Most used software on the computer?

[Inclusa]

Since I went off the hook of commercial software a few years ago, (than again, I still use Google picasa for convenient photos sharing; but now I have "second thoughts"; Facebook features this function, too.), I have been using Open Office Writer, GIMP, Evince (for reading PDF), File Manager of various types, Firefox, Thunderbird, Pidgin and Linux (the operating system that comes with quite a few software.)

One thing about commercial software is that they are usually resource hogs.

So, what software do you use on a regular basis?

[danscope]

Word , notepad , paint , pandora , Pretty basic . It works . I still dislike pdf files .

Dan

[cjl]

Since I went off the hook of commercial software a few years ago, (than again, I still use Google picasa for convenient photos sharing; but now I have "second thoughts"; Facebook features this function, too.), I have been using Open Office Writer, GIMP, Evince (for reading PDF), File Manager of various types, Firefox, Thunderbird, Pidgin and Linux (the operating system that comes with quite a few software.)

One thing about commercial software is that they are usually resource hogs.

So, what software do you use on a regular basis?

I don't really understand this statement that commercial software is usually a resource hog. It all depends on the software. Some commercial software is genuinely a resource hog, but the same is true of some open source software.

As for what I use? Windows 7, Matlab, Solidworks, MS Office 2010 (primarily Word, Excel, and PowerPoint), Firefox, Thunderbird, and assorted games. I also use Photoshop CS4 fairly often.

[Inclusa]

Yes, Firefox and Open Office are two famous examples; than again, most (if not all) web browsers are resource hogs to a different degree. Try 10 tabs opened and see what happens.
Once I thought Sea Monkey/Google Chrome would be faster than Firefox; than it is all illusion. (IE is still too buggy to work around).

[swampyankee]

Me? I use Firefox and OpenOffice. I also use Perl, Java, Fortran, (g95), etc. The software I use most often is, of course, the operating system.

[Moose]

Firefox. VLC. Then any of a number of video games, depending on my mood. Often, all three simultaneously.

Various components of word/photoshop for school related stuff. My printer and scanner drivers.

[Glom]

Chrome, Excel, Spider, Outlook, Word are the top three.

And I'm pleased with my Excel skills. Just today, I figured out how to pass references to books, sheet and ranges, rather than passing the strings. I know that seems pretty basic, especially since I've been such a heavy duty VBA user, but it is a eureka moment. I wish I could go back to all my previous builds and update my code.

[Fazor]

Of the ones mentioned in the OP, I use Firefox and Open Office. Aside from my games, those two cover 99% of everything I do (write and web surf.) I use Gimp at work when I need to edit a picture for something, but I still prefer Photoshop, which is what I use at home (My g/f is a photographer so I can use her copy; not buying a license for this work machine for the little I'd need it.)

[Solfe]

I use Rhythmbox for music, Open Office, Firefox, gimp and F-spot on my pcs with Linux. On the Mac's I use Word, Palm desktop, iTunes, Classilla and Excel.

[kleindoofy]

On any given day, at least at some time during the day, I will most probably have used these: Kedit (editor), TeX, DVIPS, GhostScript, Firefox, FTP-program, Acrobat, Acrobat-distiller, PhotoShop, CorelDraw, Winamp, Cooledit (wave editor), Word (only passively), Dos-window, accounting software (KHK), various windows components (charmap, explorer, calculator, syscontrol, regedit, etc.), PostScript RIP-Server, SilverFast (scanner software), ColorQuartet (drum scanner software), various mp3 and video format converters, numerous self-written programs (mostly text crunchers), Fontographer, Nero, and a few others I can't think of just now. There are other I only use occasionally, like Quark.

Just for the record: the last game I played on a computer was Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards on DOS 3.3 in 1989.

[Chuck]

I use UBasic (http://archives.math.utk.edu/software/msdos/number.theory/ubasic/.html) a lot. It's a BASIC interpreter with 2600 digit precision.

[Hlafordlaes]

uTorrent, Peerblock, IPFilterUpdater, Daemon Tools, UltraSurf to watch US TV.

Suite of tools at MyP2P (http://myp2p.eu/) to catch sports action.

XPMode under Win7 to play Internet Hearts.

Open Office when once is forced to, sigh, work.

Powerpoint to make max 2-3 picture-only slides for 45 min. presentations. Waaay down from the loathsome and illegible text slide-per-minute standard.

WPCREDIT and WPCRSET for PCI space tweaking, Rivatuner for video tweaking, and own-rolled monitor drivers to turn my 17" CRT (normally 1280x1024 max) into a 1920x1024 near-hidef beast.

[mfumbesi]

I regularly use Total Command, Slick Edit, X-Win32, FireFox, Outlook and TortoiseSVN (basically SubVersion).

[rommel543]

Being a software developer I'm all over the place.
OS- Win 7, XP, Ubuntu, Window Server 2003, 2008
DB - MS SQL 2000, MS SQL 2008, Sybase
IDE - PB 6.5, PB 10.2, Visual Studio 2005, VS 2008, UltraEdit, Aqua DataStudio
Apps - MS Office, Open Office, Lotus Notes, Photoshop CS2, MS Paint, Notepad
Browsers - Chrome (personal pick), IE (needed to access work intranet)

There's other in there, especially for the stuff at home, but that's the day to day stuff.

[PetersCreek]

My top fives from work and home...

Work:


MS Internet Explorer
Lotus Notes
MS Office 2003
Adobe Acrobat Pro
Proprietary staffing and budget applications (mostly web-enabled)

Home:


Firefox
Adobe Photoshop CS5
MS Flight Simulator
MS Office 2010
Chief Architect Home Designer

[Celestial Mechanic]

I'm out in left field somewhere, I do NOT use contemporary Windows on my computers. I use eComStation or its predecessor, OS/2 as my operating system(s). Software that I use most:

Mozilla 1.7 (browser and email)
Lotus SmartSuite (WordPro, 1-2-3 (remember 1-2-3?))
Watcom compiler suite (C, C++, assembler, FORTRAN if I'm feeling masochistic ...)
Adobe Acrobat reader (for all those PDFs!)

OS/2 supports old Windows programs (pre-95) with something called WINOS2. I use an old version of Quicken for my bank accounts.

[Tensor]

I do theatre design work so my most used software is

Vectorworks: Lighting design
TurboCad Mac v5: Set Design
Punch Home and Landscape design

I also do some stuff for a couple of businesses around the area so I also have

Windows 7
MS Office 2010
and compilers for C, C++, Perl, and some database languages. All of which I run in either Parallels or Bootcamp.

And of course either Safari or Firefox as my browser. I do have Xcode for C and C++ in the OSX environment.