Favourite applications?

[Joonikko]

Your favorite applications?

What are your favorite applications? It can be any platform or operating system, just the ones you enjoy using the most.
I use OS X as my main OS, so my favorite apps will be OSX based.


iA Writer
Very basic and simple writing application, only for writing. Theres no formatting, no settings, just a blinking cursor with the perfect font and spacing to enter text.
I do all of my text editing with this application.

Notational Velocity
Note taking app that I use in combination with iA Writer.
Notation saves your notes as single database file or one file per note (rtf or txt).

The application consists of 3 main parts, the search box, notes and a the note viewer.

Notation + iA Writer + Dropbox
Notation saves my notes as txt files inside Dropbox, which backups and syncs the files automatically.
Simple, yet awesome.



Minitube
YouTube client for Mac OS X, which uses QuickTime to playback videos instead of Adobe Flash.
In my opinion it feels a lot faster than the web version of Youtube. Also, the non-App store version allows to download the vides.

Steps to watch a video in web vs Minitube
Web: search -> enter -> click ->select quality -> wait to buffer -> ads -> watch
Minitube: search -> enter -> click -> watch

Steelseries Exactmouse tool
If you use OSX and a mouse, you'll know that theres a very annoying mouse acceleration built into OSX. It can be disabled with a terminal command, but usually it just reverts back to accelerated state. This tool is made by Steelseries and it completely disables mouse acceleration in OSX. For me, its a lifesaver.


Those were mine, now post yours?


Links:
iA Writer: http://www.iawriter.com
Notational Velocity: http://notational.net
Dropbox: http://www.dropbox.com
Minitube: http://flavio.tordini.org/minitube
Exactmouse: http://cdn-co.steelseries.com/downloads/drivers/tools/steelseries-exactmouse-tool.dmg

 

[Freeze]

Guitar Pro 6
An awesome program that has special tablature files which lets you play along with the song while displaying which notes you have to hit. That is if somebody made a file for the song you want to learn.

Rainlendar Lite
A very customizable calendar, planner and to do list for your PC (and mac I believe). It's free.

 

[stevo]

Xcode

https://developer.apple.com/xcode/

Developer tools for making OSX and iOS apps. Comes with great tools like Built in interface builder(GUI for dragging in UI objects like buttons, scroll bar, menu...), Instruments Tools(used for debugging memory leaks, performance issues...)

Eclipse for mobile(Available on Windows and OSX) I mainly use it for Android development you can download the Android SDK and NDK and run a simulator through eclipse after you set it up. You can also download all kinds of plugins that can help your development. You can code for pretty much any version of Android as long as you downloaded the proper SDK package.

Mercurial(Available for OSX, Linux, Windows) used to handle projects of any size. Holds history of the entire project, so it will show you all the changes that has been made to the project. Its all command prompt based. Very popular in the developer world, this is how I get updated with the up to date changes in library's that are still in development, since changes could be made daily. So this makes it easy for the person who is making the changes to add to the project and easy for others to download it.

http://mercurial.selenic.com

Not really interesting programs for non programmers but yea it's useful to me and what I use the most lol

Oh yea Dropbox is amazing as well but someone has already given the details on it.

 

[Nikon]

Photoshop CS5, Dropbox, and Audacity.

 

[Kreubs]

Xcode

https://developer.apple.com/xcode/

Developer tools for making OSX and iOS apps. Comes with great tools like Built in interface builder(GUI for dragging in UI objects like buttons, scroll bar, menu...), Instruments Tools(used for debugging memory leaks, performance issues...)

Eclipse for mobile(Available on Windows and OSX) I mainly use it for Android development you can download the Android SDK and NDK and run a simulator through eclipse after you set it up. You can also download all kinds of plugins that can help your development. You can code for pretty much any version of Android as long as you downloaded the proper SDK package.

Mercurial(Available for OSX, Linux, Windows) used to handle projects of any size. Holds history of the entire project, so it will show you all the changes that has been made to the project. Its all command prompt based. Very popular in the developer world, this is how I get updated with the up to date changes in library's that are still in development, since changes could be made daily. So this makes it easy for the person who is making the changes to add to the project and easy for others to download it.

http://mercurial.selenic.com

Not really interesting programs for non programmers but yea it's useful to me and what I use the most lol

Oh yea Dropbox is amazing as well but someone has already given the details on it.

I use Eclipse, too I use the Qt plugin for it which kinda sucks though... I am thinking I should switch to Qt Developer for windows apps. Holy crap I had no idea there is an android simulator for Eclipse

I use Dropbox every day

 

[stevo]

Well the simulator is part of the Android SDK, but you can launch it through eclipse. You just need to install the ADT plugin and tell it where your Android SDK directory is. Pretty neat you can download witch ever version of Android you want

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/32670362/Screen Shot 2012-09-09 at 9.23.44 AM.png

note I talked about NDK but that was for setting up the environment for a 2D library(SDL 2.0) that I'm using on iOS but it's cross platform, so I'm writing Android App in C/C++

I never used Qt but I know a few people who used it. Been doing a lot of game stuff lately and practicing OpenGL ES 2.0, I'm used old OpenGL ES that used fix function pipelines, with 2.0 you need to program shaders and do matrices math to move, scale, set up camera, set up view... more work but a lot more flexibility.

I use Eclipse, too I use the Qt plugin for it which kinda sucks though... I am thinking I should switch to Qt Developer for windows apps. Holy crap I had no idea there is an android simulator for Eclipse

I use Dropbox every day

 

[Kreubs]

Well the simulator is part of the Android SDK, but you can launch it through eclipse. You just need to install the ADT plugin and tell it where your Android SDK directory is. Pretty neat you can download witch ever version of Android you want

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/32670362/Screen Shot 2012-09-09 at 9.23.44 AM.png

note I talked about NDK but that was for setting up the environment for a 2D library(SDL 2.0) that I'm using on iOS but it's cross platform, so I'm writing Android App in C/C++

I never used Qt but I know a few people who used it. Been doing a lot of game stuff lately and practicing OpenGL ES 2.0, I'm used old OpenGL ES that used fix function pipelines, with 2.0 you need to program shaders and do matrices math to move, scale, set up camera, set up view... more work but a lot more flexibility.

I have been working on a simple game in Qt.

I have 0 experience with OpenGL I really want to learn graphics and stuff though. This next semester I have a course on distributed operating systems, so yay for networking :lol: