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  • #1

    Most used Software free or paid for (or not)

    What is everyone most used software on their systems?

    Mine are
    Windows 7 Professional
    Firefox & Chrome
    Windows Live Mail
    Winace (all those zip rar ace files)
    Power Iso
    Dvd Fab
    Anyplace Control (for controlling 2nd laptop and desktop from netbook)
    MS Office 2003 (also 2007 but prefer 2003)/ Open office
    Klite Codec Pack (films etc via Media Player classic which installs with it)
    Malwarebytes Anti-Malware
    Teracopy (so much quicker than standard windows copying)
    Microsoft Security Essentials
    Itunes
    Ccleaner
    Defraggler
    Speccy
    Cpu-z
    Gpu-z


    Anybody use anything different for similar things (i.e have you found it better worse etc etc)
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  • #2
    Re: Most used Software free or paid for (or not)

    Firefox
    MS Office 2003
    Microsoft Security Essentials
    iTunes
    Ghostery (Add On for Firefox)
    Ccleaner
    Vista Premium
    MS Office 2007
    Google Earth (A lot quicker than Google Maps)
    Windows Calendar
    Corel Paintshop Photo Pro 3x
    Handbrake
    Nero 8
    Future Mark (Onion Benchmark - not used anymore)
    Last edited by 5corpio; 23 May 2012, 17:26.
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    • #3
      Re: Most used Software free or paid for (or not)

      Sorry to be pernickerty but windows installations, or Operating Systems, are not software - they are in fact OS's.

      I use Notepad (css coding), cPanel (websites), FTP (uploading sites & data), Firefox & Chrome (browsing & testing), photoshop (image editing) & outlook/webmail.

      That's it.

      Those programs above allow everything to build, manage, maintain and run a website. If you remove any one piece, you're fucked
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      • #4
        Re: Most used Software free or paid for (or not)

        Wow
        I am thick as most of those words scare the shit out of me
        On my laptop I use
        Windows Live
        AVG Pro (came with laptop)
        Chrome
        IE
        Office 2010
        Adobe reader
        software that comes with phone etc
        Media Player
        Thats about it

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        • #5
          Re: Most used Software free or paid for (or not)

          Originally posted by Never-In-Doubt View Post
          Sorry to be pernickerty but windows installations, or Operating Systems, are not software - they are in fact OS's.

          OS?..isnt than an abbreviation of Operating Software (or indeed systems!)

          Hmm such a big list i'll post up later..EEK!

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          • #6
            Re: Most used Software free or paid for (or not)

            Originally posted by philnicandamy View Post
            OS?..isnt than an abbreviation of Operating Software (or indeed systems!)

            Hmm such a big list i'll post up later..EEK!
            Its Operating System and the system is a program not software
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            • #7
              Re: Most used Software free or paid for (or not)

              Ubuntu (Linux).

              Which is most definitely both an OS AND "software".
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              • #8
                Re: Most used Software free or paid for (or not)

                Originally posted by Flowerpower
                You must use other programs in addition to the OS…
                Yep. I was just debating what to list.
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                • #9
                  Re: Most used Software free or paid for (or not)

                  KDE (desktop environment)
                  Firefox (browser)
                  Thunderbird (email)
                  LibreOffice (Office)
                  Shutter (screenshots)
                  akregator (feed reader)
                  VirtualBox (Virtual machines)
                  Maple (Maths)
                  SigmaPlot (Scientific data/plotting) via wine/VB
                  VLC (multimedia)
                  Clementine (music)

                  + many many more that have already been mentioned, are really just occasional use, or really part of something else.
                  Last edited by Riz; 24 May 2012, 08:13.
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                  • #10
                    Re: Most used Software free or paid for (or not)

                    On SSD

                    W7 ultimate
                    Office 2010
                    Daemon tools lite
                    VLC media player
                    Utorrent
                    Peer blocker
                    Tera copy
                    Chrome
                    Firefox
                    Aura
                    Adobe CS5 suite

                    on HDD
                    all sorts of various tosh! (nero etc)
                    Last edited by philnicandamy; 24 May 2012, 12:13.

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                    • #11
                      Re: Most used Software free or paid for (or not)

                      Use most of the above and I would add TOR for looking at some sites censored otherwise.
                      Nero(for burning CD's for personal useage of course ).

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                      • #12
                        Re: Most used Software free or paid for (or not)

                        Windows 7
                        Chrome
                        Office 2010
                        utorrent
                        vlc player
                        filezilla
                        winrar
                        imgburn
                        nod32
                        newsleecher
                        Last edited by Bricktop; 17 June 2012, 22:36.

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                        • #13
                          Re: Most used Software free or paid for (or not)

                          u torrent
                          bad boy

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                          • #14
                            Re: Most used Software free or paid for (or not)

                            Originally posted by Never-In-Doubt View Post
                            Its Operating System and the system is a program not software
                            Only this once would i ever disagreed with you mate but, definition of software is

                            Computer instructions or data. Anything that can be stored electronically is software
                            Windows operating systems are software, program, is short for programming, which is what you do when creating software

                            What i use are

                            Thunderbird
                            Firefox / IE / Chrome
                            Notepad++ (better syntax for file type editing)
                            Autoit
                            Photoshop CS3
                            Jasc Paint Shop Pro (Hate PSP after sony bought em)
                            MS Office 2003 / 10
                            Microsoft Works 9
                            Cute FTP
                            ImToo File Renamer

                            Its late so prob missed loads lol
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                            • #15
                              Re: Most used Software free or paid for (or not)

                              Originally posted by Flowerpower
                              You must use other programs in addition to the OS…

                              I would say operating systems fall under software as well - they are neither hardware nor firmware. Time to crawl back to my hole me thinks!
                              One could also argue that even hardware have some software

                              Most hardwares which require any automation even the most basic level have microchips.

                              These chips carry sets of instructions. They are usually held using something like X86 Assembly. Which is essentially just a peice of code which pushes values around to obtain an outcome.
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