Software You Can't Afford Not To Use
 

List any and all software that you couldn't *live* without.

Also, a brief description of what the software does would be nice for those that don't know!

My list:

Visual Basic 6 - Windows programming
Notepad - Edit the files
WS_FTP - File Transfer Protocol client ( up/down loads file to/from server)
Firefox - I love teh tabs
Synergy - Share mouse/keyboard across multiple computers (as well as clipboard)
Comodo - Awesome firewall
Avast - Elite antivirus
Outlook - gotta check teh e-mails
CCleaner - Keeps the PC tidy
Advanced Administrative Tools -
http://xs121.xs.to/xs121/07481/aatools.jpg

All the above are free with the exceptions of VB6 & AATools, and yes I paid for both of them!

notepad
photoshop
mediaplayer - blast some tunes out :)

Mozilla Suite 1.7.x - less spread then FF, less junk from theee internext.
Totalcmd - way better windblows version of Volkov Commander.
NOD32 - more superior anti-virus then Avast.
Spybot - keep it clean :D
Winamp 2.91/2.93 - best there is
Minesweeper - keeps in good mental shape while waiting for upload/download :D

firefox
trillian
total commander
videocharge
arles
:thumbsup

search & destroy

Why no one mentioned ICQ? :)

Photoshop
Putty
Notepad
Core Ftp
Blaze Media Pro
CCleaner
Hijack this
Zonealarm
Spybot
Chameleon Submitter
Open Office

See Sig :)

ACDsee using it for ages

I would add Statsremote! Not free but extremely useful!

Hmm, these are what I can't live without:

Photoshop & Fireworks - Fireworks is easier and faster, Photoshop is prettier but slower
Sony Vegas - Video editing has never been easier than this
ITunes & Last.fm - All my tunage belongs to them
Flex & Flash CS3 - Nuff said
Cute FTP - Most streamlined FTP IMHO
Dreamweaver - Quick and simple site mods
Videocharge Pro - Ripping, splitting, watermarking, encoding video in several formats (H.264,WMV, XVID, Flash 8) and uploading while I sleep ;)

I like how you felt you had to not only explain what WS_FTP was, but what FTP programs are for
:1orglaugh

World of Warcraft -->> DOTA.. :)

Firefox
Photoshop
XAMPP
Keyword Elite
Keyword Analyzer
FlashFXP
ICQ
Useful File Utilities
plus half a dozen SEO tools I won't reveal here...

Forgot: Tor/Privoxy can be really helpful sometimes

FHG2HTML from the fhg store is really handy if ya need to convert downloaded csv files to html..
Lots of flexibilty.. It can take a list such as url|desc and convert to <a href="url">desc</a><br>

and lots of other neato stuff on that order...

and it's free...

Excell
Words
RoboForm
CuteFTP
winZIP
WinRAR
Multimon taskbar
Cobian backup
vlc Media Player
Real Alternative player

Photoshop
Dreamweaver
notepad
Firefox

Photoshop
smart thumbs
tgpx
vi
notepad
flash cs3
flashfxp
putty
firefox
ie7
ffmpeg

Thats almost my list - I would go with CoreFTP over Cute though.

and for quick FTP stuff I like FireFTP - its a Firefox extension.

GFY's ignore

IE - need decent browser, can't stand crappy ones
ACDSee - absolutely crucial if you're a photographer
Photoshop
ULead Media Studio Pro - for video editing
Filezilla - FTP
Outlook

I can not live without blogsorganizer see sig :)

My list!
 

Dreamweaver
Photoshop
ACDSee7
CoreFTP
UltraEdit - My favorite code editor!
iTunes
ICQ
Outlook
Nortons
SpySweeper
Arles
Firefox

I will have to check out some of the ones listed by others. Always nice to find some new ones.

Pussy. Thats the only software I don't want to ever live without.

Photopshop
Advanced Submitter
Smart FTP
Flash FXP
Stats Remote
ICQ
MSN
Outlook

I will represent for the Apple people.

Adium X (all in one chat program like trillian)
Transmit (ftp client)
iTunes
Parallels Desktop (run any OS inside OS X)
Adobe CS3
Growl
Google Notifier
Skype
DeskShade
Audio Hijacker Pro
Firefox
Thunderbird (mail client)

Firefox. Notepad. NotepadEX. PSpad. HTMLkit. Nero. Daemon Tools. Steam/Counterstrike. ICQ. Thumbs Plus. Flashget/Flashgot. Noscript. FireFTP. Atomic Alarm Clock. VLC. AVG. Photoshop CS2. G-mail.

The ones I use the most are bold. Some you might not know are:

PSpad & NotpadEX & HTMLkit- super-duper text/code editors.
Daemon Tools- mounts images as virtual optical drives.
Noscript- Firefox extension, disables scripts while browsing until added to the whitelist by domain.
Flashget- download manager & Flashgot - download manager manager (firefox extension that adds compatibility with your download managers to Firefox)
FireFTP: Free Firefox embedded FTP client.
VLC- video player that will play the shit out of just about any video (or sound) file, even without funky codecs and bloatware.

Salesforce - Online CRM software
Outlook - checking the emails
Skype - communications
Roboform - Encrypted passcard organizer
Getting Things Done - Outlook add-on for organization....thanks Greg Gaskell
FileZilla - FTP
X2Net Smartboard - Smart clipboard with memory
Good Keywords v2.01

Years I decided to invest a couple of days into learning a powerful network
operating system (Linux) in order to save hundreds of hours of clicking later,
so my list is:

vi (actually vim, a text editor)
ssh (to connect to to other machines)
Mozilla Seamonkey (browser)
Balsa (email)
ncftp (powerful FTP client)

Lots of little utility scripts I wrote myself, like the script which pointed
out this thread to me.

I forgot

Trillian - chat/im's icq/msn/yahoo/aim/irc
Excel - sweet for data manipulation & sorting
Access - Databases, tables, reports and queries oh my
Navicat - MySQL Admin tool - "The wolrds best MySQL GUI for Windows, Linux & Mac OS X"


yah,.. I remember when I didn't know wtf FTP was, lol.

Also specified it was a client :winkwink:

Firefox
Miranda
Outlook
CuteFTP
TextPad
Stats Remote
Rhapsody

wordpress - blog script
feedreader - reading rss feeds
Type It In - form filler

I guess thats it for now :)

My daily dose...

Firefox
Microsoft Excel
Photoshop
Dreamweaver
ICQ
Metapad
SecureCRT + Putty
AccessDiver
Stats Remote

smartthumbs :thumbsup

Trillian Pro
Skype
Dreamweaver
Statsremote
WS FTP Pro
Media Player
IE7/Firefox:thumbsup