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Text editors and utilities |
Notepad++ - cool and free editor, has syntax highlighht for many languages, its possible to define your own languages. IMHO best replace for M$ notepad. |
PolyEdit - simple and easy word processor. Supports rtf and doc formats. A good replacement for M$ Word for a good deal of cases. |
NoteTab - Small and nice editor for HTML. |
AnyEdit - Nice and free text editor. |
VIM - VIM is VIM. Bug it's for those who like it. |
WinMerge - Simple (and free) file diff and merge utility. |
ISpell - Free spell checker for Windoze. |
KDiff3 - nice and free 3-way diff/merge. |
Languages |
Python - very powerful and flexible (and free) scripting language with lot of free libraies. BTW its author now works in Google. |
Ruby - very powerful and flexible and free scripting language (combining in itself many features of such languages as Smalltalk, Python and Perl). |
Lua - Simple and fast scripting language, easy intgratable into applications. Used in a lot of games -Far Cry and STALKER just to name a few. Free, open source. |
System utilities, security |
Panda ActiveScan - you can check your computer for viruses online. |
CureIt - free (and it's updated every day) antivirus utility. |
AVG Free Edition - Nice and free antivirus. |
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Misc. |
Far - really cool 2-panel file manager (like a Norton Commander). I just can't stand that stupid Explorer. |
a lot of plugins to Far. |
PIL - Python Image Library - Very nice and powerful library to work with images. Nice tool to create new or modify existing texture in a procedural way. |
ImageMagick - powerful set of tools for working with images. |
FireFox - Cool and free replacement to M$ abomination (IE) - no shit like VBScript and ActiveX, A lot of settings, plugins, skins and extensions. A good deal more secure that M$ IE - pity you cannot just throw IE away from Windoze. |
Thunderbird - Cool mail and news client. Fine addition to FireFox. |
NSIS - Nullsoft Scriptable Install System - really cool tool for creating installers. Free for any purpose. |
Inno Setup - Nice and free (GPL) tool for creating installers. |
Artweaver - Nice and powerful (and free) image editor. Supports Lua scripting. |
Blender - really powerful and free softare for modelling and rendering. Open sorce, support for every major OS. Suprts Python as a scripting langauge. |
Pixia - Free image editor. |
MP3Producer - free program to coberting and ripping music. Supports wav/mp3/ogg. Can easily convert your CD to mp3 or ogg. A lot of settigs. |
IrfanView - free and a really fast image viewer (and converter). Supports an awful set of image format. After trying it you'll forget (and throw away) ACDSEE. |
WinCVS a Windoze client for CVS. |
SysInternals - st of useful tools for your Windoze. |
RenderMonkey - IDE for GLSL and HLSL. |
GLSLValidate - really cool utility to check your GLSL shaders for adherence to standart. |