Thought I just would share a link to a small gem (literaly):
SumatraPDF. It’s a blazing fast PDF viewer without any bells and whistles, just pure PDFviewing goodness. It can’t select text, but I seldom do that anyways.
Give it a try :-)
SumatraPDF – a small gem
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Essential Software for a Fresh Windows XP Install
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?
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Picks of the Week
Things I found interesting this week.
The Definitive Guide to Semantic Web Markup for Blogs (article)
This article talks about how one should mark up HTML documents semantically correct. Although the comments points out some flaws (as using a H4 tag after something other than H3 – and thus breaking the hierarchy) the articles sums up why and how you should mark up your documents.
Caspian – The Four Trees (music)
I found the album “The Four Trees” on eMusic, and it’s stunning. Although having a sound similar to Explosions In The Sky it isn’t a copy. Good stuff.
Dvorák -Symphony No. 9 (music)
Well, I usually do not listen to classical, but I took my chance on this one. Some of the parts in it gives me associations to Bonanza. I like!
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First post and so on
Well, this is my first post, and first time setting up Wordpress, which seems great :-) I considered setting up SimpleLog, but being totally unfamiliar with the nuts and bolts to get RoR going I decided to go to the security and bug-riddled haven of PHP software. ;-)
Anyways, if things get fubar, it’s as easy as resetting my slice at Slicehost which provide the VPS account this blog is running on.
Time for bed. Another day.
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Installing GMF on Eclipse 3.3 (M7) Europa
I ran into a problem today trying to install GMF on Eclipse 3.3M7 Europa. Some file within the GMF package could not be found and the updater just threw an error. The solution was easy (after trying so many mirrors..), use GMF’s own update site (of course..). The URL to the update site is: http://download.eclipse.org/modeling/gmf/update-site/releases/site.xml for the Europa specific builds.
Add the site to the update manager, check of to search both the Europa discovery site and the GMF Update Site, select GMF from the GMF Update Site and then press Select Required and you should be golden.
Info from the GMF Update Site page.