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Safari. I love this browser.

Edited 2007-11-23 16:20 UTC

We are all Mac at my house, and my favorite app there is really the one-two punch of Transmit and SubEthaEdit. Since I can only choose one app, I suppose I have to boil it down to one app that by itself gives me the most power, so I'm going to say Paint.net for Windows, which I use at work. This powerful tool is my favorite quick way to edit and create images without having to be a pro and without the complications of Photoshop. Did I mention it's totally free??

Firefox

I really like this browser, I only run Linux in the office and at home and the latest release 2.0.0.9 in F7 & F8 however the version on my laptop running RHEL5.1 is like 1.5 something or anothers.

SSH

i think Google is app too so is my killer one

I can't go to sleep until my computer can run Cubase and LyX.

Konqueror, the only app I really need.

Gorillas.bas

Latex

Linux Terminal Server Project because I like my my terminals totally silent and no local maintenance.

figlet sup dudes | cowsay -n

Adium for me. I don't need video/audio chat so I'm perfectly fine with the minimum.

A Java IDE without replacement.

iTunes <3

mh, a kind of vote would be nice, so we could the what's the topmost killer app

Screen, always the first app I load up and just so useful.

vim and zsh

amaroK, because no other media player can compare!

OpenSSH, I would be stuck hooking up a null serial cable without it..

OpenBSD, I would be on bare metal without it.

screen

Utorrent >:]

Kile, a LaTeX editor for KDE. I've used some Windows ones, and for me, they don't compare.

VNC or some equivalent...

Vim

Norton/Volkov/Windows/Total/Midnight Commander

The greatest thing since sliced bread

Maybe "geeky", but gcc changed the world.

I will buy any platform where runs al least one episode of the Super Robot Wars Series ...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Robot_Wars

R-project. ...and I'm still waiting for the R-OS!

OpenSSH. Literally the only app that I use every single day. And if I could have two apps, it would be OpenSSH + GNU Screen. That is a killer combo.

Safari here too (Though I use FireFox at work).

I think this is the most significant new application released for MS Office users since Outlook... Home users will yawn and rightly so - it offers very little for them. But for anyone who has to manage and dissect alot of misc. data on a daily basis it is fricking bliss.

It lets you effortlessly organize and re-organized notes from meetings, personal notes, software documentation, files, picture, schematics, websites, practically anything. And it does so without getting in your way.

It doesn't do anything particularly new - but its the first app of its kind that (I think) gets its all just right. Highly recommended for anyone whose time is valuable and just wants to keep track of things (not time - that is what Outlook is for - OneNote organizes data) without alot of complication...

I would also like to add Gmail. Say what you want about Google, and their GMail app, but it changed the entire webmail platform, and opened up everyone's eyes to the 5 mb limit that other providers such as hotmail and yahoo provided at the time, and made it unacceptable in the eyes of geeks everywhere. Gmail changed all of that.

Vim..

i use it on unix (mainly OpenBSD), windows, macosx. Rarely i use vi. I think it's the most useful program for me.
Also, i vote for ``sudo'', ``nc'' (netcat), ``thunderbird'', ``firefox'', ``slrn'', ``psi'', ``gqview'', ``mplayer''

Yeah, it'd be vim, although psql (postgres) and cowsay are closing in....

Best torrent client on KDE

Have quite a few but I would give the edge to Firefox.

Hope sometime they do a mini-poll or something in short answer, why do you like computers.

Edited 2007-11-23 16:58

I've been using it since 2001 (Opera 5.10) and painfully miss it whenever I have to switch to something else.

GNU BASH. I refuse to use a computer without bash. (at work I have static binaries for AIX, Solaris and HP-Ux hehe)

Eclipse does it for me...

It's either GIMP or Emacs, for totally different reasons, i'm usually happy using nano for text editing but emacs covers so many bases i could do without a number of other apps if using it.

For image editing I know gimp so well and work with it effectively enough to produce better results than a lot or people might from competing apps, it fits my needs well and i have a sensible workflow centered around it.

All this aside, in today's permanently connected world i could just name firefox as my favourite, considering the rich AJAX and Flash apps available online this could provide for my music and video needs in many ways.

... and say an SSH client and modern web browser. I have my favoured clients, but I don't mind switching if something better comes out. But I will ignore a platform unless it provides me reliable SSH and HTTP connectivity, which I think is a good way to define killer applications.

... it's needed. Better than the alternatives.