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?
7 Comments
Nice!
What kind of PHP editor do you use?
VIM mostly. I’ve tried the PDT plugin for Eclipse, but’s nowhere done.
ADblock plugin for Firefox
Oh, and Gmail notifier =)
very practical
I’d add the KMPlayer as an alternative to vlc.
It’s got all the codecs, looks much nicer, has LOADS of settings and options and still runs smoothly. :)
As AV, I use AVG(pretty adequate).. Documents using Open office, some testing and bench marking tools (open source), Flashget as download manager, codecs using klite, Notepad++.
Really great writing! Really!