My top 5 Umbraco packages

Intro

Hello, my name is Lee.

uComponents, uComponents, uComponents, rar rar rar!

Prelude

What is a package.
We use an internal starter kit, but you should have one...
Standard Website MVC
uBlogsy

My top 5

Media

ImageGen - Image resizing, manipulation, text overlay, watermarks
http://our.umbraco.org/projects/website-utilities/imagegen

Honourable mentions

ImageResizer
http://imageresizing.net/
ImageProcessor
http://jimbobsquarepants.github.io/ImageProcessor/
CropUp - intelligent auto-cropping
http://our.umbraco.org/projects/website-utilities/eksponent-cropup
DAMP - Digibiz Advanced Media Picker
http://our.umbraco.org/projects/backoffice-extensions/digibiz-advanced-media-picker

Search

XSLTsearch - quick, easy, drop-in search engine
http://our.umbraco.org/projects/website-utilities/xsltsearch

Honourable mentions

Examine / Lucene - e.g. @Model.Content.Search( ... )

Deployment (Pre-live checks)

uGoLive - pre go-live check-list
http://our.umbraco.org/projects/backoffice-extensions/ugolive

Honourable mentions

Courier - powerful deployment tool
http://our.umbraco.org/projects/umbraco-pro/umbraco-courier-2

Maintenance

Content Maintenance Dashboard - bulk content tasks (move, delete, publish, un-publish)
http://our.umbraco.org/projects/developer-tools/content-maintenance-dashboard-package

Honourable mentions

F.A.L.M Housekeeping - log viewer, clean-up tasks (content versions, media, users)
http://our.umbraco.org/projects/backoffice-extensions/falm-housekeeping
UnVersion - auto-remove old content versions
http://our.umbraco.org/projects/website-utilities/unversion

Structure / Source-control

uSiteBuilder Admin - export and import of DocumentTypes (and more)
http://our.umbraco.org/projects/backoffice-extensions/usitebuilder-admin

Honourable mentions

uSync - disk syncing tool
http://our.umbraco.org/projects/developer-tools/usync

Package release

Festival Starter Kit