Software Inventory

A list of the software I have been using lately. This is a mental reminder for what to install on the new laptop.

Must Haves

  1. Mozilla Firefox (placemark for pre-installed)
    1. Better Flickr
    2. Diigo Bookmarks and Web Annotations – Use it to cross-seed bookmarks
    3. Foxmarks Bookmark Synchronizer – keep consistent across computers (need one for every browser)
    4. Live HTTP headers – helpful for identifying URLs for log mining
    5. NoScript – stay safe ono the net
    6. Password Exporter – only use for switching computers
    7. Search Engines -
      1. Creative Commons -
      2. Wikipedia -
  2. Mozilla Thunderbird  (placemark for pre-installed)
    1. Headers Toggle – Hit “h” to see full headers
    2. Message Filter Import/Export – easily move filters between machines
  3. Notepad++ – text editor
  4. Java JVM – Bb CE/Vista Java applets
  5. Silicon Circus PenguiNet – SSH / SCP
  6. Pidgin – IM client
  7. Tweedeck – Twitter client
  8. WinMerge - GUI diff
  9. Xming – local X for Oracle installs

Probably will get re-installed eventually

  1. Google Chrome – faster browser
    1. Manual bookmark export / import?
  2. Picasa – for editing photos for boss
    1. picasa2flickr + Flickr Uploadr – upload quickly and easily to Flickr
    2. Picasa Uploader for Facebook -
  3. Adobe Reader
  4. Apple iTunes + Quicktime
    1. Last.fm Scrobbler
  5. Free PDF to Word Doc Converter – make a PDF editable

Probably coming with install

  1. Helpdesk software
  2. Office Software
  3. Meeting software
  4. Zip software

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  1. Ez’s avatar

    Copy the C:\Programs\Penguinet\profiles.pnt to have the connection profiles. Creating and organizing anew all 100+ generally used connects is a pain. (Only got 15 before too painful not to go back and get.)

    They really should move this to Documents and Settings. (Make suggestions to Silicon Circus about Penguinet.)