What's Your Favorite Software Used in 2011?

by JamieSEO

Posted: 13 years ago 35 replies

PRODUCT REVIEWS

There are a bazillion threads on the forum about the 'essential' software, but some of those recommendations are waaaaay out of date.

In this thread post your great software recommendations, but please only recommend programs you personally have used SINCE JULY 2011 as some tools have become less effective over time with changes to video site guidelines, Google (especially PANDA), etc.

My Top 13 Right Now

SERPAttacks - keyword research, benchmarking site rankings
Roboform - password management (seriously could not live without this one)
Chrometa - time management
Scrapebox - finding forums, checking indexed links
Dropbox - file sharing
VirtualBox - virtual PC
PicPick - basic graphic editing and screen capture
Total Video Converter - convert video/audio to different formats
WinRar - file compression (better compression than WinZip)
Jing - video capture
CClearner - PC maintenance
TheBestSpinner - article spinning
TextMaker Viewer - open/view any text type file

What are your picks?

#2011 #favorite #software

Bill_Z 13 years ago

I use SEO Spyglass and Market Samarai quite a bit.
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JimmyR 13 years ago

Nice list. Pretty similar to mine. Here's my list, in order of most favorite:

Spinchimp - article spinning
ScrapeBox
AMR - article blasting

And for non IM:
VirtualBox
Dropbox
Lastpass
7zip
Gedit
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Redtoy 13 years ago

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Rukshan 13 years ago

Senukex Is my favorite software of the year.
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Cloudzz 13 years ago

I use market samurai alot
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plrwriter 13 years ago

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- JamieSEO 13 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by plrwriter
  
  SeoQuake extension for Firefox.
  Adblock Plus extension for Firefox.
  
  SEOQuake extension is great, and so is the Foxy SEO tool for Firefox
  
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bertboy60 13 years ago

Market Samurai is great tool.
Magic Submitter

May be we should also add tools we stopped using as well.

I stopped using
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Directory Submitter - No Captcha and poor support
BookmarkingDemon 5 - Too cumbersome
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bertboy60 13 years ago

Directory Submitter - No Captcha and poor support - well claims to support but does not work.
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Steven Miranda 13 years ago

Text expander for the Mac.

It has saved me 221,400 characters from being manually types or 9.23 hours !
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Nathan2525 13 years ago

Would have to be
- Market Samurai
- Drop Box
- Keynote
- Screenflow
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Ricky Dawn 13 years ago

Has no one mentioned SEOmoz?

In no particular order:

SEOmoz
G Keyword Tool
SeNuke
Dropbox
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Dee Odus 13 years ago

Non IM software
I have used LastPass, password management plugin, makes it easy to assume every computer is mine. Can't live without it.

Jing: Quick screen recorder and screen capture software, love it.

Courier: If you are on a Mac then you know this is best youtube uploader.
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PLRExpress

13 years ago

I'm really into cloud storage at the moment. I love Dropbox because I can work on the same stuff on my desktop or my laptop and also access it on my phone. I also love Evernote for quickly making loads of notes and captures.

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JamieSEO

13 years ago

Originally Posted by NathanDevlin

For working on multiple computers Dropbox is definitely a 'Must Have' - I use it about 10 times every day now

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vishalduggal 13 years ago

Market Samurai without doubt, one of the best and one of my favorite.
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PaulSolid Banned 13 years ago

PHOTOSHOP and fireworks still my take as a graphic designer
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deelow 13 years ago

Photoshop, textmate , and Market Samarai
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serena85 13 years ago

Mine is the same as in 2010 and that is Photoshop.
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Aviator Joe

13 years ago

photoshop,
keepass (for keeping/typing passwords)
aim/skype (essentials)
..foobar2000 playing music

thebestspinner
filezilla (ftp file uploader)
notepad++ (making lps/coding)
word/notepad/excel (taking down important stuff)
prosper202 (tracking my campaign performance)

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JamieSEO

13 years ago

Originally Posted by Aviator Joe

photoshop,
keepass (for keeping/typing passwords)
aim/skype (essentials)
..foobar2000 playing music

thebestspinner
filezilla (ftp file uploader)
notepad++ (making lps/coding)
word/notepad/excel (taking down important stuff)
prosper202 (tracking my campaign performance)

Yep - notepad and excel = essentials for me too

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cypherslock 13 years ago

Market Samurai, Magic Submitter, Scrapebox, SpinChimp Article Marketing Robot.
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Neromancer 13 years ago

SENuke X -
Magic Submitter-
Rankchecker
Link assistant
SEO spyglass
Roboform
Notepad . . . Oh my God. Life without notepad???
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Mark Marzinzik

13 years ago

My own custom written programs
Notepad++
Imacros
PowerGrammo
Faststone Photo Resizer
Cardscan
Dymo Label Bar Coder
CuteFTP
Easy Hide IP
Camtasia
Audacity
Dymo Labeler
xmind
Thunderbird
Hypersnap
Ping Plotter
Atuber

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DaveWildash

13 years ago

A number of the above but no one has yet mentioned Dragon Naturally Speaking.

My typing would be attrocious after about ten minutes without it.

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Neromancer

13 years ago

Heh I had Dragon 9, it sucked. My wife who is from Australia had a real tough time with it. It takes longer to use. I finally upgraded to 10, after being nagged to death by a pushy sales guy for the company. Quite frankly it seemed the same. I will say the software seemed to finally work part of the time with my wife's accent.

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JamieSEO

13 years ago

Originally Posted by Neromancer

Hey Necro

I'm an Aussie and have had the same problems with Dragon not recognizing the Australian accent. It works out faster for me to touch type than use speech recognition and then have to correct every 4th word :p

Did your wife find any good speech recognition programs that are suitable for Australian accents?

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cypherslock 13 years ago

Dragon 11 is totally worth it. Works like a charm and is fast to boot.
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magiclouie 13 years ago

Lastpass is truly amazing. I really love this tool.
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- Scott Henderson 13 years ago
  
  Just got Fireworks CS5 last week, it rocks,,,why in the world I have been using Photoshop for the past few years on web graphics is beyond me.
  
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go4wealth 13 years ago

My favorite software

LastPass (be lost without)
Notepad light
TwitAttacks (wish it was a server side program)
Power Point 2010 (love this version)
Camtasia
Magix
Audacity
Filezilla
DesignPro (use this freebie a lot by Avery)
Xheader Pro (free version is almost as good - can do more than headers)
Outlook (helps to manage multiple email accounts)
Microsoft Digital Pro (cheap and easy to use- very powerful)
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xxxJamesxxx 13 years ago

When I'm doing my SEO I use:

Scrapebox
SEO Link Robot
Bookmarking Demon

James Scholes
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neodarth 13 years ago

so many...
Non IM I use:
MS Word
MS Excel
MS Power point w/camtasia
Ms One Note (can't live without it!)
Photoshop
Xsite Pro 2
Windows Movie Maker

For IM:
Market Samurai (still N°1)
Seo Quake plugin for Firefox
PPC Web Spy plugin for firefox
The Best Spinner
Bookmarking Demon (not that often now...)
TweetAttacks (when the server is up)

and of course above all of them... my brain's synapse
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- Azarna 13 years ago
  
  Photoshop - for graphics, as always
  SeaMonkey - for HTML editing
  Serif WebPlus - for site design
  Serif PagePlus - for pdf construction etc
  Skype - for voice chat
  GoodSync - for backing up files etc
  Sony Vegas Movie Studio HD - for editing video
  FRAPS -for recording videos of screen
  Angry Birds - just because...
  
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Danny Gardner 13 years ago

Here are my top three that I use all the time:

OpenOffice - Free substitute for Word, Excel, etc
Screencast O Matic - Very inexpensive substitute for Camtasia
SECockpit - Keyword research

I used to use Jing, but after finding Screencast O Matic, I don't think I'll be going back to it.
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starli88 13 years ago

For FireFox, my favorite is ScreenGrab, which I use everyday and hundreds of times a day.

With a simple right-click, I can capture the whole page. I use it to add new ideas, good sales pages and sales page/download page of purchased products to my swipe files.

The only drawback is sometimes it cannot successfully capture the screen when there is a flash video on the page.
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sandy11 13 years ago

I use:

Senukex
AMR
Scapebox
Zonealarm
Tune up utilities
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