====== Useful Software ======

This page lists software that I regularly use or find useful.

===== Productivity =====

  * [[http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/default.aspx|Microsoft Office 2007]]
  * [[http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/rd_intro.php|FoxIt Reader]]

===== Tools =====

  * [[http://www.nero.com/|Nero Burning ROM]]
  * [[http://www.rarlab.com/|WinRAR]]
  * [[http://www.vim.org/|gVim]] (also see [[Useful Software:gVim|my page on gVim]])
  * [[http://www.eset.com/|ESET NOD32 antivirus]]
  * [[http://www.bayden.com/SlickRun/|Bayden SlickRun]]
  * [[http://www.magiciso.com/|MagicISO]]
  * [[http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896653.aspx|Sysinternals Process Explorer]]
  * [[http://www.ccleaner.com/|CCleaner]]
  * [[http://www.safer-networking.org/|Spybot Search & Destroy]]

===== Internet =====

  * [[http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/|Mozilla Firefox]]
  * [[http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/|PuTTY]]
  * [[http://winscp.net/|WinSCP]]
  * [[http://www.realvnc.com/|RealVNC Viewer & Server]]

===== Image Editing =====

  * [[http://www.getpaint.net/|Paint.NET]]
  * [[http://www.xnview.com/|XnView]]
  * [[http://software.macek.cc/resampler.php|JPEG Resampler]]

===== Communications =====

  * [[http://messenger.live.com/|Windows Live Messenger]]
    * [[http://www.mess.be/|MessPatch for Windows Live Messenger]]
    * [[http://www.msgplus.net/|Messenger Plus! Live]]
  * [[http://www.skype.com/|Skype]]

===== Media playback =====

  * [[http://www.videolan.org/|VLC Media Player]]
  * Media Player Classic (get from [[http://www.afterdawn.com/software/video_software/video_players/media_player_classic.cfm|here]])
  * [[http://www.winamp.com/|WinAmp]]
  * Codecs (see [[http://www.free-codecs.com/|here]], [[http://www.codecpackguide.com/|here]], and [[http://codecguide.com/|here]])

===== Media ripping & encoding =====

  * [[http://www.exactaudiocopy.de/|Exact Audio Copy]]
  * [[http://www.rarewares.org/mp3-lame-bundle.php|LAME MP3 Encoder]]
  * [[http://www.rarewares.org/mp3-lamedrop.php|lameDropXpd]]
  * [[http://www.rarewares.org/ogg-oggdropxpd.php|oggDropXpd]]
  * [[http://www.dvdshrink.org/|DVD Shrink]] (get from [[http://www.afterdawn.com/software/video_software/dvd_rippers/dvd_shrink.cfm|here]])

===== Development =====

  * [[http://www.microsoft.com/express/vcsharp/|Visual C# 2008 Express]]
  * [[http://tortoisesvn.net/|TortoiseSVN]]
  * [[http://nsis.sourceforge.net/|NSIS]]
  * [[http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896647.aspx|DebugView]]
  * [[http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897437.aspx|TcpView]]
  * [[http://www.jetbrains.com/profiler/|JetBrains dotTrace]]

===== Video editing =====

  * [[http://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/vegaspro|Sony Vegas]]

===== Games =====

  * [[http://www.steampowered.com/|Steam]]