My new computer set up

I recently purchased a new desktop machine and was well into getting it all customized to the way I liked, when the lousy thing crapped out on me and I lost the apps and settings I painstaking setup. So following an example from another blogger, I thought I'd track the updates and configurations here to help me recall them.

• A favorite text editor with a good regular expression tool: notepad++
• A decent listing of good freeware: Gizmo
• PC Tune Up: Advanced Window Care
• Finance Software: GnuCash http://www.gnucash.org/
• PDF Editor: Jarnal (may want to try looking at:PDF-XChange_) I've used PDF-XChange a couple of days nows and runs pretty quick and it works well under wine in Kubuntu. This looks like my new favorite (although merging files is a PRO addin that I may switch back to JARNAL for)
  
• OCR PDF (just found haven't tried it): http://www.softi.co.uk/freeocr.htm
• Office Suite- OpenOffice and now IBM supported Symphony
• Gimp for photo editing
• Sticky Notes
• Wink for screen session recording
• I can't recall which Virtual Desktop Manager I started to use previously, but will Dexpot.
• Will be tempted to set up AutoHotKey for macro enabling various programs, perhaps for passwords or other navigation items.
• Comodo Firewall
• Avast Antivirus
• AntiSpyware- http://www.superantispyware.com/index.html
• Adaware - http://lavasoft.com/products/ad_aware_free.php
• Disk Defargger - http://www.kessels.com/JkDefrag/
• Disk Cleaner - http://www.ccleaner.com/
• Registry Cleaner - http://www.wisecleaner.com/index.html
• Should take a look at the all in one cleaner - http://www.glaryutilities.com/
• Video Format converter: http://www.any-video-converter.com/products/for_video_free/ ...
  Super (Simplified Universal Player Encoder & Renderer)
  Website: http://www.erightsoft.net
• I need to get a better backup regimen going so will be looking at: WinBackup
  Website: http://www.liutilities.com/
  Download link: http://www.winsite.com/bin/Info?27000000036770
  Alternative Download link: http://www.filefactory.com/file/d6ff2f/
• Email Client - Thunderbird
• IM Client - I used to like Pidgin (mainly from Linux install), but will look at Digsby
  Website: http://www.digsby.com/ based on the recommendation from the Gizmo site
• Skype
  
• Juice podcast catcher
  

Thats the start of the items I need to get working on.

Firefox addins follow up

Some additional addons that I like are:

SuperDrag & Go: Now called QuickDrag

Web Developer Tool Bar:

Colorful Tabs

Status Bar Download

Create your own album cover

From eKrantz.com | Family, Comments and Tutorials:

Here's a fun exercise to kill 10 minutes. Create your own personal album cover...

"# Go to Wikipedia’s random article page. The first article you get is the name of your band.
# Go to the Random Quotations page. The last four words of the last quote is the album title.
# Go to Flickr’s Interesting photo page. Third picture, no matter what it is, is your album cover.
# Put it all together to make your album. Either crop it to CD cover size, or just use the raw image itself … the only rule is you’re only allowed to add the album title and artist title."

Ok, I modified the rules for myself, my random article hit on an actual band name, so I hit it again.

Thinking of moving these tech notes over to www.BleedYellow.com

Lotus911 is now making available to the Lotus community a fully functional version of the Lotus Collaboration software, Lotus Connections, at the site BleedYellow.com I am considering moving either this content, or at least the important items over to this site to take advantage of the platform that I enjoy.

I have a lot to catch on from Lotusphere2008 wrap up on my company blog and sleep is calling...