Sid’s recommended software list 2008
Monday, March 10, 2008 22:34Posted in category General software
Basic software
- Microsoft Office 2007
- Office Word 2007
Word processor - Office Excel 2007
Datasheet processor - Office Outlook 2007
For appointments, contacts, tasks and e-mail - Office Powerpoint 2007
For presentations - Office Access 2007
A simple database application - Office OneNote 2007
For managing all the documents with the following plugins:
- Office Visio 2007
For creating diagrams - Jeyo Mobile Extender
To automatically import pocket pc’s SMS into Outlook - VisiooWriter OpenOffice / StarOffice viewer
- Office Word 2007
- Microsoft Money 2007 Home & Business
Money manager - Microsoft Office Live Meeting For Microsoft Webcasts
- DebugMode Wink Video screen capture, a replacement for Camtasia studio
- Camtasia Studio Professional video screen capture
- CDBurnerXP CD-burner
- KeePass password safe Password manager
- Family show To see genealogy tree
If you are a developer…
- Microsoft Visual Studio 6.0
with MSDN for obsolete applications - Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Team System
with MSDN to code
- Code snippet editor 2008 Let’s you edit your snippets
- Consolas Font Family A fixed font with cleartype
- DevExpress CodeRush with Refactor! Pro
Code writer helper - Enterprise Library Useful library for enterprise applications
- Sandcastle Documentation generator
- Sandcastle Help file builder Sandcastle frontend
- Windows Mobile 6 Professional SDK SDK for Windows Mobile
- Innovasys Document! X 2008
Visual comment editor - Innovasys HelpStudio

- Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio Express
- Visual Studio 2008 SDK
- Silverlight™ 1.0 Software Development Kit
- Silverlight Tools Beta 1 for Visual Studio 2008
- Expression Blend 2.0
- Microsoft Team Foundation Server 2008
- Visual Studio Team Explorer 2008

- Visual Studio Team System 2008 Team Foundation Server Power Tools
- Attrice Team Foundation Sidekicks

- TeamPlain – Web Access Power Tool

- eScrum

- CruiseControl

- SVN Bridge

- Conchango’s Scrum Project Guidance Pack

- Microsoft Israel’s Team System Outlook Add-in

- TeamPrise Client Suite for Eclipse IDE

- Visual Studio Team Explorer 2008
- Microsoft Visual SourceSafe 2005
Just in case of needing - BlueJ For developing
- Hex Workshop
Low-editing your files - Process Explorer Task manager replacement
- Wire shark Network packets sniffer
- Acronis Disk director suite
Utilities to low-manage your hard disks - Adobe Web Premium CS3
For web developing - EasyPHP PHP, mySql and PostgreSQL dev environment daemons
- mySql ADO.Net connector The ADO.net connector for mySql
- mySql ODBC drivers The ODBC drivers for mySql
- mySql query browser A mySql query front-end
- mySql administrator A mySql administration front-end
- Expresso A tool to manage regular expressions
- LinqPad A tool to manage Linq queries
- Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer

Audio
- Goldwave
For audio editing - Tag & rename
For tagging mp3s - Winamp To listen to music
- iTunes
To listen and organize music - Nuendo
For creating music
Video
- Canopus ProCoder
To encode videos - Adobe Premiere CS3
For making videos - K-Lite codec mega pack Video codec pack
- VideoLAN Video player
Photo
- Adobe PhotoShop Elements 6.0
Photo manager
System
- TrueCrypt To encrypt volumes and boot partition
- Eraser To wipe hard disks and free space
- Windows Powershell
- SeaGate SeaTools for Windows To check hard disks
- VMWare Workstation
+ VMWare Converter To manage virtual machines - MagicDisc To mount CD images
- Kaspersky Antivirus
Antivirus - Notepad++ Notepad replacement
- WinRAR
To compress files - Acronis True Image Echo Workstation
+ Universal Restore
Hard disk image, like Norton Ghost but better - GetDataBack
+ Captain Nemo
+ Raid Reconstructor
Hard disk recover application – the best one - WinImage
.img .iso reader/writer - ATNotes
Creates desktop notes - Dvorak Italian keyboard layout An italian Dvorak layout
- NMap Port scanner
Internet
- VoipCheap For making calls without paying
- Live Messenger + Live Messenger Plus!
For chatting - Skype For chatting
- Live Writer
For blogging - Google Earth
To watch earth for satellites - UltraVNC Remote desktop
- Smart FTP
FTP client, free for personal use only - Mozilla Firefox
with these extensions:
- Flash player Flash renderer
- Microsoft Silverlight Silverlight renderer
- All-in-One Sidebar
Puts every toolbox window into the sidebar - Bandwidth Meter and Diagnostics Gives some bandwidth informations
- ColorfulTabs Makes you tab colorful
- ColorZilla Advanced utilities for colors
- CLEO Let’s you create XPI packages from installed extensions (works with FEBE) (needs config)
- DownloadHelper Helps you downloading movies
- DownThemAll! Download manager (needs config)
- FEBE Extensions, themes and settings back-up tool (needs config)
- FFClickOnce Let’s you run ClickOnce applications from Firefox
- FireBug Web Development Evolved
- FireFTP
A FTP client, a replacement for SmartFTP
- Fancy Numbered Tabs
Gives each tab a number
- Foxmarks Bookmark Synchronizer Syncronize your bookmarks with the foxmark server (needs config)
- GMarks Manages Google Bookmarks (needs config)
- Google Gears The gears that power the tubes
- IE Tab Let’s you run Internet Explorer inside a Firefox tab
- Live PageRank Shows you the pagerank of the page
- Location Navigator Let’s you change the address automatically
- Minimap Sidebar Extension Quickly search on Google maps
- PDF Download Let’s you choose to download or view PDF file
- PicLens
User-friendly image browser - Print Hint
Shows printable versions of the webpage
- Snap Links Let’s you open a range of links selecting them with the mouse
- SpiderZilla Website copier
- StumbleUpon Social networking (needs config)
- Tab Mix Plus Tab manager (duplicate, reload every, …) (needs config)
- Table2Clipboard
Copy formatted tables into the clipboard - TinyUrl Creator Helps you creating tiny urls
- User agent switcher Switch user agent
- View Source Chart Shows you the source of the webpage more formatted
- Web Developer Adds a menu and a toolbar with various web developer tools
Optionals
- K-Lite Codec Tweak Tool Check for broken codecs and filters
- K-Lite Video Conversion Pack Video editor
- CDex
- mppdec
- BPM Studio
- Joost!
- PowerDVD
- MessengerAMP (Winamp plugin)
- AviSplitCalc
- Expresso
- SqlPrompt
- Explore2FS
- CoreForce Firewall
- Icon’s extractor
- Show size PE
- Unlocker
Games
- OpenArena an ioquake3 fork
- Lost – Via Domus

Utility CD
- DBAN Automatically wipes all connected hard disks
Server
- Acronis True Image Echo Server
Creates and restore images of your system - Microsoft Team Foundation Server
Software lifecycle framework
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Software list 2008 updated | Sugata says:
May 5th, 2008 at 8:38 am
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