Your PC on a USB stick |
PortableApps.com and John Haller as well as FOSS tools |
Open source software / freeware
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Freeware utilities, Open source Windows applications, Open source alternatives to commercial software, Open source God, TinyApps, Webi
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Office
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OpenOffice , EasyOffice 7, Google Docs and Spreadsheets
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Internet
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Internet browser: Firefox (my favorite extensions: CustomizeGoogle, DOM Inspector, FasterFox, FireFTP, GreaseMonkey, Gspace, LinkChecker, PDF DownloadRSiteSearch, Session Manager, ShowIP, Zotero); Email software: Thunderbird; FTP software: FileZilla; Download manager: FlashGet, FreshDownload; Website saver: Webspider; Voice-over-IP phone: Skype; Instant messaging: Gaim, Miranda, Trillian; Website designer: NVU, decoding winmail.dat attachments: WMDecode
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Security
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Antivirus: AVG, AntiVir, avast! 4 home edition, bitdefender home edition; Spyware: AdAware; Encryption: PGP and TrueCrypt; Firewall: Sygate Personal Firewall, Kerio Personal Firewall (lim. ed.), and ZoneAlarm; Anonymous surfing: Torpark; JAP; Shields Up - test your PC's security; secure passwords
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System tuning/monitoring
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SiSoft Sandra, ProcessExplorer
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File compression
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7-Zip, WiZ, Zipeg
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File handling
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renaming: EasyRename, FileRename.; splitting: MaxSplitter, Chainsaw; merging: AF Merge your files; imaging: SelfImage, DriveImage XML
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Text editing/processing
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Lyx, Notepad++, NoteTab Light, TextPad, JEdit, EditPlus 2, Tinn-R (esp. useful for R), SciTe (esp. useful for Perl), The Regulator, Regulazy
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PDF generation/handling
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FoxIt Reader, Cute PDF Writer, FreePDF, eXPert PDF reader, Ghostscript, and Ghostview
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Programming
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Strawberry Perl (but cf. also Active Perl, and more generally Perl.com, Perl.org and CPAN), Active Python with NumPy and SciPy, and R (language)
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Harddrive simulation
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Daemon
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Multimedia
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IrfanView, Gimp, Songbird
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Various
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Mozilla/Sunbird Calendar, Google Calendar, TurboNote
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