Comments on: Essential Software for Windows

By: vinarian

vinarian — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 06:14:11 +0000

I notice that you have Yahoo, MSN, and Google messengers on the list, to shorten time, space, and memory, just use pidgin or digsby, both are great (and free, pidgin is open source) multi client im apps

By: Erik Weibust

Erik Weibust — Sun, 22 Apr 2007 13:48:41 +0000

Is this the same list of software you’re running since you upgraded to Vista? I just got a new laptop running Vista and I’m worried about software incompatibilities.

Thanks… Erik

By: Vinny Carpenter

Vinny Carpenter — Wed, 27 Sep 2006 15:41:31 +0000

Hi Mark. You're right - I did forget it off the list. I use WinPT, which is a free GUI front end for GnuPG. Works great and allows me to use it with Outlook, GMail and really anything else I want.

By: Mark Hense

Mark Hense — Wed, 27 Sep 2006 14:31:01 +0000

Maybe I missed it in your list (then again you may not choose to use it), but I did not see anything for a PGP Key?

By: Vinny Carpenter

Vinny Carpenter — Mon, 25 Sep 2006 14:31:15 +0000

Hi Marc and thanks. I use DbVisualizer for most database interactions but I still do use the MySQL Administrator for scheduled backups to my local desktop. They have some redeeming value

By: Marc Logemann

Marc Logemann — Mon, 25 Sep 2006 07:40:46 +0000

Its amazing to see the same software again and again on developer machines. IMO you can see the skills of a developer from their installed software

IDEA, DBVis, Ultraedit, MySQL, Tomcat, Apache HTTP, Glassfish, it all sounds so famillar. The only thing one can really live without are all those MySQL GUI Tools. IMO they are crap and are not worth using them.

By: nobody

nobody — Sat, 23 Sep 2006 23:52:43 +0000

wow, the amount of google fascism in this list is pretty high

By: Vinny Carpenter’s blog · Daily del.icio.us for Sep 23, 2006

Vinny Carpenter’s blog · Daily del.icio.us for Sep 23, 2006 — Sat, 23 Sep 2006 23:41:24 +0000

[...] Essential Software for Windows You know the old routine – You get a new machine and then you spend weeks looking for and installing all the applications, tools, utilities, etc that you had on your old computer that made you so productive. So here is a fairly complete list of what’s ins (tags: development eclipse essential google intellij java microsoft mysql nero software Tech WebLogic windows) Tags:Bookmark this page at:These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web pages. [...]

By: Vinny Carpenter

Vinny Carpenter — Sat, 23 Sep 2006 22:55:59 +0000

Hi there and thanks. Servant Salamander looks interesting but Launchy looks pretty useful. I'll download and give it a shot. Thanks.

By: bk

bk — Sat, 23 Sep 2006 22:43:58 +0000

Servant Salamander (shareware) and Lanchy (freeware) are musts for me.