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Posted by Graham Rhind
Jan 2, 2008 at 05:57 PM
If only I could limit it to five!!
Firefox/Opera
Outlook/Eudora
Visual Foxpro 6 & 9
Word/Excel/Powerpoint/OneNote 2007
Zoot/Sciral Consistency/The Brain/Ultra Recall
Direct Access
Whizfolders
... and so many more!
Graham
Posted by Thomas
Jan 2, 2008 at 06:23 PM
Firefox
Pocomail
UltraRecall
MyLife Organized
TimeTo
Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Jan 2, 2008 at 11:03 PM
SlickRun (my program launcher)
Brainstorm (for just about any kind of writing)
UltraRecall (contact / project database, rather underused considering its power)
The Bat! e-mail client
Opera browser / LinkStash bookmark manager
Recent additions: EverNote and Zoot (32bit beta)
In the background: ZoneAlarm, Antivir, HarePro (which does a great job of speeding up the PC)
A few notes of caution on the above:
- Brainstorm: I use it for much more than it has been intended for. I have a huge file with my academic notes and the program has began to crash on me recently. I need to use something else as my long-term information archive; Zoot is probably what I need, but I am still learning.
- Opera: it has been my favourite browser since version 4.0 (when it was still shareware). To my surprise, I recently discovered that it is very processor-hungry and am trying out alternatives. I do wonder whether it’s just version 9.2x that has this issue.
Cheers
alx
Posted by Derek Cornish
Jan 2, 2008 at 11:53 PM
Happy New Year, Manfred and others…
My five most used programs for research and other writing in 2007 were:
Zoot (and Zoot32)
Grandview
NoteTab Pro
Word 2003
KeyNote (occasionally)
Other helper programs:
Outlook 2003
Firefox
dtSearch
Web Research
Biblioscape 7
Clipcache
Tried out MyInfo and WhizFolders, but find KeyNote adequate.
Still trying to find a proper place for Brainstorm, but if I give up GV it will probably be for Maxthink (Windows).
Use Evernote for occasional quick notes (but should really use Zoot for this).
Use Qucken (DOS) and Moneydance (Windows) for financial stuff.
Linkstash for bookmarks.
Security: ZoneAlarm (free), F-Prot AV version 6, WinPatrol.
Derek
Outlook
Firefox
Posted by Daly de Gagne
Jan 3, 2008 at 12:05 AM
Alex, I have been so frustrated with Firefox gobbling memory, songs being interrupted, slow responses to commands, etc. that when I saw your reference to Hare Pro, I immediately downloaded it. It indicates it is working, but I am not clear whether it is a continuous process or not. I do find that the computer seems to be a little faster and using less memory.
What’s your experience with it, apart from being obviously good?
Do you recommend using the mem doubler and the registry tools that come with it?
Thanks.
Daly