Desktop Software Applications, Webapps, and Projects We're Most Thankful For
From Lifehacker
Saturday, November 29, 2008 by ZubaZ | Discussion: WinCustomize Talk
I love Lifehacker. The other day they listed their favorite free apps. I have used enough of them and seen many of them mentioned here at WC. I thought I would take a second to provide some feedback. Links to all of these didn't copy over but are availalbe at the Lifehacker site.
Have fun and tell us what you think of these.
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Desktop Software Applications, Webapps, and Projects We're Most Thankful For |
Zubaz Used and Approved |
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1. Firefox |
Love the extensions |
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2. VLC Media Player |
Used to use. Not a bad app |
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3. Ubuntu |
Dual boot to this sometimes but not often. It's the *nix I'd use if I had to. |
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4. Open Office |
Still a bit slow but gets the job done |
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5. Pidgin |
Great all-in-on chat client. It's my IRC of choince |
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6. Launchy |
Never used |
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7. Digsby |
Never used |
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8. Gmail |
It's my go to mail client |
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9. Adium |
When I had the Mac this was my chat client |
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10. CCleaner |
A mainstay for those of us who install and unistall often |
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11. Picasa |
The new plug-ins make this even better |
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12. AutoHotKey |
No knowledge of |
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13. Google |
Everyone but Jafo loves this. It must be good, right? |
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14. Quicksilver |
Too Mac for me |
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15. GIMP |
It makes my brain bleed but it's free and powerful |
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16. Foobar 2000 |
I use this to re-tag my music. Powerful. |
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17. Thunderbird |
Used to use it before gmail. |
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18. 7-Zip |
Oh yeah baby. Right there. |
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19. DropBox |
Sharing skins through this is super easy. Been using Mesh more lately though. |
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20. uTorrent |
Not much of a torrentor . . I stick with bittorrent |
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21. Winamp |
Stopped using years ago. Didn't do anything that much better than anything else. |
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22. Google Apps |
I wrote this list in that. |
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23. AVG Antivirus |
Gets the job done with lowish resource use |
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24. Evernote |
Never heard of this. May have to look it up |
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25. IrfanView |
Been using this since the internet was a baby |
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26. Opera |
Meh. Never did so much more that I needed it |
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27. Chrome |
Played with it . . but why switch from FF? |
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28. Google Calendar |
Oh. Yeah. |
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29. HandBrake |
Never tried it |
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30. Skype |
My Mom is in Iraq and we use this now and again. I used it to do the WC Skincast |
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31. Linux |
See Ubuntu |
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32. Paint.NET |
Easy and gets the job done. Istart here and fire up GIMP when needed. |
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33. Ad-Aware |
I used to use this but don't anymore. Using Windows Defender |
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34. Avast Antivirus |
Using AVG but have heard good things here |
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35. Google Docs |
See the other google entries |
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36. LogMeIn |
I've used this with SD tech support a few times. Easy like pie. |
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37. Transmission |
No need with bittorrent |
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38. TrueCrypt |
LOVE THE HELL OUT OF THIS! |
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39. Amarok |
I don't do sound manips much but this is what I use. |
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40. FileZilla |
It's a standard for a reason. It rocks. |
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41. Notepad++ |
Notepad works well enough for me. |
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42. PortableApps.com |
Tried and was satisfied but not my thing |
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43. Rocket Dock |
Heh. I'll stick with OD+ |
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44. Spybot Search & Destroy |
Used to use it but not so much anymore |
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45. UltraVNC |
This rocks for getting the job done. |
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46. VirtualBox |
I use this and VirtualPC. I like the snapshots here more. |
Reply #2 Saturday, November 29, 2008 3:37 PM
I listen to almost all my music (local, services, radio) through my Logitech Squeezebox. Everything gets listed to my last.fm account availalbe anywhere else.
I only use teh windows soundsytem to listen to Vonage VM and games.
Reply #3 Saturday, November 29, 2008 7:14 PM
I use about 25% of those apps every day. (I'm cheap! 
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Reply #4 Saturday, November 29, 2008 7:22 PM
Oh yeah baby. Right there.
That has got to be one of the best free apps out....does everything you need it to do, and it doesn't confuse the Hello out of you.
It makes my brain bleed but it's free and powerful
Not sure why it makes your brain bleed...so very easy to use. Of course, I graduated up from PhotoImpact 3.4 a few years ago, and haven't gone back. 
Reply #5 Saturday, November 29, 2008 9:04 PM
Chrome....I use it when FireFox doesn't work on a site... IE is just too slow....
Thank you Zubaz, many of these I already use, some I am going to have to look up!!!
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Reply #1 Saturday, November 29, 2008 3:26 PM
wtf Winamp friggin rules
multiple skinning formats
plugins galore
it really whips the llama's ass