Desktop Software Applications, Webapps, and Projects We're Most Thankful For
From Lifehacker
http://lifehacker.com/5098944/free-software-were-most-thankful-for
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I love Lifehacker. The other day they listed their favorite free apps. I have used enough of them and seen many of them mentioned here at WC. I thought I would take a second to provide some feedback. Links to all of these didn't copy over but are availalbe at the Lifehacker site.
Have fun and tell us what you think of these.
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Desktop Software Applications, Webapps, and Projects We're Most Thankful For |
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1. Firefox |
Love the extensions |
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2. VLC Media Player |
Used to use. Not a bad app |
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3. Ubuntu |
Dual boot to this sometimes but not often. It's the *nix I'd use if I had to. |
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4. Open Office |
Still a bit slow but gets the job done |
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5. Pidgin |
Great all-in-on chat client. It's my IRC of choince |
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6. Launchy |
Never used |
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7. Digsby |
Never used |
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8. Gmail |
It's my go to mail client |
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9. Adium |
When I had the Mac this was my chat client |
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10. CCleaner |
A mainstay for those of us who install and unistall often |
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11. Picasa |
The new plug-ins make this even better |
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12. AutoHotKey |
No knowledge of |
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13. Google |
Everyone but Jafo loves this. It must be good, right? |
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14. Quicksilver |
Too Mac for me |
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15. GIMP |
It makes my brain bleed but it's free and powerful |
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16. Foobar 2000 |
I use this to re-tag my music. Powerful. |
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17. Thunderbird |
Used to use it before gmail. |
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18. 7-Zip |
Oh yeah baby. Right there. |
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19. DropBox |
Sharing skins through this is super easy. Been using Mesh more lately though. |
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20. uTorrent |
Not much of a torrentor . . I stick with bittorrent |
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21. Winamp |
Stopped using years ago. Didn't do anything that much better than anything else. |
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22. Google Apps |
I wrote this list in that. |
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23. AVG Antivirus |
Gets the job done with lowish resource use |
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24. Evernote |
Never heard of this. May have to look it up |
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25. IrfanView |
Been using this since the internet was a baby |
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26. Opera |
Meh. Never did so much more that I needed it |
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27. Chrome |
Played with it . . but why switch from FF? |
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28. Google Calendar |
Oh. Yeah. |
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29. HandBrake |
Never tried it |
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30. Skype |
My Mom is in Iraq and we use this now and again. I used it to do the WC Skincast |
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31. Linux |
See Ubuntu |
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32. Paint.NET |
Easy and gets the job done. Istart here and fire up GIMP when needed. |
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33. Ad-Aware |
I used to use this but don't anymore. Using Windows Defender |
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34. Avast Antivirus |
Using AVG but have heard good things here |
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35. Google Docs |
See the other google entries |
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36. LogMeIn |
I've used this with SD tech support a few times. Easy like pie. |
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37. Transmission |
No need with bittorrent |
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38. TrueCrypt |
LOVE THE HELL OUT OF THIS! |
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39. Amarok |
I don't do sound manips much but this is what I use. |
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40. FileZilla |
It's a standard for a reason. It rocks. |
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41. Notepad++ |
Notepad works well enough for me. |
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42. PortableApps.com |
Tried and was satisfied but not my thing |
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43. Rocket Dock |
Heh. I'll stick with OD+ |
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44. Spybot Search & Destroy |
Used to use it but not so much anymore |
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45. UltraVNC |
This rocks for getting the job done. |
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46. VirtualBox |
I use this and VirtualPC. I like the snapshots here more. |
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