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Wednesday 28 December 2005
Most Used App of the Year
OF ALL THE APPS ON YOUR COMPUTERS, which three did you use the most this year? Here are mine:
- Entourage (and Webmail)
- Adium (and Trillian)
- Firefox
Most of my time is apparently spent in email, on IM, or browsing.
How ’bout you?
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Posted by: Molly | 12:24 | Comments (116)
SSH — practically ALL the time.
Second and third would be Firefox and Vim, in some order.
Outlook 12 Beta
IE7 Beta
Sharepoint Designer 12 Beta
I’ll be the first to admit:
1. Outlook Express
2. IE6
3. Windows Explorer
4. Windows Messenger
Once I’ve got that out of the way:
5. FeedDemon
6. Notetab Pro
7. Photoshop
8. Firefox (and browsercam.com)
9. Word
10. FTP Voyager
Firefox
Illustrator
iTunes
…and Gmail if that counts.
Firefox
mIRC
MSN Messenger
Dreamweaver (codeview! I love syntax highlighting and ’site profile’)
Warcraft3 (does this count?)
Hi Molly,
Thanks for being real!
My 3 most used apps would be -
Firefox
Textwrangler
Photoshop
At home/uni:
Firefox
Gmail
Kate (text editor)
At work:
Lotus Notes
Excel
SAP
Mozilla Firefox (of course…)
Notepad2
MSN Messenger
Gmail (online app?)
[...] « introducing 3 Most Used Applications: ‘05 Molly has asked what everybody’s most used application of 2005 was. My answer is [...]
FireFox
Qube
Photoshop
Top 3 have to be
Firefox
Dreamweaver
Photoshop
Also mostly on MSN/Meebo and surfing – also whilst listening to music…
Lotus Notes/Domino Designer
Bloglines via Firefox
Hotmail via IE
Textwrangler
Safari
Mail.app
iTunes whenever the computer is on.
I am not counting apps that I never close, such as iChat, Safari, Netwewswire, or mail.app
BBEdit
OmniOutliner Pro
OmniGraffle Pro
Firefox
Gmail
Textpattern
Mail
Safari
AdiumX
More recently:
ecto
Vienna
Vim
AdiumX
Newsfire
Honorable mention background utilities:
Textpander
Growl
Quicksilver
[...] Molly over at Molly.com is asking what your most used applications of 2005 were. So I figured I would give her an answer. [...]
muttng
Vim
Snownews
More recently (after the switch):
Camino
Adium
Vienna
1. DOMInspector and the App that came with it
2. Thunderbird
3. MsWord
on OSX: Adium, Smultron, Opera, iTunes
on WinXP: Notepad++, Opera, ExplorerXP, WinAmp
[...] Most Used App of the year Hmmmm that a tough one, really, I use a bunch of them alot, and what I use alot now I didn’t use as much at the beginning of the year. Anyway now I use these apps the most: Camino* Dreamweaver (obviously, since I’m a developer) iTunes (gotta have my music!) [...]
Most of the time is spent on the PC, so:
* Firefox
* iTunes
* Microsoft Word (many a project write up this year…)
On the Mac:
* AdiumX
* Camino
* iCal
I’ve excluded a couple there: If I included Gmail I’d need to include Wordpress and then suddenly, 3 because too few express anything like the way I use computers. I also left out Quicksilver on the Mac, since whilst I use it to launch pretty much every single application I use, it’s just a stepping stone (but what an awesome, gem encrusted stone it is).
Happy New Year, Molly et al.
Ben
What else but The Holy Trinity of Web Design?
1. Firefox
2. Dreamweaver
3. Adobe Photoshop
Mail.app
Unison
Safari
(I need to add a fourth)
NewsFire
They would be:
Firefox,
Notepad2, and
Quintessential Player.
I can’t imagine trying to do any development on any platform without Emacs. I keep an instance open in each virtual desktop on the Linux box, and of course, one instance on ‘doze. Do cvs, the cli, and MySQL count if you do it from Emacs? Nah? Didn’t think so.
OK, next is Firefox followed by The GIMP and whichever mail client I’m playing with—at the moment, Thunderbird, but I really like Agent.
cheers,
gary
1. Safari
2. Photoshop
3. skEdit
1. Firefox
2. mIRC
3. TopStyle PRO
1. Firefox
2. iTunes
3. Photoshop CS
4. vi
I don’t think I can name three.
1. Firefox
2. bash
3. emacs
4. Adobe Photoshop 7 (Because it can run through CrossOver Office)
5. PuTTy
6. gFTP
7. Gaim
And that’s excluding all server / interpreter stuff; I run Apache all the time I’m on, as well as MySQL… And PHP / Python interpreters are probably my most used below emacs.
Windows:
1. Firefox/Thunderbird
2. Notepad
3. Paint Shop Pro 7 (Adobe and I don’t get on)
Linux
1. Firefox/Thunderbird
2. Terminal (does that count?)
3. Solitaire
..of course that doesn’t include things running in the background like Abyss on Windows, Apache on Linux, etc.
All the best for 2006, btw.
Do you have any aims or goals (online) for 2006? Anything in particular you’d like the web standards community to achieve?
1. Firefox/Thunderbird
2. TextWrangler
3. Cyberduck
1. Indesign
2. Illustrator
3. Photoshop
Yes, I’m one happy Adobe user
Firefox, Thunderbird
Zend Studio
Konnekt (Polish internet messenger)
My top three:
Gmail
Firefox
MSN Messenger
Safari
Mail
Dreamweaver
Firefox!!!
Virtual PC
Dreamweaver
Got to go with these.
Firefox [inc. dev tools, sage, chatZilla]/Thunderbird
Homesite [and text editors]
Irfanview/PSP
Trillian
Firefox
KMail or Thunderbird (depending on OS)
NEdit
A *must* application that no one said IMHO is Linotype FontExplorer for Mac. It’s very simple, and had many features that are absolutely a must have.
Safari
OmniOutliner
Mail.app
[mac os app]
Apple Mail
BBedit
Photoshop
Firefox
[web app]
Adsense – http://www.google.com/adsense/
SEO Analyzer – http://www.sitening.com/tools/seo-analyzer/
Blogger – http://www.blogger.com/
BBedit
Firefox
Thunderbird tied with NetNewsWire
Firefox
Greatnews
Gaim
Microsoft Outlook
Firefox
Trillian
Given that a browswer is on almost everyone’s top three (and I think would make many people’s top one), perhaps a more interesting questions is the one about three web services. Or if the web really is the platform, then flickr is just as valid an answer as firefox.
Opera, Trillian, Textpad.
firefox
live.com (rss)
odd dev tools
Safari
NewsFireRSS
Terminal
(I’m a UNIX nerd)