My Favorite Apps

Hello once again InternetLand,

I know it's been a while since my last post, but I never felt the urge until now. Every year, I reinstall all of my Windows machines (just to keep it fresh, because things have a tendency to add up). And I decided to try something new. I would only install the mininum number of applications and here is a list of my favorites.

-- Putty (ssh client)

-- WinSCP (sftp client)

-- Synergy (software KVM switch, I love this application)

-- Notepad2

-- Cygwin (and all of its wonderful linux tool)

-- Paint .NET (open source image editor, similar to GIMP, but much smaller)

-- ProcessExplorer

-- Windows Network Monitor (I learned a lot from this app)

-- OpenOffice (Because I do not have to use MS Office anymore)

-- Firefox/Google Chrome (Chrome is starting to grow on me)

I appreciate light-weight applications that are not use a lot of memory that's why I am really starting to hate browsing the web to run into websites with Javascript and Flash elements that can take up to 200MB. I have a Thinkpad T23 with 512 SDRAM. It's seven years old and my favorite PC, I think programmers are getting carried away thinking everyone has 2GB of DDRAM on every machine. I plan on keeping my laptop for a long time and I appreciate software that cater to it. Well, that's it for now.

Enjoy.