Top Ten/21

In Reply to a Slashdot article about what people view as their essential PC software. I have compiled a list below , more than ten entries though. The list is for software for a windows machine. {[F]= Free [P]=Pay :)}

  1. OpenOffice [F] Office Suite
  2. Firebird [F] Web browser
  3. Thunderbird [F] Email Client
  4. Aggreg8 [F] RSS Aggregator
  5. Gimp [F] Graphics Suite
  6. Java [F] Java Platform
  7. SmartFTP [F] FTP Client
  8. Putty [F] Telnet/SSH client
  9. WINSCP [F] Secure FTP
  10. Adobe Acrobat Reader [F] PDF Reader
  11. Edit Plus [P] Text Editor
  12. Win RAR [P] Compress/DeCompression  tool
  13. Zend Studio [P] PHP Development Environment
  14. Apache [F] Web Server
  15. MySQL [F] Database
  16. PHP [F] Scripting Language
  17. PHPMyadmin [F] MySQL admin tool
  18. AVG Anti Virus [F] Anti virus Software
  19. VLC Media Player [F] Media/DVD player
  20. CDex [F] Cd -> Mp3 convertor
  21. Nero [P] Cd Burning app.

I'm sure I can think of plenty more (In fact I had the list nearly complete when I accidently closed my editor :(  ). There is a really good project called the OpenCD project which has Open Source Software bundled on a CD. I have recently become more and more pissed off that i can't touch type perfectly so I found Tux typing to try and learn, I haveen't used it yet and probably won't 'cos I won't have any time.