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 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 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.