2009-08-17T23:03:26Z 83191 0 I've used Steam since it was a mandatory install to play Half-Life 2, and I was rather frustrated about this. Steam, at the time, seemed like another piece of crapware I need to run so Mr Moneybags can make sure I'm not getting something for nothing. Over the years I have grown to like it however. It's infinitely convenient to just buy the game through steam, download, and play as opposed to buying in a store and hoping to god the game takes my key and the disc doesn't get scratched, thus rendering the game unplayable. Also, I can go to another computer and play my games on it by logging in and downloading the game there. Simply, Valve has gone to great lengths to make the platform fool-proof. As long as you have internet access and your login info, you're set. There are still issues however, and I worry they may never be corrected. I have occasional hang-up when Steam starts, with Windows or otherwise, and the interface is still as stagnant and dull as it was when it was released years ago. 107780362 2007-04-21T11:10:58Z 156 2019-08-28T01:44:23Z Steam 7154 2009-11-28T18:58:16Z http://steampowered.com http://wakoopa.com/software/steam http://mallow.wakoopa.com/avatars/000/155/345/normal.png?1255455179 http://mallow.wakoopa.com/avatars/000/155/345/thumb.png?1255455179 80 Valve Corporation http://wakoopa.com/developers/valve-corporation 33 Launchers http://wakoopa.com/categories/utilities/launchers mac win Steam is a content delivery, digital rights management, multi-player and communications platform developed by Valve Corporation for digital entertainment. It is currently used to distribute and manage games including Half-Life, Half-Life 2, Counter-Strike, and games from other vendors and publishers. In addition, other media such as videos may be downloaded through the client. Steam has very much servers to deliver the fastest download speeds to clients. 2009-04-23T11:44:26Z 55191 0 I'll just say now that I hate Steve Jobs with all my soul. That being said, iTunes 8 has done a fair job of fixing problems I've had with iTunes since its creation. It's "clean" interface still puzzles me, even moreso now that importing settings have been moved among other things, and iTunes download settings have been removed completely (It's nice to be able to download a HD movie, but I'd like a lower quality version when my hard drive is nearly full). I've yet to play around with Genius, since I'm now converting my library of nearly 8000 songs from wma just for itunes (another point; GIVE ME SOME PLUGINS DAMMIT!) And while it certainly does things better than any other free media player, it takes more resources to do so, making it a mixed blessing. The music library is much more intuitive than the previous "everything crowded into one hard to read list of songs" setup, and for that reason and all iTunes Store's music now being DRM-free (about damn time) I will be moving my music into this program, until I can find something to entice me away. 1203263771 2007-04-19T11:36:06Z 46 2018-10-24T11:08:52Z iTunes 29457 2009-11-28T18:44:06Z http://www.itunes.com http://wakoopa.com/software/itunes http://mallow.wakoopa.com/avatars/000/142/838/normal.png?1252537197 http://mallow.wakoopa.com/avatars/000/142/838/thumb.png?1252537197 14397 Apple Inc. http://wakoopa.com/developers/apple-inc Manage your audio and video 26 Management http://wakoopa.com/categories/audio-video/management mac win iTunes is a digital media player application introduced by Apple in 2001 at Macworld Expo in San Francisco for playing and organizing digital music and video files. The program is also an interface to manage the contents on Apple's popular iPod digital media players. Additionally, iTunes can connect to the iTunes Store (provided an internet connection is present) in order to download purchased digital music, music videos, television shows, iPod games, audiobooks, various podcasts, and feature length films. 2009-03-22T15:56:27Z 49574 0 As everyones said, it works ok and it comes with Windows so not really any point to using anything else unless your having lots of problems 2147483647 2007-04-18T13:14:21Z 13 2019-10-17T00:26:24Z Windows Explorer 59777 2009-11-29T20:32:29Z http://www.microsoft.com/windows http://wakoopa.com/software/windows-explorer http://mallow.wakoopa.com/avatars/000/142/964/normal.png?1252602286 http://mallow.wakoopa.com/avatars/000/142/964/thumb.png?1252602286 13908 Microsoft Corporation http://wakoopa.com/developers/microsoft-corporation Managing your files 58 File Management http://wakoopa.com/categories/utilities/file-management win Windows Explorer is an application that is part of modern versions of the Microsoft Windows operating system that provides a graphical user interface (GUI) for accessing the file systems. It is the component of the operating system that presents the user interface on the monitor and enables the user to control the computer. It is sometimes referred to as the Windows GUI shell, or simply Explorer. 2009-03-22T15:53:57Z 49573 0 This is a network client for colleges and its horrible. I'd uninstall it if i could get on my schools network without it, and they'd get rid of it if it weren't required by the State. If i can use the internet for a few hours its a good day, and if this continues for longer than 24 hours its a sheer act of god. 1805 2007-09-02T14:30:04Z 58879 2009-08-29T19:08:54Z Client Security Agent 10 2009-03-16T00:17:57Z http://wakoopa.com/software/client-security-agent http://wakoopa.com/images/avatar_software.gif http://wakoopa.com/images/avatar_software_thumb.gif 14274 Bradford Networks http://wakoopa.com/developers/bradford-networks win 2009-03-22T15:50:31Z 49572 0 i'd use this more often if i knew anybody who had a headset and such to use it ha. the few people that i do know who use it i talk to every now and then and it works very well. call quality is excellent and uses very little bandwidth. 846636098 2007-04-20T12:27:51Z 107 2020-01-01T09:18:58Z Skype 26010 2009-11-29T03:04:02Z http://www.skype.com http://wakoopa.com/software/skype http://mallow.wakoopa.com/avatars/000/167/134/normal.png?1258786517 http://mallow.wakoopa.com/avatars/000/167/134/thumb.png?1258786517 58 Skype Technologies S.A. http://wakoopa.com/developers/skype-technologies-sa Communicate with others via chat or instant messengers 5 Messengers & Chat http://wakoopa.com/categories/internet/messengers-chat mac win linux Skype is a peer-to-peer Internet telephony network founded by the entrepreneurs Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis, also founders of the file sharing application Kazaa. It competes against existing open VoIP protocols such as SIP, IAX, and H.323. The Skype Group, acquired by eBay in October 2005, is headquartered in Luxembourg, with offices in London, Tallinn and Prague. 2009-03-12T20:46:01Z 47544 0 The posterboy for open-source. 2147483647 2007-04-18T13:21:12Z 15 2020-05-01T02:42:26Z Firefox 54234 2009-11-30T02:22:42Z http://www.mozilla.com/firefox http://wakoopa.com/software/firefox http://mallow.wakoopa.com/avatars/000/133/764/normal.png?1250310044 http://mallow.wakoopa.com/avatars/000/133/764/thumb.png?1250310044 95 Mozilla http://wakoopa.com/developers/mozilla Check what's happening on the web 1 Browsers http://wakoopa.com/categories/internet/browsers mac win linux Mozilla Firefox is a free and open source web browser descended from the Mozilla Application Suite, managed by the Mozilla Corporation. Firefox had 24.07% of the recorded usage share of web browsers as of October 2009, making it the second-most popular browser worldwide, after Internet Explorer, which is the factory default browser on all Windows computers. In 5 months, Firefox has gathered steam and now owns more than 25% of usage share of web browsers closing the gap between it and IE. To display web pages, Firefox uses the Gecko layout engine, which implements some current web standards plus a few features which are intended to anticipate likely additions to the standards. Firefox includes tabbed browsing, a spell checker, incremental find, live bookmarking, a download manager, and an integrated search system that uses the user's desired search engine. Functions can be added through add-ons created by third-party developers, the most popular of which include Adblock Plus, Video DownloadHelper, NoScript, Personas, FlashGot, and Greasemonkey, along with many others. Firefox runs on various versions of Microsoft Windows (version 3.5 supports Windows Vista and XP; although not officially supported as of November 2009, Firefox is compatible with Windows 7), Mac OS X (10.4 or later officially supported), most Linux distributions, and many other Unix-like operating systems. Its current stable release branch is version 3.5, first released on June 30th, 2009. Firefox's source code is free software, released under a tri-license of GPL/LGPL/MPL. 2009-01-06T10:34:23Z 33850 0 an amazing program, although getting the most out of it requires some knowledge. The 1-Click cleaner does what it boasts though, and thats more than simple enough for anyone. 58753 2007-05-07T07:45:38Z 7561 2009-11-29T18:30:19Z WinXP Manager 213 2009-10-16T09:25:04Z http://www.yamicsoft.com/xpmanager/index.html http://wakoopa.com/software/winxp-manager http://mallow.wakoopa.com/avatars/000/004/024/normal.png?1238519944 http://mallow.wakoopa.com/avatars/000/004/024/thumb.png?1238519944 2603 Yamicsoft http://wakoopa.com/developers/yamicsoft Tweak your computer 8 Configuration & Tweaking http://wakoopa.com/categories/utilities/configuration-tweaking win WinXP Manager is a system utility that helps you optimize, tweak, and clean up Windows XP. It will increase your system speed, improve system security, and meet all of your expectations.