Favorite Spare-Time/Hobby Software Thread!

This is a place to let everyone know how you spend your time on your notebook in your spare time. This could be a hobby, a personal project or just something you do to waste an hour while you're waiting for a friend.

Please list the software titles you enjoy spending your time with. I personally don't have many computer hobbies which is why I'm interested in yours!

 

Finale 2006
Ableton Live 5 (unfortunately Lite for now)

oh being a music nut...

 

Even tho I've been using photoshop for some time, I'm still learning new things from it. So I'm constantly playing around with it.

 

CAD, Videogames(Mainly Halo, CS:S and Navy Field) and Photoediting.

 

gcc
bash

 

IRC, Tetris, Video Encoding

 

Lessee... building a multi-node render controller is what I should spend more time on. I just want to get MY notebook in so I can do that. Silly Intel not having Core 2 Duo's shipped yet. Games (FarCry, Civ4, C&C:Generals ZH, LBreakout2, LTris, Worms Armageddon), movies, music (foobar2k 4 lyfe!), etc. otherwise.
Also can't forget that I'm a Linux dork. I also play things like Neverputt/Neverball and Scorched3D (all also available for Windows) which are great, free OpenGL games.

 

mmmm... Firefox, Trillian and F.E.A.R oh yes, also Eclipse and Visual Studio 2005

 

Firefox (browsing), iTunes (listening to my music), Windows Movie Maker (editing movies).

 

Photoshop, Dreamweaver and iTunes.

 

I usually have open Firefox and iTunes open. Occasionally I'll run Photoshop CS2, and for games, CS:S or BattleFront 1 & 2.

 

I have no idea what half of you are talking about... but thanks for posting anyways.

Just need a clairification on these:

 

Well, my job with this notebook is to record drum tracks, but in my free time...

Photoshop CS2
CS:S
Battlefield 1942
Battlefield Vietnam
Forums
Music

 

Mikeoo17:

Don't know about Finale or Ableton Live, but I think they're both multimedia authoring programs. gcc is the Gnu C Compiler, a programming tool. bash is a shell program, like the windows command window, but 100x more powerful. A multi-node render controller is just a program that will control other programs over a network to make 3D movies in parallel. Eclipse is a Java lanuage development program, that you can make programs based in Java in.

 

hmm. sounds fun. sure.

listening to Foobar 2000 (what i switched to after winamp started annoying me and the llama stopped kicking ass)
monkeying around with Linux...
playing Oblivion, FFXI
besides that, killing time on the internets w/Opera, chatting with a couple friends on gaim, and occasionally some IRC with sysreset (mIRC), though I don't really have any special attachment to that irc client.

 

Firefox, MSN Live, Winamp.

 

I gott a give you a rep point for that!!!

 

Firefox, iTunes, Messenger Live, and i used to have a mess around on photoshop but after buying a new laptop i haven't got around to installing it again.

 

Cheers mate I should get together a list of all my commonly used Windows utilities and programs and such, things that I install on every computer I get when I get it. Some of them may be useless to other people, but I figure a lot of them would be interesting. I'll do that one of these days here.

 

That would be awesome!! I need ideas for what I can use my new laptop for... lol... It's going to be more of a hobby than a work horse so it's good to know what other peole do for fun.

My next thread will be "most useful software titles"

 

Programming(Ruby,VB.net)
MotoGP3
Madden 2007