So what are the top five applications that you absolutely MUST have?

chessguy

15 years ago

InFormEnter
Firefox
Dreamweaver
OpenOffice (Writer/Calc)
Core FTP Lite

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BlueJam

15 years ago

Firefox
Dreamweaver
Fireworks
uTorrent
VLC

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Catalin Ionescu

15 years ago

Skype
Firefox
Gmail -- All my important domains are unified to a single account and managed through GMail. Huge time saver over logging in dozens of sites.
Google Docs -- I like to keep mobile.
Google Bookmarks

And to keep the geek part of me happy, thought I'd mention:
Apache/PHP/MySQL
Delphi

- Catalin

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rafaelapolinario 15 years ago

Firefox
Skype
Smart FTP
Google analytics
Yugma

Some in my list.
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- Sandor Verebi 15 years ago
  
  Hey Peter, you listed the best ones.
  
  My FREE list is:
  
  - Firefox - reliable than IE and not Microsoft
  - Roboform - accurate and time saving
  - Thunderbird - I used Eudora early (it is also good)
  - Open Office - possible to solve many things by it
  - Gmail (a little problem was today with it but it may to bear because of its versatility)
  - Google analitics - for measure and change
  - NVU - for making simple websites
  
  Not FREE:
  
  - McAfee - the safety of your data and website is first
  - Smart DD - for safety digital delivery
  - Smart FTP - file transfer protocol
  - Paypal - accept and accomplish payment
  
  I think, they are enough for a beginner. You may upgrade later.
  
  Just my 2 cents.
  
  Sandor
  
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TeddyP

15 years ago

Dreamweaver
Photoshop
CoffeeCupFTP
Skype/Msn
Firefox

Oh and Windows Media Player to play music while I try to get some element to lineup in dreamweaver, or I have to extract some image from a background in photoshop. *insert some other mundane task

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spriyada

15 years ago

Great list. I can't live without Roboform. I love it

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Lifeimprovement

15 years ago

FTP Commander

EssentialPIM - Great product that allows me to keep my content organized.

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dwshoup

15 years ago

It looks like I am in the minority on the not free list.
dream weaver
photoshop
microsoft office (convert word to pdf with a mouse click)
acrobat
Trend micro internet security ( I have personally witnessed this program instantly zap a file that other programs have missed)

Free

firefox (no doubt)
filezilla ftp
gmail
google analytics

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Nitro

15 years ago

Dreamweaver
Notepad ++
Photoshop
Firefox
Winzip

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clonedrone

15 years ago

Camtasia
Snag It
Traffic Geyser (Maybe not an application but I love it)
Front Page
Filezilla
Robo form
RSS Submitter

Too name a few

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John Taylor

15 years ago

I've just looked at my most used applications..

Firefox
TextPad
OpenOffice
Dragon Naturally Speaking
ClipMate
Camtasia Studio
Dreamweaver
FileZilla
Skype
TweetDeck
SocialBOT

I've highlighted the top five must have applications.
But I have to say five is not enough!

John

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abrudtkul

15 years ago

PC
- PSPad - HTML Editor with built-in FTP
- Jing

Mac
- Coda - web development suite
- ScreenFlow - screencasts
- iMovie - recording videos
- GarageBand - recording podcast

Both
- Firefox
- TweetDeck - Twitter

Web Based
- Twitter
- FriendFeed
- Google Docs
- GMail
- Google Talk
- Amazon S3

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Peter Bestel 15 years ago

As I suspected, there are some real obvious ones that I missed out and yes, Mr Taylor, five is nowhere near enough.

This thread is a lot more interesting than I thought it would be! With the variety of answers it's actually quite a good resource. I'll be checking out some apps that I'm not familiar with.

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doublee

15 years ago

Just thought I'd take a peek, but when I started looking, I've found several programs I'll definitely have to look into. I have used RoboForm, Textpad, and Filezilla for a long time, and love them. I'm going back and forth between IE and Mozilla. There are things about Mozilla that drive me crazy.

Great post!
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RichOnlineCEO

15 years ago

Ilife
Safari
Fetch

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elishahong

15 years ago

Windows XP - Not Vista -First and most essential application

XSitePro
FileZilla
Firefox + Alexa Plugin
Gmail - Google Docs Web Notepad(Shortcut g+w) & Google Tasks -Stuff For The Day.
Jing

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Loren Woirhaye

15 years ago

Stuff I use every day:

Notepad ++ (use it dozens of times a day, can't
figure out 90% of the features though)

WordPerfect (I'm used to it. What can I say?)

XSitePro2

Google Chrome (my current "fast" browser)

Thunderbird (no biggie, but a timesaver for sure)

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JayXtreme

15 years ago

Ooo... some interesting ones...

Mine are:

OpenOffice
Chrome, Flock, Safari
Notepad <-- My slave..

Skype
Thunderbird
Google webmaster tools (web based but a MUST have dash)
Keyword Tool (mine)

Simple, fast, furious... all the tools I need

Peace

Jay

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Sneakyheathen

15 years ago

Mine Are:
Adium (chat client for MAC)
Tweetdeck (twitter client)
Firefox
Photoshop
Itunes (I needs my music!)
Cyberduck (FTP client)

That's about it. I have other stuff, but those are the ones I use daily.

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tschlotter

15 years ago

Firefox
Thunderbird
Core FTP Light
Gmail
Notepad

Those are my most frequently used. I also look forward to checking out a few of the others mentioned, especially Google webmaster tools. I can't believe, being the long-time Google fan that I am, that I haven't even tried it yet!

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JackTheLad

15 years ago

Nice lists! Here's mine (is it just me or is firefox pretty popular)

Firefox
eCoverSuiteElite
Photoshop
Thunderbird
camstudio (I still can't believe it's free)

Plus more free software that rocks (worth mentioning twice) -

Freemind
Gimp
open-office
NVU (WYSIWYG)

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Paul Myers 15 years ago

Peter,

Pegasus Mail
Aweber list service
NoteTab Pro (Text editor)
Filezilla
Open Office 3.0
Firefox

I know you said 5, but I really could run my entire business with just those 6 apps. I sometimes go days without using anything else at all.

Paul
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- Tom B Banned 15 years ago
  
  Tiger Software Builder
  Adwords Editor
  Speed PPC
  Filezilla
  Dreamweaver
  Photoshop
  Camtasia
  
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  article post robot
  market samurai
  paypal
  skype
  betfair poker haha
  
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Allen Graves

15 years ago

SEO Elite - Does a million things
Woopra - To watch all my sites live on one screen
Dreamweaver - For obvious reasons
Outlook - To consolidate all email accounts
MS Word - I write a lot
Photoshop - Love it!

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Baystreet 15 years ago

Originally Posted by Allen Graves

Woopra - To watch all my sites live on one screen

I never heard of this site before but I just checked it out and it looks great.

I signed up but it looks like they are in beta and I need an invite to get approved.
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MikeWords

15 years ago

Originally Posted by Peter Bestel

If you were to give a newbie some advice about programs/applications that they just gotta get, what would they be?

When I wrote my list, it interested me to note that all but one of the top five are free.

Skype - Don't know how I managed before I got it
Firefox - Can't understand why I used IE for so many years.
Open Office - I was a late-comer to this party. It's just fantastic and it's not Microsoft
Roboform - What a revelation this wee program is. Must save so much time once it's set up
Thunderbird - Just so much better than Outlook and it's free.

And other must haves for me: (can start to get expensive now!)

SnagIt
Camtasia
Dreamweaver
Photoshop
Fireworks
Premiere

The list can go on and it's dependent upon how you run your business, what you actively get involved in and what you outsource.

So what's your top five? I'm sure I've missed out some obvious ones.

Peter

If you like the open source apps you listed like firefox, thunderbird, and open office, then try GIMP - the open source version of photoshop. Tons of bucks saved and just as powerful.

Support Open Source

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Kurt

15 years ago

There are few "must have" apps. Although it would greatly cut into my productivity, I could probably do 95% of what I do with the following:

Browser - Many of the programs listed above have free online alternatives
FTP (I use leachftp, but there are a dozen other free ones that would work)
Text editor w/multi file search/replace (I use Textpad, but others would do)
Graphics program (I have photoshop, but could use one of many others)
Clipmate or other multi clipboard program.

Maybe I'm taking the question more literally than others, but while I've bought and used tons and tons of programs, most make tasks easier or better, but are not absolutely essential.

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xga

15 years ago

Open Office
firefox
thunderbird - email client
FileZilla - ftp
Putty - ssh to my server
adobe reader

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twannahiga

15 years ago

A great listing so far, I would say...

Skype - great affordable communications technique.
Firefox - takes all hassle out of web browsing.
Open Office - totally free and does everything microsoft can!
FTP - always the best client host, and reliable too.
Outlook - manage all of the emails quickly and efficiently.

The best!

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Peter Bestel

15 years ago

Going to sneak in another - it's rapidly becoming my favourite toy and is probably one of the most used apps on my PC:

Tweetdeck - the only way to Twitter.

Peter

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Allen Graves

15 years ago

I didn't have an invite - but it did take a long time (few weeks) to get approved. Damn well worth it!

AL

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Banned 15 years ago

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Peter Bestel

15 years ago

Originally Posted by Jayden0

Hi,

How important is it to have an autoresponder? And if so, does it really make a big difference?

(PS sorry for the questions, i'm relatively new to this!)

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JD

Hi JD

Your question's a bit off topic and warrants a better answer than I'm going to give right now. Be bold and post it as a question in the main forum. If you do a search for 'autoresponder' (using the Search facility at the top of the page) you'll see there's been a host of questions about autoresponders; which one's the best, how to use them etc but not too many discussions on why you should have one.

Go on - ask the question! If you do, I promise to reply in that thread.

Peter

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Kevin AKA Hubcap 15 years ago

Google Analytics
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Aweber
+
Photoshop
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Dreamweaver
+
Final Cut Pro/Vegas
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Good SEO Keyword Tool
= Money In The Bank
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a2zwebs

15 years ago

Woopra is very addictive... Once you start using it, you'll find its always running in the background...

Lil screen shot below.

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