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The Results of the Top 10 Geekiest Computer Programs are out! The Winners: 1. Real VNC - Halla 2. Gmail notifier - JD Ross 3. FireBug - Bucho_ky 4. Screen - bigtoe 5. Synergy - JD Ross 6. Musicbrainz picard - Stevep 7. Terminal - Pepmod 8. Paint.net - KidGuru 9. Ventrillo - KidGuru 10. The gimp - JD Ross's Worst Nightmare |
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KidGuru at 11:54pm on Mar. 22, 2008
8 months ago
More to add lol
&Virtual Dub- Video Editing software that has awsome plugins
&Ventrillo- Who dosent use this or skype lol , A Voip Client
&Task Switch XP- A graphical ALT-TAB , Feedback software used for multi-taskers
&anyways thats all for the 10 i added in lol Reply...
bucho_ky at 11:59pm on Mar. 17, 2008
8 months ago
Kismet - The open source tool of choice for wireless hackers
Audacity - A very powerful, open source sound editor/mixer
FireBug - A Firefox plugin which allows you to dissect the actions of forms, and other things on a web page
Mirc - A Windows based Internet Relay Chat client. IRC was the predecessor to modern day chat rooms.
VmWare - Allows you to build virtual servers and load/run other operating systems in a window. For instance, you could create 5 separate Windows servers on a single Linux server....but why would you ever want to do that? :)
Any software not developed by MicroSloth or other greedy corporations! Reply...
bigtoe at 3:09pm on Mar. 22, 2008
Kismet is awesome, I still haven't figured out how to get it so it will help me determine what ip address is the gateway.
When I was working at a security company a while back we had vmware running all sorts of windows instances through linux. I think they were being used to track what exactly spyware did to a computer when they would get installed. We'd throw the diff of the files into a database and move on to the next one. Pretty useful stuff. Reply...
bigtoe at 3:02pm on Mar. 22, 2008
8 months ago
screen is pretty cool too, it's this terminal program that you can start when you connect to a server. After that it runs forever so you can always get back to your last state of affairs on any server. You can also have other people attach to your screen sessions so you can both watch (and interact with) the same output. Props go out to David for showing me it, now I just need to remember to run it. Reply...
stevep at 3:46pm on Mar. 21, 2008
8 months ago
gpsbabel - Converts GPS file formats and get data off your GPS device, if you're using this you're probably using mac or linux so you're already a bit geeky, but with the added geekiness of being a GPS geek.
musicbrainz picard - Allows you to automatically tag and organise your music. Using picard means you probably have an otherwise unmanageably large music collection, that probably means you're a geek.
vim/emacs - Terminal text editors. To save a file and exit vim you press [ESC]:wq[ENTER] and to type you have to go into "insert mode", that has to be pretty geeky.
any irc client - irc is where geeks go to chat, any irc client is geeky, double points for terminal based ones.
I have to agree with several other suggestions especially synergy, firebug, vmware, lynx and nmap. Reply...
Halla at 3:44pm on Mar. 20, 2008
8 months ago
Real VNC. <-- remote desktop software.
Thats what Im talkin about. Oh, what, you want me to fix your PC? Sure. Install this baby and I'll do it from my living room thank-you-very-much! Reply...
JD Ross at 8:00am on Mar. 21, 2008
Seriously, it is one of the greatest tools on any computer. And I mean any computer, this thing runs on Windows, comes pre loaded on OSX and a lot of Linux distros, and its even supported on old UNIX distros Reply...
Halla at 3:11pm on Mar. 21, 2008
I was so shocked no one mentioned it I had to! Reply...
JD Ross at 9:55pm on Mar. 21, 2008
It's also how we access our home computers from school. Just set it up, get a domain forward like ones from no-ip.info and you can get around any blacklist filter. Reply...
pepmod at 1:01am on Mar. 19, 2008
8 months ago
One program that would classify me as a geek is terminal for mac. its basically like ms dos for you windows people. i love to fool around in terminal and find out nifty little shortcuts and modifications to make my mac my customized to my liking.
also i use vmware fusion to put windows xp on my mac to game it up to the fullest. Reply...
JD Ross at 6:14pm on Mar. 18, 2008
8 months ago
I forgot my favorite productivity app for windows, launchy! (http://www.launchy.net/)
It let's you open up any program you want without bothering with icons or the start menu. Just press alt-space and type the first few letters of a program name then enter. It can also preaddress an email, work with iTunes, and more! It's almost as good as quicksilver for the mac Reply...
KidGuru at 3:01am on Mar. 17, 2008
8 months ago
1-Resource Hacker-Tweak,Edit,Replace, Registry scripts EX. Replace start buttons win logo and text
2-Paint.Net- Alternative to photo shop and gimp and ms paint with great photo editing features
3-Pivot- When you sit on your computer and make stick figures move each frame only to play it under a 300 clips to be halfway done screams geek to me at least lol
4- My Expose for windows - Allows you to get the expose feature of osx in windows lol
5- Display Fusion - Tweaks for settings of dual monitor like having two different pictures etc
6- ManyCam- For my 24/7 stream - Effects,Scrolling Text- Custom effects for webcams + a built in screen capture Reply...
JD Ross' worst nightmare at 6:16pm on Mar. 16, 2008
8 months ago
the gimp
nmap
john the ripper
cain Reply...
JD Ross at 2:29pm on Mar. 14, 2008
8 months ago
1) Lynx, if you use this text-only web browser, you know you're a geek. Warning, only hardcore nerds need apply
2) Gmail Notifier - If you're so attached to your inbox that you have to know the second an email arrives, this is for you
3) Peer Guardian 2 - This program blocks spying eyes at the government level from seeing your dowloads that may, or may not, be completely legal. If you use this, you are either a geek, or you had a geek install it for you
4) Synergy - This program allows you to use one set of mice across two or more computers PC or Mac. If you have two or more computers right next to each other, you're most likely a geek Reply...
RazorG606 at 11:07am on Mar. 15, 2008
Haha, those are pretty cool. Thanks JD! Reply...