What applications could you not live without?

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What applications that you've either bought, or downloaded for free, are things you just can't use a computer without?

Tags: applications, software, technology


 
       
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Firefox

Leader! Most 1st Place Votes
The web's a better place with firefox...

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57  votes
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Photoshop

Top Five Percent
Half the things I do in Photoshop have become muscle memory. I use it every day for work and fun! http://www.adobe.com/products/p... [show more]

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25  votes
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18  votes
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Notepad

Great for taking quick notes, writing code, queries, etc.

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16  votes
5.  

Putty - telnet/ssh

A good, FREE telnet/ssh client. Wikipedia: PuTTY ( http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/ ) is a free SSH, Telnet, r... [show more]

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15  votes
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OpenOffice

A free alternative to MS Office. It works. One nice feature I like: It can export your docs to PDF without Acrobat. http://www.openoffice.org/

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12  votes
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Macromedia Dreamweaver

Now published by the Adobe/Macromedia monster. There are really no good alternatives out there, unless you count pure code editors... [show more]

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9  votes
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9  votes
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Outlook

Okay, this is a work thing - but I couldn't live without Outlook. For all it's warts, I couldn't get my work done without it.

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7  votes
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MSN Messenger

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5  votes
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Gaim

(No description provided)

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5  votes
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Inkscape

Free Vector Editor.

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5  votes
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5  votes
14.  

Going to the Washroom!

Everyone poops, including people who work on the computer all day!

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3  votes
15.  

Cygwin.

I just can't live without bash.
http://www.cygwin.com/

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3  votes
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Illustrator

(No description provided)

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2  votes
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Cdisplay

(No description provided)

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2  votes
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Brainstorm

Brainstorming software that helps organize thoughts and ideas - especially handy for writing papers, essays and presentations. ... [show more]

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2  votes
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2  votes
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Mindmanager 6

A mind mapping program that I find essential for organisation of work, thoughts, and anything else! Although it's expensive, I co... [show more]

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2  votes
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MS Excel

I can barely do any basic math any more with out using excel .. its kinda sad really ...

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2  votes
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Taskbar Shuffle

A great application for re-arranging the items in your start menu.
http://www.freewebs....arshuffle.htm

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1  votes
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The gordian knot

program used for video compression.

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1  votes
26.  

SigmaPlot

Graphs have never looked so good

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1  votes
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gcc

Then you can build what every else you need.

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1  votes
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NetNewsWire

(No description provided)

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1  votes
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Painter IX

(No description provided)

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1  votes
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Hyperbole alert! :)

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myollnir 2 years ago

If anyone puts up the answer World of Warcraft, I will be very sad.

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This topic was started by Zander Zander has 2,233 Grupie Points on May 22nd, 2006. 94 grupies have voted on one or more of the 32 answers.

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