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Permalink Reply by Geoffrey King North Yorkshire on October 16, 2010 at 11:54

Windows 7 Professional
MS Publisher 2007
MS Office Word 2007

Adobe 9.3

Panda AV Pro
Spyware blaster
Ad-Aware

Advanced Systemcare

Web browser - Firefox
Email - Thunderbird

Canon MP560 printer - a great printer

apparently I've got 869GB memory available

Bought the pro software with machine in April, still only scratched surface of pro edition
There are no games installed, boo.

PRO MemberPermalink Reply by Claire Brown on October 16, 2010 at 12:41

i'm a mac fan, (was originally then had 15 years on pc, now thankfully back to mac)

I use word & excel, firefox for my browser, Photoshop Elements & bridge for photos,

Permalink Reply by Janine Pattison on October 16, 2010 at 13:17

We are totally Mac based with a Mac Book Pro and an Power Mac running Vectorworks 2011. Also connected to 2 iPhones.
Couldn't live without that setup!

Permalink Reply by Classic Gardens on October 16, 2010 at 17:40

Office 

Ms office 2010

Web

Ie 
Safari 

Maintenance 

Microsoft anti virus
Microsoft defender
Spybot 
Adware
Cash cleaner
Perfect disk defrag

Operating system

Windows vista 64 ultimate

Hardware

Nvidea ge force 8800 gt
Intel core 2 quad
4.0 gb ram
CPU q6600 2.40ghz

Permalink Reply by David-County Grounds Maintenance on October 16, 2010 at 19:48

IM not good with computers but word for quotes, excel for number bits, sage for accounts and best of all is Google Earth especially the street pics....what a way to get a feel of a site pre meeting.

Permalink Reply by Greenlawns on October 16, 2010 at 19:57

Windows 7

Microsoft Office 2010

Adobe Photoshop CS5

Corel Draw graphics suite

Avast anti virus

all the latest versions (Dont ask)

PRO MemberPermalink Reply by Gardens4u.co.uk on October 16, 2010 at 22:19

acer !


john pugh grass roots said:

being computer illiteratei havent got a bloody clue now plants well theres a question lol

PRO MemberPermalink Reply by Gardens4u.co.uk on October 16, 2010 at 22:20

great idea . after 1st visit and going back to do job its like 3 times and no surprises !!


David Burdick - CGM ltd said:

IM not good with computers but word for quotes, excel for number bits, sage for accounts and best of all is Google Earth especially the street pics....what a way to get a feel of a site pre meeting.

PRO MemberPermalink Reply by Gardens4u.co.uk on October 16, 2010 at 22:21

i use 'chrome and avg'


Gary @ Acer Paving said:

I think the future has got to be free software.

Open Office
Google Earth
Google Chrome
SpywareBlaster
AVG free Antivirus
Google Sketchup

etc., etc.

Free these days doesn't have to be second rate and if you like the product you can always pay for the "Pro version"

Permalink Reply by Bigyin on October 17, 2010 at 14:21

I know Gary is a fan of Open Office (and with good reason). Ideal for anyone starting up in business who wants to minimise outlay on software. If it's of any interest, talking of "Open Source" software, I've just found one called DVD Flick which converts downloaded video to DVD format and will burn to disk in one operation if required. I've only tried it on one download and it worked a treat whereas other progs I've tried have struggled with just the conversion.

www.dvdflick.net

Permalink Reply by Paul @ Ashgate Garden Care on October 17, 2010 at 14:46

Open Office
Firefox
Photoshop Elements
Wordpress
Dreamweaver
Windows Mail
Google Earth

Wife uses Sage on her laptop for accounts

Permalink Reply by James Tucker on October 17, 2010 at 22:04

I have always used macs since I was at college, many years ago. I just find them more intuitive, but I suppose it's what you get used to. There are no file compatibilty issues these days, though there used to be. The only disadvantage I can think of is some specialist software tends only to be availiable for the windows platform.
I am a bit of a mac geek...

Powermac Desktop
MacBook Pro
iPad
iPhone

Office
MS Office
Pages
Numbers
iCal

Art
Photoshop
Freehand
Vectorworks
Aperture

Web
Safari
Mail

Dreamweaver
Accounts
MYOB


Operating Systems
Mac OSX 10.6

Other
Google Earth
iTunes ( music )