The Applications and Utilities thread

i think this topic stays well here... it's no computer support topic at all and fits nice in the off topic, where plenty of people can see it.

anyway on request i can move it.

oh, by the way i love the little small free Pixia painting program:
http://park18.wakwak.com/~pixia/

it's free and i used it to paint w/B comics with great results. supports layers too.

 

some stuff:

For free and legal image editing needs:
GIMP

PuTTY - for all your linux remote connection needs

My favorite hex-editor since hiew don't work in XP
HxD

Hate to download Quicktime/RealPlayer? Alternatives without all the extra crap and registration processes.
Real Alternative
QuickTime Alternative

 

Some more applications i like and would suggest are:

The latest winamp (5.5) i think?? - Has a nice media library and lots of great skins can be got.

Paint.net - simple and easy to use for image editing

Thunderbird - for desktop email

VLC, Media player clasic - great for watching videos

Filezilla - great little FTP program

could go on with more.

 

The post above about Winamp reminded me..

foobar2000

 

And if you want an alternative to normal notepad then Notepad++ is a great alternative to notepad

here is the description of Notepad++

Notepad++ is a free source code editor (and Notepad replacement), which supports several programming languages, running under the MS Windows environment. This project, based on the Scintilla edit component (a very powerful editor component), written in C++ with pure win32 api and STL (that ensures the higher execution speed and smaller size of the program), is under the GPL Licence.

And you can also view and edit hex in it.

 

I'm looking for some good XP skins, I had a pretty cool one from alienware but it got deleted when a car crushed my pendrive...

Any links?

 

royale_noir...is nice.......mac themes work well too I've got a nice ubuntu style...though i like it 'cause its quite clean and simple

 

Anyone else got any interesting mac applications? Just starting to use mac os X on my macbook pro.

 

I use a theme called RoyalFour. I'm pretty sure I got it from DeviantArt, but you need a hacked "uxtheme.dll" file to use it.