Useful Programs

[chef]

ok, you've just built/bought a new pc/mac and it has the vanilla version of the OS of your choice on it, what useful programs do you always then install to get the machine the way you prefer.

for me

Firefox with Xmarks bookmark addon
Zonealarm Internet Security Suite
Diskeeper Defrag Utility
Filezilla FTP Client
VLC Media Player
Cutepdf

 

[doodab]

Firefox
Chrome
MS Office*
MS Visio*
Acrobat Reader
VMWare workstation* or player
VS2008 Pro*
Java 5 & 6 SDK
Eclipse
Putty
NCH switch
Steinberg Cubase*
Ableton Live*
Native Instruments Komplete*
Sony Vegas*
Photoshop*
Canon's Digital Photo Professional + EOS Utilities
Mathematica*
Whatever crap for my phone(s)

*all bought and paid for, before you ask.

I only really use the first two in the list

 

[xoggoth]

Checks date carefully for another trap.

Can't be bothered to list them all as many specific to me but I find Textpad excellent gen purpose tool. You can make notes of things as they come up, paste 1st line at top of page as an index, then simple macro lets you find the right note instantly.

 

[FiveTimes]

notepad++
skype

 

[thunderlizard]

Agent Ransack
Sequoia View

 

[chef]

notepad++

hmm very useful, I've always gone with UltraEdit in the past, I'll give this a go.

 

[d000hg]

I'm waiting to see NickFitz's list.

Thumbs up for NotePad++, and I require Skype for work. Probably Office and Visual Studio are the other must-haves.

 

[Scrag Meister]

hmm very useful, I've always gone with UltraEdit in the past, I'll give this a go.

WCS

UltraEdit FTW, been using it for 14 years. Even have the unlimited upgrade licence, also UltraCompare.

 

[FiveTimes]

not quite a program but a plugin - mozilla firebug

 

[doodab]

I almost forgot gvim.