Essential Software
Freeware Apps
Firefox: Different web browser; has a number of nice features.
www.mozilla.org/products/firefox
WiSi - Window Sizer: Little app that lets you set the size of any window to a specific size - handy for screenshots or checking if a website will look OK at specific resolutions.
www.fantastic-bits.de (Not a direct link; find it under Freeware: Desktop.)
AnalogX WhoIs ULTRA: Little app that checks WHOIS records for given domains.
www.analogx.com (Not a direct link; find it under Software: Network.)
Snadboy Revelation 2: Drag the target over a ***** password in software and Revelation will tell you what it is. Some more recent software (and many websites) will obfuscate further to stop this trick working, but this little app remains exceptionally useful.
www.snadboy.com
Audacity: Excellent audio editing application.
audacity.sourceforge.net
Commercial / Shareware Apps
Directory Opus: Advanced Windows file manager with Amiga roots. Does FTP. Customisable. Uses tabs. I cannot bear using Windows without it. Extra non-essential features include image resizing and a reasonable find duplicates app. Linux equivalents of earlier versions are easy to find, but I can’t see anything resembling this latest incarnation. Indeed, this app is one of the main reasons I haven’t switched. Payware, but worth it.
www.gpsoft.com.au
Tag&Rename: Bulk MP3 ID3 tag and filename editor. Shareware, but worth it.
www.softpointer.com/tr.htm
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