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Norbert666

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What is your favourite piece of software?

I have an urge to try something new. Anything.

I recently bought a copy of MS Digital Image Suite 2006 to see if I could get into it. I tried it last night for the first time, and think I might.

But that got me thinking, there must be loads of cool programmes out there that I would never try unless told to...

So what are your favs for doing whatever you like?
 
Picasa is up there somewhere; especially since I became a father (photos ahoy!) and got a new camera.

Really very fond of IE7 too - really got into it this beta. Find it nice to use in most respects.

As I've gone customization mad, Windowblinds 5, IconTweaker, SkinStudio and Styler have become "friends" of mine too lol :)
 
My current favourite is ZipGenius ( http://www.zipgenius.it/index_eng.htm ). I like it so much that i've removed Winzip and stuck with ZipGenius :D

Supports rar, arj, ace, etc. The user interface is a little quirky, but once you go into the options and view settings it's very familiar to winzip :)

Also using CDBurnerXP ( http://www.cdburnerxp.se/download.php ) on my main rig, my little shuttle and my laptop.
 
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Flock - That is a very good web browser if you do a lot of social networking and browsing (Blogs, del.icio.us etc).

Colloquy - Really good IRC client, clean and very easy to use.

Rich
 
AJUK said:
Thunderbird is the Mozilla email client and is a superb bit of kit

http://www.mozilla.com/thunderbird/

and it gets better, OpenOffice is a free, yes FREE, office suite

http://www.openoffice.org/

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Open office looks very good for a free bit of software, can I ask is it compatable with the microsoft office software, just ask because I would hate to do work only to find no body else can use a document or a spreadsheet.
 
uknorthboy said:
Open office looks very good for a free bit of software, can I ask is it compatable with the microsoft office software, just ask because I would hate to do work only to find no body else can use a document or a spreadsheet.
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It is indeed.
 
OpenOffice is compatable with MS Office for almost anything you throw at it. If you have Office documents with very complicated formatting or macros Oo can struggle but I use Oo in a working environment for reports and general office documents and have never had a problem working between the two. For most people, Oo over MS is a no brainer.
 
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I have to say, PC PRO magazine doesn't seem to hold the same opinion on OpenOffice. They describe it as a slow, buggy, unreliable and mostly inoperable with anything but the most basic of Microsoft Office documents/spreadsheets. And they did two reviews on it about a year apart ending with the same conclusion.

Thunderbird is pretty much an Outlook Express clone but with a less polished GUI. So why not just use OE? :confused:
 
I find it very slow too. As an example Word in Office 2000 opens in approximately 2-3 seconds from cold. The word processor in OO takes about 10 seconds to load. I'm sorry, it's a word processor and the word processor on my old 386 in Windows 3.1 took less time than that to load and it doesn't type my letters any better. Same with Office XP, why does it take soooooo long.

Anyway, I like Ccleaner. It deletes ****
 
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