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Old 09-10-2008, 02:22 PM   #21 (permalink)
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Main machine Vista, Laptop is an old XP machine

In order of use

Firefox+adblock+google toolbar

iTunes

Vista-stuff like photo viewer and Media Center

Open Office (Writer and Calc)

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Windows Movie maker, Corel Capture, and Internet Explorer (all very rarely)

I only play games on my iPod (solitare) or my Gamecube.

I almost never use any other programs. I really don't see a need to ever use any other programs.
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Old 09-10-2008, 02:35 PM   #22 (permalink)
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Hehe, i've had the offer of having my PC upgraded to Vista but i'm not game. I hear too many horror stories about Vista. Enough to outweight any good points at least.
From what I hear, that's probably the right decision. Vista's worked great for me and DirectX10 is nice, but I'm well aware that I'm an exception.
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Old 09-10-2008, 02:42 PM   #23 (permalink)
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From what I hear, that's probably the right decision. Vista's worked great for me and DirectX10 is nice, but I'm well aware that I'm an exception.
One of the computer guys in my office was drinking with us last week and the Vista issue came up.

He defended M$, saying vista reliability depends on the hardware+drivers of particular machines. I guess some computer parts manufacturers just don't have their stuff up to vista standards. He was pro-vista, but having said that, none of the machines in our office run Vista; they're all XP.

My vista machine runs fine now, after months of problems (I bought my machine with vista installed right after the release). It acted up again after SP1 but it was easy to roll back to before the SP1 update, and turn off future updates. The IT guy at work told me my problems were likely due to the Nvidia chipset/drivers. :shrug:
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One of the computer guys in my office was drinking with us last week and the Vista issue came up.

He defended M$, saying vista reliability depends on the hardware+drivers of particular machines. I guess some computer parts manufacturers just don't have their stuff up to vista standards. He was pro-vista, but having said that, none of the machines in our office run Vista; they're all XP.

My vista machine runs fine now, after months of problems (I bought my machine with vista installed right after the release). It acted up again after SP1 but it was easy to roll back to before the SP1 update, and turn off future updates. The IT guy at work told me my problems were likely due to the Nvidia chipset/drivers. :shrug:
I think I was lucky, there was a new nvidia driver release jyst after I setup my machine.

I dislike vista more for what it could have been and fell short of being than what it is. I do love how malleable I've discovered it to be, though.
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Old 09-10-2008, 03:09 PM   #25 (permalink)
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As a Mac guy, I've only used Vista a bit. I'm not trying to turn this into a Vista-hating forum, but the few times I've used it, I really have trouble with it.

The most recent case was when a friend of mine brought her laptop over to my place. I have a MAC filter on my wireless router instead of a password, and I wanted to find her MAC address so I could add it. I spent about ten minutes frustrated before I googled how to find an MAC on Vista. In order to find it, I had to connect to another wireless network (one not password protected) so that I could see the network configuration. If I wasn't in Manhattan (with Starbucks and shit everywhere) this would have caused me internal hemorrhaging, I'm sure.

Ok, I'm done. Sorry.
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Old 09-10-2008, 03:12 PM   #26 (permalink)
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Back on topic-

Mojo is an awesome music sharing app (Mac & PC) that shares user libraries like iTunes, but you can download directly from the libraries of other users on your network.

I use it at work, and it's the shit.

Download Mojo
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Old 09-10-2008, 03:12 PM   #27 (permalink)
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I'm following TechCrunch50 news for a bit, post your apps in the mean time.
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Old 09-10-2008, 03:27 PM   #28 (permalink)
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On my XP machine, shareware or freeware used every day:

VLC to display all kinds of media

Irfan View to display all kinds of images

Spider for music and podcasts, instead of Winamp

Total Commander for file management and MTP devices like cameras and mp3 players. Runs rings around Windoze Explorer

Macro Express for keyboard macros

Truecrypt for file encryption

Opera for my browser (has a slick RSS/XML/Atom aggregator for blogs and podcasts), Thunderbird for my e-mail

H-Menu to launch programs from the edge of the screen. Keeps the desktop clean.

And all the Google apps: IGoogle, Google Docs, Google Calendar, Google Reader, G-mail are all great away from home and the office
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Old 09-10-2008, 03:35 PM   #29 (permalink)
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Irfan View in particular is excellent. I've used it for all the screencaps in this thread. Really fast, really small image viewing/editing tool.

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Old 09-10-2008, 03:41 PM   #30 (permalink)
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I may as well post some of the things that are interesting me from TechCrunch50 for those not following my twitter (what's wrong with you people?).

Bojam is mass collaboration music in the same way that wikipedia was a mass collaboration encyclopedia.

Akoha is karma as a viral massively multiplayer augmented reality game.

Playce and Atmosphir are aiming to put the tools for making games into everyone's hands.
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