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  1. I’d have to say I used FireFox the most. I used to use SmartFTP but since you have to pay for it now I now use Filezilla which seems to be working quite well. I use some of the Office programs too from time to time.. mostly word…

  3. Oh Nick. You frustrate me with your proprietary-software laden list… 😛 😀

    One of these days I will convince you to come to the dark-side and accept open source software / linux. Resistence is futile Nick…

    But it is good to see a few OSS items on the list, like firefox (finally) and Wamp.

    Here is my OSS version of your list:

    10) openOffice writer
    9) Inkscape and Gimp
    8) wamp is ok. Lamp is better…
    7-6) each his own on the text editors (although linux has one like editpad by default)
    5) openOffice calc
    4) Skype can stay. gizmo5.com is supposedly similar.
    3) For ftp I use the FireFTP plugin for Firefox (the reason firefox is awesome, more on that later)
    2) no no no! WindowsMail?! 😛 (you know I am just kidding right? you can use whatever you want) Try Thunderbird (from the firefox people) for desktop mail. Can be connected to web-based mail. Also google apps for your domain –> google.com/a/
    1)”It’s not that firefox itself is great…” Written just to spite me 😀 hehehe. The great thing about firefox is the army of independent developers creating 3rd party plugins and transforming the browser into more than a browser (like the ftp plugin I mentioned)

    Also, for screen recorders I recently found the open source Wink. It does all I expected and it let’s me put in text bubbles, etc.

    p.s. Nick, you know I love you. Don’t take my rebuttal list the wrong way. I’m just teasing you. But you should fear the penguins…

    1. Open source is great, if it’s good, but sometimes you really get what you pay for. Most of what you’ve listed I haven’t tried so I can’t really argue with you (unfortunately 😉 ). I did use Thunderbird for about two years, but it became overwhelmed with spam and that’s when Windows Mail came to the rescue. We could debate the wonderfulness of Firefox forever, but Firefox may not last that long. Its best people are moving to Google Chrome and Firefox has lost its indirect funding from Google 😯 More over here.

      Wink sounds good though, speech bubbles you say? 😛

      1. 😀

        “Open source is great, if it’s good, but sometimes you really get what you pay for.”

        🙂 My thinking is why pay anything (especially to MS) when I can find something good enough for free. But then again sometimes “free” is the most expensive (in terms of time, etc.)

        I’m sorry I missed that Google Chrome chat. I do think FF is in trouble, which is a shame. To me it seems like cannibalism. And I don’t think it was done in the interest of the user.

        Well, OSS or proprietary is maybe a mute issue anyway because it looks like the future is Saas (software as a service). Tools like RememberTheMilk, Google [ ] (<–fill in the blank with anything Google), etc are proving their usefulness.

        btw, Google is my best friend too.

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