Best software?

[Arbystrider]

Ever thought "Hey, AVG has a link scanner, but AAW has a Registry watcher...  "? Well, I wanted to compare my set of software with you guys. (Yeah, this is a thread to discuss about the best softwarez! )

For Medias

-Windows Movie Maker (I only know how to use THIS!)
-Photostage Slideshow creator
-WavePad (Audio Editor)
-Switch (sound file converter)
-Prism (Video file converter)
-MixPad (Audio mixer)
-aTube Catcher (Used to download YouTube videos)
-CamStudio (Screen Recorder)
-Express Burn (says it)
-Express Rip (same)

For Communications
-Windows Live Messenger (Nope, I don't want to install Skype since I don't use others)
-Advanced IRC (The name says it, doesn't work anymore)
-mIRC (Same)
-the .BAT Messenger 
-IE8 (My mother doesn't allow meh to uninstall!)
-Firefox (With an entire stash of 60 extensions) 
-uTorrent

For System
-AVG Free
-(*System maintenance stash*) Smart Defrag, Registry Defrag, CCleaner, File Shredder, RegToy, CPU Speed, UPX Frontend (haha!)
-Ad-Aware (AE)
-Update Checker
-SpeedFan
-Meo Encryption Software

For OTHER STUFF
-Editra (Don't know how to use it, will be uninstalling later)
-Code::Blocks (Compiler)
-WireShark + WinPcap (To capture my friends' IPs if they know what one is to scare them off)
-MapleSEA (WTF I still have it installed?!)
-BZII + Mods + MM5 (Obviously!)
-"Micro$haft"  Office 2007 (DAMMIT my mother doesn't allow me to get OpenOffice!!!) 

Yes it's a Vista 32 bit Home-Pre. DAMMIT my mother won;t allow me to install 64-bit!

No, not to say that my mother is so *Whatever*. Post your set if you want to share it too.

[cheesepuffly]

Set of what? And why do you need 64 bit if you dont have like more than 4 GB of ram?

[TheJamsh]

Hmm

Acoustica Beatcraft
CCleaner
Hijack This
Audacity
MSN
Xfire
Guitar Pro 5
Practically anything on bzscrap.com
Blender 3D
Game Extractor
FRAPS
G.I.M.P
Paint.NET
Python 3.0
Winrar
7-Zip
Kaspersky Internet Security (Full package)
Firefox
3DS Max 7
Photoshop 7 (soon to be CS3)
Goldwave (Trial)
OpenOffice
Reason 4
Wavosaur
Wavepad
ITunes & Media Center & Player


Pretty much everything i use regularly...

[Arbystrider]

OMFG you're RICH!!! OMFGWTFBBQROFLOLMAOZORD ! I mea, 3Ds Max? That's EXPENSIVE!!! And yeah, I use 7-zip too, and I see no need for WinRAR.

[cheesepuffly]

Um 1, yeah i also use 7 zip, much easier, simpler,  and faster (but i keep both anyway) and 2, trust me im not saying he did this but, *Cough* Pirate *Cough*

[Zero Angel]

AIMP2 (Audio Player, like winamp except not slow and bloated)
Firefox (Web Browser)
Thunderbird (Email)
TVersity (For streaming video and radio stations to my PS3)
Adobe Photoshop (cuz The GIMP doesnt cut it for me)
Last.FM player (for quick access to new music thats similar to my tastes)
Audacity (Audio Editor)
Frostwire (P2P)
uTorrent
Picasa 3 (Photo Manager)
Foxit Reader (WAY faster than Adobe Reader)
Tuneup Utilities 2008
NOD32 Antivirus (AWESOME antivirus)
Nero 8 (Burning Suite)
Openoffice.org 3.0
WinRAR (Its nagware, but still one of the best unpackers there is)

And a couple of linux apps that deserve mention!
Yakuake (Dropdown terminal for KDE)
K3B (CD/DVD burning suite)
Amarok (Media Player/Manager)
Konqueror (File Manager)
mocp (an ncurses (text-based) audio player)
Frostwire,Firefox,Thunderbird (they work in linux too)
KTorrent or Transmission (torrents)
Emesene (Windows Live Clone -- cuz I can't stand Pidgin)

And some linux security tools:
Aircrack NG/PTW (Penetration Testing, cracks WEP encryption on wireless networks)
Ophcrack (Automagically cracks passwords on Windows machines)
Offline NT Password and Registry Editor (Reset and change passwords on windows accounts)

[Angstromicus]

Lol, he should get photoshop CS4, then (But Ultra CS3, also, because Ultra isn't in CS4).

[TheJamsh]

it wasnt expensive for me if you catch my drift.

'shushes and goes back into hiding'

[Warfreak]

Should also get 7zip. It not only good, its not nagware. (probably jsut a tad "not-as-good-as" winRAR)

[Arbystrider]

So, um, should I get Notepad++ or Editra as my text editor?

[TheJamsh]

just use notepad. nothing wrong with it.

i use arachnophelia sometimes. ZA pointed me in its direction and its a pretty good program and allows you to edit textures in .msh files without buggering them up like notepad does. (notepad does not work with binary, at least, not .msh's form of it)

[Angstromicus]

I noticed some text files are displayed as one line in notepad, instead of having "enter"'s in the line like displayed in wordpad.

[Nielk1]

That is because thy do not have the end line character notepad recognizes (\n)

In C++ I always use std::endl since it includes both \n and the other character wordpad recognizes, \f I think. Oddly, if they both appear, the \f is not seen in notepad, but if only the \f is there it is a box. Again, I think it was \f (escape character F) but I am not sure.

It has been the bane of my existence in some programming instances.

EDIT: Turns out it is \r not \f, read GSH's link and it shows all 3, \n, \r, and \n\r.

[GSH]

Line endings vary by platform. Apple does it one way. Unix does it another way. MS-DOS (and derived) does it a third way. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newline for more info.

Good editors (i.e. NOT notepad) recognize all three variants, and do the right thing.

-- GSH

[Zero Angel]

just use notepad. nothing wrong with it.

i use arachnophelia sometimes. ZA pointed me in its direction and its a pretty good program and allows you to edit textures in .msh files without buggering them up like notepad does. (notepad does not work with binary, at least, not .msh's form of it)

Yea, Arachnophila 4.0 is an OLD HTML editor I used to use, I was pleasantly surprised to discover that you can edit the text inside of binary files without breaking them. (In the case of MSH files, when you edit textures, they need to have the same amount of characters as the original texture)