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From: T0M on 7 Jul 2010 17:05 Here is mine, in no particular order of importance: Opera Miranda IM Notepad++ Freecomander Worldclock Magic Mail Monitor Skype TclockEx Tucan Keepass Moffsoft freecalc XNView VLC XMPlay MP3BookHelper Lupas Rename Imgburn UK's calendar Virtuawin Gimp T0M
From: bored stiff "with on 7 Jul 2010 20:23 All attributions removed :-) I knew this was going to be along thread when I first saw it. Don't people just love to post lists of their favorit programs! The OP may just as well have grabbed the 2009 Pricelessware list, cut it in half and posted it, It would have been as much use as yet another list of peoples' favorites, which serves little useful purpose. What is "essential" to one person is easily replaceable by another. IMVHO of course! -bored stiff
From: M.L. on 8 Jul 2010 10:56 >I knew this was going to be along thread when I first saw it. >Don't people just love to post lists of their favorit programs! > >The OP may just as well have grabbed the 2009 Pricelessware list, >cut it in half and posted it, It would have been as much use as yet >another list of peoples' favorites, which serves little useful purpose. > >What is "essential" to one person is easily replaceable by another. Essential means indispensable. Something that one can't do without. If an app is replaceable it can't be indispensable. I think we'd have a more honest list of "essential" apps if all apps cost at least $5000 each :-) Most of the lists were of the uninteresting "my freeware favorites" variety since most of the apps had easy-to-find freeware replacements.
From: John Corliss on 8 Jul 2010 17:45 I really wish you'd stop removing attribution. M.L. wrote: > >> I knew this was going to be along thread when I first saw it. >> Don't people just love to post lists of their favorit programs! >> >> The OP may just as well have grabbed the 2009 Pricelessware list, >> cut it in half and posted it, It would have been as much use as yet >> another list of peoples' favorites, which serves little useful purpose. >> >> What is "essential" to one person is easily replaceable by another. > > Essential means indispensable. Something that one can't do without. If > an app is replaceable it can't be indispensable. I think we'd have a > more honest list of "essential" apps if all apps cost at least $5000 > each :-) If a program is indispensable to me because of certain features it has, that doesn't necessarily mean that it's indispensable to you. You might not have any use for the features that I need. For instance, I've looked at other browsers than Firefox. Firefox is indispensable to me because of the assortment of extensions that I use. No other browser (and believe me, I've looked) is capable of doing all the things that Firefox and those extensions can do for me. Perhaps you would look at the list of extensions I use and say, "well, I could do without that one there and this one here, so Maxthon will work fine for me." *YOU* are not *ME*. You don't have any way of understanding why certain features are important to me. And this is only one of the programs I listed. > Most of the lists were of the uninteresting "my freeware favorites" > variety since most of the apps had easy-to-find freeware replacements. That is, easy-to-find freeware replacements meeting YOUR criteria, not the criteria of the person who posted the list. Why can't you understand that simple fact? -- John Corliss BS206. Because of all the Googlespam, I block all posts sent through Google Groups. I also block as many posts from anonymous remailers (for example, usenet4all.se, x-privat.org, dizum.com, tioat.net, frell.theremailer.net) as possible due to forgeries posted through them. No ad, CD, commercial, cripple, demo, nag, share, spy, time-limited, trial or web wares OR warez for me, please.
From: KristleBawl on 8 Jul 2010 19:16
John Corliss expressed an opinion: > If a program is indispensable to me because of certain features it > has, that doesn't necessarily mean that it's indispensable to you. > You might not have any use for the features that I need. > > For instance, I've looked at other browsers than Firefox. Firefox is > indispensable to me because of the assortment of extensions that I > use. No other browser (and believe me, I've looked) is capable of > doing all the things that Firefox and those extensions can do for > me. > > Perhaps you would look at the list of extensions I use and say, > "well, I could do without that one there and this one here, so > Maxthon will work fine for me." *YOU* are not *ME*. You don't have > any way of understanding why certain features are important to me. > > And this is only one of the programs I listed. > > That is, easy-to-find freeware replacements meeting YOUR criteria, > not the criteria of the person who posted the list. > > Why can't you understand that simple fact? +1, with enthusiasm! :-) Firefox with *my* favorite extensions replaces up to three programs, and Thunderbird with *my* extensions, replaces another three programs, without the other bells and whistles I do *not* need or desire. -- Evolution is God's way of issuing upgrades! KristleBawl's Taglines by Tagzilla 0.066.2 http://xsidebar.mozdev.org/modifiedmailnews.html#tagzilla |