IT Tool Box
Updated: June 14th 2007
I’ve rearranged the list of software into 3 sections:
- Everyday User – This is software that most people would be interested in
- Power User – You might not use these programs everyday but if you are a power user it is nice to have them.
- Commercial Software – These are the commercial products that I use
I originally created this list for a friend of mine. These days I keep it up to date because it is nice to refer to when I reinstall Windows.
Everyday User:
- Firefox – Web Browser
- SiteAdvisor – Tells you which sites are safe to go to. (Don’t go to red sites)
- StumbleUpon – Great time waster
- Picasa – Organize your photos
- Pidgin – Replace 5 IM programs with 1
- Ad-Aware – Remove Spyware
- https://psi.secunia.com/ – Helps you keep software up-to-date
- Free Download Manager – Much better than the browsers built in download managers
- Winamp – I like the audio player but I can’t stand the way it plays videos
- VLC media player – Plays virtually any video file
- Skype – Cheap phone calls
- Office Viewers – Open Microsoft Office files
- Open Office – Free office suite
- jZip – Opens virtually any compressed file
Power User:
- PDF Creator – Create PDFs from any program that can print.
- Daemon Tools – Virtual CD/DVD drive
- Paint.NET – Mich better than MS Paint
- Audacity – Great sound recording software
- Hamachi – Easiest VPN solution around
- UltraVNC – Remote desktop sharing
- Trac – Online ticketing system
- TortoiseSVN – Version control system suitable for virtually anything
- FileZilla – One of the best FTP clients
- Notepad ++ – A notepad replacement
- uTorrent – A bittorrent client
- Putty – SSH terminal
- TreeSize – Find out why you have run out of space on your drive
- Process Explorer – What is actually running on your computer?
Commercial Software
- Smart Draw ~ $200 – Great for drawing diagrams
- R-Studio ~ $80 – Just deleted something by mistake? Have a look at this product
- Jungle Disk ~ $20 + ongoing S3 costs – Remote Backup solution
