Here is a list of visual of the desktops background I used and am using right now and also few live screenshots.
Now, on top of those backgrounds those are the software I am using :
Symbols
- €=donated
- W=worked
- $=wants to donate
- C=active in the community
Automated list (sorted by date of last update)
(cf ToDo especially to use categories)
Offline Apps
- gVim (€) (learning notes)
- (Bash) shell (learning notes) and MingW
- Crontab thanks to pycron on Windows, cron on Debian, cron.pl on Irssi
- 7zip
- SpaceMonger
- VideoLAN client aka VLC
WinAmp
- Processing after trying others including
- none so far
- GnuPG
- Gpg4win Secure E-Mail and File Encryption using GnuPG for Windows
OpenOffice rarely, check also LibreOffice
- Audacity
- Blender very rarely (used for Design and VirtualReality)
- Inkscape sometimes
- TheGimp sometimes
- Adobe Illustrator
- make proper dimension in artboards then modify bleeds
- when saving as PDF make sure not to keep the file editable as Illustrator as this will keep the original images and thus very large size
- embed files before sending them to somebody else
- test on another computer with the network connection off
- option to paste on all artboards
- tutorials
- Adobe Photoshop
- improve photos by increasing the brightness, hue, etc...
- C to crop
- Gephi interactive visualization and exploration platform for all kinds of networks and complex systems, dynamic and hierarchical graphs.
- pdftk
- burst to explode a multi pages PDF into N individual pages
- cat to merge
- stamp to add a watermark, e.g. signature
Network Apps
Online Apps
Online Apps (non-free)
Currently in the process to migrate to OpenServices/SaaS thanks to the movement lead by autonomo.us.
Online communities
- CouchSurfing (€ W C)
TextbookTorrents.com ($ C)
- TheVault.bz (€ C)
- BitMe.org (€ C)
NewMixes.net ($)
Blinkenshell.org ($ C)
- DeviantArt (C)
TopRadio.org
See also SocialNetworks.
Tools Im still discovering (no serious use)
- ClipX tiny clipboard history manager
- having content + date + software from which it came from (and eventually goes to) could hold information on interesting behaviors
- VirtualDub
- youtube-dl Python script
- list available streams including lower quality or audio only
youtube-dl -F URL
- select and download solely that stream
youtube-dl -f DIGITS URL
- RTMPDump toolkit for RTMP streams
- mainly for VideoLectures.net
videolecture.sh http://videolectures.net/aaai2010_vinge_som/
- e.g. rtmpdump -S 127.0.0.1:23456 -W http://videolectures.net/aaai2010_vinge_som/ -o aaai2010_vinge_som_01.flv -r rtmp://oxy.videolectures.net/video -y 2010/other/aaai2010_atlanta/vinge_som/aaai2010_vinge_som_01 remotely
- as of early June 2011 it still works despite "cryptic" value of
clip.url
, resuming with -e
still does not work though
- proper Revision Control System (RCS), see Programming#RCS
- SQLite Query Language
- PostureMinder uses the webcam to automatically detect and remind whenever one sits in a consistently damaging posture for a long period.
- started the trial professional version as of the 26th of May 2010
- consider visual of results over time like Exercises
- this is already directly provided by PostureMinder statistics pannel
WinSplit Revolution organize open windows by tiling, resizing and positioning them to make the best use of desktop real estate.
- does not work properly with one of my main software : Putty and its specific step-by-step resizing
- pycron cron service written in Python converted to an executable with py2exe
- Newsbeuter The Mutt of RSS Feed Readers
- now that Im using PuTTY Tray with URL hyperlinking this should become very interesting to try
- video related
- Off-the-Record Messaging (OTR)
- irssi-otr Off-the-Record Messaging (OTR) for the irssi Internet Relay Chat (IRC) client
- Supybot with its ExternalControl plugin for XMLRPC (learning notes)
- AutoHotkey : Free Mouse and Keyboard Macro Program with Hotkeys and AutoText
SwarmPlayer (failed to get it to work behind NAT)
- R (tested it to quickly check correlation from data extracted from Semantic DB)
VirtualBox (used to test DamnSmallLinux)
WireShark (checked frame from a failing Flash application)
- Process Explorer v11.21 from Sysinternals (checked memory requirements of Java application)
- Instant Boss time your work/break cycles, reminding you when to work and when to take a break.
- command line parameters : InstantBoss.exe 60 15 3
- eventually try UseFulRest instead
- RescueTime Time Management, Productivity, & Project Tracking Software
- Python (learning notes)
- Wakoopa to potentially manage this list automatically!
- Using Weave and its API
Tools I want to try
- Minbif provide an IRC-friendly instant messaging client
- hollrr.com fun and easy way to keep track of the great new product and services your friends are discovering
- apvlv PDF Viewer behaving like Vim
- zathura is a highly customizable pdf viewer based on the poppler pdf rendering library
- Vimperator for PDF
- equivalent of put.io (remote media center
- Transmission with its Autotrans Firefox add-on
- minimalist browsing
- SpamAssassin Apache Open-Source Spam Filter
- Iron by SRWare, replacement from Google Chrome, with Vimium
- Lazyread ebook reader, auto-scroller, pager
Why did I do this list ?
- to gather notes and improve my learning curves
- to see my evolution from one
solution to another one
- to provide the possibility for others to suggest me better alternatives
- to offer to others the possibility to change their own tools
- to remember that I didn't contribute to some projects
- to be able to reinstall a full system more efficiently
- Allmyapps Application Store to find and install the best applications
- to prepare what I need for my MyServer
- provide for each tool a feed of the evolution of the comparison between itself and equivalents
To do
- transform to a proper automated list
- add categories in each page
- add optional sum up
- add donation variable, eventually with amount
- check WikiVS the one stop for up-to-date comparisons.
note that this footer was originally "CogniteScafolding" due to a typo
Note
My notes on Tools gather what I know or want to know. Consequently they are not and will never be complete references. For this, official manuals and online communities provide much better answers.