My perfect toolbox
In my previous « profesional » blog, I made a list of the softwares that must be installed on my computer.
Please note that I am speaking of my working computer, not my personal one…
Here is my current list:
Edition
System
- Process Explorer: Replace the default windows task manager by Process Explorer!
- Autoruns: Want to know what is launched when Windows starts? Try autoruns!
- CubicExplorer: An alternative to the Windows Explorer, with bookmarks, tabs…
- Supercopier: Replace the default copy tool of Windows.
- Unlocker: A process is locking a resource on your disk? Use unlocker to solve this problem.
- Console²: Change the DOS command for Console², with tabs, better UI…
- Taskbar shuffle: Rearrange the programs on your Windows taskbar by dragging and dropping them.
Tools
- Stroke It: Execute commands, start programs only with a mouse gesture! Magic!
- 7-zip: A free file archiver.
- Ditto: A copy-paster manager, to not be limited to one element in your clipboard.
- Dirkey: Use Ctrl-0 to Ctrl-9 to access your preferred directories on your disks on Windows Explorer.
- Print screen: A free tool to create screenshots, with a lot of options…
- Launchy: Type Ctrl-Space, then write the first letters of the application, and it’s launched!
- Keybreeze: Almost the same thing as Launchy.
- PDF Creator: To transform any document to the PDF format (a new printer is added in your configuration).
Development
- Tortoise CVS: A CVS extension for Windows Explorer.
- Eclipse: Java development IDE.
- Netbeans: Another Java development IDE, much better as Eclipse when you need to create Java application with Swing (this is my opinion ;o) ).
Multimedia
- Foobar 2000: A powerful media player. But needs a lot of configuration…
- XnView: A powerful image viewer. Also offers lot of conversion controls.
Internet
- Mozilla Firefox: THE browser.
- Mozilla Thunderbird: A really good email reader.
- Trillian, Koolim, Pidgin (ex Gaim), Meebo (online): Instant Messenger tool.
Firefox plugin
- Colorzilla: A color picker, to find out the color code of any part of the current page.
- Download statusbar: A download manager.
- Firebug: An extension for Javascript or CSS debugging. An extension for Internet Explorer that does almost the same thing: IE Developer Toolbar.
- IE Tab: View pages with the Internet Explorer engine.
- Measure It: A ruler to measure web components of a page.
- PDF download: A PDF manager.
- Sage: A RSS Viewer.
- Stop or reload: Stop and Reload buttons are now located on the same button.
- Tab mix plus: Options for tabs management.
- Web developer: Lot of tools for web development.
Do not hesitate to share your list with me, using the comments.