Gosh. I'm sure happy with the turn out! This is great.

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  • As mentioned here: ConnectedText ($30) is a personal wiki-type-thing for keeping track of notes and ideas, etc. I use it as a project notebook where I can keep track of all my ideas and thoughts on a particular subject....
    If free is more your price, I used Wikidpad before I discovered ConnectedText. Wikidpad has the same core "personal wiki" functionality, but ConnectedText has some great features that Wikidpad lacks, and has a much better looking, more polished, and easier-to-use UI.
Have you tried out TidleyWiki? Its a personal, local, wiki designed to be stored on a flash drive so you can carry it around. I've been playing around with it, but don't know what use it would be. There was a script for exporting Yojimbo to it, but my Yojimbo DB is over 2 gigs, so it crashes Firefox when I try to load the wiki.

Quote Originally Posted by guyanonymous View Post
Daemon Tools Light [...]
WinDirStat [...]
Rename-It! [...]
Carcasonne Deluxe
Daemon tools is a great suite. I always used PSTools though, cause they were free and my company was poor.

WinDirStat is one of those essential programs any techy with a MS machine needs.

CARCASONNE IS A VIDEO GAME? OMG! I love the tile placing game. I need to investigate this. I've been to the ACTUAL Carcasonne. I almost got hit by a truck there. Here's a funny pic I found on the net one day.


Quote Originally Posted by Redrobes View Post
I'll chip in with my set if you like...
That's kinda the idea of the thread...

Quote Originally Posted by loydb View Post
Scite (text editor) [...]
UltraCompare Pro (a fancy diff tool) [...]
Perl [...]
Visual Studio [...]
I've never hear of Scite. When I was a PC I used Crimson Editor, now I use TextWrangler.

UltraCompare Pro. I will look into this.

I spent many an hour of my productive life re-installing various versions of Visual Studio for our programmers who seemed to delete important files as a joke. Visual Studio always seemed to me (an admin, not a programmer) like a great set of tools, and well layed out.

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A few duplicates that I won't repeat, but unmentioned ones in order of major use are [...]

Launchy- a windows alternative to quicksilver, I almost can't use a machine without it
Notepad++ a super coder's editor.
Faststone image viewer, browser, batch converter, annotation tool, and much more.
[...]
Windirstat for managing drive usage (I really like the pretty treemap it generates)

And lastly, not software, per say, but my 4GB Ironkey personal USB stick.
Please, repeat! Me not so good at reading... miss things. Repetition is good.

What was I doing again?

I never knew there was a windows version of quicksilver. Then again, I didn't know there was a quicksilver until about two months ago.

Notepad++ is great. I don't remember why, but I started using Crimson Editor instead. I think my spyware program kept having a problem with one of its benign components or something.

Fastone sounds really useful.

Ironkey Personal sounds like a great tool. I may have to check it out.

Someone had mentioned a renaming utility, and I think I accidentally removed it from the quotes... Anyway, I used ... crap. I can't find it. It had a really generic name like "Batch Filename Utility" or something, which makes it impossible to search for. Its interface was fantastic. All the different actions were layed out at the bottom of the screen and you turned them on or off with check boxes. Sigh. I loved that program. I use NameMangler, which is free and sub-par compared to the one I used with a PC.

I created at standardized set of tools for the IT guys at work. I wish I could remember what they were.