As a personal reminder, and possibly helpful for other people, I’d thought I’d post what software I spend hours installing after hours of installing Windows XP.
Security
- Spybot S&D - Cleans out spy and malware
- Avast! Anti virus - Free, and good(?)
- Avira Anti virus - Free, and good(?). Has a annoying screen popping up each time it updates though.
Development
- Eclipse - My IDE of choice, for Java at least.
- VIM - easy, slick text editor.
- PuTTY - SSH/Telnet connectivity.
- Java - of course.
- TortoiseSVN - Subversion client integrated in Windows shell
- ArgoUML - Open Source UML diagram editor, can also generate code skeletons
Surfing/Net
Only one(I use GMail, Reader and Calendar from Google for other net stuff.)
General purpose
- WinSCP - SSH/SCP file transfer.
- 7-Zip - Open Source file (de)compressor.
- WinRAR - file (de)compressor, I still use although 7-Zip takes them all..
- Launchy - cool utility that lets you launch apps. by keystrokes.
- SyncToy - A nice, and free, utility from Microsoft that let you do backups/syncs of files and folder. E.g. between disks.
Multimedia
- VLC - Open Source multimedia player, plays most formats.
- foobar2000 - Free and simple mp3/aac/ogg/etc player with low low mem. usage
More suggestions?
4 responses so far ↓
1 ThomasG // May 7, 2007 at 11:32 am
Nice!
What kind of PHP editor do you use?
2 Odd Christer Brovig // May 7, 2007 at 11:34 am
VIM mostly. I’ve tried the PDT plugin for Eclipse, but’s nowhere done.
3 Alexander JH // Nov 23, 2007 at 6:29 am
ADblock plugin for Firefox
4 Alexander JH // Nov 23, 2007 at 6:30 am
Oh, and Gmail notifier =)
very practical
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