Lifehacker's List of Essential Downloads 2010

RobH · 3 Jun 2010 at 14:33

ZombieFan said:
I didn't know about dropbox. That looks like one very useful piece of software.

It is very useful, I had heard lots of people mention it before but only really looked into it about 3 months ago. I now use it on all my machines, I can't live without it. It's and ideal place to store my documents and project folders for many things I use such as NetBeans, Eclipse and Processing. When I've been working on my desktop I just hit save and when I pick up my netbook later, everything is as I left it on my desktop, ready to continue working.

SiriusB · 3 Jun 2010 at 15:07

DJDaz said:
no he implied that because of the codec pack being on there it makes vlc a poor choice where the codec pack is nothing to do with vlc

Ah fair enough. My point still stands though! They should have chosen MPC over VLC.

cavemanoc · 3 Jun 2010 at 21:06

DJDaz said:
just out of interest why does that make VLC poor? it even says on there that the codec pack is more for people that like to use windows media center

I misread it - I thought it was to cover holes in VLC as well as the built in Windows media players. I always thought that MPC had better coverage than VLC, but I stand corrected - still prefer it as a player though

What does ImgBurn do that the built in drivers in Win 7 don't? Not used it for a while as I prefer others for virtual drives and mounting images, but I have to say that I just burn with Win 7 now.

SiriusB · 3 Jun 2010 at 21:35

If you only require image burning I suppose there is no reason for imgburn.