Softwares and related

Installed softwares on my computer

These are the softwares I have installed on my system. All of them are freeware (except Total Commander) and most of them are simple and easy to use - the way I like it. :) Many programs here were suggested at Gizmos Freeware Reviews, and others form the Portable Freeware collection.

Most used and favourites are marked with a ⭐.

My choices

• browsing the internet: still don't know which is best, so I am currently using
  • Google Chrome ⭐
  • Mozilla Firefox and
  • Tor Browser
• downloading torrents: Transmission ⭐
• instant messaging: google hangouts, facebook messenger lite and viber
• e-mailing (usually google mail ⭐, but if not):
  • for quickly sending messages: qm (only sending)
• backup gmail: gmail backup
• viewing passwords in e-mail clients: Mail PassView
• wifi monitoring: WirelessNetView
• ssh client to access my webserver: Putty Tray (putty)
• accessing my files on my linux server via scp: WinSCP ⭐

• taking screenshots:
  • After FastStone Capture and PicPick, currently ShareX which also has scrolling capture that is a "must have"
  • Screenshot Captor
• resizing images: Fast Image Resizer ⭐ because: it is easy to use, simple, drag&drop feature, can specify size in % or pixels
• viewing images: FastStone MaxView ⭐ last freeware version because it is small and fast, can do basic editing (i use: resizing, cropping, rotating)
• also XNview and IrfanView
• printing images: PhotoScape because i can print WHAT i'd like to and HOW i like'd to
• editing images:
  • PhotoFiltre
  • Paint (Microsoft) ⭐
  • paint.net

• editing text and taking notes:
  • as a Notepad replacement TED NotePad ⭐ because it is just as small and easy but has more features
  • gvim, or recently Neovim
  • Word (Microsoft)
  • Obsidian MD
  • Simplenote
  • Visual Studio Code
• viewing pdf files quickly: Sumatra PDF
• editing pdf files:
  • PDFill PDF Tools Free
  • also for editing (annotate, exporting images) and viewing pdf files PDF-XChange Viewer ver. 1.0 (older version - delete and crop pages allowed)
  • for joining files quickly pdfbinder
• text replacement: Beeftext

• starting programs and files: Microsoft Power Toys ⭐
• partitioning: Easeus Partition Master Home Free
• viewing system information: speccy
• for finding out where my precious hard drive space has gone: TreeSize ⭐
• finding files: Everything ⭐⭐
• sync and backup (still testing):
  • SyncFolders
  • DirSync Pro
  • handles file renaming! Sync 2.1 (java, from the command-line)
  • Back4Sure
  • jabut Backup
• finding duplicates:
  • AllDup, also portable edition, can list unique files
  • finding UNIQUE files: NoClone
  • DoubleKiller
  • Byteessence DuplicateFinder
  • Auslogics Duplicate File Finder
• find and remove empty dirs:
  • DelEmpty
  • Fast Empty Folder Finder
• copying and moving files: TeraCopy
• eject removable drives: HotSwap!
• compressing files: 7-Zip or PeaZip
• managing files (beside Windows Explorer): Total Commander
• batch renaming files: Bulk Rename Utility ⭐
• text replacements: AutoHotkey ⭐

• erase/wipe a disk: Darik's Boot and Nuke
• storing my passwords: S10 Password Vault
• KeePass Password Safe

• ripping CD's and converting audio:
  • Exact Audio Copy with REACT
  • or recently the much easier CUERipper
  • also fre:ac
  • and xrecode
• converting files (if not in the above mentioned programs):
  • LameDropXPd ⭐
  • flac
• tagging audio files: mp3tag
• listening to music:
  • billy
  • foobar2000
• watching videos: a single executable windows media player classic ⭐
• ripping DVDs: DVD Decrypter
• for converting videos: HandBrake
• for burning discs:
  • cdrtfe
  • for image files ImgBurn
  • for audio CDs burrrn

• ImageMagick
• flashnul
• robocopy (windows command line) (available in windows 7)
• xxcopy
• tree (windows command-line)
• pdftk
• pscp
• mencoder (mplayer)
• Sync 2.1
• SDelete

• Linux Mint
• Elementary OS

Online services and apps

• google: mail, drive, hangouts, maps, keep, calendar, tasks, docs, sheets
• storage: onedrive, dropbox, box.net, cloudapp (with fluffyapp)
• pinboard.in ⭐, pinterest, pocket, feedly, onenote
• facebook, twitter, flickr, goodreads, youtube, instagram
• ninjawords, definr, wordnik
• paypal, ebay

Last modified: 2022/06/23 14:14:53