Essential Programs for Geeks?

I was just curious.... What are some programs that you guys download that are like must-haves. I know about like spybot and adaware and stuff like that. I'm talking about like the other stuff.... The stuff that is cool to use.....

 

for the audiophiles:
http://www.exactaudiocopy.de/
http://flac.sourceforge.net/download.html
http://www3.cypress.ne.jp/otachan/out_asio(exe).html (ok, it's a plugin, but w/e)
http://www.foobar2000.org/

for IMing:
http://gaim.sourceforge.net/
http://hkn.eecs.berkeley.edu/~casey/autoprofile/

other:
http://www.cpuid.com/cpuz.php
http://www.stereo-balance.net/index.php?mod=wiki&w=headplug
http://www.oo-software.com/en/index.html (it's not free, but i love the defrag tool!)

 

... it is ??????

 

Just downloaded this sound editor and it rocks!! Need to find lame_enc.dll to go with it for MP3 conversion. I got mine (dll file) at free-codecs.com. Tate

 

... a plugin for winamp to bypass the kernel-level mixer in windows. some soundcards support it, but not all

 

Attachment Options for Outlook

MultiRes for ATI video card



yProxy for decoding yEnc encoded newsgroup files in Outlook Express.

 

You called? Oh, nevermind, that's enc, not eric.

Back's out of thread........


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Audacity

Frontbase Image2Icon http://www.frontbase.fi/products/image2icon/index.php4

Winboard - for making absolutely sure you never win at Chess! http://www.tim-mann.org/xboard.html

AI Roboform The coolest form filler ever! http://www.majorgeeks.com/download.php?det=2428

CD Burner XP Pro http://www.majorgeeks.com/download4242.html

Quick Verse - http://www.quickverse.com/shopfiles/product_details.asp?ID=41134

Startup Inspector for Windows http://www.majorgeeks.com/download4075.html

Spam Bully - versions for Outlook and Outlook Express available. http://www.majorgeeks.com/download.php?det=3048

 

NN, check out my most used program

SlickRun v3.2.2.2 http://www.bayden.com/slickrun/updates.asp?l=en&ver=3.2.2.2

It does away with 98% of shortcuts on your desktop.

I have 148 magicwords instead of shortcuts.

X gets me Excel, AVG gets AVG AntiVirus, BAZ runs Bazooka, Expl runs Windows Explorer, IE runs Internet Explorer, etc. Bazza

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Essential for geeks.. hmmmmmm lol I think I'd have to go with one of the distributed computing programs. My personal fave is, of course, SETI. Though, I'm pretty sure that SoB.. (Seventeen or Bust) is catching up fast as a fave of the 'Top Dog' geeks.

Seti user for 3.277 years
Personal Stats (Overall): Top 6%!

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