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Hey, quest’anno è passato davvero in fretta! Sono di nuovo qui a redarre una lista del software che uso regolarmente o che giudico utile. Non è una lista narcisistica, è solo che mi è estremamente utile come riferimento e tanto vale ho pensato di renderla pubblica. Eccoci qui.

means non-free software.
means that has settings to be backed-up.
means that is being tested.

Windows

Windows 7 RC, sidebar gadgets, keyboard shortcuts, explorer settings, taskbar settings, traybar settings, wifi connections, backup settings, quick folders.

Basic software

• Microsoft Office 2007
  • Word 2007, Excel 2007, Outlook 2007, Powerpoint 2007 Remember to backup the Word dictionary and Outlook data.
    with OutlookTools Let’s you customize Outlook
    and Calendar Print Assistant Let’s you print you calendar with some fashion!
    
  • OneNote 2007 For managing all the documents and notes
    with these plugins:
    OneNote Image Rotator, OneNote Page Merge, OneNote Make Subpage
  • Access 2007
  • Visio 2007 For creating diagrams
    with Orthogonal Toolbox and ER to SQL To generate SQL scripts
  • Project 2007 For managing projects
  • These plugins: Creative Commons license plugin, Microsoft Math addin for Word, Save as PDF or XPS plugin, pptPlex, Chart advisor
  • Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro Extended For creating and sharing PDF documents
  • Jeyo Mobile Extender Syncs Windows Mobile SMS with Outlook
• Basic preview handlers Previewers for pdf, txt, zip, …
• MikTeX with TeXnic Center To write in LaTeX
• Microsoft Money 2008 Plus Deluxe Money manager
• Microsoft Office Live Meeting For Microsoft Webcasts
• CDBurnerXP CD-burner
• KeePass password safe Password manager
• Family show To see and manage genealogy trees
• Gpg4win To encrypt in OpenPGP

Audio

• Zune To listen and organize music
• Last.fm Music, gone social
• Zuse Sync zune played list to last.fm
• Nuendo For creating music
• Goldwave For simple audio editing
• mppdec An mpp converter
  
• Vixy converter Converts and downloads on-line videos
• Free M4a to MP3 Converter Converts audio
• BPM Studio For DJs
• Sing & See For singers

Video

• K-Lite codec mega pack Video codec pack
• VideoLAN Video player
• Live Photo Gallery For managing videos
• Canupus Edius 5 or Adobe Premiere CS4 For making videos
• AviSplitCalc For splitting and merging videos
• K-Lite Codec Tweak Tool Check for broken codecs and filters
• K-Lite Video Conversion Pack Video editor
• Celtx Media pre-production

Photo

• Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2.0 Photo manager
• Exif Tag Remover Removes EXIF tags from images
  
• FlickrDown Downloads photos from Flickr
  
• Paint.Net A better version of Paint
  
• IcoFX A icon editor
• GIMP
• PSD preview handler

System

• TrueCrypt To encrypt volumes and boot partition
• Eraser To wipe hard disks and free space
• SeaGate SeaTools for Windows To check hard disks
• MagicDisc To mount CD images
• Kaspersky Antivirus Antivirus
• Notepad++ Notepad replacement
• WinRAR To compress files
• GetDataBack + Captain Nemo + Raid Reconstructor Hard disk recover application – the best one
• WinImage .img .iso reader/writer
• EasyBCD A boot editor for the new Windows Vista boot database
• Explore2FS To explore linux partitions
• CoreForce Firewall A firewall
  
• Unlocker To unlock open files
  
• Show size PE To draw a graph of file size around the disk
  
• Logitech SetPoint Logitech drivers
• DosBox with D-Fend For dos applications

Internet

• Chat & IM:
  • Live Messenger (+ Live Messenger Plus!) + APatch
  • Skype
  • Google Talk
  • VoipCheap
• Cloud computing and remote management:
  • Dropbox
  • Live Mesh
  • UltraVNC
• Google Earth To watch earth from satellites
• Smart FTP FTP client
• Browsers:
  • Flash player Flash renderer
  • Silverlight Silverlight renderer
  • Java SE Runtime
    
  • Google Chrome The Google browser
    
  • Windows Media Player for Firefox plugin
    
  • Mozilla Firefox with these extensions:
    • AdblockPlus Adverisement remover
    • Answers
    • Bookmarks menu
    • ColorZilla Advanced utilities for colors
    • Dafizilla Table2Clipboard
    • Download Statusbar
    • FastDial
    • DownThemAll! Download manager
    • FireBug Web Development Evolved
    • Fission
    • Google Gears The gears that power the tubes
    • Google Reader Watcher
    • Hide Menubar
    • IE Tab Let’s you run Internet Explorer inside a Firefox tab
    • Live PageRank Shows you the pagerank of the page
    • Locationbar^2
    • MeasureIt
    • Microsoft .Net framework assistant
    • Read it Later
    • StumbleUpon Social networking
    • Tab Mix Plus Tab manager (duplicate, reload every, …)
    • UrlBarExt
    • VMware Remote Console plug-in
    • Web Developer Adds a menu and a toolbar with various web developer tools
    • Wesabe Uploader
    • xMarks Bookmark Synchronizer Syncs bookmarks

If you are a developer…

• Microsoft Visual Studio 6.0 with MSDN for obsolete applications
• Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Team System with SP1 and MSDN
  • with these SDKs:
    • Windows Mobile 6 Professional SDK
    • Visual Studio 2008 SDK
    • Windows 7 managed API
    • SQL Server Express 2008 with tools
    • Silverlight components:
      • Silverlight 2 SDK
      • Silverlight Tools in order to work with SL in VS2008
        
      • Silverlight Toolkit for SL controls
  • with these helpers:
    • Code snippet editor 2008 Let’s you edit your snippets
    • Consolas Font Family A fixed font with cleartype
    • JetBrain Resharper Code writer helper
    • Windows Mobile Developer Power Toys
    • Expresso A tool to manage regular expressions
    • LinqPad A tool to manage Linq queries
    • SqlPrompt Code completion tool for SQL
    • Coding preview hendler pack for Windows Vista
  • with these tools:
    • Enterprise Library Useful library for enterprise applications
      
    • Sandcastle and Sandcastle Help file builder Documentation generator
      
    • InstEdit A replacement for Orca: an MSI editor
    • .Net Reflector A reflector explorer
    • Microsoft Pex Automated white box testing
• Microsoft Expression Studio 2 with SP1 To edit HTML, XAML, and many others
  
• Microsoft Visual SourceSafe 2005 For versioning without without the Team Server
• Tortoise SVN A subversion interface
  
• XML Notepad An XML editor
  
• Octave A MATLAB implementation
• GHC An Haskell compiler and interpreter
• BlueJ For coding in Java
  
• Hex Workshop Low-editing your files
• Process Explorer Task manager replacement
• NMap and Wire shark Port scanner and a 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 ODBC drivers, the query browser and the administrator
• MojoPac Virtualizing applications (works only on Windows XP)
• Camtasia Studio or DebugMode Wink Video screen capture
• IconsExtractor
• Enterprise Architect
• IETester
• Microsoft Keyboard layout creator
• VMWare Workstation and VMWare Converter Virtualization
• Windows Powershell The powershell for Windows
• Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer

Utility CD

• DBAN Automatically wipes all connected hard disks
  

PocketPC

Device name, User name, Time & time settings Backlight, Bluetooth devices, Internet settings, Buttons, Start menu, Today screen, Calendar settings, Task settings, Volume, Sync.

• Office Mobile Office 2007 for mobile
• PocketBreeze Appointment and task manager
• PocketCM Contact manager (or PhonEx?)
• KeePassPCC Password manager
• Opera Mobile Internet browser
• TomTom GPS navigator
• PocketOutlook Eraser Clearing data before re-sync
• smsBackup Automatically backups Windows Mobile SMSes
• PocketUno
  

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

Dismissed software

• VisiooWriter OpenOffice / StarOffice viewer (replaced by Windows 7)
• Tag & rename For tagging mp3s (replaced by Zune)
• Acronis True Image Echo Workstation + Universal Restore Hard disk image, like Norton Ghost but better (replaced by Windows 7)
• CDex For ripping audio CDs (replaced by Zune)
• PrimoPDF (replaced by Adobe Acrobat, part of Adobe CS)
• Innovasys Document! X 2008 Visual comment editor
• Firefox extensions
  • CLEO Creates XPI packages of installed extensions (works with FEBE) (not used)
  • CustomizeGoogle (not used)
  • Flagfox (not used)
  • Omnibar (not used)
  • ShowIP (not used)
  • DownloadHelper Helps you downloading movies (not used)
  • FEBE Extensions, themes and settings back-up tool (not used)
  • Live HTTP headers (not used)
  • Location Navigator Let’s you change the address automatically (not compatible)
  • PDF Download Let’s you choose to download or view PDF file (not used)
  • Snap Links Let’s you open a range of links selecting them with the mouse (not compatible)
  • SpiderZilla Website copier (not compatible)
  • TinyUrl Creator Helps you creating tiny urls (not used)
  • URL Fixer (not used)
    
  • User agent switcher Switch user agent (not used)
  • Stealther browse in stealth mode (not used)
  • invertColors invert browser colors (not used)
  • Favicon Picker 3
  • FFClickOnce Let’s you run ClickOnce applications from Firefox