scanning: Norton Antivirus Pro 2004

Spyware detection: Ad-Aware, Spybot S&D

Software Firewall: ZoneAlarm

File Archiving: Winzip / WinRAR

Other programs I use on a semi-regular basis: MS Excel, MapEdit.

[Erdrick Holmes]

Internet Browsing: Firefox

Word processing: Microsoft Word

Text editing: Windows Notepad

Audio Playing: Winamp

Ripping/encoding: Windows Media Player

Burning: Nero

Video playing: Windows Media Player

Instant Messaging: AIM, MSN, mIRC

Filesharing: Imesh

Image creating/editing: Photoedit 8

FTP: CoreFTP

Virus Scanning: AVG Virus scanner

Spyware detection: Spybot S&D

Software Firewall: Default Windows XP one

File Archiving: WinRar

Question, is Zonealram free?

[Angyles Cerddoriaeth]

Internet Browsing: stupid explorer

Word processing: Microsoft Word

Reports: Excel

Audio Playing: Launchcast for my radio

Instant Messaging: AIM, MSN, mIRC, Yahoo

Filesharing: Limewire

Virus Scanning: My IT department

Software Firewall: Whatever is on the server at work

Program I actually use to do my work on: Eclipse/Eterm

[crono_logical]

Internet Browsing: Mozilla/Firefox/Opera
Word processing: OpenOffice.org
Text editing: Notepad/Wordpad
Audio Playing: Winamp
Ripping/encoding: don't really rip stuff
Burning: don't really burn stuff anymore either :p
Video playing: Media Player Classic (http://www.sf.net/projects/guliverkli)
Instant Messaging: YM/MSN
Filesharing: Azureus (http://azureus.sf.net/) mainly, BCDC++ too
FTP: don't have any one program - they're all crap in Windows :p
Virus Scanning: Mcafee, though I leave that disabled 99% of the time since I don't really need the CPU overhead of it - I'm careful enough to not get infected in the first place so I'm not worried :p
Spyware detection: I don't bother usually, don't need to again :p I sound overly confident of myself, don't I? :D
Software Firewall: Tiny Personal Firewall - more to block apps on my PC accessing out to certain things rather than the other way round to be honest.
File Archiving: WinRAR


Joel: Zonealarm is free, but when the TrueVector service it installs eventually dies and gobbles up 100% CPU cycles, don't say you weren't warned of a system reinstall being imminent :D

[Shoeberto]

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Internet Browsing: Firefox

Word processing: Microsoft Word

Text editing: Crimson Editor

Audio Playing: Winamp 5

Ripping/encoding: CDex

Burning: Nero

Video playing: DivX Player

Instant Messaging: Trillian

Filesharing: Kazaa Lite K++, BitTorrent

Image creating/editing: Adobe Photoshop 7

FTP: AceFTP 3

Virus Scanning: AVG

Spyware detection: Spybot Search and Destroy

Software Firewall: n/a

File Archiving: WinRAR

[Mikztsu]

Sup son. Are you gonna make more RPG's? Loved your previous one.

[Leeza]

Mik, Mik, Mik. I come into here after seeing that you posted expecting to see what programs you use, but all I see is you talking to Hsu. That's what our PM system is for, you know. I'm sure that Hsu would really appreciate getting a PM from you. Now post what programs you use please. Thank you. :)

[ZeZipster]

Internet Browsing: Firefox or Avant (if I run in to compatibility issues I'll use Avant, because it's basically IE with tabbing and a built in pop-up stopper)

Word processing: MS Word

Text editing: MS Word

Audio Playing: Winamp 3.0

Burning: Roxio/Nero

Video playing: Realone Player

Instant Messaging: Trillian (the old free one)

Filesharing: oDC or Winmx, whatever is compatible with my proxy

Image creating/editing: Adobe Photoshop 4.0

FTP: MS-DOS (Hey, it works faster than explorer and Bullet Proof)

Virus Scanning: AVG

Spyware detection: Adaware

Software Firewall: I'm behind a Proxy, and the server hosting the Proxy is very secure.

File Archiving: WinRAR/Winzip/Stuffit Standard.

[Lament]

OS: Windows XP Professional
Browsing: IE6
Music: Winamp 2.7
Chat: MSN6 / IRC
Word Processing: Notepad / Wordpad (w00t, retro!)
Graphics: PSP7 / Adobe Photoshop / Good ol' PAINT!
Antivirus: None... come on, I dare you :cool:
Spyware: SpyBot S&D
Firewall: None... feel free NOT to h4x0r me back to the stone age...
File Sharing: None... my piracy is strictly between friends
FTP: RightFTP
Video playback: I leave it up to Windows to decide.

I also find use for the following:
Multisim 7, CommSim, Ultiboard, PCB Layout32, A8031/52 Emulator & Assembler... but now we're getting into hardcore nerd territory, so I'm stopping there :cool:

[Mikztsu]

Originally posted by Leeza
Mik, Mik, Mik. I come into here after seeing that you posted expecting to see what programs you use, but all I see is you talking to Hsu. That's what our PM system is for, you know. I'm sure that Hsu would really appreciate getting a PM from you. Now post what programs you use please. Thank you. :)

Mod whore! >< >:O

Fine, fine then, wahtever mod whore tells me to do.:)

Word processing: MS Word

Text editing: MS Word

Audio Playing: Winamp

Burning:Nero

Video playing: Windows Media Player

Instant Messaging: Mostly MSN. Also Aim and Y!M.

Filesharing: KaZaa lite

Image creating/editing: HP program that came with my digi cam-

FTP:-

Virus Scanning: AVG

Spyware detection: Adaware

Software Firewall: ZoneAlarm

File Archiving: WinRar

[Leeza]

That's better, Mik. Thank you. :)

Word processing: MS Word 2000

Text editing: WordPad

Audio Playing: Winamp

Burning: Nero

Video playing: Windows Media Player/Winamp

Instant Messaging: Mostly MSN. Also Y!M and AIM.

Filesharing: KaZaa lite

Image creating/editing: PhotoShop 7, Jasc Paintshop Pro 7

FTP: Don't use one.

Virus Scanning: Norton AntiVirus

Spyware detection: Ad-aware 6, Spybot S&D

Software Firewall: Don't have one. Had ZoneAlarm for a while but it started acting all funny so I uninstalled it.

File Archiving: WinRar

EDIT: Browser: IE 6/Firefox

[Enoki]

how can any of you suffer though the agony of explorer?

[Lament]

My view on the subject is, why waste a decent browser on 56k? ;)

[Enoki]

ok then how can anyone endure the agony of 56k?

j/k, but really cable rules.

[Kirkpatrick]

Internet Browsing: Firefox
Word processing: WordPerfect 2000, Word 2000 if I have to work with the computers at school on the same document.
Text editing: TextPad
Audio Playing: Winamp
Ripping/Burning: Easy CD Creator 4
Video playing: Windows Media Player
Instant Messaging: MSN, Trillian only for using MSN on two accounts at the same time :p, Y!M When I can bothered (almost never)
Filesharing: I have KaZaA installed, but the spyware components got deleted :p
Image creating/editing: Photoshop 6.0, ACDSee for viewing and simple things like cropping if I don't want to wait for photoshop to load.
Virus Scanning: AVG Virus scanner
Spyware detection: AdAware
Software Firewall: ZoneAlarm
File Archiving: WinRar / WinZip

Hopefully I'll be getting Flash soon as well, and I would like to get Finale or Sibelius for Music stuff too.

[Tokki Wartooth]

Internet Browsing: IE
Word processing: Wordpad!
Text editing: Huh?
Audio Playing: Creative Play Center (which SUCKS btw)
Ripping/encoding: What.
Burning: Roxio Easy CD Creator
Video playing: Windows Media Player
Instant Messaging: MSN thx
Filesharing: None :(
Image creating/editing: Photoshop
Virus Scanning: Freedom
Spyware detection: Spykiller or something
Software Firewall: I forget. It's from Sympatico tho.
File Archiving: Ah? D:

Wow my internet terminology is bad :(

[Chzn8r]

Originally posted by Tokkiquil
Text editing: Huh?
Ripping/encoding: What.
File Archiving: Ah? D:

Wow my internet terminology is bad :(

Text editing, basically for coding with web languages and whatnot.
Ripping/encoding: Taking music from your CDs and putting it on your PC, changing types/compression of music files, etc...
File Archiving: Ever used a Zip file? Those are archives. They compress the size of the files and make them better for transfering. Most downloads on the internet come in .zip format, but many also come in .rar, so having WinRAR instead of just WinZip is good because it can handle .rar and .zip types.

[Shlup]

Internet Browsing: IE
Word processing: Microsoft Word XP
Text editing: Windows Notepad
Audio Playing: WinAmp
Ripping/encoding: Music Match
Burning: Nero
Video playing: Windows Media Play (but Quicktime and Real if necessary)
Instant Messaging: AIM, sometimes Y!M but mostly for email notification
Filesharing: KaZaA, emule, mIRC, and a couple more occasionally...
Image creating/editing: Adobe Photoshop 6 (don't like7)
FTP: LeechFTP
Virus Scanning: Norton
Spyware detection: Adaware
Software Firewall: dunno
File Archiving: WinZIP/WinRAR

[Wind Shear]

Even thoug that I don't have a single PC around. Here are the programs that I use frequently.

Internet Browsing: MSIE 6
Instant Messaging: MSN and Yahoo!
Audio Playing: Winamp
Web Design and Development: Macromedia Dreamweaver MX
Image Processing: Macromedia Fireworks MX and Adobe Photoshop 7
FTP: SSH Secure File Transfer Client
Terminal (Remote Login): SSH Secure Shell Client
CD Burning (In figurative sense): Nero Express
File Archiving: WinZip and WinRAR
IDEs: JCreator for Java
Word Processing: MS Word
File Sharing: none

[Mikztsu]

I didn't know 56k's even existed anymore.

And oh yeah, I use IE6. No reason to complain about that browser.*_*

[Shadowdust]

Internet Browsing: Firebird

Word processing: Microsoft Word

Text editing: Windows Notepad

Audio Playing: Windows Media Player

Ripping/encoding: Cdex/Nero Wave Editor

Burning: Nero/Blindwrite

Video playing: Windows Media Player

Instant Messaging: Yahoo! Messenger

Filesharing: Kazaalite Ressurection/Bit Torrent

Image creating/editing: Adobe Photoshop 7

FTP: None

Virus Scanning: Norton AntiVirus

Spyware detection: Adaware, Spykiller

Software Firewall: Norton Internet Security

File Archiving: WinRAR/Winzip

[Chzn8r]

Originally posted by Mikztsu
I didn't know 56k's even existed anymore.

And oh yeah, I use IE6. No reason to complain about that browser.*_*

Ever recieve a pop-up or a flash ad? Ever have so many windows on your taskbar that you couldn't tell between them all?

There are many, many, many browsers out there better than IE that improve on these main points, and others. And of course there are many more secure browsers out there. Settling for IE is like riding a bike just because it's in your driveway, when there's a BMW in your garage with the keys in it.

If you want an easy change from IE, switch to Avant Browser. It's basically a modification for IE, which has the same layout, and will have the same favorites/cookies/etc... of your IE browser, but is also much more customizeable, and will block popups, ads, flash banners, etc... And, it makes multiple tabs of windows inside your browser, instead of flooding your taskbar.

Of course, that's only if you want an easy switch from IE. I prefer Opera. Many also prefer Mozilla Fire(insert word here).

[Red Wizard]

Internet Browsing: Firefox 0.8

Word processing: Microsoft Word

Text editing: Object Edit

Audio Playing: Winamp 5

Ripping/encoding: Music Match

Burning: Nero 6

Video playing: Windows Media Player

Instant Messaging: Trillian Pro 2.0

Filesharing: KaZaA K++ and Shareaza

Image creating/editing: Adobe Photoshop 7

FTP: Filezilla

Virus Scanning: Norton Anitvirus 2002

Spyware detection: Adaware

File Archiving: WinRAR, but only because it does .rar files. the decompression algorithm sucks.

[Dr Unne]

Internet Browsing: MozillaFirefox
Word processing: OpenOffice.org
Text editing: vim
Audio Playing: Beep Media Player
Ripping/encoding: grip
Burning: cdrecord or K3B
Video playing: mplayer
Instant Messaging: Gaim
Filesharing: gift + giFTcurs
Image creating/editing: Gimp 2.0
FTP: ncftp
Virus Scanning: Linux
Spyware detection: Linux
Software Firewall: iptables
File Archiving: tar zcvf [filename]

[Baloki]

Operating System: Windows Massive Edivice (to rubbish) aka ME

Internet Browsing: IE6SP2, Firefox, Netscape

Word processing: Word 2001

Text editing: Notepad

HTML Editing: Notepad or AceHTML Freeware 5

Audio Playing: Winamp 5 (classic)

Ripping/encoding: CDex

Burning: My Dads computer

Video playing: Winamp 5 or WMP7

Instant Messaging: MSNMessenger or the barking AIM if all else fails

Filesharing: What? Me do something illegal? NEVER!

Image creating/editing: Paint Shop Pro 5 and Adobe Photoshop 7

FTP: AceFTP Freeware

Virus Scanning: Norton Super Edition

Spyware detection: Adaware 6

Software Firewall: Norton Super Edition + Self Programmed Super Lockdown Extra Edition Pro Plus 12

File Archiving: ME's personal zip program, now down to 38% corrupt attempts!