Boy, nothing slows you down like getting a whole new operating system in the office. Well, maybe getting a whole new machine. Fortunately, I’ve just gotten both and my ever expanding workload is now large enough to populate a small township! Good thing I’ve found the time to share some of my thoughts with you, my loyal readership.

It occured to me, as I loaded application after upgrade after utility onto my new machine with it’s new OS, that I use quite a few pieces of software that were made available for free by people who are much smarter and less greedy than me. The least I can do, I thought outloud in a room full of people wondering why I wasn’t working, was to share some of this software with yoiu, my loyal readership.

MEDIA:
MyIE2 - tabs, ad blocker/filter, translators, plugins, all on an IE engine!!!
Winamp 5.03 - still the best
Soulseek - p2p for smart people

UTILITIES:
Add / Remove Pro - better than ctrl panel add/remove
Huey 1.9 - color picker and all-purpose eyedropper. i use it daily.
SlickRun - adds a floating programmable command line to your desktop
PrintFolders 2.1 - saves files/folder lists as txt or html. can read id3 tags.
DAMN NFO Viewer 2.10
Batchname 1.3

SECURITY:
McAfee AVERT Stinger - powerful anti-virus. only searched for the 40 or so newest and toughest virii.
ZoneAlarm - the best free firewall
Hijackthis - diagnose hijackware / spyware
StartUp List
Adaware - remove spyware / adware