- 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.
