This is a list of applications which I use and consider to be essential tools.
Please report dead links or suggest new applications on the feedback page.
Freeware
- Firefox - www without the spyware, popups and exploits
- hkSFV32 - SFV Checker/Creator
- DAMN NFO Viewer - NFOs just dont look right without it
- Daemon Tools - Virtual CD Drives, mounting many CD images
- ZoomPlayer - Excellent free player, supports resizing, DVD, SVCD etc
- eMule - File sharing tool
- GSpot - Codec information tool for AVI
- MS TweakUI XP - User Interface Tweaking for XP
- MS TweakUI - User Interface Tweaking for 95/98/ME/NT/2000
- PuTTY - Telnet and SSH client
- UltraVNC - A high speed version of VNC - a remote desktop utility
- RocketTime - Atomic Clock synchronisation
- getif - Network diagnostics tool - ping ranges, do lookups etc
Commercial
- mIRC - Most popular Windows IRC client
- FlashFXP - The leading FTP/FXP software
- WinRAR - Compression - supports rar, zip and ace
- PSPad - My personal choice of text and hex editor
- UltraEdit - Good text and hex editor, highlighting support
- EditPlus - Good text editor, support for HTML, PHP, FTP uploads
- SpyBot S&D - Top Spyware detector
- AVG - Probably the best AV in the world
- TreeSize Pro - App for checking disk usage, free version available
- WinImage - Floppy & CD Image software
- Ahead Nero - The only burning software you need
- VMWare - Run other OSes on virtual machines
- MicroAngelo - Icon editing at its best
- GetRight - Download manager
