Reply to: Useful software

[dinker]

DVD Decrypter, the best DVD ripper.
DVD Flick, the best DVD burner.

[expat]

Textpad
7zip
winscp
putty
ftpsurfer
avast
allways sync
spacemonger

Like the idea of Portable Firefox but it doesn't work here.

[portseven]

WinVI32 - Vi for Windows
Putty - SSH Client, also good for tunneling through client proxies
WinSCP - SCP Client
Portable Firefox - Also add Foxmaks, FoxyProxy and GMail Manager Add-Ons

[Fred Bloggs]

Another vote for 7Zip.

Plus- Avast!, Advanced Windows Care and A-Squared.

[expat]

Google Earth

Used it last summer to look at potential places for a holiday and to spot which resorts on the Costa Brava were chav infested hell holes, thereby avoiding them.

Good use of available resources!

[dinker]

Arsclip clipboard extender, I can`t believe that Windows 7 still only allows one item on the clipboard.

[bored]

Cygwin - Linux tools and environment on a Windows desktop.

[bodnobal]

Google Earth

Used it last summer to look at potential places for a holiday and to spot which resorts on the Costa Brava were chav infested hell holes, thereby avoiding them.

[voodooflux]

TrueCrypt - disk encryption
CutePDF - create PDF files from any printable document

[crack_ho]

VLC Player

[Sysman]

Sounds good. Thanks.

PPS I've just added a bit of info to my previous message.

[expat]

Firstly I'll agree with you that on Windows, TextPad is the editor of choice. Unfortunately I've never seen it on locked down corporate PCs.

TextWrangler can do what it calls Rectangular Selections. You simply hold down the Opt key while selecting for the Cut, and again hold the Opt key to draw a target rectangle, then paste. Unfortunately it doesn't allow you to pad with spaces as in your example, so unless you insert them yourself, you'd get:

AA11
BB22
CC33
DD44
EE55

However, you can add a Prefix or suffix to a selection of lines, so here you can prefix the source lines with x spaces before doing a rectangular cut, or suffix the target lines with spaces before doing the paste.

vim also has block selection, but suffers from similar problems with space padding.

Sounds good. Thanks.

[Sysman]

Haven't found a replacement for Textpad.

Here's one thing a do a lot on Textpad: start with

AA
BB
CC
DD
EE
.
.
11
22
33
44
55

Switch to Block Mode. Select the

11
22
33
44
55

and drag it to the right of the

AA
BB
CC
DD
EE

etc. Result, in 1 action:

AA   11
BB   22
CC   33
DD   44
EE   55

I don't know how to do that in any editor for the Mac. (I have described it in detail because if I just say "block copy" people sometimes understand other functions).

Firstly I'll agree with you that on Windows, TextPad is the editor of choice. Unfortunately I've never seen it on locked down corporate PCs.

TextWrangler can do what it calls Rectangular Selections. You simply hold down the Opt key while selecting for the Cut, and again hold the Opt key to draw a target rectangle, then paste. Unfortunately it doesn't allow you to pad with spaces as in your example, so unless you insert them yourself, you'd get:

AA11
BB22
CC33
DD44
EE55

However, you can add a prefix or suffix to a selection of lines, so here you can prefix the source lines with x spaces before doing a rectangular cut, or suffix the target lines with spaces before doing the paste.

vim also has block selection, but suffers from similar problems with space padding. The advantage of vim is that it runs on any platform, and its predecessor vi can be found on any *nix system. Either vi or vim are available in standalone or console mode, and of course command line ssh sessions, which is where I started using vim.

P.S. If you try out TextWrangler, the tutorial is worthwhile.

[Cliphead]

Including your music stuff?

Yes, it does now.

[London75]

7-zip for all your zipping raring tgzing needs

FileHippo to keep all your other free programs patched

TortoiseSVN to keep you own SVN repository without getting all command liney, useful for things other than code too

Treesize Free for finding just where your disk space went

NetBeans 6.5 for mucking about programming when you should be doing something else.

Gimp for image editing


Not that I'm a free software whore.