What Are Your Favorite Programs/Applications?

[Orcinus]

One I use all the time that is missing from the lists above: Agent Ransack.

By far the best search engine I've ever used, on any OS. Will search for strings inside virtually any file type I've tried (except for Outlook's horrible .pst files).

That includes exes and pbos. Got a vague error message in the RPT and you're not sure which addon is responsible? Just search the relevant pbos for the string in the RPT message.

Lots of search options including regular expressions. It is also very fast. Results can be copied to the clipboard as formatted text.

Oh, and it's free, with no spy- or adware.

[JezterWithAZ]

Rainmeter = Epic

[Sennacherib]

- photoshop
- wings 3d
- winamp
- i tunes to buy music
- Last fm
- vlc
- foxit
- bittorent

[Haystack15]

KMPlayer

I have a Media Center PC with alot of videos. This player can play just about anything you throw it. It's like VLC Player 3.0

[Lenyoga]

Notepad++ - a must for everyone who's doing c++ or .sqs scripting!!

Audacity - the only right thing for basic audio file editing. Allows to import plugins for various effects, which are also useful when editing sounds for OFP-missions (i.e., improving your voice-overs and sound effects)

Gimp - a nice freeware alternative to all that Photoshop stuff. Good for creating and editing textures. The .xcf format allows you to save the whole file with layers, so you can re-edit every single part of the texture whenever you think you need to do so.

WinPBO - a very good tool to pack/unpack .pbo files. Fulfills all the basic needs for handling .pbo files, doesn't cause complications often, just plain good Russian quality.

TxtPathSwap - quick and clean; renders various hex-editors useless by simply giving us the option to access and change every texture in the .p3d file.

Firefox - because I hate Internet Explorer. Seriously, f**ck you, IE. Go and die in a hole. I want you to die a horrible death, you ugly motherf**cker!

Dropbox - it allows you to upload and share up to 2 GB of files. Just all you need for getting your mods and add-ons out there. Free.

Skype - relatively good and free program to chat/videochat. It doesn't have a high hate-factor, like the Facebook chat.

Steam - causes slowdown on my PC, has a few glitches, but it's still the best video-game service I've ever experienced. No matter if you lose CDs, Steam will see you bought the game and give you a full download.

COMODO Firewall - a good addition to your everyday paranoid security complex.

VLC Media Player - sadly it cuts off a few milliseconds of each file when playing it back, but it's reliable, open for everything and generally just does what you tell it to do.

Fraps - even the demo version which is limited in capture time is pretty neat. I'm using it for gameplay trailers/demos.

[Orcinus]

Notepad++ - a must for everyone who's doing c++ or .sqs scripting!!

+1

Gimp - a nice freeware alternative to all that Photoshop stuff. Good for creating and editing textures. The .xcf format allows you to save the whole file with layers, so you can re-edit every single part of the texture whenever you think you need to do so.

+1 - but also look at Photoscape, has some features Gimp still lacks. Free, & remarkably small IMHO

Firefox - because I hate Internet Explorer. Seriously, f**ck you, IE. Go and die in a hole. I want you to die a horrible death, you ugly motherf**cker!

+10^n

COMODO Firewall - a good addition to your everyday paranoid security complex.

+1. Used Comodo Internet Security since 2009 or so, never felt any need to change. Matouschek regularly score it top of a long list of other free and all the pay-for firewalls.

Also look at Malwarebytes Anti-malware ("MBAM"; free) & Trend Micro's RUBotted (free), permanent fixtures on my machines..

VLC Media Player - sadly it cuts off a few milliseconds of each file when playing it back, but it's reliable, open for everything and generally just does what you tell it to do.

Yeah, good program for Win X or Linux. I also use Media Player Classic & Real Alternative in XP.

[Lenyoga]

+1 - but also look at Photoscape, has some features Gimp still lacks. Free, & remarkably small IMHO

Photoscape sounds interesting, I'll check it out. I'm right now in the processing of designing hundreds of textures, so that might come in handy. I'm also using Media Player Classic in XP, mostly for playing .wav files.

[Lenyoga]

I've got a quick question - does anyone know of reliable, free video editing software? I would use it to edit clips for OFP demo videos, currently I'm using Magix Music Maker, which is, as the name implies, rather meant for music...

[DMarkwick]

I've got a quick question - does anyone know of reliable, free video editing software? I would use it to edit clips for OFP demo videos, currently I'm using Magix Music Maker, which is, as the name implies, rather meant for music...

Microsoft Movie Maker is OK for basic editing. Can even do titles etc. And will output nice small files with little loss of quality.

[oxmox]

I like iMindMap quiete a lot, its an intersting software for brainstorming, studying and organising. Really cool, if you dont know about it you should have a look.

http://www.thinkbuzan.com/de/index