Personal Computer

Software and accessories that I use on my personal computers.

Software

Office Suite

Open Office

CD / DVD Burning software

To burn data and audio CD / DVDs I use CD BurnerXP.

To create personal copies of protected DVDs that I have purchased I use 1ClickDVDCopy Pro ($79 fee) and DVD43, a free decrypter.

Multimedia software

VLC - the cross-platform media player and streaming server.

VLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, ogg, ...) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. It can also be used as a server to stream in unicast or multicast in IPv4 or IPv6 on a high-bandwidth network.

Communications Software

Browser and E-mail

Firefox and Thunderbird

Firefox add-ons:

FireFTP

Download Status Bar

Java

Java

FTP clients

Filezilla

VoIP clients

Ventrillo

TeamSpeak

IRC client

XChat

SSHv2 & SFTP

Putty

Utilities

PDF Viewer & Printer

Foxit Reader Foxit Reader is a free PDF document viewer and printer, with incredible small size (only 2.55 M download size), breezing-fast launch speed and rich feature set. Foxit Reader supports Windows Me/2000/XP/2003/Vista. Its core function is compatible with PDF Standard 1.7.

PDF Printer

BullZip

BullZip PDF Printer Introduction

The BullZip PDF Printer works as a Microsoft Windows printer and allows you to write PDF documents from virtually any Microsoft Windows application.

This program is FREEWARE which means that it is FREE for personal and commercial use. It does not contain any advertising or popups (Really!). Features

   * Print to PDF from almost any Windows program.
   * Supports 64-bit operatings systems.
   * Direct output to the same file each time or prompt for destination.
   * Control if the printer should ask if you want to see the resulting PDF document.
   * Control output and prompts programmatically.
   * Setup can run unattended.
   * Graphical user interface.
   * Password protect PDF documents.
   * 128/40 bit encryption.
   * Quality settings (screen, printer, ebook, prepress).
   * Set document properties.
   * Watermark text, size, rotation, and transparency.
   * Supreimpose/background documents.
   * Appending/prepending documents.
   * User interface control.
   * Command line interface to all settings.
   * COM/ActiveX interface for programmatic control.
   * Support for Citrix MetaFrame
   * Support for Windows Terminal Server

System Requirements

   * Microsoft Windows 2000/XP/XP x64/2003/2003 x64/Vista/Vista x64
   * GPL Ghostscript 8.54 or later

Compression

WinRAR

Backup

MozBackup is a simple utility for creating backups of Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Thunderbird, Mozilla Sunbird, Flock, SeaMonkey, Mozilla Suite, Spicebird and Netscape profiles.

MozBackup

Hardware Monitor

SpeedFan is a program that monitors voltages, fan speeds and temperatures in computers with hardware monitor chips. SpeedFan can even access S.M.A.R.T. info for those hard disks that support this feature and show hard disk temperatures too, if supported.

Accessories

Mouse pads

RatPadz

To Go

Gear Grip