your Top 10 apps?
A J

What are you Top 10 most used (not liked, used) apps?

Billybob

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 :P

X-G

In no particular order:

  • Opera

  • SciTE

  • Gaim

  • Winamp

  • Total Commander

  • DC++

  • TorrentStorm

  • WinRAR

  • Paint Shop Pro

  • Photoshop
  • miran

    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...

    OICW

    In no order:

    • Firefox

    • Thunderbird

    • Winamp

    • StrongDC++

    • DevCpp

    • Photoshop

    • MirandaIM

    Evert

    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.

    MiquelFire

    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.

    Steve Terry

    Firefox
    SciTE
    Trillian
    Xfire
    XChat
    PuTTY
    Notepad
    MSPaint
    WinTV2000
    cmd

    Derezo

    MSVC
    StarCraft
    Photoshop
    SciTE
    Apache/PHP/MySQL ;D
    Daemon Tools
    Firefox / Thunderbird
    MySql-Front / MySql-Admin
    Nero
    nLite
    FileZilla

    Little more than 10, oh well.

    Thomas Harte

    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.

    Marcello

    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

    Sirocco

    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

    ReyBrujo

    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:

    Jonny Cook

    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

    jhuuskon

    WinAmp
    Opera
    mIRC
    FL Studio
    MSN Messenger
    DC++
    BitComet
    Crimson Editor
    Word
    AutoCAD

    Chris Katko

    Winamp
    Media Player Classic (or WMP when MPC doesn't play right)
    Notepad

    There's probably been ten threads with good applications posted before.

    khristina yer

    Xmplay, Emule, FireFox, Zsnes, PowerArchiver.
    About in that order.

    Jakub Wasilewski

    Total Commander, Firefox, Thunderbird, SciTE, ModPlug Player, Winamp, make :P, MAME, ZSNES, XChat.

    juvinious

    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

    deps

    Firefox, iTerm, Mail, Smultron, Xcode, MSN messenger (recently replaced with Adium), MegaPOV, Colloquy, Gimp, VLC.

    Carrus85

    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

    kronoman

    mine, no particular order

    RXVT
    Firefox
    Gaim
    XChat
    XMMS
    Rox
    Evolution
    OpenOffice.org
    Skype
    gcc

    Rampage

    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

    Michael Faerber

    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?

    Derezo

    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 :P
    Since I don't know what they are.. I wont be looking into them.

    ReyBrujo

    That is why I linkified my list :)

    kentl

    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

    A J

    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...::)

    nonnus29

    Work:
    Lotus notes
    3270 terminal emulator
    ms office

    Personal:
    Mozilla
    Openoffice.org
    JCreator
    Netbeans
    dev c++
    paint
    notepad
    winrar
    ms mediaplayer
    minesweeper

    Kirr

    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)

    Archon

    Linux:
    Bash + The many CLI apps
    X.org and IceWM
    GIMP
    XTerminal and Bash
    GCC
    XMMS
    XINE
    OpenOffice
    Firefox
    Portage

    [joke]
    Windows:
    Format C:\ ;)
    [/joke]

    Derezo

    Something I should have mentioned and I'm surprised nobody else mentioned: 7zip! :o
    A very nice freeware compression program that integrates itself quite nicely into explorer's context menu.

    Matthew Leverton

    That's because http://www.tugzip.com is way better.

    Derezo

    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. :D

    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...

    ReyBrujo

    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).

    Derezo

    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..

    ReyBrujo

    Not when your temporary directory is in C: and you want to extract a file in D: ;)

    Matthew Leverton

    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.

    Derezo

    Ahh, I see what you mean ;D

    Matthew Leverton
    Quote:

    Context menu attached.. I really should trim it down..

    Put it in its own sub menu; it's better that way.

    Thomas Fjellstrom

    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 :o

    • GCC (C/C++)

    • amaroK

    Derezo

    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.

    ReyBrujo

    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).

    Karadoc ~~

    (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.

    Thomas Fjellstrom

    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 ;)

    Derezo

    I guess this is a little better.
    Had trouble finding rename/delete/etc.... :'(

    Karadoc ~~

    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)

    Derezo

    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.

    Kirr
    Quote:

    Something I should have mentioned and I'm surprised nobody else mentioned: 7zip! :o
    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..

    miran
    Quote:

    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...

    Goalie Ca

    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).

    HoHo

    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

    Gideon Weems

    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

    </li>

    :( You all took the good ones.

    Thomas Fjellstrom

    Oh, I forgot Xine, and MPlayer. :o

    mEmO

    #1 Opera
    #2 Diablo2
    #3 Telnet
    #4 Azureus
    #5 WoW
    #6 Ventrilo
    #7 Windows Media Player
    #8 Dev-C++
    #9 Graphics Gale
    #10 Notepad

    Joel Pettersson
    • Firefox

    • gVim

    • qmp (Quintessential Media Player)

    • MSYS

    • MinGW

    • IZarc

    • 7-Zip

    • eMule

    • GIMP

    • MPlayer (plus a frontend)

    Jonny Cook

    How could someone play both Diablo 2 and World of Warcraft? Isn't one addicting game enough?

    Crazy Photon

    I use VLC or Real Alternative for playing video stuff; the rest were already mentioned.

    Morten Bendix

    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.

    BAF

    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 :P

    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.

    dthompson

    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

    mEmO
    Quote:

    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?

    Arthur Kalliokoski

    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.

    A J

    there seems to be alot of Firefox users, how many people will switch to opera now that they have given reg keys away?

    clovekx

    Relo, Mozilla, eMule, Total Commander, Miranda, Notepad, BSPlayer

    nuklearzelph

    my top 10?

    1: firefox (beats out everything else :))
    2: notepad++ (favorite)
    3: dev-cpp (second favorite)
    ummmm
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    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.

    BAF

    Why don't you use winamp, it beats out windows media player by a long run.

    kentl

    I preach the gospel of XMPlay myself as I think that both Winamp and WMP are bloated. (inspired by other thread ;))

    Oscar Giner

    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

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