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Recommended Software
Here is an extensive list of all the software that I use and highly recommend.
- Microsoft Windows 7 - The best operating system in existence
- Paint.NET - The best free image editing software
- Adobe Dreamweaver CS4 - My favourite web design software
- Adobe Photoshop CS4 - The best image editing software
- Mozilla Firefox - My favourite web browser
- DownThemAll - Gives you up to 4x your normal download speed
- TabMixPlus - Gives you tonnes of options for customizing tabs
- Adblock Plus - A great addon that blocks ads
- FoxyTunes - Control any media player from within Frirefox
- Download Statusbar - Shows your downloads in a nice statusbar
- Better Gmail 2 - Enhancements for Gmail
- Easy Youtube Video Downloader - Shows links on youtube video pages to download the different video formats available for that video
- FoxTab - Allows you to change tabs using a 3D interface
- Net Usage Item - Shows your internet usage data from your ISP
- Text Link - Go to an un-linked URL by double-cliking on it
- WOT (Web of Trust) - Tells you the reliability of websites and warns you about risky sites
- Aardvark - Allows you to clean up a page before you print it, and to analyse a page
- Notepad++ - A great replacement for the Windows Notepad
- Google Chrome - My second-favourite web browser
- Google SketchUp - Seriously easy 3D CAD software
- Google Desktop - Makes searching your computer as easy as Googling normally
- Apple iTunes - Very good music software
- Sysinternals Process Explorer - See what's going on behind the scenes on your computer. An excellent replacement for Windows Task Manager
- USB Safely Remove / Zentimo - Allows you to easily prepare your devices for removal to prolong their lifespan
- Game Maker 8 - Easy game creation software for beginners through to very advanced users
- WinRAR - Easy compression software that's way better than WinZIP (zipped folders)
- Audacity - Good free audio editing software
- Stardock Fences - Helps you keep your desktop icons organised by arranging them into groups
- GlobalSCAPE CuteFTP - Feature-filled FTP file management
- CPUID HWMonitor - Helps you keep and eye on your computer's hardware temperatures
- SyncBack - Fully customizeable software to help you backup your stuff or keep folders synchronised
- Spybot - Search & Destroy - Keeps your computer free of spyware
- Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware - Powerful software that destroys viruses
- avast! Free Antivirus - The best free antivirus software
- Paragon Backup & Recovery™ 10.1 Free Edition - Easy backups of your whole hard drive
- µTorrent - An easy and seriously small BitTorrent client
- Graboid Video - The best and fastest way to download videos on the internet
- TVersity - Turn your computer into a media server to share your media with all of your devices
- PS3 Media Server - A special media server for your PS3
- VLC media player - A fast media player that works with pretty much any media file
- MiniLyrics - See the lyrics of your music as you listen to it in your favourite media playing program
- TeamViewer - Remotely control other computers that are running TeamViewer
- LogMeIn Hamachi - Creates a virtual LAN for you to play multiplayer games online in LAN mode
- MagicDisc - A simple virtual CD/DVD drive program
- ScummVM - An emulator for classic games made in SCUMM
- Windows Live Messenger - The best MSN messenger client
- Messenger Plus! Live - Gives you tonnes more options in Windows Live Messenger
- FreeGate - Bypasses web blocking systems
- IconCraft - Create, extract, and edit icons used by programs on your computer
- Floola - Allows you to easily manage your iPod's library without the need to lock it to an iTunes installation to be able to manage it
- XAMPP - A portable web server with Apache, PHP, MySQL, FileZilla FTP, Mercury and Tomcat included
- IETester - Easily check that your website works in different versions of Microsoft's Internet Explorer, the worst web browser in the history of the world
- The Ubuntu LiveCD - The best computer diagnostic CD ever. Just boot ubuntu right off the CD!
- GParted - The best hard drive partitioning software ever
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