The essential windows geek tools
This is what I install on windows.
- Editor - Programmers notepad 2 - http://www.pnotepad.org/
- Utility - Power toys(Image Resizer, Open Command Window Here) - http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx
- Diff - WinMerge - http://winmerge.org/
- EDA - Eagle - http://www.cadsoft.de/
- FTP - FileZilla - http://filezilla-project.org/
- Unix shell - Cygwin(with ssh, gcc, mingw,X11,rxvt,openssl) - http://www.cygwin.com/
- Source control - TortoiseSVN - http://tortoisesvn.tigris.org/
- IDE - Eclipse - http://www.eclipse.org/
- Compiler - SDCC - http://sdcc.sourceforge.net/
- Compiler - WinARM - http://www.siwawi.arubi.uni-kl.de/avr_projects/arm_projects/
- Compiler - WinAVR - http://winavr.sourceforge.net/
- Software prototyping - Visual C# Express - http://www.microsoft.com/express/vcsharp/
- Internet - Skype - http://www.skype.com/intl/en/
- Internet - Firefox/Thunderbird - http://www.mozilla.org
- Utility - HHD Hex Editor - http://www.hhdsoftware.com/Family/hex-editor.html
- Office - OpenOffice.org - http://www.openoffice.org/
- Compression - WinRAR - http://www.rarlab.com/
- PDF - Adobe reader - http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html
- PDF - CutePDF( pdf printer ) - http://www.cutepdf.com/