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detourne_me
Joined: 26 May 2006
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 Posted: Fri May 07, 2010 6:45 am Post subject: Essential Programs? |
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Do any of you have an "Essential Programs" or "Essential Setup"?
I feel like I've got a pretty sweet little setup right now and was wondering what you guys use.
Here's what I usually install:
CCleaner and AVG Free Anti-Virus - to keep my pc clean
WinDirStat - to see what's going where on my hard drives
Google Chrome - fast clean browser with automatic updates.
Vuze - for torrents set up with RSS feeds for automatic downloads of new podcasts, etc. and built in encoding for mobile devices
GOM Player - my standard media player, but honestly i haven't opened it since installing:
Boxee - I barely used it when i first heard of it, but now... jeez it's brilliant. Manages all of my TV Shows/Movies as well as internet meme videos and other time wasters. With the Boxee Remote app for iphone, I don't even need to touch a mouse. Also it automatically updates the library from my downloads folder too, so new episodes pop up automagically B) |
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egrog1717
Joined: 12 Mar 2008
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| Posted: Fri May 07, 2010 7:29 am Post subject: |
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I prefer MS Security Essentials and SuperAntiSpyware myself... Find that AVG steals a TON of system resources on startup these days.
And VLC over Gom any day, lol...
Also, if you hate MS Office like I do, OpenOffice is a great (and free) alternative |
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eamo
Joined: 08 Mar 2003
Location: Shepherd's Bush, 1964.
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| Posted: Fri May 07, 2010 4:52 pm Post subject: |
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| GOM Player - my standard media player, but honestly i haven't opened it since installing: |
It's your standard media player but you haven't opened it? |
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detourne_me
Joined: 26 May 2006
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| Posted: Fri May 07, 2010 6:24 pm Post subject: |
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since installing Boxee - also vuze's media player just got a vast upgrade too, it's good for viewing single files, like Onion News Network or TED Talks files.
Also, how is VLC better than GOM, do they actually have a UI now? |
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blackjack
Joined: 04 Jan 2006
Location: anyang
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dropbox great for doing work at home and you never have to worry about usb drives again
logmein for free access you home pc from work or work pc from home. Line up those torrents from work, have something to watch when you get home
utorrent why pay for stuff?
Imgburn simple image burning software
skype duh
opera best browser out there
picasa photos |
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Pangit
Joined: 02 Sep 2004
Location: Puet mo.
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| Posted: Sat May 08, 2010 1:00 am Post subject: |
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| detourne_me wrote: |
| Also, how is VLC better than GOM, do they actually have a UI now? |
lolwut?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_video_player_software
VLC looks much more robust to me.
Concerning the topic:
Opera
VLC
MS Security essentials
Eraser
�Torrent
OpenOffice
7-zip
CDEx
cdrtfe (cdrtools frontend)
Daemon Tools Lite
GIMP 2
Adobe Reader |
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egrog1717
Joined: 12 Mar 2008
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| Posted: Sat May 08, 2010 7:15 am Post subject: |
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| detourne_me wrote: |
since installing Boxee - also vuze's media player just got a vast upgrade too, it's good for viewing single files, like Onion News Network or TED Talks files.
Also, how is VLC better than GOM, do they actually have a UI now? |
VLC plays MP4s which my co-teacher has recently been using in class and can't figure out when she can't play them on her GOM-only computer... lol |
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eamo
Joined: 08 Mar 2003
Location: Shepherd's Bush, 1964.
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| Posted: Sat May 08, 2010 8:00 am Post subject: |
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| GOM has let me down quite a few times. VLC plays the lot.......except Bluray files. |
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carleverson
Joined: 04 Dec 2009
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| Posted: Sat May 08, 2010 2:07 pm Post subject: |
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| chrome > opera |
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Pangit
Joined: 02 Sep 2004
Location: Puet mo.
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| Posted: Sat May 08, 2010 4:46 pm Post subject: |
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| carleverson wrote: |
| chrome > opera |
Honestly, I haven't decently compared the advantages of Chrome over Opera, and the cursory glance over the feature set hasn't convinced me to switch. Opera's built in features are about all I need, and I don't really like using extensions or plugins because I feel like they bloat the browser (like Firefox does).
Chrome's browser speed test looks about the same as what I do on a regular basis with Opera - opening multiple windows using the speed dial page (and I thought that Chrome's speed dial requires the installation of an extension, whereas Opera's is available upon installation), but in fact, I do this faster with mouse gestures. For example, whereas the demonstrater in the video clicks on links and a "new tab" button repeatedly, I simply make a gesture on each of the links and then another gesture to open a new speed dial window, eliminating the movement between the speed dial link and the "new tab" button. Security and privacy features tend to be a background operation that I don't see actively happening, and I consider myself a weary enough user that I don't really need the browser to be watching every move I make to keep me safe. I am content with Opera's safety and privacy features because they are unobtrusive and run quietly - I'm sure Chrome works roughly the same.
Right now, Opera provides mouse gestures out of the box (which I use all of the time and have gotten quite used to, to the extent that I feel crippled when faced with browsers that don't have it set up), excellent tab management, and I can easily port my settings from one machine to another. As such, Opera is nicely tailored to my needs, although I would be willing to move away from it if Chrome provided a rich new element that I would feel Opera can't provide. |
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