Note: Most tools are for Windows.
Text
- Notepad++: advanced text editor
- TeX Live: LaTex editing
- Visual Studio Code: advanced editor for structured code
File
- Agent Ransack: fast content search in files
- Clover: add multi-tab functionality for Windows Explorer
- Everything: fast file search
- FileMenu Tools: file/folder right click menus manager
- Listary: file managing/browsing…
- Recuva: restore deleted files
System
- AdwCleaner: remove toolbars and hijackers
- Disk Tool: disk partition management
- DisplayFusion: multi-monitor taskbars, title-bar buttons…
- EaseUS Partition Master: disk partition management, good for converting dynamic disks to basic mode
- Mouse without Borders: control multiple PCs using single mouse
- Quicker: define customed shortcut controls for system or diff apps
- Rapid Environment Editor: environment variables management
- Rufus: create bootable USB (in case Windows 7 USB DVD Download Tool fails)
- UltraMon: multi-toolbars for multi-monitors
Viewer / Player / Editor
- Adobe Audition: real-time multi-channel audio recording & audio editing
- Audacity: audio editing, e.g. cutting, resampling, changing speed…
- CorelDRAW: vector diagram drawing
- Bandizip: compress/extract files
- eDrawings Viewer: 3D model file viewer, support types STP/IGS/DWG/DXF…
- PDF-XChange Editor: pdf viewer and editor
- PotPlayer: video player
- XnView: image viewer
Coding
- Dependencies: track dependent dlls, good for exporting cross-platform apps
- Matlab Plugins:
- export_fig: exports figures nicely to a number of vector & bitmap formats
- mmread: read virtually any media file in Windows, Linux, or Mac
- SmartGit: Git & Mercurial client
- TortoiseSVN: SVN repo browser, check out…
- Visual Studio Extensions:
- C# outline: add braces {} outlining for C#
- Code alignment: format code vertically
- Code Compare: code comparison and automatic merging
- Image Watch: watch window for viewing in-memory OpenCV images
- Indent Guides: display indent and page width guides
- Productivity Power Tools: code structure visualizer (better disabled as conflict with Indent Guides), scrollbar markers, double-click to maximize windows, ctrl + click to peek definition, show matched margin, color printing
- ReSharper: to-do explorer, color picker in C#/WPF, unit testing
- Visual Assist X: navigate, refactor, generate code, coding assistance
- VSCommands: main menu enhancements, code block end tagger, build assistance, output window enhancement
Misc
- BingDict: Chinese/English Dictionary
- Camtasia Studio: screen recording
- Chrome Plugins:
- AdBlock: Ads blocking
- Checker Plus for Gmail: email checking
- Linkclump: roi links copying/openning (can be self-defined)
- Remove cookies for site: remove cookies for given site
- Webmail Ad Blocker: Ads blocking for webmails
- DVD Decrypter: extract data from DVD
- Duck Capture: screenshot, good to capture whole webpage (multi-page)
- FileZilla: ftp connect client
- FormatFactory: picture/audio/video file format converting
- Fraps: screen capture…, really useful to capture screen under full-screen mode
- Image Composite Editor: advanced panoramic image stitcher
- mkvtoolnix: video processing, e.g. extracting given channel audio from movie…
- TeamViewer: cross-domain remote desktop connector
- WKhtmlTOpdf: convent HTML to PDF with style retained, using
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wkhtmltopdf.exe www.website.url.com out.pdf