What's the most useful piece of software you've ever encountered?

[lokiju]

Dr. Divx
DVD Decrypter
Firefox
Winamp + Ipod plugin
Rstudio unerase programs
bitcomet

 

[junkerman123]

photoshop for me, surprised nobody has brought this one up

 

[BrokenVisage]

Azureus.

 

[thirdlegstump]

MacOS

 

[StrangerGuy]

Microsoft Excel.

 

[DivideBYZero]

Winzip
Firefox
Word

 

[Nitemare]

DVD Shrink

 

[IronWing]

Directory Control (DC) - DOS
ThumbsPlus - Windows
LeechFTP - Windows

Runners up:
pkzip/unzip
LView
Newsweep - for Kaypro CP/M
DOSKEYS

 

[sonz70]

man, you guys are useless



Torrents!!!!

 

[Platypus]

tcpdump, nmap, strace, vi

 

[Saint Nick]

notepad.exe

 

[Reel]

BIOS

 

[vi edit]

Originally posted by: CorporateRecreation
tcpdump, nmap, strace, vi

:lips:

For me, it's Get Data Back from http://www.runtime.org

Not so much for everday usefulness...just for the sheer data(& job)saving miracles it has performed. For so little money.

 

[ShowdOWN]

NERO
*MIRC
AIM
SPYBOT
WINRAR
TORRENT
DVDSHRINK
GHOST

* denotes best

 

[Platypus]

Originally posted by: vi_edit

Originally posted by: CorporateRecreation
tcpdump, nmap, strace, vi

:lips:

For me, it's Get Data Back from http://www.runtime.org

Not so much for everday usefulness...just for the sheer data(& job)saving miracles it has performed. For so little money.

:heart:

 

[Hyperblaze]

I'd have to say the gcc compiler. NOTHING could get installed from source on UNIX without this little baby.

I consider that pretty damn useful.

 

[effowe]

Firefox
Grabit Newsgroup Downloader
QuickPar
WinRar

 

[Fenixgoon]

bit torrent

 

[Platypus]

Originally posted by: Hyperblaze
I'd have to say the gcc compiler. NOTHING could get installed from source on UNIX without this little baby.

I consider that pretty damn useful.

There are lots of other compilers for UNIX

 

[CVSiN]

Compupic Pro

 

[Whitecloak]

excel

 

[EKKC]

Originally posted by: effowe
Firefox
Grabit Newsgroup Downloader
QuickPar
WinRar

:thumbsup:!!!

all my favorites! and bitcomet!

 

[neutralizer]

Media Player Classic, plays everything I throw at it.

 

[remagavon]

Probably winamp (back in it's prime). Now, not really sure. AIM is more of a time waster than useful as are most thing listed. I guess IE?

 

[SWScorch]

EAC, without it I wouldn't have half, err, I mean any of my mp3s