A list of applications which I have used extensively and relied on for various reasons, scenarios or situations.
| Software | Description | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Winamp | Mp3 Player | No comment needed. A staple for many years along with the mesmurizing visualizations. |
| Sony Vegas | Video Editing Software | Used for many of my “home videos” starting in around 2002. Switched to Adobe Premier Pro in 2010 |
| Adobe Premier Pro & After Effects | Video Editing Software | Continued to create “home videos” using Premier. I think the plugins and integration with AE is what enticed me to move away from Sony Vegas. One of those plugins was camera tracking, which I used in the intro for one of the videos. |
| Evernote | Note Taking | After 14+ years of using Evernote as my “second brain” I switched to Obsidian in 2024. |
| Quicken | Finance | As of 2025, I have 22 years of financial transactions categorized and reported. I originally started tracking my expenses using Microsoft Money and shortly after switched to Quicken. |
| Adobe Illustrator | Vector Design | Compared to some of the others on this list, it is a more recent addition to my “often used” tools. I only really started seeing and understanding the value of vector based design once we got a laser cutter in ~ 2018. Having the ability to scale designs was a necessity and since, it has gotten more use compared to PS. |
| Adobe Photoshop | Photo, Graphic Design | Another long running constant in my suite of software I regularly use. I started with a free trial of Corel Draw (6?) in 1995 from a “Demo” version on the cover of the PC Shopper magazine, and then later switched to Adobe. (Around 4.0) |
| Filezilla | FTP | |
| Visual Basic / Studio | Code Editor | Another staple which I first was introduced to from a Demo version on the cover of a Computer mag ~ 1995 – version 4.0 or 5.0 was my initial introduction with some basic tutorials and sparked my love for software development 🙂 |
| Adobe Dreamweaver | Code Editor | Spent a ton! of time in Dreamweaver as my preferred web development IDE in the Web 1.0 days … |
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