Software I Use Daily
There are a few applications that I use every single day at work. In fact, it’s unusual that all of these are not open at the same time.
- GTalk - This is how we communicate at work
- Desktop Search - This is how I find all of the things that I lose or refuse to organize
- Firefox - Ahh yes, who could live without it? I actually use Deer Park, the Firefox beta
- iTunes - I buy most of my music via iTunes now so it stays open all day. Luckily, almost everyone at the office also uses iTunes so we get a good mix of music to stream on the network.
- Paint .NET - A great light-weight raster drawing application that kicks Paint’s butt. It’s open source too!
- Visual Studio 2003 Enterprise - Because C# is no fun in Notepad.
- Axosoft OnTime - This is how we keep all of the defects and features straight in new products. It’s a great package for bug tracking and software development management.
- SourceGear Vault - We keep all of our source code locked away in the Vault. Good, soild software that integrates nicely with Visual Studio.
- SCiTe - For all of my regular HTML editing needs. Also open source!
So that’s it. If you were ever wondering what I have open on my laptop all day at work, now you know. What are your most used applications? Leave a comment, please 
*Note: This list does not reflect my most used Apple OS X applications!
Posted: September 26th, 2005 under programming.
Comments: 5
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Comment from Jeff
Time: September 27, 2005, 8:00 am
At work I use…
Konfabulator » For all my widgety needs.
Firefox » Does anyone in their right mind still use IE?
Photoshop » The majority of my work is done here.
Picasa » How I keep all the photos and my work organized.
PuTTy » So I can tell my xbox fileserver to download the newest torrents.
Comment from jobelobes
Time: September 27, 2005, 9:42 am
Ethereal
allSnap(utility)
Visual Studio 2005(beta 2)
Putty
VMWare
those are some good ones too
Comment from oddsox
Time: September 27, 2005, 4:54 pm
HomeSite, FireWorks, ImageReady, SmartFTP, UltraEdit, Flash, and Putty. Of course FoxFire, reminds me of the movie of the same name with a young Angolina J. 
Here’s a question I need to install a blog for my capstone. I noticed you use MT, any other blog s/w implementations I should look at? I like Wordpress’ simple to add authimage captcha test. I use it for my personal blog, and it really cuts down on spam.
Comment from Eric
Time: September 27, 2005, 5:12 pm
FoxFire! I saw that movie in high school. That’s a quality naked Angolia J. movie, right?
I amusing MT for my capstone project. The way I have it setup is using .htaccess to restrict who can even see the blog — so I have no problems with spam.
Recently, I upgraded to MT 3.2 and 95% of the spam I was getting… is gone. Wow. I am not sure what they changed exactly (though, there’s a whole new anti-spam feature set) but it works very well.
I still like MT best and would recommend it.
Comment from oddsox
Time: September 27, 2005, 5:30 pm
I miss all the cool stuff MT has and sooo tried to install it yesterday but I must have futz something bad and had to nuke it. I’ll give her another try.
–tanks (an airplanes)
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