Software products that you think are really good

[Maulik]

Bump, is anyone familar with Department of Defense standards for file deletion (DOD 5220.22)?

I want to be able to delete files running a drive as slave, rather then using floppys like: http://dban.sourceforge.net/

[NCAces]

Great thread ...

Multiplicity ... http://www.stardock.com/products/multiplicity/.

If you like multiple monitors, this is the same thing but with multiple computers. I use three computers and 4 monitors at work ... this program makes it so that I can move from computer to computer, monitor to monitor, seemlessly using a single keyboard and mouse. Like a KVM switch, but with no switch. Couldn't live without it.

PSPad as a text editor. Free and really good, especially for programmers.

NCAces

[Isura]

I love this thread. After getting sick of slow loading times in firefox 2, I tried http://www.opera.com/

What a great browser! Faster and less memory intensive than firefox and the tab functionality is more smooth.

[Evan]

OpenDNS writeup in Tech Crunch
OpenDNS website

[ChipStorm]

For connecting machines at home so they can talk to eachother, share files, make backups easy...

Network Magic

Hands down, the best piece of software I've put my hands to in the last couple of years. And cheap!

Can't describe the hassles that just went away when I installed this on my 4 machines at home.

[Disclosure: I'm programmer/geek type]

firefox (would love to see operas mouse gestures implemented)
antivir (german free antivirus)
ad aware (free)

utorrent
pokertracker
daemon tools

mbm / rivatuner (for overclocking)

[BradleyT]

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Well, while we are prattling off Google apps, I'll give Google Desktop a mention. I use it mainly at work, but it useful for home users too.

My favorite feature is the quick-search window that can be popped up by tapping control twice. It searches files, emails, etc, on your PC and/or any network drives that you choose to index.

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Just be careful on this one. I had linked my home computer and work computer through google desktop and one day I was searching my work desktop for something and my home results had porn websites I'd visited that for whatever reason had that phrase on the page somewhere.

[Reef]

Atomix - DJ software

lets any amateur mix songs .. can also record mixes .. tons of features

[fadedstar]

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LAUNCHY

want to open paint? alt-spacebar, type 'pa', and hit enter.

want to open notepad? alt-spacebar, type 'no', and hit enter.

want to calculate 467823 * 463? alt-spacebar, enter the expression and it's calculated inline.

it indexes your start menu by default, but you can make it do other things. i added my documents to its directory list and pdf as a filetype. now if i want to pull up my nutritional data pdf from subway i hit alt-spacebar, type 'sub', and hit enter. this will work for any type of file that can be executed/opened: word documents, excel spreadsheets, etc. it can also index ie and firefox bookmarks.

http://umn.dl.sourceforge.net/source...hySetup103.exe

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whoaaaaaaaaaaa AMAZING!!! it pays to read something else than BBV lol! thanks for sharing

[mmbt0ne]

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firefox (would love to see operas mouse gestures implemented)

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http://optimoz.mozdev.org/gestures/