The 10 Desktop Apps I Still Use Most And Why

As most regular readers and friends know, I do as much as I can using web applications. I do this mostly to allow myself to use (almost) any computer at any time and still be able to accomplish most of my work. Despite this, there ARE still some desktop apps I’m using regularly. I’ve been tracking my app usage for the last few weeks and want to share the apps I am still using. In the interest of keeping this accurate, I’m leaving off the ‘run in the background’ apps (Like anti-virus software) as well as web browsers (though my default, Chrome, takes top spot). So… What’s holding me back from a complete web-based life?

1. Notepad – Despite dozens of web alternatives, I can’t seem to shake this one. I blame the muscle-memory [Win + r] [n][o][Enter] keyboard shortcut for this. I mostly use it as a quick place to jott down a note while on the phone – or as a quick pastebin of sorts when programming. As a side note, I SAVE very few (if anything) in it – instead, it’s copied to a web document, email or other tool.
2. Seesmic Desktop – There are piles of web-based Twitter clients, but nothing (yet) that seems to do what Seesmic can for me. This is one that I’m always actively seeking a replacement for and am ready and willing to give up as soon as the perfect web version comes along.
3. RealVNC – There are several computers in the house, some of which don’t even have keyboards, mice or monitors hooked up.  This lets me control them from my laptop. Kinda like having three computers in one.
4. VLC Media Player – My default media player for any movie or music file. It’s kinda broken and won’t let me seek to a new position in AVI files… but oh well. I play files using web-based players where possible, but it it has to be a download (or is coming from local storage of some sort), it gets played here.
5. iTunes – Pretty obvious one. My music library + iPod Touch and Shuffle syncing. I also manage playlists here to sync to the Blackberry Pearl.
6. Windows Media Player – This one only makes the list because my VLC player is broken and sometimes I want/need to skip ahead in a file. I’ll someday fix VLC and this can vanish again.
7. CDBurnerXP – I’ve been burning a lot of backups of files and data from some of the hard drives to CD or DVD recently and this freeware burning app makes that nice and easy.
8. VirtualBox – As I play with more and more web apps, I’m also playing with a lot of netbook OSes. This free virtual machine lets me do so without having to install anything permanent to the drive and dual-, triple- or quad-boot.
9. Adobe Fireworks – Another one that SHOULD be off the list and isn’t – only because I haven’t had enough time to learn my way through Aviary.
10. Filezilla - To get things ONTO the cloud. With WordPress having core and plugin upgrades along with  plugin and theme installs all built into wp-admin, I’m guessing this will soon likely only be used for audio/video/image media and file permissions.

That’s it! For the most part, the stuff I’m using locally is stuff that can’t go on the web – But I want to know what you think? Did any of these surprise you?