I can't live without
ICQ
winzip/winrar
dropit pro
Pop-Up Stopper
AG satellite
Remote administrator
Ad- aware
DAP
winamp
acdsee classic
e-pop

I hope I ain't forgetting nothing

ICQ/trillian
WinACE
WinAMP
Diskeeper
Remote Desktop
mIRC
The All-Seeing Eye (program like gamespy but without the spyware udpsoft.com)
Flashget
FlashFXP
HJSplit
XP Powertoys
NAV

thats about it i think. At least all i can think of.

I've seen these types of messages before and everytime I think, why!? Whats its all about, whats the point? The mind boggles.

Question should be, why not?

For me:
Office XP
AIM
ICQ
Outlook Express
Winamp
Winzip
Winace
PSP 7.04
Morpheus
NewsBin Pro
CloneCD
Easy CD Creator 5
Cute FTP
Notepad (Web design)
Power DVD

everything everybody else mentioned, plus my personal fav mp3 compressor:

Audio Catalyst 2.1

havent found a better one yet.

fast, with perfect audio quality.

And

NERO 5.whatever

Ulead media studio pro 6.0 for all my video pira..(COUGH!) compressin.:D

Most of that stuff, plus:

Adminpak.msi
SQL Server 2000
Visual Interdev 6
Adobe Photoshop 6
Winimage 5/6
IIS 4/5
SMS 2.0
Exchange 5.5/2000
McAfee VirusScan 4.5.1 Corporate
McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator
Office 2000/XP Pro

Yeah, they are all a bit more on the industrial strength side as opposed to the others, but you did write "tools"...

Regedit
XP Powertoys
NAV

Trillian
DirectConnect
XMpeg (beefed up version of FlaskMpeg)
FlashFXP
Punkbuster
Counter-Strike

mscdex.exe
atapi.sys
fdisk.exe
format.com

photoshop
daemon toolz
SMP SeeSaw Pro
leech FTP
Power DVD 4
Office XP
winrar
cdrwin
winiso

ICQ (You can live without it? )
DAP (you gotta have SOME sorta software. I should try out flashget, though I just converted someone back to dap from it, the traiter!)

IE (to find the stuff)
Bersirc (to discuss the stuff)
FlashFXP (to download/transfer the stuff)
Serv-U 3 (to get more stuff)
DAMN NFO Viewer (to learn about the stuff)
QuickSFV (to verify the stuff)
WinRAR (to extract the stuff)
Daemon-Tools (to test the stuff)
BlindWrite!! (to burn the stuff)

Java SDK 1.4
TextPad (for the java)

Yea, that's all I really do, download and burn stuff. Sometimes I do Java programming at home, sometimes homework too. I more often play one or two of the games from all that stuff above. If you like RTS games and want a good 100% polished one, go buy BattleRealms, it's tough and it's worth it!

Cynan, it's interesting to see what other people do with there time. It can sometimes give you a better idea of who they are and what they're all about. You shouldn't be so cynical, even though your name does look kinda similar.

winamp
windows commander
winrar
damn nfo viewer-gotta love w4rez,cracks...
smart ftp
eac
notepad
office
the power calculator
lame
opera
jspager
photoshop
clipomatic
getright
acdsee 3.0-the versions after that just got too bloated
NVidia Refresh Rate Fix-i realy dont want to go blind

there are more,but i'm not going to list them all.

Originally Posted by Tweaked:

well guess what? you just did! I used to use that before I 'saw the light'
Do you realise Audio Catalyst is a break-away version of Audiograbber ? audiograbber has since been updated quite a bit!

Not only that, but the mp3 encoder that comes with audiograbber doesn't compare to [url=lame.sourceforge.net]LAME[/url]
just extract the .dll from this zip into the audiograbber directory and make sure it is selected as the encoder in the mp3 settings.

note:
I recommend constant/192/stereo/high for lame.
That might be a bit overkill, so for lower bitrates use joint stereo. Or if u must use variable bitrate, put on highest!
whatever you do, leave it on 'high' quality because that makes the file smaller/better quality and the only trade off is it takes a bit longer to encode.

so install both of those, and you have the same interface but enhanced speed/quality and features as well as bug fixes/compatibilty!!!

as for my favourite apps, well, I'm going to have to come back with a (large) list!

sorry if it is considered 'unfavourable' to reawaken old topics!
but this one doesn't really go out of date. WE WANT MORE!!

Just thought in case it was overlooked, there is a
English audiograbber site

Getting a bit off topic, BUT:

Then why are all major games coded in C++? SPEED!!!! SURELY ITS SPEED!!!!