Installing Windows
Its that time again - I have a new computer. Its been about 6 to 8 years since I have bought something new for my home PC. I'm buying a beast in a box (Micro ATX, Quad Core, 8gig memory, Blue-ray, Wifi, etc) and hopefully it will be another 6 to 8 years before I have to buy another PC.The big question is what software I should re-install?
Windows ultimately ends up as an unstable dog with fleas due to failed attempts at finding reasonable software. Having learned from my many mistakes with software of all types, the following is a list that I consider being the most effective in their category. I have linked to the author's website so that in future the latest version may be downloaded.
There are still a few items that I am looking for (suggestions welcome):
- Photo touchup and image Editing
- Media Player and Media Organiser
- Offline CD Collection Organiser
- Archive Organiser (Old Documents, Projects, Backups, etc)
Operating System | |||
| Windows Vista | Operating System | | Retail |
| Windows XP SP3 | Operating System | | Retail |
Office Suite | |||
| Microsoft Office | Documents | | Retail |
| Open Office | Documents | | Free |
| Star Office | Documents | | Retail (Inexpensive) |
Internet Browser | |||
| Fire Fox | Internet | | Free |
| Google Chrome | Internet | | Free |
| IE 8 | Internet | | Free |
DVD Player | |||
| Windows Media Player 11 | Media | | Free |
| Power DVD | Media | | Retail |
Tools | |||
| | |||
| Acrobat | Documents | | Free |
| KeyNote | Documents | | Free |
| DVD Shrink | File Archive | | Free |
| Image Burn | File Archive | | Free |
| IZArc | File Archive | Slick | Free |
| Dyna DNS | Internet | Dynamic DNS name | Free |
| Free Download Manager | Internet | | Free |
| uTorrent | Internet | | Free |
| Google Earth | Map | | Free |
| VLC Media Player | Media | | Free |
| Dot Net | Platform | | Free |
| Java 6 | Platform | | Free |
| Shockwave | Platform | | Free |
| CC Cleaner | OS Tool | I don’t like it phoning home | Free |
| Daemon Tools | OS Tool | Mount CD images (old games, etc) | Free |
| Easy Cleaner | OS Tool | | Free |
| FreeUndelete | OS Tool | Install this before you need to | Free |
| Process Explorer | OS Tool | Replace Task manager | Free |
| Treesize | OS Tool | | Free |
| Tweak All 3 | OS Tool | Helps removing Browser Helper Objects | Free |
| UnixShell | OS Tool | wget, grep, etc | Free |
| Who Lock Me | OS Tool | | Free |
| Terminals | Remote Desktop | Multi Tab - VNC, Telnet, SSH, Citrix | Free |
| Google Desktop | Shell | | Free |
| Launchy | Shell | Incredible ** | Free |
| TeraCopy | Shell | | Free |
| Xplore2 | Shell | Plugins required | Free |
| nLite | Slipstream | | Free |
| Virtual Box | Virtual Machine | 3-5% slower than VMWare but free | Free |
| Tomcat 6 | Web Server | | Free |
Development Tools | |||
| Hibernate | Development | | Free |
| HSSQL | Development | | Free |
| Inno Setup | Development | | Free |
| IntelliJ IDEA | Development | Amazing | Retail |
| JDK 1.4.2, 5.0, 6.0 | Development | | Free |
| Maven | Development | | Free |
| Subversion | Development | | Free |
Internet Tools | |||
| FireFTP | Firefox Plugin | | Free |
| Adblock Plus | Firefox Plugin | | Free |
| Bookmark Duplicate Detector | Firefox Plugin | | Free |
| Foxmarks Bookmark Synchronizer | Firefox Plugin | Same bookmarks at home and at work | Free |
| FoxyProxy | Firefox Plugin | | Free |
| IE Tab | Firefox Plugin | | Free |
| NewsFox | Firefox Plugin | | Free |
| PDF Download | Internet | Better flexability when clicking on PDFs | Free |
Web Resources | |||
| Life Hacker | Internet Resource | Life | Free |
| DZone | Internet Resource | Development | Free |
| Google News | News Resource | | Free |
| SlashDot | News Resource | Technology | Free |
| Old Version | Internet Resource | | Free |
| Softpedia | Internet Resource | | Free |
Thats my list of software. Suggestions and recommendations welcome. This list is actually future documentation for myself and it may help others make their life easier.
-Tim
2 comments:
You seem to be more of development type user so I am very surprised you simply aren't running Ubuntu.
Here is a old list compiled by a friend that might inspire you.
http://www.xiven.com/weblog/2003/04/14/
Hey Tim
You want an organiser?
http://www.getlibra.com/
Pretty cool tool and it's a PRETTY tool too... (say that a few times over, quickly).
I'm also a big fan of portableapps.com and all the goodness it brings in a bag. I'm doing the same thing as you, blogging my list of essentials software, so keep an eye out for it on my blogspot.
Bryan
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