Friday, August 26, 2011

What do you need in a perfect laptop....(software)

OR what do I have in mine (cute little Sony Vaio YB)


  1. Win 7 -   a couple of limitations, No frills OS
  2. MS Office 2007-  outlook, powerpoint, and word mostly (Outlook Hotmail Connector is a must)
  3. 7Zip-     Nothing zips better
  4. Windows live-   skydrive, messanger, mail, writer
  5. Photoshop-   mine is CS2, tiny PC, remember...
  6. Dreamweaver-   Weaves dreams, Web Design
  7. Lightroom-    Adobe is great.... better than picasa
  8. Adobe reader-   necessary evil
  9. Apex DC++ - Necessary for p2p in campus
  10. Ava Find-    best file search utility I know of
  11. AVG Free antivirus-  Fast and Cute, low RAM, CPU use
  12. AVG PC Tuneup-  need it to get grime out of those hard to reach places
  13. Bittorrent-    You know what it is
  14. Gedit-    For programming and having a great feeling about it
  15. Google Chrome- Best browser till date, way faster than anything I've used
  16. Doomi - Smart and small task manager
  17. Dropbox - For peace of mind that all your hard work is safe online
  18. Evernote - You dont know when you'll need it. Project managing genius
  19. Format factory-  occasional video audio transcoding for phones, ipods
  20. IDM-     Best download manager
  21. Jolicloud-    That linux geek you talked about
  22. Klite codec pack-  To make WMP play awesome videos of all formats
  23. Launchy-    Cant live without it. It is the saviour my desktop
  24. Mozilla firefox-   Browser for geeks, if you know how to use it
  25. Media Monkey - Audio manager, better than the rest
  26. Nokia Ovi suite-   make use of that silly old phone of yours
  27. Skype-    occasional calls
  28. SMART-  smart process optimizer
  29. Trillian-    All your IMs at one place and working
  30. TweetDeck-   For the inseparable tweeter inside you
  31. Picasa-    Photo organising can't be better
  32. PrimoPDF-    Print to a pdf file
  33. Teracopy-    Copies waaay faster and doesnot hang
  34. UltraISO-    ISO manager, Virtual drive, Bootable USB maker
  35. Ultrasurf- For that iota of privacy, when college authorities ban websites
  36. VLC media player-  Necessary for quick audio and video
  37. Wireshark-   Spy on the loose
  38. XBMC-    personal media center, nice looks and features
  39. XAMPP-    for that homemade server on your lappie
  40. Your Uninstaller-  To remove any of the above, anytime I want, without leaving any freaking trace.

More or less, your computer will become a great tool for an above average user.

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