My regular software.

Software i use most and would recommend you too.


All in one:
win pen pack software collection.

General:
Notepad++ ( editor )
OpenOffice ( office work suit )
Sensiva ( Mouse Gesture software, for fast mouse based browsing of windows XP ), free version
wordweb ( eng dictionary ), ;-) b/c Eng. is not my primary language.

Multimedia:
IrfanView ( image viewer and editor )
GIMP ( Strong alternative for Photoshop )
winamp + chipamp plugins collection for console game music playback ( for audio playback )
KMplayer ( i.e. mplayer with a very good GUI front-end, For video playback )
VLC player ( of course it's unavoidable, if you know lua programming then hack vlc's lua scripts )
BatchImageConverter ( convert images in batch ), well GIMP can do that.

CD/DVD :
Deamon tools ( virtual optical drives )
IsoBuster ( CD/DVD data extractor ), bypasses antivirus scanning, therefore provides faster browsing of disc contents )

Internet :
Firefox ( Everyone knows why ? )
Orbit downloader : ( best freeware for downloading files, but disable it if you are getting speed drops Or disable orbitnet p2p service of orbit )
PC guardian : ( has black list of attack sites, i am currently not using it )

Medware :
Avira antivir
USB.Disk.Security.v5.1 ( Protects from external media's autorun and suspected executable, even though it is not an antivirus app )
ausdiskdefragportable ( very faster disk defragmenter )
(must have) Testdisk & Photorec ( best data and disk recovery app, Linux ver. ported to windows )

Smart utils :
noclone ( duplicate file remover )
unitconv ( unit converter )
OfflineLinkExtractor
errlookup ( Error code's details finder. Get it from your WinXP's support.cab file )

Developer's :
Dev CPP, cygwin environment with GCC
MS visual studio 2008, I got it free from a computer magazine when announced free by Microsoft. Now i am developing apps using it. ;-)
( I only use portable , open-source / free version libraries and apps )

Libraries :
SDL, ClanLib,
FMOD sound library ( not free for commercial use )

But this was for windows and there were many software left unmentioned.
similarily qualified Or sometimes even better apps are in Linux. With wine
( windows emulator ), these windows apps can be used in Linux.



I use Linux. Because it gives me more than that. For games windows is there but many of them are playable in Linux Using wine.

Mere GLOBAL_PATH bash scripts

My bash scripts present in GLOBAL_PATH in my Linux ditro(Mandriva 2009). My scripts start with HL_ to seperate them from rest of my unowned scripts.

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