--- title: Software inventory date: "2005-07-20T12:00:00Z" categories: - top-10-lists wp_id: 601 --- I end up changing my office laptops every year or so, and hence reinstall lots of software. Here's my inventory. I **most certainly will** install the following.\ [ActivePerl](http://www.activestate.com/). I still program. I know Perl. I love Perl.\ [Acrobat Reader](http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html)\ [BitLord](http://www.bitlord.com/)\ [DivX player](http://www.divx.com/)\ [Dave's quicksearch deskbar](http://www.dqsd.net/)\ [Microsoft Office 2003](http://office.microsoft.com/). Has some really good improvements over Office 2000.\ [NoteTab Light](http://www.notetab.com/). Multiple tabs notepad. But is there anything better?\ [Nero Express](http://www.nero.com/)\ [Picasa 2](http://www.picasa.com/)\ [WinAmp](http://www.winamp.com/) (with [Media Library import/export](http://forums.winamp.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=155680#b4s))\ [WinRar](http://www.rarlab.com/)\ [WinZip](http://www.winzip.com/) I **most likely will** install the following, but not necessarily.\ [Adobe Photoshop](http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop/main.html). Almost vital, but I can live with Microsoft Office Picture Manager.\ [Goldwave](http://www.goldwave.com/). I often record interviews, or give commentary for home-made movies.\ [Google Earth](http://earth.google.com/) (with [Fraps](http://www.fraps.com/)). To browse the world and make movies out of them.\ [Google Toolbar](http://toolbar.google.com/)\ [Mozilla Firefox](http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/). For multi-tabbed browsing, mainly. Otherwise, IE is fine.\ [MSN Messenger](http://messenger.msn.com/). Just for the interface. Somehow, it feels "smoother" than Yahoo.\ [RealPlayer](http://www.real.com/player/). Don't listen to RealAudio that much. Still...\ [UnixUtils](http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/). I use "grep" and "less" more often than "dir"\ [VirtualDub](http://www.virtualdub.org/). For the occasional movie editing that Microsoft Movie Maker can't handle.\ [WinHtTrack](http://www.httrack.com/). To browse offline.\ [Google Desktop Search](http://desktop.google.com/). Helps remember my browsing history. Tempting, but **no thanks**.\ [Opera](http://www.opera.com/). Mozilla's fine, thank you.\ [Yahoo Messenger](http://messenger.yahoo.com/). MSN Messenger's better, thank you.\ [Yahoo Desktop Search](http://desktop.yahoo.com/). Better interface than Google's. But no browsing history. --- ## Comments - **Krishna** _20 Jul 2005 6:08 pm_: Looks like bloglines has issues with showing the RSS of the post. Especially the list of programs. I get a blank list :( - **Krishna** _20 Jul 2005 6:09 pm_: And a really nice way to show comments! I love it! - **S Anand** _20 Jul 2005 7:44 pm_: Hope the RSS feed is fixed now. And thanks! - **Dhar** _21 Jul 2005 1:11 am_: Does Winzip do something that Winrar doesnt? - **Dhar** _21 Jul 2005 1:13 am_: No anti-virus software?Tipping my hat to you... You, sir, are a brave man! Try Avast, it is free and it is good! - **Shiva** _21 Jul 2005 2:05 am_: 'Digit ' One of the popular PC magazine rated it as the ‘Best’, i tried it believe me after that my system had 50 Trojans and worms and my Laptop was badly affected - **S Anand** _21 Jul 2005 4:52 am_: I just like WinZip's interface. As for anti-virus, believe it or not, yes, I am quite foolish on that front. - **S Anand** _21 Jul 2005 4:55 am_: How's AVG? Heard it was good. - **Krishna** _21 Jul 2005 7:11 am_: RSS Feed is fine now. Thanks! - **Dhar** _21 Jul 2005 8:25 am_: Since I did not want to shell out loads of moolah, I just downloaded Avast to give it a shot. I have been pretty impressed by it since then. Another one you might want to give a shot is Clamwin (www.clamwin.com) - **Dhar** _21 Jul 2005 10:37 am_: Are you able to run Bitlord from behind firewalls? Or do you use some kind of tunneling software? I have been unable to get bittorrent to work with tunnelling software. :( - **S Anand** _21 Jul 2005 11:47 am_: Not behind a firewall, luckily. - **A Karthik** _22 Jul 2005 4:33 pm_: jedit is good - **S Anand** _22 Jul 2005 7:17 pm_: Hey, great to hear from you, Karthik! Will mail you. - **Dhar** _25 Jul 2005 10:37 am_: Just saw that you will be installing DivX player. Why not give MPlayer or VLC a try. I personally love Mplayer. - **sathish** _26 Jul 2005 4:05 am_: for editors, I have off late starting using ScitE editor.. It is pretty good with multiple tabs and coloring based on the language one uses for coding - **Dhar** _26 Jul 2005 5:57 am_: Somehow I still prefer VIM for simple editing. I tried convincing people at work that I use LaTe X for all document preparation needs, but somehow it got shot down. :( - **S Anand** _31 Jul 2005 9:05 pm_: I tried Avast. Pretty impressive.