What desktop apps do you use?

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Post by danw » Mon, Jun 11, 2007, 5:00 PM UTC

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Re: What desktop apps do you use?

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Post by danw » Mon, Jun 11, 2007, 5:03 PM UTC

With web apps increasingly taking over from desktop, which desktops apps do you still use?

As a starter my mac os x dock has Firefox, Mail, Terminal, iCal, TextWrangler, Adium, NicePlayer & Democracy. Everything else has been slowly replaced by web apps. Which app will go online next?

Re: What desktop apps do you use?

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Post by davidw » Mon, Jun 11, 2007, 5:18 PM UTC

emacs, rxvt, firefox, openoffice covers most of it.

Re: What desktop apps do you use?

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Post by nostrademons » Mon, Jun 11, 2007, 5:21 PM UTC

Firefox, Thunderbird (occasionally), Winamp, Gaim, uTorrent, Winzip, Acrobat, Ghostview, VMWare, SSH. Netbeans when I need to do work stuff, and IE for testing browser compatibility. MSPaint for quick graphic edits, and Notepad++ for quick text edits. Occasionally Civ3 or SimCity 2000 when I feel like playing a game, and the DVD burning software that came with the machine. Nothing else.

Re: What desktop apps do you use?

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Post by twism » Mon, Jun 11, 2007, 5:29 PM UTC

itunes, eclipse, gtalk, paint.NET, NaviCat, WinSCP, Putty, Windows Task Manager.

Re: What desktop apps do you use?

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Post by larkin » Mon, Jun 11, 2007, 5:43 PM UTC

BTW, why do you want to know that? :)

Re: What desktop apps do you use?

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Post by danw » Mon, Jun 11, 2007, 5:53 PM UTC

larkin wrote: post #6

BTW, why do you want to know that? :)

To know which web apps need building next! If a lot of people are still using a desktop app when it can be made a web apps you've got to wonder why..

Re: What desktop apps do you use?

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Post by ktus » Mon, Jun 11, 2007, 7:41 PM UTC

danw wrote: post #7

larkin wrote: post #6

BTW, why do you want to know that? :)

To know which web apps need building next! If a lot of people are still using a desktop app when it can be made a web apps you've got to wonder why..

In that case, then how about a web version of emacs.

Re: What desktop apps do you use?

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Post by abstractbill » Mon, Jun 11, 2007, 9:34 PM UTC

I use emacs, firefox, iterm and itunes.

I sometimes think about getting rid of iterm, but never seem to be able to find an emacs terminal mode that does full ansi support perfectly.

Re: What desktop apps do you use?

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Post by entelarust » Mon, Jun 11, 2007, 9:35 PM UTC

safari, firefox, textmate, transmit, photoshop cs3, adium, transmission, netnewswire, itunes, syncrosvn