Coolest applications you'll ever find.

[jazzy]

Dropbox:

https://www.getdropbox.com/home#/

Dropbox syncs your files to the INTERWEBZ and allows you to re access the files with your account, I back up all my notes, passwords, cdkeys, and music (i only have about 500mb or so)

You can make a free account with 2GB, and you can earn 250mb everytime you invite someone, limit for that is 3GB.

You can download an app that makes a folder in your documents that you can drag and you can access your music/files/etc on their website, so if you upload a .swf you can play it off your account, or play music with quicktime.

 

Winamp:

http://www.winamp.com/

Back in the day, winamp was the shit compared to players like WMP and iShit, infact, it's still pretty cool, but it has some flaws (they made a web browser for it, *facepalm*).

Great music player, offers built-in global hotkeys.

 

Google Chrome

http://www.google.com/chrome

Wassat, you still usin firefox? Well get out from under that rock, because Google Chrome is pretty much the fastest browser right now, although it doesn't offer very much addon support YET, it is fast, has 'google experiments' which use javascript that google has perfectly optimized for fun and games (Google Experiments even has a NES emulator, inorite!!!).

 

Pidgin

http://www.pidgin.im/

Pidgin is a universal instant messaging client for things like.....

AIM, MSN, Gtalk, Jabber, ICQ, IRC, YIM, etc etc etc.

IRC is a bit lacking but eh who cares it's got a SHITLOAD of plugins for it to make up.

 

 

Please, post your favorite software, include some info about it, and feel the

[b0red]

most of these are known things but a good list, basically i just use all the programs everyone knows and loves.

[Sgt_Church]

GIMP - Freeware version of a program like Photoshop that is free but harder to use.

[Allan]

I knew about some of these except the getdrop one, thanks for sharing =)

[Shadowex3]

http://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=522081

 

 

But seriously, lets have highlights of useful programs that other people might not already know of:

 

 

Foxit PDF Reader

http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/reader/

It's not perfect, and it chokes to hell on excessive vectorized graphics, but for most everything else it's a major improvement over adobe's bloated monstrosity.

 

Burn4Free

http://www.burn4free.com/

Comes with a toolbar, but its well behaved so you can just disable it in IE/FF. It's a one-screen burning program that can burn pretty much everything in pretty much any way and shows you how much space you're taking as you go along several scales for CD/DVD and so on based on what you've put in the working area. It's extremely fast, very lightweight, and I've never made a coaster with it.

 

QT-Lite and MPC

http://www.codecguide.com/about_qt.htm

http://sourceforge.net/projects/guliverkli/

Media Player Classic is exactly what it sounds like, it's a REALLY lightweight and minimalist media player for videos and whatnot, think quicktime or windows media player before the nasty bloat. QT Lite is a codec set kinda thingy that combined with MPC lets you play embedded quicktime content without needing the bloaty quicktime.

 

Allway Sync

http://allwaysync.com/

Think dropbox but inside of your network and more intelligent. Set up however many folders on two computers, set up the options, and run allway to either intelligently merge the two computers based on what's newest or force match one computer to another. You only need Allway on one comp but there are supposedly advantages to having it on both. Personally I use it to keep my laptop synced to my home computer for coursework and whatnot.

 

 

That's about it, Xplorer 2 and Partition Magic are awesome as well but most people know about the latter (and it's not useful in every day life) and the former's a for-pay program.

[BOOWY]

F.lux

http://stereopsis.com/flux/

Changes the brightness/color settings of your monitor according to the time of day. Makes your monitor easy on the eyes at night so when you go to bed it has less of an impact on your eyes and supposedly helps you sleep better/faster.

 

CutePDF Writer

http://www.soft32.com/download_199211.html

Gives your computer an extra printer option. When you go to print something up where your list of printers are, selecting CutePDF Writer will ask you where you want to save a PDF version of that printed material. Handy for resumes and is an alternative way to store websites. Great way to store online manuals as well without having to save the website or actually having to print out the manual.

 

Crimson Editor

http://www.crimsoneditor.com/

More for programmers but there's nothing wrong with using it as a text editor. Certainly better than using Notepad/WordPad. I used it a lot in college when I was coding in Java.

 

WinSCP

http://winscp.net/eng/index.php

Wonderful FTP/SFTP client.

[Dirty Sanchez]

Rocketdock

http://rocketdock.com/

RocketDock is a smoothly animated, alpha blended application launcher. It provides a nice clean interface to drop shortcuts on for easy access and organization. With each item completely customizable there is no end to what you can add and launch from the dock

[Wrathek]

Foxit PDF Reader

http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/reader/

It's not perfect, and it chokes to hell on excessive vectorized graphics, but for most everything else it's a major improvement over adobe's bloated monstrosity.

 

QT-Lite and MPC

http://www.codecguide.com/about_qt.htm

http://sourceforge.net/projects/guliverkli/

Media Player Classic is exactly what it sounds like, it's a REALLY lightweight and minimalist media player for videos and whatnot, think quicktime or windows media player before the nasty bloat. QT Lite is a codec set kinda thingy that combined with MPC lets you play embedded quicktime content without needing the bloaty quicktime.

 

These.

[jazzy]

F.lux

http://stereopsis.com/flux/

Changes the brightness/color settings of your monitor according to the time of day. Makes your monitor easy on the eyes at night so when you go to bed it has less of an impact on your eyes and supposedly helps you sleep better/faster.

Aha I used f.lux a while ago, gonna start usin it again!

Thanks.

[Tfrag]

Winamp:

http://www.winamp.com/

Back in the day, winamp was the shit compared to players like WMP and iShit, infact, it's still pretty cool, but it has some flaws (they made a web browser for it, *facepalm*).

Great music player, offers built-in global hotkeys.

 

best software for music!