The essentials

[andrewducker]

I started the Windows reinstall a couple of days ago (having lost the hard drive I had been booting from).

Having done this I then reinstalled the software I can't live without, which seems to be:

The Bat! (best email client I've used, ever).
Winamp 3 (I actually prefer Winamp 2, but I'm forcing myself in the hope that I'll get used to it)
Microsoft Office (and yes, I do need lots of the extra functionality you don't get in Emacs)
AIM (for those people that don't have MSN. Well, basically for OnceUpon, in the 5 minutes a month we're both logged on)
Adobe Acrobat Reader
AVG Virus Killer (best free antivirus I've found)
Kazaa Lite (I want my, I want my, I want my MP3. And videos. and software. and porn).
Semagic LJ client (so much better than the standard windows one)
Spampal (spam recognition program. Works as a transparent POP proxy and is accurate 95% of the time. The rest of the time I use the built in blacklist-whitelist function)
Metapad (The best notepad replacement I've found).

If anyone has suggestions for essential software I should be using, I'd love to hear them.

Comments

Semagic LJ?

[imester.livejournal.com]

I'm looking into journal/blog software. What do you like about this one?

Re: Semagic LJ?

[andrewducker]

Well, all it is is a front end to LJ. As front ends go, it's great - lots of options, makes making links dead easy (copy the link to the clipboard, select the link text, press Ctrl-Alt-L), keeps track of changes in my friends list and makes making groups dead easy. Oh, and it also tracks my friends page and if n things happen it can either flash it's icon or open my friends page (whatever I choose) or do that for just a subgroup of my friends list.

Generally speaking it's great.

Of course, if you don't want to use LJ, it's not so hot. In that case, the only other tool I've used is Radio Userland, which is a fab tool, but check it suits your purpouse...

[birdofparadox.livejournal.com]

i'm deirdrafaerie on AIM, just so's you know.

2 Essentials

[(Anonymous)]

The two Id recommend as ‘must haves’ are CloseIeX [http://geocities.com/closeiex] (prog that closes unwanted IE popups) and TreeSize Professional [http://www.jam-software.com/treesize.shtml] (brilliant disk management app), both of which are freeware.

;)

Dave