What are some "Must Have" utlities?

Multimedia/Digital Imaging
AcdSee (3)
Adobe Illustrator
Adobe Photoshop http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop/main.html
Animagic animated gifs
Corel Draw
Hypersnap
IconPackager (Themes for Icons/Cursors)
IrfanView http://www.irfanview.com/
Lviewpro (old, free version)
Paint Shop Pro
PicaView
Vueprint Pro
XNView Graphics Manipulation http://www.xnview.com/

Multimedia/Video
3dsMax
Adobe Premier
BSPlayer Media Player http://www.bsplay.com
Camel MPEG Joiner http://www.webattack.com/get/camelmpeg.shtml
Cyberlink PowerDVD
Defiler Pack (Codecs) http://hellninjacommando.com/defilerpak/
DivFix
DivX
Divx Freezes http://www.tac.ee/~prr/videoutils/divxaf.html
DTV on sourceforge
ffdshow (DivX/etc. decoders?) http://cutka.szm.sk/ffdshow/
Maya http://www.aliaswavefront.com/freemaya
Quicktime
RealPlayer 8
RivaTuner - nVidia TV
http://www.guru3d.com/rivatun Sasami2k Media Player http://www.sasami2k.com
TMPGEnc
TVTool - TV Output http://www.tvtool.com
Virtual Dub http://www.virtualdub.org/
ZoomPlayer

Multimedia/Sound
Cool Edit Pro
Goldwave Sound Editor
Sound Forge 5

Multimeda/CDR Tools/Apps
CD Check (Check CDs/files/CRC) http://www.elpros.si/CDCheck/
CDRWin
CloneCD
Daemon Tools (Mount ISOs/CDs Virtuall) http://www.daemon-tools.com
DiscJuggler
Fireburner http://www.fireburner.com/
Gordian Knot (Backup DVDs) http://www.3dnews.ru/download/dvd/gordian-knot/
ISOBuster
Nero http://www.nero.com

Multimedia/MP3
albumwrap extractor (entire album from 1 compressed file?)
AudioList (List of MP3 Albums)
CD 'n Go! (MP3/OGG)
CDEX Ripper http://www.cdex.n3.net/
dbpoweramp (music converter wma->mp3)
EAC (Exact Audio Copy) http://www.exactaudiocopy.de
Encspot (Checks encoder of a particular MP3)
LAME MP3 ncoder http://www.jthz.com/~lame/
MP3 Tag (Massive MP3 rename/editing) http://www.mp3tag.de/
MP3TrimPro (Trimming MP3 files/cutting out silence)
MPEG Audio Collection (Archive of MP3 Backups (may need Excel?))
Razorlame (Misc encoding/decoding of mp3s)
RIOSitude (Rio Manager) http://www.drilsej.com/rio.html
Tag&Rename (Manipulate ID3v1/v2 tags for MP3s) http://www.softpointer.com/tr.htm
WinAmp 2x http://classic.winamp.com
WinAmp 5x http://www.winamp.com

Internet/Messaging
Pidgin
Trillian
AOL IM (AIM)
AIM+
BitchX
ConquerCam
DeadAIM (Remove Ads, transparency, etc. for AIM) http://www.jdennis.net
GAIM
mIRC http://www.mirc.com
Miranda ICQ
No Name Script (IRC Script)
X-Chat IRC http://www.xchat.org/
Webcam32
xtreme (IRC Script)

Internet/HTML/WWW
Apache (WWW Serving)
Bookmark Wizard (Handle bookmarks/favorites)
CuteHTML
Dreamweaver
Google Toolbar
Homesit TML Editor
MozGest - Gestures in Mozilla
Mozilla Browser http://www.mozilla.org
Opera Browser http://www.opera.com
Phoenix Browser http://www.mozilla.org/projects/phoenix
Shockwave/Flash

Internet/FTP
Bulletproof FTP http://www.bpftp.com
CuteFTP http://www.globalscape.com [url=]http://www.cuteftp.com/products/cuteftp/index.asp
FileZilla
Flash FXP http://flashfxp.com
FTP Commander http://www.internet-soft.com/ftpcomm.htm
guildFTPd
LeechFTP
Serv-U FTP
SHFTP
SmartFTP
TFTP Server/SolarWinds http://www.purenetworking.net/images/downloads/tftpd32e.zip
WebDrive (integrate FTP into Windows Explorer) http://www.webdrive.com/products/webdrive/index.html
WS_FTP Pro

Internet/P2P
DC++ (Alyandon's) http://alyandon.hypermart.net/
Kazaa Lite http://www.kazaalite.tk/
WinMX http://www.winmx.com
Xolox

Internet e-mail
The Bat http://www.ritlabs.com/
Eudora
Magic Mail Monitor
Pegasus
ThunderBird

Internet Security/Privacy
AdAware http://lavasoft.nu/aaw.html
Agnitum Outpost Firewall
Free Surfer (popup stopper)
Kerio (TPF) http://www.kerio.com/us/kpf_home.html
Meaya Pop-up Ad Filter
Naviscop (Block Popups, Manage Connection, etc.) http://www.naviscope.com
Pop-Up Stopper http://www.panicware.com
Pow!
Privoxy similar to Proxom http://www.privoxy.org/
Proxomitron http://home.arcor.de/six/
ZoneAlarm

AntiVirus
AVG AntiVirus
Housecall Anti-Virus
Norton AntiVirus http://www.symantec.com/nav/nav_9xnt/

Internet/File Getting Stuff
Flashget DL http://www.flashget.com/
Getright DL http://www.getright.com
Posted By Gremelin Posted on October 1st, 2015

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