Comments on: Essential software

By: English Mum

English Mum — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 10:47:32 +0000

I’m with Savannah. I have a desktop and I occasionally pinch Hubby’s laptop. Other than that? Not a clue!

Ah, living the simple life in Cavan, eh?

By: savannah

savannah — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 14:57:17 +0000

i use a MAC. xox

(sorry, y’all are being serious….)

By: Paul McCarthy

Paul McCarthy — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 22:04:33 +0000

I’m a great believer in minimising the effort required in re-installing. I use PING (PartImage Is Not Ghost), mainly because it’s Free and it allows disk imaging over a network. Very useful, and relatively pain-free.

By: Richard

Richard — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 12:09:25 +0000

Tom: Welcome With all your links, you ended up as spam! It seems that Notepad++ is getting a few votes? Though, as Robert says – I love the simplicity of TypePad without losing any of the features. Avira looks interesting too – I may investigate that.

Paul: I take it you are into ripping/burning CDs? I really must investigate ghosting software?

TheCHrisD: Having visited your blog, I did get the impression that you played a game or two? Sadly, there isn’t a single one on my machines. I’m getting old.

By: TheChrisD

TheChrisD — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 02:46:53 +0000

Hmmm, seems someone (Kirk, not you!) has a few similar traits to me

Antivirus: Avast
Web browser: IE8 (Chrome as backup)
E-mail: Windows Live Mail
Compression: ZipGenius
FTP: Filezilla
Text editing: Notepad++
Image editing: Paint.net

But the most important bit:

Gaming: Steam, Xfire, Raptr, and a few other minor thingies