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Software
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Video Capture |
Uses |
Frequency
of Use |
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ATI TV Tuner |
Analog
Broadcast Capture |
daily |
Adobe Premiere |
Analog/DV
video capture |
daily |
Pinnacle DV Tools |
Analog/DV
video capture |
weekly |
windows scanner and capture Wizard |
Movie
Downloader for Canon S45 |
weekly |
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Video Production |
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Adobe Premiere |
Primary
Video Editor |
daily |
Windows Movie Maker |
Used
for odd video codec conversions and edits |
weekly |
Pinnacle Hollywood FX |
visual
effects plug-in for Premiere |
monthly |
SmartRipper |
Rips
DVD VOB's to hard drive |
monthly |
Quicktime |
used
for codec conversions |
weekly |
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Content Delivery |
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Nero |
Used for Ripping Data, CD and
VCD |
weekly |
Roxio |
Used for Authoring Video DVD's |
weekly |
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Video Encoders |
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Real Producer |
Real
Codec encoder |
yearly |
Premiere MPEG Encoder |
Used
for VCD codec encoding |
weekly |
Arcsoft Camera Suite |
Used
to convert odd AVI codecs |
monthly |
Windows Media Encoder |
converts
files to windows Media 9 HD |
weekly |
Discreet Cleaner |
codec
converter, used for soreson and quicktime encoding |
monthly |
FlaskMPEG |
used
to convert VOB's to MPEGs |
monthly |
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Music Production |
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Adobe Premiere |
used
for multi track editing and MP3 to WAV conversions |
daily |
Music Match |
used
to capture analog inputs as well as convert CD to WAV |
monthly |
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Photo Editing |
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Gimp 2.0 |
Used
for Color Correction |
weekly |
Adobe Photoshop |
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yearly |
Paint Shop Pro 5.01 |
Used
for file resizing and general file manipulation |
daily |
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Still image capture |
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windows scanner and capture Wizard |
used
to download photos from Digital Cameras and Scanners |
weekly |
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Web Authoring |
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Notepad |
used
for low level HTML editing |
monthly |
Macromedia Studio MX |
Flash
and Dreamweaver is used to create HTML website's |
weekly |
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Web Publishing Utilities |
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Windows Remote Desktop |
Used
to Login into servers from remote locations |
daily |
SSH |
Used
to Login to Linux Servers such as 1and1.com, actlab.us and my own
linux server |
daily |
WS_FTP |
Used
to Login to texas.net for file uploads |
monthly |
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PC Stress Testing Software |
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Futuremark 3D Mark 2004 |
3D
Stress Test for Directx 9 Video Cards |
monthly |
Futuremark PC Mark 2004 |
PC
Stress test used to measure over all stability and performance |
monthly |
Futuremark 3D Mark 2005 |
3D
Stress Test for Directx 9 Video Cards |
monthly |
Sisoft Sandra 2004 |
Benchmark
software used for breaking in and measuring system performance |
weekly |
Prime 95 |
Program
used to test Overclocked System Stability |
monthly |
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Audio/Video Play Back |
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ATI TV Tuner |
used
to watch Television |
daily |
Windows Media Player 10 |
used
to view avi, wma/v and MPEG |
daily |
Quicktime Pro 6.5 |
used
to view .mov |
weekly |
iTunes |
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weekly |
Real Player |
used
to watch .rm |
monthly |
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Online Communication Programs |
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Xchat |
IRC
chat program |
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AIM |
chat |
daily |
MSN Messenger |
chat |
daily |
Yahoo Messenger |
chat |
monthly |
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Office Utilities |
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Microsoft Office 2000 |
excel
and word |
daily |
Microsoft Office 2003 |
excel
and word |
daily |
Open Office |
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monthly |
Adobe Acrobat 4.0 |
PDF
conversions |
daily |
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Email/Internet Browsers |
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Internet Explorer 6.0 |
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daily |
Mozilla FireFox |
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daily |
Netscape Navigator |
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daily |
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Netscape Mail Client |
utexas
account |
daily |
Mozilla Thunderbird |
1and1
account |
weekly |
AOL |
AOL
mail and content |
daily |
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System Utilities |
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Norton Anti Virus |
anti
virus realtime program |
daily |
Spybot 1.3 |
spyware
remove software |
weekly |
Disk Defragmenter |
used
to de-fragment hard drives |
weekly |
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Gaming |
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Need For Speed Suite |
Used
for relaxing |
monthly |
Unreal Tournament 2003 |
Used
for stress testing |
monthly |
Unreal Tournament 2004 |
Used
for stress testings and relaxing |
monthly |
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