I find myself using a number of OSes daily but for the OSes I use most, I have some favorite third party applications that I can’t live without. Here are my application lists for Windows, Unix/Linux, Mac OS X and BeOS; applications I always download and install after a clean OS installation. Please tell us about your favorite third party apps you use on different OSes by using the provided comment section.Note: The applications are not listed in any particular order.
Windows
Pretty standard applications I must say.
1. WinZip
2. Trillian
3. Paint Shop Pro
4. GetRight and CuteFTP or FileZilla
5. Java
6. mIRC
7. Acrobat Reader, AbiWord & OpenOffice.org
8. Nero
9. Mozilla/Firebird and Opera
10. Media Pack (WinAMP, DivX, QuickTime, VLC and Real)
Unix/Linux
On Linux, most distros already come with these following applications, but on other Unices they don’t always come as standard as they are not part of X, Gnome or KDE. If that happens, here’s what I try to get for these systems:
1. Gaim or Kopete
2. K3B
3. OpenOffice.org & AbiWord or KOffice
4. ‘Downloader for X’ and gFTP
5. RDesktop & tsclient
6. The Gimp
7. X-Chat
8. Media Pack (VLC, Ogle, MPlayer, XMMS and Xine w/ Totem)
9. Quick Lounge for gnome-panel
10. Ximian Evolution
Mac OS X
I wrote a more comprehensive Mac OS X application list the other day, but this is my really-must-have list.
1. Fire
2. Transmit, Speed Download or iGetter
3. DiscBlaze
4. Media Pack (MacAMP Lite, VLC, MPlayer, Micorosft Media Player)
5. X-Chat Aqua
6. Microsoft Remote Desktop Connection
7. CodeTek VirtualDesktop
8. USB Overdrive X
9. Photoshop Elements or GraphicConverter or MacGimp
10. Watson
BeOS
I don’t use BeOS much anymore (maybe one or two reboots per month), but here is my list. You can see screenshots and more info about these apps on BeBits or BeZip.
1. ProcessController
2. VLC
3. ArtPaint or Refraction or Becasso
4. Helios CDRecorder
5. OpenTracker
6. BeShare
7. BePDF
8. SoundPlay
9. Bezilla or Firebird
10. Vision
BeOS 5 hasn’t been updated for quite a long time and so the OS itself doesn’t come with a lot of stuff resulting in the need to download more third party applications in order to get a more complete experience. Here are some more apps that I usually need to install under BeOS.
11. NetPenguin and BeGet
12. Gobe Productive
13. ‘Terminal Here’ Tracker addon
14. GifTranslator and ImageViewer
15. GimICQ, Y!, MSN and AIM clients
Can anyone make a list for that? It would cost quite some time to find out which programs are best. Time which i don’t want to spend on that.
xp
-call of duty
-c&c generals:zero hour
debian
-samba 3
-rsync
-bind
-apache
redhat
-k3b
-fluxbox
-gkrellm
-firebird
classic mac os
-photoshop
-toast
-illustrator
On Linux (in no particular order):
1. SSH and gnome-terminal
2. Epiphany
3. Nautilus
4. Rhythmbox
5. Abiword2
6. OpenOffice.org Calc
7. Ximian Evolution
8. GIMP
9. vi
10. Totem
Windows:
CloneCD (can’t be done in Linux)
Games (only the ones that don’t run with WineX3.2)
Openoffice
gaim
Linux:
Pan
Mozilla Firebird
gtk-gnutella + bittorrent
mplayer
Openoffice
gaim
to see the number of people who use multiple platforms.
this reinforces my belief that the trolls and fanboys truly are a (stupid) and vocal minority.
Filezilla is on GPL, and Opera isn’t shareware – it’s adware
Sometimes it really does pay to read this board. It got mentioned enough times that I went and took a look. Great program, thanks to those who mentioned it, bye bye winamp…you served me well (Or at least the versions before 3 did). EAC + Foobar2000, seems like my Ogg requirements are finally met :>.
1) (NT) Emacs ( with nxml-mode & jdee )
2) (Cygwin) Bash
3) Java Dev. tools
3) Moz
errrrr..Winrar isn’t free boi…
I found WinRAR to make WinZIP obsolete…
For the media: FFDShow and AC3Filter (both of them freeware).
Xircon and the famous Kano11 script/addon instead of mIRC and AvantBrowser for the Internet browsing.
KOffice: Quick, responsive, a decent amount of features, and it’s mostly worked through all the stability problems it used to be notorious for. Abiword/Gnumeric are equally good, I just prefer KDE-native applications.
Gaim: I’m sorry, but Kopete doesn’t even come close.
JuK: RhythmBox and other iTunes-esque library-style media players on Linux just fall over, but JuK is responsive even with libraries containing tens of thousands of songs.
k3b: Nothing even touches k3b. Don’t even try.
Apollon/Nicotine: Why yes, I certainly can use Kazaa and Soulseek on Linux.
Pan: The best newsreader ever, bar none. Nothing else on Windows, OSX or Linux can touch it.
Konqueror/KHTML: It’s gone from being the stripped-down and featureless underdog to my favorite browser in under a year. I guess there’s a reason Apple picked it.
KDevelop/Quanta Plus: The best all-around IDEs for C++ and web development, bar none. Feel free to replace with Anjuta/Bluefish according to taste.
Xine: What an amazing product. It’s a shame it’s got so much competition from MPlayer and VLC.
Ximian Evolution: As fast as Qt and KDE applications run on my computer compared to GTK+, there’s just nothing Qt-native that comes anywhere near Evolution in terms of feature set and integration.
Windows:
Firebird
Thunderbird
SmartFTP
XChat
Microsoft Word
Battlefield 1942
Linux:
Gaim
Epiphany
Thunderbird
Abiword
Windows:
1. Dreamweaver Studio MX
2. Paint Shop Pro 8
3. PHP
4. MySQL
5. FireBird
6. Netscape 4 and 7
(yeah I know, Netscape 4…I work for the government. It is required that I test that every site I build still functions in NS 4.)
7. PhotoShop
8. Illustrator
9. Acrobat (full version – not just reader)
10. SystemWorks
11. Star Trek Armada 2 (got veg sometime)
12. MS Office XP
13. Opera
Linux
1. XD 2
2. FireBird
Everything else I need is in my distro.
Home
Windows
1. MSN Messenger (I don’t use the other networks)
2. Firebird
3. Photoshop
4. Dreamweaver
5. Assorted games
Linux
1. GAIM
2. XMMS
3. Firebird
4. Evolution
5. gVim
6. Apache
7. PHP
8. MySQL
9. GIMP (1.3)
10. I guess Python for playing with, but that’s about all I use.
Work
Windows
1. Outlook
2. Firebird
3. Admin pack
4. IE 6 (For admining the update server)
5. MSN Messenger
6. Winamp
Arcanum and grep.
Lin
* Opera
* Xmms
* MPlayer
* MySQL
Win
* Firebird
* Putty
* Eudora
* ztracker http://ztracker.sf.net
* WaveLab
* Winamp
* WinRAR
Lin/Win
* OO !
* Eclipse
* Tomcat
* JDiskReport http://www.jgoodies.com/
Gaim
Gqview
GIMP
KGhostview/Gpdf/Acroread
Mozilla/MozillaFirebird
Kmail
MySQL Control Center
TuxCards
Quanta
Totem
Kaffiene
MPlayer, Xine
Juk
OpenOffice, Abiword
K3b (for Linux cd-writing it doesn’t get any better!)
MacOSX
Amazingly, I don’t even have most of the stuff everyone else lists. I’ve made an effort to learn to use OS X with as few add-ons as possible.
Hitting the high points (stuff that can’t be faked & isn’t built in anyway):
Photoshop Elements (soon, replacing Photoshop 4)
Toast Mainly for hybrid CD’s, for which I have to boot into OS9, it’s too unstable and too limited on X.
CodeWarrior XCode has some good unique features, but it ain’t in CW’s league yet. It’s good for creating new projects.
App-Ki-Do & Cocoa Browser Neither is complete by itself, and Cocoa is almost unusable without them.
Resorcerer
Interarchy (plan to test some others soon.)
GyazMail Only thing I can find besides (ugh) Eudora that lets me send with different return addresses.
Stuffit Only choice on Mac; also vastly better than PkZip, WinZip, etc, on Windows.
WindowShade X for the sole purpose of totally preventing anything from ever minimizing to the Dock.
BBEdit LiteOpens anything. Usually enough to get into Word documents.
Since I only use Linux, these are the absolute essentials, which I can’t live without:
Mozilla Firebird (obvious)
Open Office (Since it makes the best PDFs)
K3B (Where would I be without it?)
Gimp (Ever tried Photoshop with wine?)
Trash Can (Who can live without?)
BeOS:
————————————
Expander ( ZIP/RAR or whatever I need to unzip )
Metrowerks BeIDE
Vision ( Best IRC client ever )
VLC ( Best Video CLient ever )
Mozilla/And Firebird
CL-amp
Handbrake ( Can it really be better? )
XRS
GoBe or Abiword here.
Win:
————————————-
Only games here.
I just use linux right now. Got rid of my windows partition, and beos partition a while back when I realized that I was only booting to them about once a month, and they were eating up too much space. so my list right now.
on Slackware Linux
Dropline Gnome
Rhythmbox
Sound Juicer
Sodipodi
Gimp 1.3
Quake 3
Unreal Tournament
Winex
Ximian’s Open Office
The apps I use on a daily basis:
1. Mutt
2. slrn
3. centericq
4. BitchX
Then for fun:
1. Tuxracer
2. Frozen-Bubble
3. GLTron
4. Neverwinter Nights/Urentide
1. launch bar
2. osx2x
3. Fugu
4. Poisoned
5. SubEthaEdit
6. Adobe Photoshop
7. Firebird
8. Crikey!
9. Proteus
10. darwinports
|Slackware 9.1|
-Dropline Gnome
-Quake 3
-Unreal Tournament/2K3
-Enemey Territory
-Americas Army
-Starcraft
-GTA 3
-Warcraft 3
-Sim City 3000
-Max Payne
-Duke Nukem 3D
-aMSN
-Mldonkey
-xmmms
-mozilla
-swaret <— I wonder why no one mentioned this?
-gxine /w every mplayer codec I can find
-openoffice
-evolution
-k3b
-arno’s firewall script for iptables 😉
-DRI <— very imporatant since theres no offical radeon 7500 drivers
Win:
moz-fb
msoffice – ooo still not native
kazaa lite
cygwin/bash
editpad – woot! best editor ever!
Nero
gvim – quick editing
linux:
xmms – i still don’t like jukebox type apps like rbox or juk
konqueror (konq 3.2 is VASTLY improved thx to apple..enough to replace firebird for me)
ooo – good as it gets on linux.. abiword/gnumeric and koffice dont do it for me
kopete – recently replaced gaim for me
kmail – again, vastly improved in kde 3.2.. can compete with Evo feature to feature, and has even better gpg integration
wolf-et – good game
k3b – the nero of linux
konsole
gimp development version
vim
osx:
safari – IE is slow. Mozilla is slow. Safari rocks.
Terminal.app
OfficeV.X – nothing touches it on OSX yet
Photoshop
Illustrator
vim
Here’s my list of most important apps.
0. Gnome (UI control)
1. Mozilla
2. Gaim
3. XMMS
4. GKRellm
5. Synaptic
6. Firestarter
7. Open Office (gEdit/vi for simple text editing)
8. gFTP
9. Gxine
I’d like to find an image viewer that doesn’t suck. Personally I think the image viewer that comes with XP is pretty good. It intelligently resizes images to fit whatever size window you have. It automatically lets you go to the next image in a directory without having to first go to File, then Open, and creating a “playlist” of images.
gThumb, its the best.
I find it amazing that a GNU/Linux or *BSD list of favorite apps wouldn’t have either Emacs or some variant of vi. My favorite apps are:
(1) Emacs
(2) ed
(3) sed
(4) w3m, for my web-browsing
(4) wanderlust, an Emacs-based mail client
(5) scribus, for desktop publishing
(6) tcsh (because bash sucks)
(7) glabels, for printing business cards
(8) sodipodi
on Linux (Slackware):
– Dropline Gnome (dropline-installer)
– swaret
– Gnumeric
– centericq
– irssi
– Java SDK
– NetBeans
on QNX:
– The Installer
– Eclipse
– KillerAudio
– irssi
– ysm
What I need:
FreeBSD (and Linux/OpenBSD/NetBSD)
-openssh
-firebird/dillo/links
-screen
-irssi/xchat
-cvsup
-bittorrent
-xmms/mplayer
-gimp
-gaim/licq
-nmap
-abiword
-wget
-xpdf
I notice that a lot of you are putting Quak3 3 and Unreal Tournament on your list …. don’t you get tired of playing those damn games? I got tired of playing them when they were called Doom
XFCE 4.01 /w goodies Slackware 9.1
-Server Stuff (Apache, OpenSSH, Very Secure FTP daemon)
-Browsing (Mozilla Firebird, Lynx)
-E-mail (Mozilla Thunderbird)
-Media (XMMS, Xine)
-Updates (Swaret)
-Communication (XChat, Gaim)
-Games (Quake III, Unreal Tournament, and the WineX so Diablo II Expansion pack is playable)
“I notice that a lot of you are putting Quak3 3 and Unreal Tournament on your list …. don’t you get tired of playing those damn games? I got tired of playing them when they were called Doom
”
No, never
Windows:
Emacs
CDBurnerXP Pro (Free)
WinGIMP, Dia
GAIM
OpenOffice
Mozilla, Mozilla Mail, Mozilla Calendar
NetBEANS
Relo (IDE)
Java
EditPad Pro
Quicktime, Real Player, WinDVD, iTunes
Linux
Java
KDevelop
Scribus
GAIM
Ogle
XMMS, MPlayer
Real Player
OpenOffice
GIMP
Mozilla, Mozilla Mail, Mozilla Calendar
CrossOver Office
for windows:
irfanview
foobar2000
mozilla-firebird
xnews
nero
daily comic popup
winrar
mcafee av
divx player
wacom tablet driver
Linux only, I haven’t used Windows on the desktop for a year …
ZSH
apt-get + dpkg
emacs/vim
J2SDK
Gaim, XChat.
SSH, sftp
Rhythmbox/Xmms
Frozen-bubble !
🙂
WINDOZE:
Xteq…a graphical system tweaking app
Zsoft’s PC paintbrush…i have never found a better freehand painting tool on any OS at any price,no multiple undo and long filename support and may not run on versions later than WIN98,you can usually find this puppy for less than 10 bucks in the discount software bin at the local dept store.
Ultimate Paint…filters and special FX galore
Zwei-Stein..full featured freeware video editor great for combining small clips into a larger movie or other video editing tasks
ZipMagic…my favorite file extractor for Windoze ,it always seemed funny to me that windoze doesnt even come with a zip utility,while cheaper and even free OS’s do
Window Washer …nice graphical cleaner for your temp internet files,and such
SynthFactory….a freeware softsynth
Poodles and Flan…a fracal midi composition app,reminds me of a little mechanical Frank Zappa
BeOS5 Personal Edition … a good test to see if BeOS will run on your Win Box.
BeOS:
MonoView….nifty little viewer app that will run any picture or video supported by BeOS,i always have the icon right on my desktop so i can drop a file on it,also has a replicant feature so you can use the pics or movies for walpaper
XRS….the ultimate rythym machine for BeOS
PersonalStudio….THE best video editor anywhere
Slayer..sorry ,I like this one better than Process controler!maybe it’s the neat pentogram icon
BeOS clean up manager…Window washer for BeOS
BeConverter…converts units of measure,currency etc.
dCam…really cool app that will save a sequence of still pix as a movie file amongst other things, also plays all the pictures in a directory as a slideshow
Rack747…nifty softsynth,rythym machine has a random event feature to make it just sit there and jam out, very entertaining
There’s just too many to list in BeOS actually as this is my all time favorite platform
Linux:
Most linux distros seem to come with everything but the kitchen sink but I recently Loaded a Mandrake 9.1 distro on my one box and found that amongst the wealth of apps that were included a few old favorites weren’t there:
Compupic…wish I could remember where I put this app ,it was my favorite picture viewer for linux
StarOffice…runs just fine on Mandrake9.1
Xpaint…nice lite painting tool for X , Leaner than Gimp like the difference between Artpaint and Refraction in BeOS,loads faster and is nice when you just want to do something quick.this a[[ was sorely missing from the mandrake 9.1 distro,but I have a fairly new Debian distro on mt DotStation and it’s on there.
MacOSX:
I Don’t have a Mac new enough to run OS X, But If someone out there wants to send me one,I would be glad to test out any apps you would like,I’m the consumate Beta tester!LOL
besides It would be an Ideal Xmas present!!!
I don’t know about “third party”, but these are the apps that I make the most use of (and enjoy using the most):
1. bash
2. emacs
3. vim
4. konqueror (thought I do have to use mozilla sometimes)
5. kmail (far better than some people credit it for)
6. ssh
7. pine (yes, I use kmail AND pine)
8. wget
9. netcat
10. lsof
The list must grow 🙂
11. mpg123 (why bother with the xmms window 🙂
12. python – good for everything, the wonder widget!
In no particular order:
Linux:
1) Konqueror
2) KMail
3) XMMS
4) K3B
5) GIMP
6) Blender
7) wget
8) bash + GNU Utils
9) POPFile
10) tvtime
11) Gngeo (Best NeoGeo emulator for Linux)
12) ZSNES
13) KMencoder
14) MPlayer & KMPlayer
15) Digikam (Excellent for managing hundreds of photos!)
16) Kopete
17) Apollon
Windows:
1) Mozilla
2) POPFile
3) Miranda IM
4) NeoRAGE (still the best NeoGeo emulator so far!)
5) FinalBurn (best CPS1 and CPS2 arcade emulator available out there)
I think that’s it…
DeadFish Man
OSX
More 3.1 — 12 years old and one of the primary reasons I still use a mac
Word + Endnote — They’re separate apps by separate companies, but it’s the combination that really is important to me
Drop Drawers — a wonderful interface for the mac
Eudora — don’t love it but don’t want to risk converting either
Notational Velocity — extraordinary note pad
File maker — for almost everything to do with grading
My own apps: TAMS and books2burn
Linux/*nix
Bluefish — since “upgrading” to panther I’ve trashed my copy; miss it dearly
gramofile — main reason I have linux on any machine
**It automatically lets you go to the next image in a directory without having to first go to File, then Open, and creating a “playlist” of images.
gThumb is the best
gThumb does the exact thing I was saying I didn’t like. If you associate JPG images to it, it will open the 1 JPG image you click on and then you have to create a “playlist” before you can see the rest. The behavior I’m looking for is a viewer that realizes there are other images in the same directory and will let you go to them with PGUP/PGDOWN or left and right clicking. So if I have a directory (folder) on my Desktop that has 10 images in it and I open that directory, click on any image in the list, all I have to do is hit PGUP/PGDOWN to scroll through them.
1) Ad Muncher! the single biggest headache-reliever, which saves me from megabytes of advertisements. It’s the speediest, most effective ad-blocker out there. Available only on Windows. http://www.admuncher.com
2) NewsBin! The fastest, most efficient news robot around. Available only on Windows. http://www.newsbin.com
3) VirtualDub. For all my encoding needs. I expect this to get bumped down by Nero Recode2 soon. Available only on Windows. http://virtualdub.org
4) foobar2000. Rips, tags, plays all my mp4 music. It’s the digital pimp, and it’s only for Windows. http://www.foobar2000.org/
5) WinRAR. Kicks @$$ on every other archiver I’ve found. GUI version only on Windows. http://rarlabs.com
6) Nero Burning ROM. It’s not as efficient as other burning apps, but it does EVERYthing. When Recode2 is released in about 2 weeks, Nero goes straight to number 1. Windows only. http://www.nero.com
7) Kazaa Lite. Close behind: ed2k, DC++. Unfortunately there’s no official mirror anymore due to ‘copyright infringement.’
8) Opera! i’d use Firebird, but it’s still too slow. Expect Firebird 1.0 to take this place if it has inline autocomplete. http://www.opera.com
9) SpamWeed. Best Bayesian SPAM filter I’ve found. Better than POPfile – that says it all. Available only on Windows. http://www.spamweed.com
10) this space intentionally blank. Perhaps an email client should be here, but Thunderbird still sucks, OE6 lacks too many features, and Outlook 2003 just plain stinks. I expect Thunderbird 0.8 will take this spot when it’s released.
11) Vegas Video. Kicks @$$ on Premiere, etc.
12) SoundForge – since i’m over the limit anyways..
13) ACID Pro. Best sequencer for me.
14) ACDsee – another digital pimp.
The above are only available on Windows.
On OS/2:
PmView2000
RSJ CD Writer
Mozilla Firebird/Thunderbird
PmDownloader
Lotus Smartsuite
PmZip, RAR
Realplayer
On Windows
Nero
Office2003 (Excel & Word)
Flashget
PmView2000
Powerarchiver (a Winzip clone that’s better than Winzip)
Realplayer, Quicktime
On MacOS X
Office v.X (Excel & Word)
iGetter
Poison
Toast and Dragon Burn X
Stuffit Deluxe
Realplayer, Windows Mediaplayer
UnrarX
Windows
————
foobar2000
Media Player Classic
Opera
Trillian Pro 2.0
WinRAR
Hi!
There is my contribution.
I use this all applications under Linux and Solaris (SPARC)
Evolution
MozillaFirebird
OpenOffice
Anjuta
Bluefish
Gaim
X-Chat
xMule
Downloader for X
Xine
Sun’s JDK
XMAME
— and in the server
SSH + Tomcat + Apache + MySQL and / or PHP
UNIX/Linux is READY to desktop 🙂
AlucardX / Ibantxuyn
I’m using slackware 9.0 . This is what I use in daily basis:
k3b 0.10 (cd burning)
gaim 0.70 (instant messenger)
gFTP
xine (for dvds)
mplayer (the same)
kplayer 0.4 (nicely integrated with KDE)
nicotine (soulseek client)
grip (audio->mp3, audio->ogg)
kbear
gimp
xchat
scummvm (I love monkey island
)
squid (serving my small lan’s http requests)
sweep 0.82 (the best audio editor for *nix i’ve ever seen)
mozilla 1.5
I love it simple
UltraEdit for Win32.
*Indispensible* text editor.
http://www.ultraedit.com
Linux:
PostgreSQL (If not already installed)
Java SDK
Tomcat
Eclipse
Gentoo (The filebrowser not the OS)
Alsa (though it is in Slack 9.1)
Nvidia Drivers (Easier dual monotor configuration)
VLC
Open Office
JACK
Windows:
Firebird SQL (because Postgre does not hav a native Windows port)
Cygwin
VLC
Mozilla and/or Firebird Browser
Java SDK
Eclipse
Open Office
Foobar 2000
BurnAtOnce
Ogg Vorbis
It Makes 11 for Linux bur Firewall Builder. I can handle simple netfilter forewalls but FWB makes the tedious job of setting up a larger network up reasonably painless.
And to even it out for Windows Exact Audio Copy (EAC)
In BeOS at home:
Helios CDR
ImageMounter
NetPenguin
Vision
Pe
Mail Daemon Replacement
ClipUp
PecoRename
SoundPlay
MP3 Army Knife
RipEnc
VLC
LAME
SLRN
SpicyKeys
BeShare
UniversalScroller
Firebird
Dockbert
Coldcut/Bambam/SampleStudio
Windows:
Illustrator
Photoshop
Eudora
Nero
CDex
WinAMP (5.0 betas are v. v. nice)
VNC
VLC
VirtualDub
NimoCodec pack
Bink tools (so I don’t have to pollute my nice clean system with quicktime)
WinGAIM
Creative MediaSource (so it’s an amateurish iTunes clone, which still makes it better than their previous attempt – an amateurish WMP clone – but it’s the least hideous free interface to my ‘ol Nomad II)
Audacity
“ZipMagic…my favorite file extractor for Windoze ,it always seemed funny to me that windoze doesnt even come with a zip utility,while cheaper and even free OS’s do”
Huh?
I suppose “Compressed Folders” isn’t included and free in ALL Microsoft Windows Products SINCE WindowsME…Looks like a free Zip utility to me.
I never understood why MS doesn’t make it more apparent they do have one installed (damn DOJ). I have run across ALOT of people who didn’t know a Zipper is included with Windows. Just have to know where to look (Add/remove windows components).
What’s important to notice is that Linux distros / *BSDs usually cover about 95% of their users’ need. You can’t say the same for BeOS, Windows, MacOSX etc…
However, most of the time, I like to add the following to my Linux distros:
1) Gstreamer’s MP3/DIVX/de-css plugins
2) Totem
3) MAME + illegal ROMS (where can I *buy* the legal ROMs ?)
4) xMule for illegal download of music (when will it be possible to get songs for 1 EUR each in Europe ?)
5) Blender
6) Flash and JRE plugins for Mozilla
That’s all. Everything else is already on the 3 CDs.
Windows:
1. MS Office
2. Acrobat Reader
3. Winzip
4. Winamp
5. CuteFTP
6. Yahoo! Messenger
POSIX:
1. Mozilla
2. Open Office
3. xterm
4. XAmp
Looks like now with POSIX i have less dependent to Windblows stuff really huh???
just 2 cents
mTelnet (a Zmodem-capable telnet client)
QuickView Pro for DOS (http://www.multimediaware.com/qv/)
Without the first, I could’t grab software from the several telnet-capable BBSes I still frequent. Without the second, I’d have a hard time watching the movies I make with my digital camera! 🙂
To be honest, I also do some thing under Windows, and I find the following third-party apps invaluable:
* Mozilla/Firebird
* 4DOS (yes, I use a CLI under Windows)
* FTE and JFE (text editors)
* FileJet (fullscreen file manager)
* XnView (graphics)
* QuikMenu 4 (replacement desktop)
* PhotoGenetics
* Archimage (photo page website builder)
* SpaceMonger
* Quartz AudioMaster
* Anvil Studio
* QuickTime Player
* QuickView Pro
* Space
Windows:
ZoneAlarm
SpyBot Search and Destroy
AVG free antivirus.
Nero
Trillian
WinRar
TextPad (because notapad blows)
OO.org
Acrobat Reader
Java
Firebird
Linux:
Gaim
Gimp
Lyx
Acrobat Reader
OO.org
Java
Opera (the best browser for Linux IMO)
MS Fonts (not exactly an app but pretty essential)
Like most of us here, I use a lot of different OSes between home and a few jobs. These days though, and for a year and a half, Windows CE has been my primary platform. I am definately an anamoly in that sense. And in another way too- I am a Squeak Smalltalk user and developer ( http://www.squeak.org ), and because of the power and flexibility of Squeak, it is my operating environment.
For me, my must have apps on Windows CE are:
Squeak Smalltalk: What is there to say? Squeak is the bomb. It is like having Emacs as my environment, but is useful in a more conventional way. It is incredibly expandable, flexible, and dynamic; if I want to change the way something works, I can go in and change it.
One could say that you could do this with any open source system, but it goes a step beyond that- I don’t have to deal with the temporal, computational, or emotional overhead with dicking around with a C/C++ system, spending more time on finding where I would make the change than the whole process of implementing and testing teh change would take in Smalltalk. Squeak has a lot of apps for it, which I use within the environment- telnet/xterm, IRC, full IDE, scripting environment, editors, etc etc.
http://www.squeak.org and http://spe.sf.net
ftxBrowser: A tabbed web browser, incredibly configurable. Embeds the IE that comes with WinCE, so I don’t loose any of the functionality that IE 5.5 WinCE provides. Equivalent to somewhere in between IE 5.0 and 6.0- a very capable browser, especially on the high-res screen.
http://www.af.wakwak.com/~ftoshi/software.html
Rainer Kuechel’s Unix Ports: Too many to list itemized. Thanks to Rainer’s efforts, there are more well adapted ports of classic Linux/Unix apps for Windows CE than I found when using the Linux-based Zaurus. The apps I use more often are GNU Maxima (math software) and LaTeX.
http://www.rainer-keuchel.de/software.html
Dialect: I use this scripting language a ton. If you take the Python language, but give it the prototype-based object model of NewtonScript and the ease of development of VisualBasic 6 and you have Dialect. I do most of my coding in Squeak, but when I need to put together a pure CE utility to share with the Handheld PC community, I often do it in Dialect- you can write, test and run code on the PDA or handheld itself as well as deploy to an EXE. The EXE has an overhead of 750KB for the base runtime and library, which isn’t that bad, compared to similar tools for Perl and Python.
http://dialect.sf.net
uBook Reader: I read a ton of ebooks. While I have a simple enough ebook reader for Dynapad/Squeak, uBook reader is very nice and very featured, so I stick with it.
My current main computer is the Sigmarion III, a WinCE.NET 4.1 machine. 800×480 16bit color screen (!), 64 MB RAM, SD and CF slots, USB host and USB slave port- host ports are very rare on PDAs- I can plug in USB keyboards, hard drives, scanners, CD-RWs, etc etc- and a very fast PXA255 XScale CPU running at 400 MHz. Wifi via a CF card, naturally.
http://handheldpcs.superboxes.com/
BeOS / Zeta:
1. Handbrake
2. BeGet
3. BeAIM
4. BeOS IM kit
5. Vision
6. Mail Replacement Daemon
7. Jukebox
8. Soundplay
9. VLC
10. Squeezer
MacOS X:
1. SubEthaEdit
2. Zoe
3. VLC
4. Handbrake
5. iRC
6. GraphicConverter
7. Transmit
8. CandyBar
9. SalingClicker
10. Marratech
Zaurus:
1. tkcAddressBook
2. tkcCalendar
3. tkcJabber
4. tkcMahjongg
5. tkcPlayer
6. tkcRadio
7. tkcVideo
8. Opera
9. NotesSync
10. Gaim
There are many apps that I couldn’t live without, and these are only ment as a selection.
Primarily, I only use Linux:
Opera
GAIM
X-Chat
XMMS
MPlayer
OpenOffice.org
Emacs
Links/Lynx
gcc
wget
Komba2 (Samba)
Audacity
xcalc
GIMP
Grip
Why to hell that malicious mIRC when you listed Trilian ?
If one is going from a Mac to Mac connection …
would it be better to use Timbuktu or ARD?
🙂
I need these apps:
1. Microsoft Office Outlook 2003
2. Microsoft OneNote 2003
3. Microsoft Office Word 2003
4. Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2003
5. Microsoft Office Visio 2003
6. Microsoft Exchange 2003
7. Microsoft Visual Studio .NET
8. Microsoft Encarta 2004
9. Microsoft BizTalk Server 2004 Developer
10. Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Developer
Until someone ports this list to linus oder macos I see no way to ever use them…
1) Opera (Win/Linux) – fast as a greased scotsman, and means i can seamlessly access my email and bookmarks between the two OSs
2) Vim – again, i can use the config cross-platform
The Rest) Paint Shop Pro, Winamp (XMMS under linux), Media Player Classic, Nero, JWPce (japanese word processor with dictionary)
Until someone ports this list to linus oder macos I see no way to ever use them…
I guess what you are saying is that you are and always will be a Windows only user…
Linux:
1. GAIM
2. OpenOffice
3. emacs or vim
4. gcc
5. PAN
6. GNOME!
7. GnuCash
8. XChat2
9. Epiphany
10. Gimp
11. BlueFish
12. MultiSync
13. Enemy Territory
-Erwos
Linux/unix
0) mc (midnight commander, on windows I use turbo explorer, it can do everything even uncompact every archive I ever tried)
1) xmms
2) mplayer
3) lopster
4) gaim/amsn (great,great one, amsn.sf.net)
5) grip
6) nedit (for the rest)
7) xemacs for latex
8) gnomad (stuf for my creative jukebox)
9) gcombust
10) quake3 (really, I’m still enjoying it and there’re tons of great, great mods)
I don’t count latex, swi-prolog, acrobeat, gv and so on, it’s part of my work……………
(and on mac os 8.x, it’s finder pop….)
I love juk in suse distribution, it’s basicly a media player or something like iTunes for wind/Mac. I just wished it was more developed.
Winamp
IE
CoD
Often needed apps on my OpenStep-Box:
– Parasheet
– OpenWrite
– Framemaker
– JetPilot
– Scan-O-Matic
– Mail.app (the real one)
– Terminal.app
– CDDesigner
Windows XP
1. All the Windows Updates
2. Norton Antivirus
3. Winamp (for previewing Music)
4 iTunes (for my library needs after passing the winamp step)
5. Mirc
6. Texturizer
7. NVidia Drivers
8. Creative Soundblaster Drivers
9. Divx
10. Powerdvd
11. Region Free (or whatever lets me play my dvds)
Linux (Fedora Core 1)
1. mp3 playback for Xmms and Gstreamer
2. Gstreamer PLayer, Totem, Xine, Mplayer (yes the whole lot)
3. NVidia drivers
4. Firestarter
Its really hard, most things are just ‘yum install foo’ or ‘apt-get install foo’ away. I end up getting the latest beta versiobs of the stuff I already have anyway, so it doesn;t really count.
Windows:
Photoshop
Dreamweaver
Cubase SX
Firebird
Thunderbird
iTunes
J2SE SDK
Nimo Codec Pack
VirtualWin
SSH Secure Shell Client
WinRar
ACDSee Classic
Nero
Vim 6.2
Acrobat Reader
MS Word
Eclipse
Cygwin
Linux:
Bash
Vim 6.2
J2SE SDK
Eclipse
KDE
Konsole
xmms
wget
tar
rgrep
Thunderbird
Firebird
Windows XP Pro:
Full Windows Update
Samurize
Trillian Free
SmartFTP
Leechget 2003
NoAds
Emule
Nero
CdEx
IZArc
AnalogX FastCache
Page Defrag
Favorg
Motherboard Monitor
Ad-Aware
PeerGuardian
Panda Antivirus
BsPlayer
Winamp 2.91
K-Lite Codec Pack
Renoise Tracker
Some Games