Software Essentials?

[Hamish Gill]

Just going through the final stages of installing all the software I need on the laptop

"Lightroom" & "photoshop" for photo editing
"Filezilla" for ftp
"notepad ++" for writing/editing code
"open office" for word processing etc
"chrome" for web browsing
"avg free" for virus protection
"drop box" for file sharing
"soluto" for turning off start up crap - as recommended by someone on here
"spotify" for music
"itunes" for the iphone

I think thats all my essentials

what are your essentials
are there any gooduns out there for getting the best out of 64bit windows 7 home premium
anything anyone else would recommend

 

[Pete Askew]

In addition to PS and LR then it would be SilverFX Pro (and the other Nik software) for both LR and PS, Bleach Bypass Pro, Photokit from Pixel Genius for its burn tone module for PS.

http://www.redpawmedia.com/bbpro.html (Windows only - the BP module in Nik ColorFX is also very good)
http://www.niksoftware.com/index/en/entry.php
http://www.pixelgenius.com/

 

[Chris Dodkin]

OSX

The Photographer's Ephemeris (TPE) - (Mac/PC/Linux/iPhone/iPad) - http://photoephemeris.com/
Photoshop
iPhoto
iWeb
Google Earth (for further planning locations for shoots)

 

[Paul Lange]

Not PP related but I like to use Comodo Internet Security. Its free and very good although for some odd reason I have known it once not to run well on a HP running Vista but I think the OS was corrupt. Comodo also provide a chrome like broser and a registery cleaner. The cleaner seems a good thing to have and I run it regularly. You do have to set it up not to delete the passwords and cookies etc that you want to keep.