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Windows Software

Application Manager

Programs to quickly install and update

  • Recommendation. These are the most useful of them all!
  • PortableApps ~ A portable-application framework.
  • Ninite ~ Create a customized exe installer for various popular applications and driver.
  • Chocolatey ~ A command line installer, like apt-get or yum. It calls the Chocolatey repo to download and install. The binaries are installed to either Program Files or %ALLUSERSPROFILE%\chocolatey path. By the way, check out ChocolateyGUI for GUI installer.
  • Meh. Good ideas, but failed to impress. :(
  • Cameyo ~ A tool to create a portable app.
  • [http://online.cameyo.com/public http://online.cameyo.com/public] ~ A public repo of existing portable apps!
  • OUTDATEfighter ~ Analyze and update software on your machine.
  • LiberKey ~ A portable-application framework for USB.

Browser

  • Obvious: Chrome, Firefox, IE
  • Alternative: Tor, Opera, PaleMoon, Cyberfox, Maxthon, Vivaldi

Desktop

  • Wow
  • Desktop Restore ~ If you hate how your icons arrangement get messed up after changing your resolution, this is your holy grail by Jamie O'Connell.
  • Dexpot ~ Add expose and space to your Windows.
  • Okay
  • BetterDesktopTool ~ Similar to Dexpot. It adds virtual windows, space, and expose!
  • Power Menu 1.5.1 ~ A little tool to minimize any windows to your tray icon. FYI, Dexpot also has these features.
  • Virtual Win ~ Simpler than Dexpot. If you just need multiple virtual desktop, this is it.

Files and Navigation

  • Clover3 ~ Add tabs to your File Explorer.
  • Application Launcher
  • Launchy ~ A great simple tool for launching applications.
  • Keybreeze ~ Another great launcher, and it is open source.
  • Executor ~ Look decent, but no longer in development.
  • Link Shell Extension ~ A tool for adding softlink, hardlink, and junction point for Windows OS. Softlink will work under UNIX also!
  • Listary ~ List files as you type in File Explorer. Best of all, there is a fuzzy matcher!
  • LockHunter ~ Unlock those files that prevent deleting
  • VistaSwitcher ~ Change the visualization of application switcher (ALT+TAB).

Hardware Utility

  • AutoHotKey ~ Remap your mouse and keyboard to be more useful.
  • Script Showcase.
  • ForceBindIP ~ Force an application to use a specific network interface (ex: Wifi card over Ethernet wire).
  • Tutorial
  • KatMouse ~ Scroll without clicking on the item.
  • PowerOff ~ Schedule turning off OS.
  • StrokesPlus ~ A mouse gesture utility. Work with any application.
  • USBDiskEjector ~ A quick click to eject your USB memory drive.
  • VirtualCloneDrive ~ Emulate CD/DVD for your ISO.
  • WizMouse ~ Scroll without clicking!

Information Management

  • Evernote ~ A note taking software.
  • KeePass Password Safe ~ A password manager.

Network

Security

  • CryptSync ~ Local encryption and syncing using 7-zip.
  • Sandboxie ~ Sandbox a running application.

Command Line

Windows

  • Powershell ~ Just in case you need it

Linux

  • Awesome way to use Linux
  • Cygwin ~ As always and will be de facto for Linux on Win.
  • apt-cyg ~ Add a command-line package manager control inside cygwin!
  • msysGit ~ A light-weight of Unix tools (bash, git, etc) for Windows. Mainly for git.
  • Alternatives. In case, Cygwin is a no-go.
  • Scoop ~ It adds a ton of basic command-line binaries.
  • CygwinPortable by CybeSystems.
  • Obsolete projects. Either dead or on a life-support.
  • CoLinux ~ Linux on your Windows! Only works on 32-bit WinOS though.
  • GnuWin ~ A toolbox of Unix commands for Windows.
  • GOW(GNU on Windows) ~ Another Unix tools on Windows.
  • road bash ~ A cross-platform bash and Unix tools.
  • Win-Bash ~ Another collection of Unix tools for Windows.

Linux Terminal

Multimedia

  • Atomi ActivePresenter ~ Capture and record your desktop for presentation.
  • AVIAddXSub ~ An excellent tool to combine your AVI with subtitle file to create a divx file.
  • FastStone Image Viewer ~ An image viewer with batch editor (resize, rename, downsize, crop, etc). A perfect companion to Paint.
  • FontForge ~ Create and edit fonts.
  • Handbrake ~ An open source video converter. Specifically convert to AVI, MP4, or MKV.
  • Merge MP3 ~ Merge multiple MP3 files into one.
  • MP3Gain ~ A program to level out the volume of MP3 files.
  • Mp3Tag ~ A free program to tag mp3 files.
  • Paint.NET ~ A simple image editor.
  • Subtitle Workshop ~ An excellent program for editing subtitle.
  • VirtualDub ~ A simple editor for performing cut, filters, resize, etc. No longer in development.
  • ffInputDriver ~ [http://forums.virtualdub.org/index.php?act=ST&f=7&t=20025 Full description] ~ VirtualDub plugins for loading more recent CODEC and format (asf, flv, mp4, wmv, vob, and more!!!).
  • Don Salva's Post ~ He posts a link for aac and ac3 sound filter.

Development Tools

Office

Editor

Servers

  • WAMP ~ Windows' Apache, MySQL, and PHP.
  • Z-WAMP ~ Portable version of WAMP.
  • Uniform Server ~ A lightweight (portable) server solution for running a web server under the WindowsOS.

Virtualization

  • Otto ~ A successor to Vagrant. Still new to development.
  • Vagrant ~ A deployment tool to install and setup an OS using VirtualBox.
  • VirtualBox and VMWare ~ Two software to create virtualized OS.

Windows Dev

  • CMake ~ A tool to create build files for multiple platforms
  • Visual Studio Plugins
  • DPack plugin - Used to locate the file in Solution Explorer
  • Color Printing - Add color printing to VS10
  • Highlighter for Visual C++ 2010
  • VMs for Internet Explorer: IE6 to IE11
  • http://dev.modern.ie/tools/vms/windows/
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