JDPFu.com 2025

1. Thunderbird – it does email and calendaring
2. Firefox (using 3.x now) Web Browser (plugins follow)
   1. Adblock Plus – ads, what are those?
   2. NoScript – only use JavaScript when YOU want
   3. Sage-Too – RSS Feeds!!!
3. Linux and all the expected shell tools – duh.
   1. ssh – duh.
   2. tcsh – the one true shell
   3. rsync – backups anyone?
   4. Perl – for hacking together quick needs
   5. Software RAID for linux
4. TrueCrypt – keep your private data, private
5. MS-Excel – I’m embarrassed, but us it to track my stock prices
6. Quicken
7. Xming – an X/Windows server for win32
8. Firefly – SIP phone client that supports g.729. I did use X-Lite, before with g.711.
9. Launchy – a quick launch for win32 – this should be much higher in this list.
10. Hamachi – private networks for my friends; win32 and linux versions
11. ReNamer – file renamer by pattern matching – win32
12. VLC & WinAMP & Amarok – Linux & win32
13. VideoReDo Plus – win32 video editor
14. Typo for blogging – SQLite3 too – Ruby, so it runs everywhere. SQLite runs everywhere.
15. mplayer/mencoder – media processing (Linux & win32)
16. AVG Free – antivirus scanning; never pay for this.
17. IrfanView/gqview – image/media viewers
18. NoteCase – thought organizer with encryption. Runs on Win32, Linux, Mac, AND Nokia N800 with identical data files
19. MeD_MovieManager – Java-based Movie Database with links to IMDB.
20. Putty – ssh client

I’m certain that some have been forgotten. You should check out the items in BOLD. Seriously.