Software
Components
Games
Experiments
Articles
Pictures
Web Sites
Resources
Resources
The plan is that this will be a list of links to articles and web sites that I have found very useful. I suspect I'll pull good sites out of my feedreader and my bookmarks every once in a while to fill this up.
Essential Windows Software and Utilities
- SysInternals (Process Explorer and Autoruns)
- AVG Anti-Virus
- Crap Cleaner, cleans out all the crap your computer leaves around
- Colibri TypeAhead searches for and launches programs with a single keystroke
- RSS Bandit, for reading RSS feeds
- NoteTab Light, a great tabbed Notepad replacement
- Firefox
- WinRAR
- TaskSwitchXP, sensible alt-tab in XP
- Royale, the best Windows XP skin Microsoft didn't release.
- WinMerge, great diff tool
- Trillian, a multi-network IM client
- uTorrent, a fast bittorrent client with a built in RSS reader
- Winamp 5 with ml_iPod, which beats iTunes any day
- Google Earth
- Bonjour For Windows (use computername.local to refer to any machine on your network!)
- SyncBack, a free backup tool
- Foxit Reader, a free, fast alternative to Adobe Acrobat Reader
Mac Apps I Wish Were On Windows
- AdiumX
- Growl
- Quicksilver (See Colibri TypeAhead for a "close enough" Windows app)
Firefox Extensions
- Greasemonkey, gives you control over the sites you visit via User Scripts
- FireBug, the best web development tool ever. Period.
- Adblock Plus
- Web Developer
- SubmitToTab
- Drag And Drop Upload
- Fission, gives you that Safari-style loading bar in your address bar