Monday, June 29, 2009

My Windows Extras

A list of software I use to make me feel more at home in Windows:

AutoHotkey Customize keyboard shortcuts and automate common actions. (Apparently advanced window management is possible...KDE Mover-Sizer is based on this).
CDBurnerXP (iso and gap-less Audio CD burning)
Filezilla (SFTP)
Firefox (web browser, can be extended with plugins)
- Vimperator (vim bindings, link numbering/hints)
- Adblock Plus (blocks ads)
- Custom Download Manager (stop download window from popping up)
- Colorful Tabs (tab colors)
Foobar2000 (minimalistic/functional media player replacement; never mind, I like WinAmp better)
GMail Notifier Plus (checks gmail, displays with Windows 7's jump lists)
GVim (programmer/admin's text editor)
KDE Mover-Sizer (move and resize windows by alt-clicking anywhere in window)
Notepad++ Coder/Admin text editor with a less...unique...control-scheme than GVim. Also, handles working off of UNC shares better (gvim frequently locks up for half a minute or so).
Paint.NET (somewhere between Paint and Photoshop)
Pidgin (AIM, GTalk)
Process Explorer (a much better Task Manager)
PuTTY (SSH)
SMplayer (video player; linux's mplayer w/GUI)
Steam (Games)
Sumatra PDF Viewer (no-nonsense PDF viewer)
TortiseSVN (SVN)
VirtualBox (virtualization: lets you run other OSs at the same time as Windows; supports 3D acceleration!)
WinAmp (watch folders, jump to file, global hotkeys...everything I want in a music player)
WinRAR (zip,rar,tar,etc; nag screen, but never expires)
WMP Keys (global hotkeys for Windows Media Player; since rendered unnecessary WinAmp)

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