Praise Beautiful Software here

[beesonthewhatnow]

impOSCar
Shit name mind.

Oooh, if we're gonna have synths in here I'd have to say Absynth, especially the latest version. One of the few truely unique synths out there at the moment, capable of creating some amazing sounds.

 

[oicur0t]

Reason...love it!

 

[jæd]

JEdit. A top java based text editor with a good selection of plug-ins.

Completely never seen whats so great about it. BBEdit for OS X is the bees knees, though. But once you get to that level of functionality you need an IDE. Komodo would be great if they could sort out the Pango rendering problem (not their fault but...) and stop using Mozilla as a backend...

 

[Structaural]

that make things possible for the average person that before was only possible by a select few - Photoshop.

You said it - one of the most stable and beautifully crafted programs around.

Cinema 4D - just getting into this and it's a lovely bit of software.

 

[gnoriac]

AnalogX's stuff - small, well-written, useful programs that do what it says on the tin. Why can't others write lean & mean stuff like that?

 

[fractionMan]

Completely never seen whats so great about it. BBEdit for OS X is the bees knees, though. But once you get to that level of functionality you need an IDE. Komodo would be great if they could sort out the Pango rendering problem (not their fault but...) and stop using Mozilla as a backend...

The ftp/sftp pluggin is great, and it syntax highlights everything know to man or machine. That's why I like it anyway.

 

[Jangla]

I know it's M$, but Windows Movie Maker is, I feel, a very well put together application and while it suffers from a slight lack of advanced functionality for more complex stuff, it pisses on Adobe Premier when doing the simple stuff. A fade transition in Premier takes a few minutes - WMM takes a drag and drop. Also, the preview window in Premier is very hungry and starts to stutter after a couple of minutes of playback - no such issues in WMM.
I usually do the simple stuff in WMM and add any credits or overly complicated transitions in Premier.

Also like:
Firefox
Fireworks
Google Earth
Trillian

 

[Divisive Cotton]

Word - I use it all the time.

*Throws grenade into crowded cafe*

 

[stdPikachu]

Opera
vim/gvim
VirtualDubMod
KDE's kio-slaves
Media Player Classic
Kate (KDE text editor that's good as a basic IDE for small projects when you don't want to faff about in Eclipse)
Amarok (like a less annoying iTunes that doesn't eat up resources)

/me hopes he's not turning into a KDE fanboy