Screen Hunter
Allows you to capture any rectangular section of the screen either to the clip board or a file or both
http://wisdom-soft.com/products/screenhunter_free.htm
Note the "Just Download" button. You do not actually have to give them your email addres.
Note during installation - Clear the check box for installing a toolbar into the web browser
Angry IPscan
http://www.angryip.org/w/Download
Use Version 2.21.
When run, under options, set "Only Alive" then select all columns for display.
Put the .exe file on the desk top. To quickly scan the LAN, Double click then click the my ip button then the make class C
Notepad++
Good text editor for editing plain text or computer programs. Highlights key words when programming.
K-lite Codec Pack
Has codecs for video replay and editing. On 64bit machines, they recommend installing both.
Windows 64bit
Windows 32bit
DVD decryptor
Used to rip DVDs. The author is apparantly in trouble for distributing a program that breaks the encryption and copy protection on DVDs.
Screen Monkey
Great for multi media and show AV playback.
Always gets the playback on the second monitor.
Classic Shell (Freeware)
and for those old fuddy duddies like me who liked the XP start menu
Classic Shell
Classic Menus(Free for home & student. Costs for work)
Addintools>Classic menus
These give us back the menus that we were familia with in word excel etc. Why do Microsoft make it so hard? They had something that worked. OK maybe they think they have something better. Well make it an option. Or get Apple to advise on usability.
EMAIL - Thunderbird
with the following addons:
Lightning - to sync thunderbird calendar with google calendar and
GContactSync - to synchronise the thurnderbird contacts with Google contcts.
FIREFOX
Get the old download manager back
2. Type about:config, then press Enter.
3. Paste the following into the search field: browser.download.useToolkitUI
4. Under the Value field, right-click false and then click Toggle. That should set the Value to "true."
5. Restart Firefox.
Addons
Firebug
WAMP
http://www.wampserver.com/en/
Obviously the purists would install Apache, Mysql and PHP individually but installing WAMP server is som much easier.
Actually the purists would most likely poo poo windows and install it on linux.
