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The other thing I use a lot is VirtualBox, because I can no longer bring myself to do actual development on Windows.
Why is VMWare and Beyond Compare listed as shareware? VMWare Player is free, but not Workstation. And I doubt Server is either (haven't looked). Beyond Compare is great, but it costs $30.
2. SystemInternals Tools (Procmon, Procexp most used by them from me) - the best of the best, they make me hate Windows less.
3. CYGWIN - Brings the sanity on the command-line, and havoc if you decide to integrate them for other people, but great tools overall
4. Dependancy Walker.
5. WinMerge - my favourite windows differ/merger - there might be better tools than it, but I'm really used to it. At work my perforce P4Merge p4Diff is replaced by that one, the minute I get a new machine.
6. Trillian - I bought it, and I don't regret it.
7. Skype
8. Scintilla Editor - I also use emacs, and Lispworks for editing, but Scintilla is powerful (especially useful is to replace all \n to " ", or ";" to "\n" - for example if you are lazy parsing the PATH variable - you can doit command-line, but you can teach other people to use it through Scintilla easier).
9. Xobni - bought yesterday the full version, although my company could've pay, I decided that $30 is well spend on organizing my job better. Wonderful plugin
Every other pieces of software on the list is optional for me, except Total Commander. It's the only software I ever miss when not on windows (and fortunately I'm rarely on windows anymore these days). I have found nothing that comes even close to it on linux/macos.
"I can’t imagine working on a computer without Total Commander. [...] . Total Commander is what separates boys from men." Every other pieces of software on the list is optional for me, except Total Commander. It's the only software I ever miss when not on windows (and fortunately I'm rarely on windows anymore these days). I have found nothing that comes even close to it on linux/macos.
So, what value does Total Commander provide? I'm always interested in being more efficient.
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.
It's fast and searches in your outlook email. I get about 120 emails a day and reply to a lot of them. Any effort to organize them (I recommend CleaContext for this task) will include some errors at which point only a powerful search tool like google desktop can help.
Google desktop anyone? It's fast and searches in your outlook email. I get about 120 emails a day and reply to a lot of them. Any effort to organize them (I recommend CleaContext for this task) will include some errors at which point only a powerful search tool like google desktop can help.