| Software List (Fall 2004) | ||
| Video Capture | Uses | Frequency of Use |
| 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 |
| Video Production | ||
| 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 |
| Content Delivery | ||
| Nero | Used for Ripping Data, CD and VCD | weekly |
| Roxio | Used for Authoring Video DVD's | weekly |
| Video Encoders | ||
| 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 |
| Music Production | ||
| 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 |
| Photo Editing | ||
| Gimp 2.0 | Used for Color Correction | weekly |
| Adobe Photoshop | yearly | |
| Paint Shop Pro 5.01 | Used for file resizing and general file manipulation | daily |
| Still image capture | ||
| windows scanner and capture Wizard | used to download photos from Digital Cameras and Scanners | weekly |
| Web Authoring | ||
| Notepad | used for low level HTML editing | monthly |
| Macromedia Studio MX | Flash and Dreamweaver is used to create HTML website's | weekly |
| Web Publishing Utilities | ||
| Windows Remote Desktop | Used to Login into servers from remote locations | daily |
| SSH | Used to Login to Linux Servers such as 1and1.com, actlab.utexas.edu and my own linux server | daily |
| WS_FTP | Used to Login to texas.net for file uploads | monthly |
| PC Stress Testing Software | ||
| 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 |
| Audio/Video Play Back | ||
| 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 | weekly | |
| Real Player | used to watch .rm | monthly |
| Online Communication Programs | ||
| Xchat | IRC chat program | |
| AIM | chat | daily |
| MSN Messenger | chat | daily |
| Yahoo Messenger | chat | monthly |
| Office Utilities | ||
| Microsoft Office 2000 | excel and word | daily |
| Microsoft Office 2003 | excel and word | daily |
| Open Office | monthly | |
| Adobe Acrobat 4.0 | PDF conversions | daily |
| Email/Internet Browsers | ||
| Internet Explorer 6.0 | daily | |
| Mozilla FireFox | daily | |
| Netscape Navigator | daily | |
| Netscape Mail Client | utexas account | daily |
| Mozilla Thunderbird | 1and1 account | weekly |
| AOL | AOL mail and content | daily |
| System Utilities | ||
| Norton Anti Virus | anti virus realtime program | daily |
| Spybot 1.3 | spyware remove software | weekly |
| Disk Defragmenter | used to de-fragment hard drives | weekly |
| Gaming | ||
| 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 |