This page gives a list of the software that is always installed on my PC.

 

Web browsing

 

 

• Mozilla Firefox 2.0, with extensions:
  • Adblock Plus
  • AutoForm
  • CuteMenus - Crystal SVG
  • del.icio.us
  • DOM Inspector
  • FlashGot
  • Google Toolbar
  • Html Validator
  • IE View
  • MediaPlayerConnectivity
  • ScrapBook
  • Talkback

 

 

Messaging

 

 

• my gmail account
• Google Talk (free jabber-based chat)
• Windows Live Messenger (proprietary chat)
• Skype (proprietary voip, use on demand only)
• Miranda (free extensible client, use for ICQ only)

 

 

File exchange

 

 

• Free Download Manager
• LeechFTP (free light FTP client)
• Filezilla (free FTP client)
• Quick 'n Easy FTP Server (free)
• eMule (free, use for large transfers)
• Ares (free, easy and spyware-free, use for casual transfers)

 

 

Imaging

 

 

• XnView (free image viewer, ACDSee alternative)
• FastStone Image Viewer (free)
• FastStone Screen Capture (free screen capture with basic image editing)
• Gadwin Printscreen (free)
• Image Resizer Powertoy (free simple batch image resizer)
• Paint.NET (free multi-layered image editing, simple Photoshop alternative)
• Photobie (free image editing)
• ArcSoft Panorama Maker (commercial product shipped with my Nikon Coolpix camera)

 

 

Music & Audio

 

 

• musikCube (free light music player with library, iTunes alternative), with plug-ins:
  • CubeScrobbler to feed my last.fm account
• XM Player (free light music player, WinAmp alternative), with plug-ins:
  • xmp-scrobbler to feed my last.fm account
  • + input filters: aac, mpc, wma
• Evil Lyrics (free timestamped lyrics finder and player for XM Player)
• MusicBrainz Tagger (free automatic music tagger)
• MP3Tag (free manual music tagger with FreeDB support)
• The GodFather (free music management for advanced tag editing and format conversion)
• Foobar2000 (free, use for music conversion and CD ripping)
• Last.fm (free music discovery radio)
• MP3 Direct Cut (free MP3 cutter)

 

 

Media

 

 

• Media Player Classic (free light media player)
• Satsuki Filter Pack (free directshow filters to support most video & audio formats in media player classic)
• Video LAN Client (free generic video player)
• MPlayerControl (free generic video player) or MPUI
• Super(c) (video conversion/transcoding)
• VirtualDubMod & NanDub (free video editing and processing)
• AviUtil (free video editing and processing)
• Time Adjuster (free video subtitle manipulation & synchronization)
• Ripp-it After Me (free video transcoding and DVD ripping)
• GX Transcoder (free audio/video transcoding)
• MediaCoder (free audio/video transcoding)
• GraphEdit (free filter-graph-based audio/video processing)

 

 

Office

 

 

• OpenOffice.org (free office suite)
• Dictionnaire Freelang (free french-english dictionary)
• EndNote (commercial bibliography management)
• Microsoft Office Viewers (for Word, Excel and Powerpoint files)
• Adobe Acrobat Reader (free PDF reader)
• Bibus (free bibliography management for OpenOffice)
• Everest (free dictionary)
• Keepass (free password repository)
• Keynote (free notes repository)
• Ant Movie Catalog (free movie collection)
• Microsoft Outlook 2000 (commercial personal information management, shipped with my PocketPC, use for synchronized contacts/calendar/tasks/notes)
• Rainlendar (free on-desktop calendar/tasks display)
• Grisbi (free home banking)

 

 

Development

 

 

• Microsoft Visual Studio 2003 (commercial integrated development environment)
• Eclipse (free integrated development environment)
• Python (free scripting platform)
• XmEdiL (free XML edition & processing)
• PSPad (free text editor)

 

 

System & Utilities

 

 

• AVG Free Edition (free antivirus)
• Hamashi (free virtual private network)
• Hotkeycontrol XP (free hotkey assignment)
• Microsoft Virtual PC (free PC-on-PC emulator)
• PDFCreator (free PDF creation virtual printer)
• ProcessXP (free advanced process manager with DLL imports and file handles)
• Putty (free telnet/ssh text client)
• Sharewatch (free shared files/folders access spy)
• Tweak UI (free Windows XP tweaks)
• Windows Defender (free anti-spyware)

 

 

Tools & File Management

 

 

• Google Desktop Search (free local content indexing), with add-ons:
  • X-Ray Folders Instant Search
  • Halftone search for the following indexing plugins:
    • IFilter
    • OpenOffice
    • any file (txt...)
• Unlocker (free file handle unlocker)
• 7-Zip (free file compression)
• AgentRansack (free advanced in-file seach)
• CDBurnerXP Pro (free CD burning)
• Daemon Tools (free virtual CD mounter)
• Filerecovery (free file recoverer)
• Flexible Renamer (free advanced file renamer)
• HashCalc (free file hash calculator)
• Hexplorer (free hexadecimal editor)
• Isobuster (free CD/DVD image manipulation)
• TreeSize (free simple disk free space viewer)
• WinDirStat (free advanced disk free space viewer)
• WinMerge (free file/folder comparison)
• 2xExplorer (free file manager)
• ExplorerXP (free file manager)
• XYplorer (free file manager)

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