What are you Top 10 most used (not liked, used) apps?
SciTE
Calculator
WinAmp
Notepad
Gimp 2
MSVC 6
Command Prompt
Uhh, Counter-Strike: Source should be in there somewhere. GAIM as well. Firefox. I guess Thunderbird.
And when I'm debugging my applications, those probably end up at number one
In no particular order:
Used daily or almost every day:
- Mozilla Firefox
- Total Commander
- SciTE
- Winamp
- Calc
Used every now and then
- Paint Shop Pro
- Nero
- ModPlug Tracker
- Sound Forge
- Gaim
- ZModeller
- IrfanView
- XVI32 (hex editor)
Heh, that's more than 10 but only 5 in the top list. I didn't list some system tools that are always on and running in the background (like Deamon tools, Speedfan, AVG, etc) and things like gcc...
In no order:
Firefox
Thunderbird
Winamp
StrongDC++
DevCpp
Photoshop
MirandaIM
xterm, nedit, vim, gcc, ifort, make, firefox, mutt, kmail, gnuplot
I guess that makes out the top ten, although GhostView and Acrobat Reader can't be far behind.
Firefox
Thunderbird
Dreamweaver (at work)
SciTE
XChat
GAIM
MySQL Control Center
MSIPVS (TV Tuner card)
PuTTY
Command Prompt
Not listed in any order.
[edit] Replaced one of them for XChat.
Firefox
SciTE
Trillian
Xfire
XChat
PuTTY
Notepad
MSPaint
WinTV2000
cmd
MSVC
StarCraft
Photoshop
SciTE
Apache/PHP/MySQL 
Daemon Tools
Firefox / Thunderbird
MySql-Front / MySql-Admin
Nero
nLite
FileZilla
Little more than 10, oh well.
I don't think I regularly use as many as 10 apps! Let me have a go (no order):
iTunes
XCode
Safari
GIMP
Microsoft Word
Adium X
iPhoto
That may well be it.
daily or near daily:
firefox
thunderbird
gaim
textpad
winamp5
filzip
windows xp (explorer,cmd,calc,charmap)
taskswitchxp
tclock2
irfanview
second winners might include (and for periods of time, depending on work, make the above list):
winrar
putty
winscp3
zoomplayer
eclipse
mingw
processing
outlook
fireworks
dreamweaver
flash
photoshop
Didn't we just do this a few months ago? Any way...
In no particular order:
1. XMplay
2. Media Player Classic
3. Firefox
4. Dev-C++
5. Bitcomet
6. CCleaner
7. DeepBurner
8. Autodesk Animator
9. Norton Commander
10. GoldWave
Developer stuff (that I heavily use while developing):
gvim + cppcomplete + taglist
gcc
gdb
dia
make
putty + vim
apt-get
wget
rm
cvs
Yesterday, though, Jumli was ported to glibc 2.3.2 (the default for Ubuntu), so it may replace dia in the near future for UML graphics.
Non developer stuff:
Hard to say... I'm not even sure if I use ten programs.
Explorer
Dev-C++
FireFox
Winamp
WinRAR
MSN Messenger
Notepad
MS Paint
Snes9x
WinAmp
Opera
mIRC
FL Studio
MSN Messenger
DC++
BitComet
Crimson Editor
Word
AutoCAD
Winamp
Media Player Classic (or WMP when MPC doesn't play right)
Notepad
There's probably been ten threads with good applications posted before.
Xmplay, Emule, FireFox, Zsnes, PowerArchiver.
About in that order.
Total Commander, Firefox, Thunderbird, SciTE, ModPlug Player, Winamp, make
, MAME, ZSNES, XChat.
Here goes:
1. Firefox
2. XChat
3. Konsole (This includes any console based apps)
4. SciTE
5. LinCVS
6. Warcraft 3
7. WoW
8. Mplayer
9. Amarok
10. Gaim
Firefox, iTerm, Mail, Smultron, Xcode, MSN messenger (recently replaced with Adium), MegaPOV, Colloquy, Gimp, VLC.
Top 10 as listed in the Windows XP Start Menu's "Recent Programs" list...
XChat
Winamp
Teamspeak RC2
Text Document (OpenOffice.org Writer)
DosBox.conf (WTH is this here? Told windows not to list)
Guild Wars
Command Prompt
BZFlag 2.0.2
Steam
Trillian
RecordNow!
Other things that definately should be on that list, but aren't registered because I access them via the desktop/run dialog/something else... (Not in any particular order)
gvim
Sacred (Game by Ascaron Entertainment. Pretty Fun)
XFire
America's Army
Blender
putty.exe
Mozilla Thunderbird
Mozilla Firefox
mine, no particular order
RXVT
Firefox
Gaim
XChat
XMMS
Rox
Evolution
OpenOffice.org
Skype
gcc
Windows:
1. Windows Explorer
2. Firefox
3. Visual Studio.NET
4. SQLServer
5. Winamp
6. IrfanView
7. EditPlus
8. WinZip
9. Media Player
10. PaintShopPro
Linux:
1. Kterm
2. Scite
3. Gcc
4. Make
5. XMMS
6. Firefox
7. MPlayer
Firefox
GAIM (upgrading to version 1.5.0 today!)
BZFlag
xterm
vim
g++
Sylpheed
Yeah, I don't use many applications.
I'm just curious, why do you want to know which applications we use?
It's neat to have these types of threads 
I learned about SciTE through one of these threads...
Though all of this is a little pointless. It's more "productive" to ask about specific types of applications. For example, what do you use for an FTP client, compiler/IDE, chat client, WYSIWYG editor, etc. Asking what apps we use most doesn't really make me want to look into them. I have no idea what Sylpheed is, Colloquy, Goldwave, etc.. as I'm sure some people may not know what Daemon Tools is used for or nLite 
Since I don't know what they are.. I wont be looking into them.
That is why I linkified my list
Random order:
FireFox
Thunderbird
A Note (Thanks once again ReyBrujo!
)
TightVNC
Paint.NET
Microsoft Visual Studio.NET 2003
Adobe Reader 7.0
XMPlay
Poseidon For UML
Eclipse
personal reminder... a no-fuss systray alert schedule app.
miranda... IM, jabber/msn/icq/aim/irc (excellent installer)
thunderbird... email
firefox..... a browser
notepad++.... a brilliant tabber notepad replacement.
command prompt... shell
msvc7....compiler
mingw....compiler
winamp... mp3 player
task manager...::)
Work:
Lotus notes
3270 terminal emulator
ms office
Personal:
Mozilla
Openoffice.org
JCreator
Netbeans
dev c++
paint
notepad
winrar
ms mediaplayer
minesweeper
My top ten:
FAR (file manager)
Firefox
The Bat (email client)
CuteFTP Pro
foobar2000 (music player)
eMule
Nikon Capture
Photoshop
Miranda (IM)
Radmin (remote administration)
Linux:
Bash + The many CLI apps
X.org and IceWM
GIMP
XTerminal and Bash
GCC
XMMS
XINE
OpenOffice
Firefox
Portage
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Windows:
Format C:\ 
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Something I should have mentioned and I'm surprised nobody else mentioned: 7zip! 
A very nice freeware compression program that integrates itself quite nicely into explorer's context menu.
That's because http://www.tugzip.com is way better.
I just tried that, and I laugh at you.
The very first thing I did after installing and setting it up was right click, 'Add to:the.simpsons.s15e01.7z...' and BAM...... explorer crashed. 
I'll reboot and give it another shot, though...
[edit]
Rebooted. Seems to do that with any file I try to add to an archive (any archive at all) through the context menu. The context menu must not be setup properly - explorer is crashing, not tugzip.
[edit2]
Had to turn off the context menu and turn it back on I guess. 
Anyway, it's not bad. A little prettier. Better than 7zip. I take back my laughs. 
I never knew cab files compressed so well. I wonder why that is...
TugZip has a very awful feature: double click a file to open Tugzip, then drag one of the files from the GUI to a folder; it will first extract the file from the compressed file to the temporary directory, then move it from there to where you dropped it. For a txt file, it is not a biggie, but for a CD ISO file which is inside a DVD ISO...
(Edited: A friend installed it at work, and indeed, it is broken. You need to go to the preferences and check one of the options that read something like "grouping all the context menu options". That will create a folder in your contextual menu that, once selected, will show you the options you have. That way the context menu works. Never crashed it at home while using Windows because I use that grouping... I hate having 400px tall menues).
RB: That shouldn't be a big issue. Moving a file from a temporary directory to another directory is done in an instant - you're simply changing information in the filesystem, not actually moving any data.
[edit2]
Context menu attached.. I really should trim it down..
Not when your temporary directory is in C: and you want to extract a file in D:
I hope your temp drive is different than your destination folder, because I can move an ISO from anywhere on C to anywhere else instantly.
Edit: Beaten by a few posts.
Ahh, I see what you mean
Context menu attached.. I really should trim it down..
Put it in its own sub menu; it's better that way.
No particular order:
Firefox
X-Chat
Konsole
Kate
Kopete
KSnapshot
KCalc
KView
Kontact + KMail
GNU Tar + Gzip + Bzip2
Unzip
Bash
perl
ncftp
emerge
cpan
nano
Others probably as well.. but these are all I could remember 
edit, damn, I forgot a couple important ones
GCC (C/C++)
amaroK
ML: I would rather remove delete, rename, create shortcut, the winamp stuff, only leave 2 of the 'Add to...' selections, get rid of search and explore.. yeah, that should do it.
Blah, I forgot about perl, cpan and ncftp... you could group them all together, it is as common as tar + gzip.
By the way, that is why Menu Editor extension for Firefox is a must for me... I hate so many options. At work, my Start menu has four entries, and the Programs has three (Dev, Tools, Internet).
(excluding things like virus scanners and other 'system' programs)
In terms of how often I run these programs per day, it would probably be something like this:
Firefox
Thunderbird
gVim
Explorer (file explorer)
Command prompt
ping
Remote Desktop
Guild Wars [or whatever game I happen to be in to]
7-Zip
But in terms of time spent using each one, I think just moving Guild Wars to the top would make it right.
all of the gui apps I use have apermanent place on my Kicker bar. the rest are console commands that I can type without thinking
I guess this is a little better.
Had trouble finding rename/delete/etc....
What 7-zip were you using??
Mine looks quite clean.
Those menus are customisable anyway, but that's a bit of a pain I guess. (note: I didn't customise that menu, all I did was install 7-zip)
No, that was tugzip.
The only real benefit seems to be support for more file types.
I like the simplicity of 7zip, but think I might stick with Tugzip for the added features. I just hope I don't run across any more bugs.
Something I should have mentioned and I'm surprised nobody else mentioned: 7zip! 
A very nice freeware compression program that integrates itself quite nicely into explorer's context menu.
This is because 7-zip integrates into FAR, so I use it directly from the file manager. What I am surprised is that it seems nobody else is using FAR..
What I am surprised is that it seems nobody else is using FAR..
Because Total Commander does everything FAR does and then some more, and it does it better. It's virtually free too, although it's the right thing to do to pay those few euros...
I use gentoo/suse, os x, and win xp in my day to day life. Quite a mix eh?
Not ordered (also sorry for breaking all the rules)
RSSBandit: best RSS reader for windows. Probably the best one out there "." Akregator and blam are adequate for linux.
gimp -- engineering 460/895. digital image processing. Very programmable and scriptable Out of box. Mostly used matlab for frequency domain though.
mrxvt/bash: mrxvt is based on aterm and rxvt. Nice and light but i like to think of that and bash as a combo. On windows i need bash through cygwin. OS x bash is great too.
matlab,maple: couldn't get very far without these two bad boys!
ssh/sftp: on windows i use putty, psftp. Filezilla also works for sftp.
latex: saves my ass on lab reports. I have a template been using it for years now. NEVER EVER have to worry about formatting again and saves me and my group hours. I don't think i could ever use a word processor again for writeups.
subversion: can't do team projects without it. Also nice to keep homework in sync between my lappy and desky.
firefox: staple on windows and gnome. mac and kde i use konqueror.
thunderbird (windows), mail.app (mac), sylpheed claws 2 (linux), kmail (linux), mutt (ssh). Problems with all of them. not really liking anyone.
gaim: simply awesome. Also use adiumX for os x (uses libgaim but is all mac'd out)
inkscape: i can actually make half-decent looking things in vector drawing. Not so with pixels. Sigh. Been using this since it came from sodipodi.
sharpdevelop: great for c# not as nice as visual studio but free and OSS.
azeureus: torrents (legit ones too
)
7zip: awesome!
vlc: use this on mac and windows. totem (gstreamer) /kaffeine (kde xine front-end). Ogle = best dvd player for years. Mplayer if all else fails.
gcc: last but not least. I can't live without this guy (or mingw).
Too bad I'm not behind my own compo right now. The KDE start menu(kmenu?) would instantly tell me what apps I execute most often.
I guess it is something like that:
Firefox
Konsole
Konqueror (hey, it does the job for a file browser, PDF viewer and archive unpacker)
Gaim
kdevelop
GCC/ICC
KCalck
Blender
IVCcon
Standard Procedural Databases creator
I read the whole discussion and liked it... It might have been smart, though, to have started with a rule: no re-runs. So, my list doesn't mention any I already saw.
TeaTimer
Windows Picture & Fax Viewer
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You all took the good ones.
Oh, I forgot Xine, and MPlayer.
#1 Opera
#2 Diablo2
#3 Telnet
#4 Azureus
#5 WoW
#6 Ventrilo
#7 Windows Media Player
#8 Dev-C++
#9 Graphics Gale
#10 Notepad
Firefox
gVim
qmp (Quintessential Media Player)
MSYS
MinGW
IZarc
7-Zip
eMule
GIMP
MPlayer (plus a frontend)
How could someone play both Diablo 2 and World of Warcraft? Isn't one addicting game enough?
I use VLC or Real Alternative for playing video stuff; the rest were already mentioned.
MSN Messenger
Firefox
Code::Blocks
Programmers Notepad
Command Prompt
Blender
Gimp
IconEdit32
FileZilla
and uhm... GTA San Andreas (well, not so much now that I've finished it, collecting horse shoes and spraying graffiti is kinda boring)
Some of those might be a bit of a stretch as far as frequent use goes. I was surprised how few apps I really use.
The top 6 on my start menu are:
1) notepad - used for quick note taking stuff
2) x-chat - if I restart x-chat or something.... its open all the time just like all my IM 
3) internet explorer - quick lightweight browser for trusted sites (when firefox is closed)
4) ms paint - quick screenshot or simple painting
5) calculator - calculations!
6) ms excel - I used to use this to keep track of hosting customers 
Everything else is lauched off my quick launch tray and usually kept open. I'd say my top 10 for quicklaunch are, in no special order:
1) Firefox
2) Thunderbird
3) cmd
4) filezilla
5) putty
6) nero
7) winamp
8) ethereal
9) windows media
10) winscp
I almost always have AIM, MSN, GAIM, Google chat, X-Chat, a few explorer windows, firefox, thunderbird, scite, a cmd or two, an IE window, a notepad or two, and winamp open. The only exception is closing the memory eaters, like firefox and thunderbird, if I play a game of UT or something.
Ok, i'd better try this:
1: Dev-C++
2: Firefox
3: The GIMP
4: Calculator
5: Paint
6: Relo
7: WinRAM-Booster FREEWARE
8: Winamp
9: UltimateZip
10: SmartFTP
How could someone play both Diablo 2 and World of Warcraft? Isn't one addicting game enough?
I sold my soul to Blizzard... what can I say?
I've made a whole lot of image editing proglets with Allegro over the past 4 years, now I have a new computer that doesn't do dos/vesa stuff worth messing with, and all the old allegro exe's crash. I'll bet I've recompiled about 15 by now with mingw.
Anyway, I've gone down from using one (without thinking) and having it crash every 10-15 minutes to a couple hours before I run into another one.
Otherwise, it's a list of VDE (an ancient dos editor that my fingers have been trained to use for many years), gcc etc. and a few games when my dual brain cells overheat.
there seems to be alot of Firefox users, how many people will switch to opera now that they have given reg keys away?
Relo, Mozilla, eMule, Total Commander, Miranda, Notepad, BSPlayer
my top 10?
1: firefox (beats out everything else
)
2: notepad++ (favorite)
3: dev-cpp (second favorite)
ummmm
ummm
ummm
i think i use Windows Media Player sometimes
ummm
ummm
ummm
open office word
ummm
ummm
ummm
4: thunderbird
uhhhhh
yeah! i don't even use 10 apps:)
EDIT: oh yeah! 7zip.
Why don't you use winamp, it beats out windows media player by a long run.
I preach the gospel of XMPlay myself as I think that both Winamp and WMP are bloated. (inspired by other thread
)
My top 10 apps right now are:
1- Guild Wars
2- Teamspeak 2 RC2
3- Conexión a escritorio remoto (the remote desktop thingie, quite interesting this is the 3rd most used app O_O)
4- ACDSee 7 (weird, I haven't used this one in weeks)
5- Notepad
6- GWFreaks
7- Opera
8- MSN Messenger
9- Command prompt
10- Firefox