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Your favourite Softwares/Applications

Discussion in 'Off Topic' started by Raised in Hell, Aug 1, 2011.

  1. Raised in Hell

    Raised in Hell Senior Member

    I just like testing new softwares/apps out so i want to know, which ones are your favourites or which ones you mostly use or which ones you find useful to you. I know different softwares have different uses but which ones you prefer the most ..
     
  2. Stefeman

    Stefeman Head Administrator Staff Member

    Mine are:

    VLC Media Player
    Ccleaner
    DVD Fab 8
    Cyberlink PowerDVD 11
    HMA! Pro VPN
    GameBooster 2
    Leatrix Latency fix (For TCP/UDP games)
    PowerISO (for ISO, BIN, NRG, CDI, DAA and so on)
     
  3. marvel

    marvel Head Administrator Staff Member

    - Google Chrome
    - VLC Media Player
    - Putty
    - WinSCP
    - HLSW

    That's about everything I use :)
     
  4. Pessego

    Pessego Guest

    As a musician, Guitar Pro is essential to me, I also use KMPlayer and the good old Mozilla.
     
  5. Nova

    Nova Senior Member

    ................
    If you want something new, I don't think you use these, or at least not many do :

    Media : Media Player Classic HC (MPC) + KLite Codec Pack
    System utilities : Rainmeter + RocketDock

    VLC sucks. :/
     
  6. L1teHawk

    L1teHawk Senior Member

    Ranked by usage:

    1. Google Chrome
    2. Visual Studio 2010 with SP1 and C++ redist plugin
    3. Notepad++
    4. Photoshop CS4 (got 5.5 lately but still use cs4)
    5. Autodesk 3DS Max
    6. WinSCP/Putty/Sourcemod's compile.exe (xD)
    7. Left 4 Dead 2
     
  7. bloodhand

    bloodhand MG Donor

    VLC player
    mozilla firefox (with tons of plugins)
    rainmeter
    speedfan
    daemon tools
    hd tune
    everest
     
  8. marvel

    marvel Head Administrator Staff Member

    L1te you mean sourcemod compile.sh :P
     
  9. marvel

    marvel Head Administrator Staff Member

    Hmm Media Player Classic sucks but what sucks even more is Klit Codec Pack because codec packs sucks in general :) Just use ffdshow or coreavc. With VLC you don't even need a single codec or codec pack, except maybe for blu ray.
     
  10. Nova

    Nova Senior Member

    lol VLC can't take softsubs, nuff said
     
  11. marvel

    marvel Head Administrator Staff Member

    lol? Are u kidding me here? :) I always use softsubs with VLC. It even picks them automatically if you give them the same name as the movie.

    Seriously if you want to screw up your Windows installation please install KLite codec pack lol :D
     
  12. Nova

    Nova Senior Member

    not saying it can't load them marvel, i'm saying some times the subs aren't properly positioned on the screen, and thus you don't get all of it. I'm not gonna even start on the other aspects on VLC that mess everything up.

    MPC is lightweight, works fine, and codec pack lets you read basically every single video/audio format out there... never had any problems with it, VLC lots

    I shoulda said "couldn't render subs properly" instead, my bad!
     
  13. marvel

    marvel Head Administrator Staff Member

    Ok well, I have never had that problem with VLC and subs but then again I've never seen Media Player Classic with subs so I can't really compare.

    And you're right about the codec pack, you install it and everything works but that's my concern about it, you don't know what it installs, where it installs it, what codecs, which versions, if there's coming something you don't want (malware) with it, how they are configured etc. and if you want to remove them it's pretty hard. Yes there's an uninstall option but it will never get you back to a clean state. I'm more of the control freak when it comes to that.

    I rather install just the codecs I need one by one however with ffdshow you can view almost anything as well. This is more important though if you do video ripping and stuff which I did in the past, which requires a lot of specific codec.
     
  14. Nova

    Nova Senior Member

    Yeah i understand your point of view, but then again, any third party program could be a threat too :P
    on one computer i use ffdshow too, gotta agree it's great, and you set it up the way you want it

    Last time I tried to use VLC, it didn't read my video (think it was .ogg) and when I tried one that should work, my graphics driver crashed and my PC died >_> The last video with soft subs that did work, the subs were going out of my screen lol, couldn't read em properly

    And yeah, I still do some re-encoding and download videos with weird encoding themselves... :|

    And VLC is a traffic cone lol
     
  15. Bonekeep

    Bonekeep Guest

    If I could interrupt Marvel and Nova for a second... sheesh! :P

    AnyDVD
    Handbrake
    PowerIso
    Dropbox
    Syncplicity
    Lightroom
    Photoshop
    Spotify
    Google Music
    VLC
    Comical
    dbPoweramp
    Chrome
    Gtalk
    and of course, Steam + games
     
  16. L1teHawk

    L1teHawk Senior Member

    Since the SMX files sourcemod generates are cross-platform, I compile using the Win32 version of Sourcemod (which includes compile.exe natively compatible with Windows) and then WinSCP the SMX to the Linux servers. So no, I mean compile.exe ;)
     
  17. davzee

    davzee <img src="http://mgftw.com/webdesigner.png" />

    VLC - best player there is out there...dont blame VLC nova blame your hardware :P
    Photoshop CS5
    Adobe After Effects CS5
    Firefox
    Tuneup Utilities
    PowerIso
     
  18. HonorCode

    HonorCode Head Administrator Staff Member

    Google Chrome
    Notepad++
    Hammer
    Photoshop CS3
    Winamp
    Sony Vegas

    Thats all i think :).
     
  19. Chocobo

    Chocobo <span style="color:#66CD00">Moderator</span>

    To my experience using the three, Photoshop, After Effects, and Lightroom pretty much all do the same thing, just with a different name.
     
  20. Raised in Hell

    Raised in Hell Senior Member

    I haven't used Lightroom so i can't say much about that but Photoshop and After Effects do different jobs. Their names pretty much say everything, photoshop is used for designing, editing photos, texts, animations but AE is used for all those awesome effects you see in the videos/movies.