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A Much Cooler Way
Jul. 14th, 2007 10:33 pmBecause schwa likes to hurt me, probably in retaliation for the omurice clip, he has memed me in the back of the head. However, refusing would be wrong. Haw!
List 3 of your most favourite (and preferably obscure) software programs and why they're useful.
Honestly? I have no idea what people use. Obscurity is probably not going to be way up there on this list.
1. Litestep. I don't like the windows shell very much, so I use this instead. It's very customizable, although I haven't made a new theme in years, really. My current desktop is essentially just a systray and a program bar, perpendicular to one another, with only 16x16 icons visible (and Rainlendar). Most of my program opening and winamp controlling is done with hotkeys. Also I still run win2k. Yep.
2. Soulseek. The program with the awful url. I was introduced to this one back at Blue Fang. Not for quick downloads, really, but good for finding weird things like Cal Stewart tracks and foreign things not available in the US. You can also see the bitrate of any given mp3 that's shared. Soulseek is what made me change my music directory structure to more closely resemble what most people have now: Artist/Album/Songs (which I think was inherited from itunes, but it's still pretty good).
3. Exact Audio Copy. Very good CD ripper, works even on scratchy CDs. JP gave me this back in the day.
4. Ooh, ooh, one more. I just remembered 3d color changer, which gives you access to the shadow and highlight colors on windows easily. It's how I do all my superflat color schemes, which probably most of you don't know or care about. Oh well!
I won't be tagging people, but you're welcome to be all HAY LOOK AT MY AWESOME PROGRAMZEZ. You can even do it here, I guess.
List 3 of your most favourite (and preferably obscure) software programs and why they're useful.
Honestly? I have no idea what people use. Obscurity is probably not going to be way up there on this list.
1. Litestep. I don't like the windows shell very much, so I use this instead. It's very customizable, although I haven't made a new theme in years, really. My current desktop is essentially just a systray and a program bar, perpendicular to one another, with only 16x16 icons visible (and Rainlendar). Most of my program opening and winamp controlling is done with hotkeys. Also I still run win2k. Yep.
2. Soulseek. The program with the awful url. I was introduced to this one back at Blue Fang. Not for quick downloads, really, but good for finding weird things like Cal Stewart tracks and foreign things not available in the US. You can also see the bitrate of any given mp3 that's shared. Soulseek is what made me change my music directory structure to more closely resemble what most people have now: Artist/Album/Songs (which I think was inherited from itunes, but it's still pretty good).
3. Exact Audio Copy. Very good CD ripper, works even on scratchy CDs. JP gave me this back in the day.
4. Ooh, ooh, one more. I just remembered 3d color changer, which gives you access to the shadow and highlight colors on windows easily. It's how I do all my superflat color schemes, which probably most of you don't know or care about. Oh well!
I won't be tagging people, but you're welcome to be all HAY LOOK AT MY AWESOME PROGRAMZEZ. You can even do it here, I guess.
