what are your favorite/crucial computer apps?

i'm in the computer security/networking field, and was just wondering what the posters here consider their favorite, crucial or must have computer apps, and why. anything across the board is fine, the question's not confined to one aspect of computing. i thought this would make for an interesting topic - feel free to post links :D
 
Caffeine and Quicksilver. I don't remember my life before Quicksilver. Both for mac, I don't know if they exist for Windows.

Seriously, Quicksilver is amazing.
 
I use:

Cool Edit Pro for audio editing
CDex for pulling CD music into mp3
Open Office instead of Microsoft Office
Firefox instead on IE
ESET for virus
Camtasia for video editing
Foxit Reader for PDF files instead of Adobe
SnagIt for grabbing pictures and other bit and pieces from web pages, etc

just some. Others are on my work computer and I don't recall of hand
 
Was checking it out but confused as to what it actually does :confused:

Care to enlighten me a bit?
Thanks in advance!
basically it lets you do EVERYTHING with a shortcut. You press your "hotkeys" (mine are Alt+space) and then you start typing the app, website or document you want it to open ("firefox", "morrissey solo", "curriculm", etc). If you program your triggers you can also manage your itunes (increse/decrease volume, change song,etc). Its awesome. You'll never need the dock again. Mess around with the preferences for a bit and then try it.:)
 
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