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Even though I barely touch windows these days, when I do, I invariably use "everything" ( http://www.voidtools.com/ ) to find where everything is. So fast, so minimalistic. It's like locate on crack (because it shows you stuff as you type and it automatically updatedb's).
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Windows 8.1 built-in search kind of makes this redundant.
no way windows search will ever replace Everything. Windows search is slow and it will not find whatever document you want 90% of the time.
Absolute rubbish.
http://www.catonmat.net/blog/must-have-windows-programs/
Must Have Windows Programs
No idea why he would use Notepad2, ST3 loads up just as fast and provides way more features for text editing. Plus it is good with markdown syntax highlighting thus eliminating the need for MarkdownPad Also Github for windows or just Git bash covers the need for Gow Jabbr is ok, but I havent been able to give up mIRC Also he left off a good tabbed ssh/putty Great list, learned lots of new things thanks!
I love Notepad2. It is one of the programs I always install when I have Windows installed.
uTorrent got iffy once it was bought out. IIRC, you want version 0.6 This was very small, fast and unmolested.
VLC. For years used to be absolutely fantastic. When it came out, a god send. I'd tell anyone listening to use it. Sadly, recently its caused me loads of sync problems, and various other minor niggles. As a result, I have had to reverted to CCCP. When VLC works for me, it is the best, but when it doesn't, CCCP fills the gap. In fairness, maybe a recent VLC update will cure my problems. Dunno.
Foobar2000 needs a mention, especially with Winamp going. My PC is connected to my amp directly via USB, and FLAC files sound incredibly good. (These days, hifi wise, MP3 is, to me, awful. They kinda sound dead. You lose so much detail and depth. But that's a whole new discussion) You can also get a great little app for Android that you can remote control foobar2000 with over your lan.
Does the HN crowd have an opinion on this? Did you find the note a bit weird ?
I don't know why people have such a blind spot in this regard, but Visual Studio's non-support for word-wrapping comments is obviously shameful. It's utterly ridiculous that you have to press Return while writing comments, and then more ridiculous yet that you have to go back and re-wrap them by hand when they change! - and the end result of course is that people usually don't bother, with the wrapping becoming stead…
There's a lot about asking people not to copy the list to their own blogs which kind of spoils the first impression to me - especially that the note is before the fold. Does the HN crowd have an opinion on this? Did you find the note a bit weird ?
Does anyone know of a list similar in scale and scope for Mac users?
Seriously, that's all you need.