Our overseas adventures begin in September. As I will be working while abroad, I wish to compile a collection of essential Windows tools to bring along on CD. (I'm hoping that the majority of these tools will be freeware.) Along with this CD, I will bring The Ultimate Boot CD, (as well as this Windows-based boot CD.)
What freeware/shareware applications do you consider essential? Submit your list as a comment.
Please forward the permalink for this post to your friends, so that they can contribute as well.
Here is the preliminary tools list:
- Text / Document Editors
- Notetab Light - Notepad replacement. [freeware]
- EditPad Lite - Notepad replacement. [freeware]
- Crimson Editor - Source code editor. [freeware]
- AbiWord - MS Word replacement. [freeware]
- Compilers / Interpreters
- Processing - Java-based sketching language. [beta freeware]
- NewLISP - LISP-based scripting language. [freeware]
- Compression Tools
- Virus / Spyware Tools
- AVG Anti-Virus - Virus scanner. [freeware]
- Spybot - Search & Destroy - Spyware scanner. [freeware]
- Ad - Aware - Spyware scanner. [freeware]
- HijackThis - Homepage hijacker remover. [freeware]
- CWShredde - Homepage hijackers remover. [freeware]
- Productivity Tools
- Music Tools
- Winamp - Digital audio player. [freeware]
- dBpowerAmp - Digital audio conversion. [freeware]
- Design Tools
- PDF995 - PDF distiller. [freeware]
- Color Set - Colour scheme selector. [freeware]
- XnView - Image file format conversion. [freeware]
- Screen Calipers - On-screen measurement tool. [freeware]
- Net Tools
- FireFox - Web browser. [freeware]
- SmartFTP - FTP client. [freeware]
- PuTTY - Telnet/SSH client [freeware]
- TightVNC - Remote control software package. [freeware]
- Adobe Reader - PDF viewer. [freeware]
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