Best of Software: (1 Viewer)

[fatmuscle]

Just seeing what software you people think is reasonably good for the different categories.

I saw something like this in one of the IT magazines, just wandering what you people think.


Here's alist of the diff categories, you can say your own if you want.
And you may include version numbers for each app.


Best of (and an example):
-Office Suites (MS Office XP, OpenOffice.org)
-Graphic Programs (Adobe Photoshop 7, PaintShop Pro 8)
-3D Graphic Programs (Houdini, 3D Studio Max, Microstation)
-Animation (Flash, Animation Shop)
-P2P Sharing apps (Kazaa, eMule)
-CD Burning tools (Nero 6)
-Database Apps (FileMaker Pro)
-Firewalls (ZoneAlarm, Sygate)
-AntiVirus (PC-Cillin, Norton)
-FTP (Cute, WS_FTP)
-Web Page Design (Frontpage, Dreamweaver)
-MP3 Player (Winamp, MusicMatch)
-Remote PC apps (VNC, PC Anywhere)
-Program Editors (EditPlus)
-Program Modelling (Visio, Edge Diagrammer)


Dunno if anyone can be bothered reading through and suggesting their opinons on any applications that fit into these categories, or categories of their own, saying why each application is the better one.

btw, the examples in ( ) are just examples.

 

[MysticEye]

ok my best's would be:

Office Suites - MS Office XP (its most compatible for me)
Graphics Program - Adobe Photoshop 7
P2P - Overdrive (was known as edonkey2000, its great when used with www.sharereactor.com)
CD Burning - Nero
Antivirus - Norton 2003
Ftp - Cute Ftp Pro or FlashFXP
WebPage Design - Dreamweaver MX
Mp3 Player - Winamp 2.91 (3 sucks)
Video Editing - Adobe Premiere
Desktop Publishing - Adobe Pagemaker 7.0

 

[jm1234567890]

-Office Suites (MS Office XP)
-Graphic Programs (Adobe Photoshop 7)
-P2P Sharing apps (eMule,overnet)
-CD Burning tools (Nero 6)
-FTP (PuTTy)
-Web Page Design (Dreamweaver MX)
-MP3 Player (WMP9)
-Remote PC apps (winxp pro)
-Downloading (Leach Get)

 

[Beaky]

Mine

Office Suites - MS Office XP
Graphics Program - Adobe Photoshop 6
P2P - Direct Connect (Until I got caught sniff), Kazza Lite
CD Burning - Nero
Antivirus - Norton 2003
Ftp - Cute Ftp Pro
WebPage Design - Dreamweaver 4
Mp3 Player - Winamp
Video Editing - Vegas Video 4
Desktop Publishing - Adobe Illustrator
Sound and Editing: Sound Forge and Acid 4

 

[-X-]

-Office Suites (OpenOffice.org)
-Graphic Programs (GIMP)
-P2P Sharing apps (Kazaa, Overnet)
-CD Burning tools (Nero 6, clonecd, CDBAKEOVEN)
-Firewalls (ZoneAlarm, Tiny Personal Firewall)
-AntiVirus (PC-Cillin)
-MP3 Player (Winamp 2.9)
-Browser(Mozilla Phoenix)
-Instant Messenger (KMESS (MSN), SIM (ICQ))

 

[Ragerunner]

Mine

-Office Suites (Office 97!!!!) - I'm still using that
-Graphic Programs (PaintShop Pro 8)
-Animation (Animation Shop)
-P2P Sharing apps (Kazaa)
-CD Burning tools (Nero 6)
-AntiVirus (AVG)
-FTP (SmartFTP)
-Web Page Design (Frontpage, Dreamweaver, php4)
-MP3 Player (Winamp)
-Program Modelling (Visio)

 

[Soliah]

-Office Suites [MS Office XP] - Soon to be Office 2K3
-Graphic Editing Programs [Adobe Photoshop 7, PSP8]
-Graphic Viewing Prorams [Ifranview]
-Video Editing [Premiere, VirtualDub]
-Video Viewing [BS Player, WMP9]
-P2P Sharing [Kazaa for common files, Soulseek for mp3s]
-CD Burning tools [Nero 6]
-Firewalls [ZoneAlarm]
-AntiVirus [NAV 2002/3]
-FTP Client [FlashFXP]
-FTP Server [Serv-U FTP Server]
-Web Page Design [gVim, php4, phpMyAdmin 2.5.1, MySQL]
-MP3 Player [Winamp 2.xx & hopefully Winamp 5]
-Text Editors [gVim]
-IDEs [C/++ - Dev-C++] [Java - Eclipse]
-Aesthetics [Rainlender/Wallpaper Calender 3] [Coolmon] [uxtheme.dll] [TweakUI]

 

[Winston]

-Office Suites Office 2K3
-Graphic Editing Programs Adobe Photoshop 7
-Video Editing Windows Movie Maker
-Video Viewing MS Windows Media Player 9
-CD Burning tools Nero 6
-Firewalls [ZoneAlarm]
-AntiVirus NAV 2004
-FTP Client FlashFXP
-FTP Server Win2k3 IIS
-Programming - Visual Studio .NET 2003 Enterprise Architect

 

[Soliah]

Originally posted by Winston
-Video Editing Windows Movie Maker

Hehehe...

 

[Winston]

Originally posted by Soliah
Hehehe...

no im serious it's not bad

bah edit it should be WM 2

it's so cool for freeware

 

[:: ck ::]

-Aesthetics [Rainlender/Wallpaper Calender 3] [Coolmon] [uxtheme.dll] [TweakUI]

i use them too

 

[fatmuscle]

cool, just checking out what apps youse are all using.

hahha, go those using gVim for their text editors!!!

no Mac users here?
iMovie!!!

 

[jayz]

One thing is for sure, we all love MICROSOFT!

 

[fatmuscle]

Microsoft and Adobe!

it's the names you hear all the time

Microsoft, Adobe, Macromedia

 

[McLake]

Originally posted by fatmuscle
no Mac users here?
iMovie!!!

Me, me ...

-Office Suites: No preference
-Graphic Programs: No Preference
-3D Graphic Programs: Don't use
-Animation: Don't use
-P2P Sharing apps: I would never use
-CD Burning tools: The built-in MacOSX one
-Database Apps: Don't use
-Firewalls: No Prefernce
-AntiVirus: Don't use (my Mac is safe)
-FTP: Fetch!!!
-Web Page Design: Good old Fashioned Text Editors
-MP3 Player: iTunes!!!
-Remote PC apps: I use UNIX ...
-Program Editors: Project Builder (great program, comes with MacOSX), UNIX Editors (pico, vi, emacs)
-Program Modelling: Don't Use

-Video Editing: iMovie !!!
-Video Viewing: Quicktime 6
-Browser: Safari

Go Mac Software ...

 

[ezzy85]

Best of (and an example):
-Office Suites (MS Office XP or 2003)
-Graphic Programs (Adobe Photoshop 7)
-3D Graphic Programs (Dont use it)
-Animation (Dont use it)
-P2P Sharing apps (Kazaa, BitTorrent, IRC)
-CD Burning tools (Nero 6)
-Database Apps (Dont use it)
-Firewalls (Dont use it)
-AntiVirus (NAV, but i dont think its ever enabled)
-FTP (Cute, IE Browser or Bulletproof)
-Web Page Design (Frontpage, Dreamweaver)
-MP3 Player (Media Player)
-Remote PC apps (Dont use it)
-Program Editors (Dont use it)
-Program Modelling (Visio)
-OCR (Omnipage)
-Chat (MSN 6, Triallian)

 

[fatmuscle]

Does anyone have a 'Speech - to - Text' software they could recommend?

 

[Huy]

Originally posted by fatmuscle
Does anyone have a 'Speech - to - Text' software they could recommend?

Dragon Naturally Speaking?
http://www.scansoft.com/naturallyspeaking

I've used it once or twice, but I can't help it but type on the keyboard, instead of having to dictate every command/word, or sentence (and making sure that the corrections are in place, punctuation, etc).

 

[:: ck ::]

yep i have dragon naturally speaking as well

i reckn its kinda waste of time u have to train it n shiet... plus ur comp freezes a bit when it types (or mayb thats just my p3 lol)

normal typing is way cooler

but dragon naturally speaking is the best one out there

 

[Huy]

What makes it worse is, when you've got a lisp!

To train it takes a while, that is, to have it PERFECTLY in tune with your voice and voice patterns. I think there's always a delay in speech-to-text, because I have never seen somebody "speed read" and have it outputted exactly as he/she has said it.

For example, reading an entire paragraph, EXTREMELY fast and having the computer 'sort' the words in the correct sequence/order in which the words have been said, getting the words right/correct as well, with punctuation and all the rest of it.

Originally posted by :: ryan.cck ::
normal typing is way cooler

Ohhhhhhh yeah!