What do you use?

[Sput]

I'm enjoying how Beep finds Mac OS condescending whilst simultaneously being unable to use it. I had a go at changing the assigned application for .mov and had no problem. Right click a .mov > open with > Other > Choose a thing and tick "always use this"

isn't that idenitcal to the manner in which you do it in windows?

Skip "other" and then yes.

Well that explains it. "other" IS a bit condescending...

[Beep]

I'm enjoying how Beep finds Mac OS condescending whilst simultaneously being unable to use it. I had a go at changing the assigned application for .mov and had no problem. Right click a .mov > open with > Other > Choose a thing and tick "always use this"

Yes, and having tried this to no avail, I've tried your method and going through the "get info" button and the long way.
EDIT: Forgot to include it wouldn't do the same for MP3s until I removed iTunes completely and then I could freely choose what I wanted.

[jsm]

Operating System: Mac OSX 10.6
Web Browser: Chrome 11
Photo Editing/Graphic Design: Adobe Photoshop CS4
Office: OpenOffice (just as functional as word, in my opinion).
Music Library: iTunes (I know, I know...)
Text/Audio/Video Chat: Skype

[Sput]

I have absolutely no problem with iTunes, and have a healthy suspicion most of the grief it gets is as a result of the rather less fabulous windows version.

[jsm]

I suppose, but out of all the programs I run, it's the one that is most likely to freeze. Then again, I am on a 5 year old iMac.

[Beep]

I have absolutely no problem with iTunes, and have a healthy suspicion most of the grief it gets is as a result of the rather less fabulous windows version.

iTunes windows is crap, to be fair. The Mac one is okay, but I don't like the vertical buttons in the top left, doesn't look right.

[lukey]

So I keep wanting to love Chrome because it does zip along so fast, but my god, the 'Omnibar' is just so poor compared to Firefox's 'awesome bar'. Any fragment of any title of any page ever accessed, and FF will bubble that up very quickly. Chrome just doesn't. A few times I've gone 'back' to Chrome when FF's performance has pissed me off, and again I return because the gulf is just so vast. I'm not a very important person, but the amount of time saved from a couple of taps into the FF address bar each time is still enough to save the world a few times over.

For music, I still use Winamp. It's become a bit of a brute since the AOL acquisition (but that can be largely mitigated by killing most of the 'online services') - but it still, in my view, offers unparalleled customisation while providing credible library management. Jump to file is beautiful in its CTRL+ALT+J - type type type - ENTER - BAM simplicity - it scales to handle libraries of seemingly any size (something I only discovered the value of after acquiring a WP7 and Zune completely shat itself trying to cope with the same library), and its API lets me throw together fun little things when I need them. Oh, and tweaking crossfades to the millisecond is important.

I Tweet from Tweetdeck - I wish it could handle more columns more elegantly and its the reason I have no more than 5, and I wish I could customise its shitty notification sound, but it still seems to be as good as it gets.

I use Sublime Text as my main text editor - its fab and beautiful and does all the dynamic autocomplete/syntax highlighting that Notepad++ does without looking like 1995. Only real downside is the lack of a plugin community, and the stable release is - well - unstable (the 2.x alphas are fabulous though). Obviously using VS for anything targeted at the desktop/Xbox/WP7.

I doubt any of my other software choices are interesting. Whoa, I type into Word? Fuck me up the bum...

EDIT: I forgot to mention the most IMPORTANT choice of all - for source control I still SVN (with occasional TFSage on a project-specific basis) - I feel like I should be cool and start gitting, but not quite that bold yet.

[Malpass93]

Operating System: Windows XP SP2
Web Browser: Firefox
Photo Editing/Graphic Design: Adobe Photoshop CS4 Portable
Office: OpenOffice.org 3
Music Library: iTunes
Text/Audio/Video Chat: Windows Live Messenger (but I'm not on it often)
.zip Unzipper: 7-Zip

[Andrew Wood]

The OS:

Windows 7 32bit Ultimate Edition
Microsoft Office 2007 Professional - Word, Excel and Outlook
IE9 by default, with Firefox, Chrome and IE10 Preview installed
Foxit Reader
NotepadEx notepad replacement
Windows Media Player 12
Media Player Classic
QT Lite
Real Alternative
DUMeter for network speed monitoring
AgentRansack for proper file searches
CK Rename for quick filename changes
Desktop Restore puts the icons back where they should be
WinRAR for decompressing all sorts
Avast free edition for virus protection

For The Ident Gallery:

VideoRedoPlus and VideoRedoTV Suite V4 for quick editing of mpeg/h.264 videos
VirtualDub and VirtualDubMod for frame capture and conversion
AVISynth, Combined Community Codec Pack, MeGUI 0.3.5.0 for compression
Paint Shop Pro 5 (yes - ancient) for the graphics
CuteFTP 8 Professional for uploading
EasyWebServer 1.4 with Apache, PHP and CGI for a test environment
Nebula DigiTV v4 and ProgDVB Professional for DTT DVB captures
Hauppauge HD-PVR for digital satellite captures (on the laptop)

[martindtanderson]

Why not join in too...

Windows 7 Ultimate x64
Office 2010
Chrome, IE9 for everyday browsers, Firefox, Safari for testing
Zune for Music and Video and Windows Phone 7
Windows Media Player 12
Windows Live Essentials 2011
MetroTwit for Twitter Client
iTunes for my brother's iPhone
Visual Studio 2010
Cyberlink Power DVD for blu-ray discs
Adobe CS4 Master Collection for graphic and animation work
Skype 5
Expression Studio 4 for Web Design and App UI design
3DS MAX 2010
Corel Draw Graphics X5
FileZilla FTP
Tortoise SVN
Power ISO
Microsoft Security Essentials

[Critique]

I should add to mine, really.

Office: Office 2010 - When finally buying an Office suite the other day, it made more sense to get the latest and greatest rather than 2007.

Image editing: GIMP - Effective and free. Fits my needs.

Video editing: Wax 2.0 - For freeware, it works very well and I can add various A/V sources together if I ever need too.