We all have that one application that we can’t live without. It’s the first thing we look at in the morning, and the last one we use before we shut down for the day. It’s always on our minds, and always open on our computers.

What is the one application that you can’t live without? Email applications are a given, so we’ll take that one out of the running. So let's talk about the one you really can’t live without, and how it makes your day better, and more productive.

idea stolen from web worker daily at http://tinyurl.com/ydrvwg

12/13/2006 9:09:15 AM

firefox

2nd would be either editplus2 or 4t-tray minimizer

12/13/2006 9:13:04 AM

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"We all have that one application that we can’t live without. It’s the first thing we look at in the morning, and the last one we use before we shut down for the day. It’s always on our minds, and always open on our computers."

I'm pretty sure just reading this gave me AIDS.

12/13/2006 9:15:49 AM

MS Money - i only open it once a day (no need for leaving it open all the time), but it tracks every single account I have down to the cent. It drives me crazy if i go more than a couple days without updating my accounts.

close 2nd - Excel. Use it for so many things

12/13/2006 9:21:16 AM

^ i use both of those heavily as well.

12/13/2006 9:23:05 AM

blogbot in outlook / bloglines on the web

obligatory: Miranda, EditPlus, Unlocker, and ID3-tagIT

12/13/2006 9:49:25 AM

Opera makes me moist every time I open it up

12/13/2006 9:52:35 AM

^ftw.

12/13/2006 10:01:18 AM

Microsoft Windows

12/13/2006 10:08:28 AM

bonzi buddy

12/13/2006 10:11:22 AM

HoeKey (custom, global keyboard shortcuts for launching programs, running commands, etc.)

e.g. - Winkey + I: launches Firefox, Winkey + O: launches Outlook, etc. (not like those combos were doing anything in the first place)

[Edited on December 13, 2006 at 1:13 PM. Reason : ]

12/13/2006 1:12:35 PM

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"MS Money - i only open it once a day (no need for leaving it open all the time), but it tracks every single account I have down to the cent. It drives me crazy if i go more than a couple days without updating my accounts."

Do you "Sync" your Money program with your checking/savings/credit card accounts/investment accounts? I'm assuming you have to download excel files or something from your account providers to import into Money right? Or is it a mix of these imports for certain accounts and maual entry for other accounts? How do you manage this?

[Edited on December 13, 2006 at 1:20 PM. Reason : ]

12/13/2006 1:18:55 PM

most major banks are set up with MS so that MS Money can automatically download transactions into your Money account. It'll even auto-categorize based on historical trends, saves a LOT of time for me

[Edited on December 13, 2006 at 1:30 PM. Reason : no excel trickery required]

12/13/2006 1:29:57 PM

Either Visual Studio .NET 2003 or Visual Studio 6. I spend more time programming than I do on the internet.

12/13/2006 1:48:17 PM

^^ How is that compared to Quicken? I was thinking about purchasing something along these lines now that i'm out of school and actually need to keep track of my finances

12/13/2006 1:55:45 PM

i haven't used quicken a whole lot. i've been using Money since 99 or something like that. i've tried quicken a few times just to see if i was missing anything, but i always went back to Money within a few days

12/13/2006 2:00:55 PM

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"Entirely not on my mind at any moment is StrokeIt. I find it hard to use computers without it thought. Easily one of the best pieces of software ever written - does exactly what I want it to do, and so well that I rarely actually remember I’m using it all the time."

lol

For me, definitely ActiveSync and Notepad

12/13/2006 2:34:00 PM

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"We all have that one application that we can’t live without. It’s the first thing we look at in the morning, and the last one we use before we shut down "

tdub anyone?

12/13/2006 2:38:25 PM

12/13/2006 2:43:25 PM

Amarok: http://amarok.kde.org/
Picard: http://musicbrainz.org/wd/PicardDownload
http://www.pwebo.com
Compiz: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compiz

12/13/2006 3:45:23 PM

WoW



[Edited on December 13, 2006 at 4:15 PM. Reason : sad]

12/13/2006 4:15:09 PM

DataFit and Maple (I know that's two, but meh.)

[Edited on December 13, 2006 at 6:05 PM. Reason : ]

12/13/2006 6:04:31 PM

iTunes

12/13/2006 6:04:54 PM

my xterm window

12/13/2006 6:13:54 PM

I forgot to mention Windows Media Center...

12/13/2006 7:31:12 PM

Opera makes me moist every time I open it up

12/13/2006 8:00:07 PM

ntldr

12/14/2006 8:14:47 AM

XXXdialer.exe

12/14/2006 8:37:47 AM

non web oriented?

Winamp Basic
or
vlc

12/14/2006 8:38:11 AM

matlab.

12/14/2006 8:49:17 AM

Trillian

12/14/2006 9:01:35 AM

Autocopy extension for FireFox is a must have for me.

Though you have to adjust that anytime you highlight something it will overwrite what you are trying to paste in.

Also anything with tabbed browsing.

12/14/2006 1:02:45 PM

ohhh i just realized my windowshade app - where i can right click on a title bar and the rest of the window rolls into the title bar (native to macs i think)

12/14/2006 4:18:48 PM

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"Do you "Sync" your Money program with your checking/savings/credit card accounts/investment accounts?"

usually, no. If find that if I stay on top of all my accounts, and update Money every day, or go no longer than 3 days, with receipts and purchases, then update it whenever I get statements or bills, then I do it all by hand. Usually I enter everything into my main checking account by hand, then every 2-3 days I check the account online and mark items that I've entered into Money that have cleared the bank as "Cleared". That way I can keep Money and my Bank Account synced throughout the month. Then of course when i get my statement I mark them all as "Reconciled".
Another big reason to do it this way is to avoid bank mistakes. If I enter everything by hand, then when I go to Clear or Reconcile everything, I can easily see charged in the account that I don't recognize or that I don't have a receipt for. If I just downloaded big batches of transactions, it would be easy to miss errors

12/15/2006 9:22:19 AM

AOL 6.0

12/15/2006 9:30:09 AM

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"WoW "

12/15/2006 10:03:58 AM