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AutoHotkey ( http://www.autohotkey.com/ ) - It's an extremely powerful, scriptable hotkey application. It's one of the few things I miss on Linux. The other thing I use a lot is VirtualBox, because I can no longer bring myself to do actual development on Windows.
Does anyone know of good ram disk software for windows? In Ubuntu I just put my project files in /dev/shm and they are really in ram but I can't find a good one for Windows. I had bought a software to do this a while back but I no longer have it. Looking for a free/open alternative.
a few more ideas, and links to even more
PrtScr - for screenshots is something I recently discovered. It's a neat little app.
The PrtSc key on your keyboard does the same. Fire up MS Paint and paste into it :-D
Ain't that the truth. The sucky thing is not only is SQLYog the best Windows frontend, it's better than anything on OS X too.
- Emacs (the Windows executable is a bit of a pain to integrate with the Cygwin side)
- GIMP
- Firefox (with Firebug)
- Chrome (nice developer support too)
- Pidgin (because I have friends on MSN, Gtalk, ICQ, iChat and IRC)
- Skype (because not everyone can type)
- Sysinternals (running pagedefrag is like brushing the machine's teeth)
- JDK (because it's nice to be able to compile Java code from time to time). You may want it with Eclipse or NetBeans or both, but writing Java code is not that nice.
- Freemind (another reason to have a JRE)
- Openoffice (because you really don't want to save .doc files)
I think that covers everything I need on a Windows box. Too bad Gnome support is so minimal on that OS.
Is there a "Must-Have" file backup utility for Windows? I've really grown to like TimeMachine on the Mac, although I don't really need the eye candy; I just want something that dependably backs up my data to my NAS, stays in the background and does it's work without killing my pc's performance.
Wow. XML Notepad is just what I had been looking for. Windows apps I can't live without in order of importance: 1. StrokeIt 2. HotChime (disclaimer: I wrote it) 3. EmEditor (text-ed of choice) 4. Popular stuff: Thunderbird, Pidgin, Chrome, FF 5. ChimeNote (disclaimer: I wrote it) 6. FileZilla 7. MySQL Front v2.5 (all other versions suck) 8. UltraVNC 9. PuTTy 10. Paint Shop Pro / Paint.NET (either works)
Wow. XML Notepad is just what I had been looking for. Windows apps I can't live without in order of importance: 1. StrokeIt 2. HotChime (disclaimer: I wrote it) 3. EmEditor (text-ed of choice) 4. Popular stuff: Thunderbird, Pidgin, Chrome, FF 5. ChimeNote (disclaimer: I wrote it) 6. FileZilla 7. MySQL Front v2.5 (all other versions suck) 8. UltraVNC 9. PuTTy 10. Paint Shop Pro / Paint.NET (either works)
I applaud you making HotChime, but how does it compare to Launchy?
No matter which app you're in, press [pause] and type anything. If it has a space character in it, it will Google it. Otherwise, it will launch default browser to www.[whatyoutyped].com. If you have predefined [whatyoutyped] to something else, it will open that (website, file, folder). I have HN mapped to 'h', Slashdot mapped to '/.' (literally) and my local weather to 'w'. You can also setup custom %s searches for F1-F5 key. I have F2 = Wikipedia (mapped to chir.ag/wiki/%s e.g. http://chir.ag/wiki/hacker ), F3 = Dictionary, F4 = Thesaurus, F5 = PHP manual.
It's not that useful for average users but for powerusers/keyboard-types, it works great. Also, it's a single 37kb exe, no install/uninstall. Do realize that I wrote this in 2003, long before every browser had a search box and before Google had maps/local-searching. Yahoo was the first browser with zip-code searching. If I made a new version, I would add lots of small features like built-in calculator, suggest, file-browsing etc. But for now it works well for me.
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I applaud you making HotChime, but how does it compare to Launchy?
Honestly, I haven't even tried anything else because I'm just so used to HotChime. I've been using it for 7-8 years now and can't work without it. I know it's not polite to toot your own horn but I would have said this about HotChime regardless of who wrote it. While I can't compare it to Launchy or others, I can tell you how HotChime works. No matter which app you're in, press [pause] and type anything. If it has a…
Your app sounds not quite as good as mapping your browser's address bar to I'm Feeling Lucky.
PrtScr - for screenshots is something I recently discovered. It's a neat little app.
Huh? The PrtSc key on your keyboard does the same. Fire up MS Paint and paste into it :-D