What's your favourite cool app?

[Zhaoman]

I thought it would be interesting to find out what quirky and cool apps people have on their PCs. I'll start with the G-Force and Whitecap visualisers:

http://www.soundspectrum.com/g-force/

Makes my friends go 'wow' everytime and very cool to have running in the background to impress passers-by

I guess BumpTop deserves a mention but I really don't find it that useful, looks kinda cool to the lay-masses though

http://bumptop.com/

What do you use to impress(intimidate) the guy sitting beside you on the train?

[finlay666]

http://forums.hexus.net/mobile-phone...only-free.html

Currently my favourite for obvious reasons

[MoonPig]

Wow... i never really noticed stuff like this... might have to give them a go.

I boring, just have Hardware monitoring stuff and RSS feeds... lol.

[Flibb]

I also love

http://forums.hexus.net/mobile-phone...only-free.html

Currently my favourite for obvious reasons

and would like to add

http://www.stellarium.org/

Great app if you have ever walked outside and wondered what that shinny thing in the sky is.

[mikerr]

bumptop looked pretty good ( and I'm using a touchscreen here ) but quickly became unintuitive

Think I'll go on the hunt for touchscreen friendly 3d desktops...

[TheAnimus]

for all the non-commercial stuff, i've always liked R4:
http://www.rabidhamster.org/R4/main.php

[Phage]

It's ancient history now, but I will always remember Xtree.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XTree

I continnued to have a copy long after I needed it.

[Georgy291]

i guess the collest app i got running is, i cant remember who mentioned it few weeks back on hexus but its fences

it cleans up your desk top very nice and it also makes finding stuff easier.

Im not the one who posted it up on hexus originaly so, who ever it was own up its your credit here

[Georgy291]

sorry for double post...

but i think bumptop is a bad idea because, the idea off desktop is to be as simple as possible and to have the minimum amount off stuff on it, so that the stuff is easy to find and it doesnt require alot of brain power to use it either. With bumptop is way over done and it becomes complecated with the 3D off finding it placesing it etc. Also all the file moveing around or chucking the files can easily be set up with normal windows desctop. To upload something, create a shortcut to facebook new album and drag pics in to that shortcut, and to move stuff on to usb sticks, right click on file and click move to

[Zhaoman]

Almost forgot about this:

http://www.cooliris.com

Definitely one of the coolest things to impress friends with. "Your Google looks like THAT! Do you get that with Vista?? I should've upgraded..." Works everytime

[0iD]

It may not be cool, but Process Explorer is just so handy. CCleaner & NetstatLive also, for me, handy IS cool