What applications do you use?

[standardman]

Inspired by the useful Firefox add-ons thread, I thought I'd start a thread to see what applications people are using on their systems. With a bit of luck, we'll find some useful new stuff.

Any OS welcome, let's not turn this into another Mac vs PC thread.

I'll share a few I use for now, if this thread has any interest, I'll post more. Commence geekery!

I've just installed Orb which streams media (video, music, photos or documents) from my computer to my phone and 360 and a babillion other devices. It can stream files, tv, or online content from places like youtube, which is pretty cool. Click here to see supported devices.

Yes, it does support iPhones.



TED stands for Torrent Episode Downloader. This lovely little program checks the tv shows you select for new episodes landing on bit torrent sites with whatever regularity you desire and downloads them automagically in your bit torrent client of choice. I wub this program, I wub it hard. Works on PCs and Macs - eeeebony and iiiivory....





So what do you guys use?

[_Sean_]

Most of these...

[1969]

um, werd, photohop, skip and ipunes....


i have a knock-off computer from saudi so things aren't exactly brand kname.....

[serial_x]

I only use things to make my desktop neater, it keeps my OCD at bay.

AveDesk
Rainlendar
RocketDock
ObjectBar

etc...

[standardman]

Originally Posted by _Sean_

Most of these...

VLC is a great program, if VLC won't play it, nothing will.

[standardman]

Originally Posted by serial_x

RocketDock

Yay, I use rocketdock too. It won me over when I realised I could create an icon to my comic book folder that was an image of Spider-man in a purple hat.

[serial_x]

Originally Posted by standardman

Yay, I use rocketdock too. It won me over when I realised I could create an icon to my comic book folder that was an image of Spider-man in a purple hat.

You should try the Buuf Deuce icon set... plenty of fantastic comic hero icons here. There's a nice screenshot of the icons (nowhere near all of them) here.

[Head1ess Gunner]

Transmission for OS X is a pretty sweet torrent client. It's bare bones- no searching or anything, but it downloads excellently. Open source, too.

Download Transmission

Orb is PC only? I use Connect360 to stream Audio/Video/Photos to my Xbox 360. It's like $20 for the full version, but I got a cracked version somewhere. I think I'm going to drop the cash anyway, though. I love it, and I want to support good software.

Download Connect360

[standardman]

Digsby lets me access all my email, IM and social network accounts in one program and it has a lovely mouse over effect where updates instantly popup for each one. It's skinnable too.

[standardman]

I've been considering overhauling the look and feel of my desktop so I may post the results here in a few days.

Originally Posted by serial_x

You should try the Buuf Deuce icon set... plenty of fantastic comic hero icons here. There's a nice screenshot of the icons (nowhere near all of them) here.

I'll give this a look, thanks. Might be useful for the above overhaul.

Originally Posted by Head1ess Gunner

Transmission for OS X is a pretty sweet torrent client. It's bare bones- no searching or anything, but it downloads excellently. Open source, too.

Download Transmission

Orb is PC only? I use Connect360 to stream Audio/Video/Photos to my Xbox 360. It's like $20 for the full version, but I got a cracked version somewhere. I think I'm going to drop the cash anyway, though. I love it, and I want to support good software.

Download Connect360

Just windows or media centre PCs, I'm afraid.