The Five Applications Most Used in 2007

Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Jan 2, 2008 at 11:03 PM

SlickRun (my program launcher)

Brainstorm (for just about any kind of writing)
UltraRecall (contact / project database, rather underused considering its power)
The Bat! e-mail client
Opera browser / LinkStash bookmark manager

Recent additions: EverNote and Zoot (32bit beta)

In the background: ZoneAlarm, Antivir, HarePro (which does a great job of speeding up the PC)

A few notes of caution on the above:

- Brainstorm: I use it for much more than it has been intended for. I have a huge file with my academic notes and the program has began to crash on me recently. I need to use something else as my long-term information archive; Zoot is probably what I need, but I am still learning.

- Opera: it has been my favourite browser since version 4.0 (when it was still shareware). To my surprise, I recently discovered that it is very processor-hungry and am trying out alternatives. I do wonder whether it’s just version 9.2x that has this issue.

Cheers
alx