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Re: What are your must have apps for Windows?
« Reply #25 on: August 03, 2008, 07:05:43 AM »
Avast! - antivirus : is free, light program that does its job.

Copywriter - to edit txt and rtf files. I like to work with rtf files to note down stuff and this is a small, fast and easy program to do so.

Limewire - Music downloads

Firefox - Browsing

WinAmp - playing music

AoA audio extractor - sometimes i download youtube vids with keepvid.com, and with this program i can rip the audio to a mp3 file.

ALShow - vieuwing all kinds of movies

Msn Messenger - chat

CCleaner - Cleans up the dirt you leave behind on your pc

Skype - phone

Spybot - search and destroy - just installed this.

SABnzbd - download stuff from newsgroups

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Re: What are your must have apps for Windows?
« Reply #26 on: August 03, 2008, 07:55:09 AM »
hjsplit is a file splitter/joiner

guitar rig 3 is an guitar amp modeler for recording.  I play guitar so it is an essential one for me anyway.

oh nice, as for splitting files try also http://home.hccnet.nl/p.luijer/
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Re: What are your must have apps for Windows?
« Reply #27 on: August 03, 2008, 07:57:13 AM »
Avast! - antivirus : is free, light program that does its job.

Copywriter - to edit txt and rtf files. I like to work with rtf files to note down stuff and this is a small, fast and easy program to do so.

Limewire - Music downloads

Firefox - Browsing

WinAmp - playing music

AoA audio extractor - sometimes i download youtube vids with keepvid.com, and with this program i can rip the audio to a mp3 file.

ALShow - vieuwing all kinds of movies

Msn Messenger - chat

CCleaner - Cleans up the dirt you leave behind on your pc

Skype - phone

Spybot - search and destroy - just installed this.

SABnzbd - download stuff from newsgroups



One recommendation, you might want to try ULTRAEDIT, its the best text editor ever, just exactly what you need, it comes with all the options you can image, i love it
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Re: What are your must have apps for Windows?
« Reply #28 on: August 03, 2008, 07:58:12 AM »
For me:

AdAware Antivirus - works great on XP, and works well on Vista too but I can't install any new updates. Still, with Vista's improved security I've never had any problems.

ITunes - good for the IPod obviously

Google Earth

DivX Player and Converter - my DVD player at home only plays copies of DVDs if I convert their format to DivX, so this is essential for me if I want to watch copied movies on my TV.

Limewire - p2p software, good for downloading music

Ares Galaxy - arguably better than Limewire because you can preview what you're downloading before finishing - great for porn and general movies.

Download Accelerator - made by Speedbit - works better for downloading files than anything Microsoft has automatically installed with Windows.

BigJ, those "download accelerators" are bullshit, what are you running right now? xp or vista? let me know and i'll give you a hand :)
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Re: What are your must have apps for Windows?
« Reply #29 on: August 03, 2008, 10:35:04 AM »
BigJ, those "download accelerators" are bullshit, what are you running right now? xp or vista? let me know and i'll give you a hand :)

I'm running Vista Home Premium - I only know about Download Accelerator cos a friend was using it. Any decent alternatives would be appreciated.

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Re: What are your must have apps for Windows?
« Reply #30 on: August 03, 2008, 10:37:53 AM »
I'm running Vista Home Premium - I only know about Download Accelerator cos a friend was using it. Any decent alternatives would be appreciated.

Ok theres not known tcp tweal yet for vista, current settings working fine. Those download accelerators are pretty useless, its all about your connection and the other side, dont buy all the hype, tcp tweaks are real, they dont increase speed but use the perfect tunning with will end maxing out your bw
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Re: What are your must have apps for Windows?
« Reply #31 on: August 08, 2008, 07:13:00 PM »
Cool Edit 2000...great for manipulating audio files. Can do anything that a production house can do